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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6513 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shamelesshameless

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
328 times in 171 works
Consistency
100% (328 of 328)
Reach if approved
~345 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: shameless
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
328 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (328 changes in 171 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 328)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not ashamed to suffer kinges & Emperours to kysse and lycke hys pockye feete. O shamelesshameless Antechriste. Theophilacte vpon the aforesayde place of Paule wrytethe on thys manner: Here he …
    With rule
    … not ashamed to suffer kinges & Emperours to kysse and lycke hys pockye feete. O shamelesshameless Antechriste. Theophilacte vpon the aforesayde place of Paule wrytethe on thys manner: Here he …

    Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thing againſt hir maieſties perſon, I know the diuel himſelf dares not be ſo ſhamelesshameless as to intende any accuſation againſt me in that point. The caſe then being …
    With rule
    … thing againſt hir maieſties perſon, I know the diuel himſelf dares not be ſo ſhamelesshameless as to intende any accuſation againſt me in that point. The caſe then being …

    John Penry · Reformation Unjustly Charged as Enemies · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vndoubtedly it is. Wherefore, wee may iustly say of all our impudent, Ruffianly, and shamelesshameless…e Loue-locke fosterers, (who are Odious, and blame-worthy, euen in this respect …
    With rule
    … vndoubtedly it is. Wherefore, wee may iustly say of all our impudent, Ruffianly, and shamelesshameless…e Loue-locke fosterers, (who are Odious, and blame-worthy, euen in this respect …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vvere to be credited, reported by indifferent men: yet considering these vvretches to be shamelesshameless and … enemies, hovv vnequall a thing vvere it to accept them for vvitnesses, beeing …
    With rule
    … vvere to be credited, reported by indifferent men: yet considering these vvretches to be shamelesshameless and … enemies, hovv vnequall a thing vvere it to accept them for vvitnesses, beeing …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … scorne of an heathen tyrant, a sanctification of these tongues? O brasen foreheads of shamelesshameless Papistes. But heare more yet of this impudent stuffe.
    With rule
    … scorne of an heathen tyrant, a sanctification of these tongues? O brasen foreheads of shamelesshameless Papistes. But heare more yet of this impudent stuffe.

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vsed / so that you do but cauill / not hauing one proof for all your shamelesshameless assertiōs. Now where I demaunded what this made for your liturgies, ād reading mēs …
    With rule
    … vsed / so that you do but cauill / not hauing one proof for all your shamelesshameless assertiōs. Now where I demaunded what this made for your liturgies, ād reading mēs …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … poſitive law of men. Wherefore this is evident to be a moſt vngodly and ſhamelesshameless Defence pleading for, or excuſing that wretched ſinne of ſoule-murdering Nonreſidencie, as if …
    With rule
    … poſitive law of men. Wherefore this is evident to be a moſt vngodly and ſhamelesshameless Defence pleading for, or excuſing that wretched ſinne of ſoule-murdering Nonreſidencie, as if …

    Henry Jacob · Necessity of Reforming Our Churches · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the eyes of Gods babes. But besides this he hath not bene affraid (so shamelesshameless is that great enemie the god of this world, so forward are these his …
    With rule
    … the eyes of Gods babes. But besides this he hath not bene affraid (so shamelesshameless is that great enemie the god of this world, so forward are these his …

    David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 434 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.