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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6556 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dolefulldoleful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
1,003 times in 570 works
Consistency
98.9% (1,003 of 1,014)
Reach if approved
~1,065 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: doleful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,014 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,003 changes in 570 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,003)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … made him bishop of Tusculan, but within a fewe monthes after he ended his dolefulldoleful lyfe, throughe sorrowe and griefe of minde Anno 1419. where his Phisition Cosmus that did …
    With rule
    … made him bishop of Tusculan, but within a fewe monthes after he ended his dolefulldoleful lyfe, throughe sorrowe and griefe of minde Anno 1419. where his Phisition Cosmus that did …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … father, ſiſter and brother, might howle and weepe, and anſwere one an other with dolefulldoleful ecchoes and remediles complaints, no comfort, no conſolation, becauſe they are not: nay, becauſe …
    With rule
    … father, ſiſter and brother, might howle and weepe, and anſwere one an other with dolefulldoleful ecchoes and remediles complaints, no comfort, no conſolation, becauſe they are not: nay, becauſe …

    William Hubbock · An Apology of Infants · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … is a houſe of order, would become a Babell, a houſe of confuſion. The dolefulldoleful iſſues of which pretended liberty, we ſee in Polonia, Tranſiluania, and in countries neerer …
    With rule
    … is a houſe of order, would become a Babell, a houſe of confuſion. The dolefulldoleful iſſues of which pretended liberty, we ſee in Polonia, Tranſiluania, and in countries neerer …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thought, word, and deede: that shee might not be committed vnto so notorious and dolefulldoleful a place: The Lords answered, that there was no remedy, for the Queene was …
    With rule
    … thought, word, and deede: that shee might not be committed vnto so notorious and dolefulldoleful a place: The Lords answered, that there was no remedy, for the Queene was …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … as goe on in their owne waies against conscience: and what can be more dolefulldoleful then to be barred of the invocation of Gods name? Lastly, such persons after …
    With rule
    … as goe on in their owne waies against conscience: and what can be more dolefulldoleful then to be barred of the invocation of Gods name? Lastly, such persons after …

    William Perkins · Conscience · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the people, the blindnesse of the preachers and pastours, the vnworthinesse of these our dolefulldoleful dayes? and bewailed his owne misery as we shoulde doe ours, crying out with …
    With rule
    … the people, the blindnesse of the preachers and pastours, the vnworthinesse of these our dolefulldoleful dayes? and bewailed his owne misery as we shoulde doe ours, crying out with …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 300 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … luſtes of ſinne: hee ſhall in ſpite of his teeth within himſelfe, ſing this dolefulldoleful ſong, I knowe not whether I ſhal bee ſaued or not: and looke howe …
    With rule
    … luſtes of ſinne: hee ſhall in ſpite of his teeth within himſelfe, ſing this dolefulldoleful ſong, I knowe not whether I ſhal bee ſaued or not: and looke howe …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons Upon the Seven Chief Virtues · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … without all feare. And of this an ancient Father complaineth, saying; It is a dolefulldoleful thing to see, how honorable men of gray haires, were wholy in time of …
    With rule
    … without all feare. And of this an ancient Father complaineth, saying; It is a dolefulldoleful thing to see, how honorable men of gray haires, were wholy in time of …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 767 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Healths Sickness A10184

  • Printed
    … and applause this Heathenish ceremony), and Hellish inuention, hath generally procured: what Sinfull, Bitter, DolefullDoleful, Sad, and dangerous fruites of Drunkennesse, Riot, Duells, Quarrells, Combates, Murthers, Murmurings, Heart-burnings …
    With rule
    … and applause this Heathenish ceremony), and Hellish inuention, hath generally procured: what Sinfull, Bitter, DolefullDoleful, Sad, and dangerous fruites of Drunkennesse, Riot, Duells, Quarrells, Combates, Murthers, Murmurings, Heart-burnings …

    William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Psalm 119 A51842

  • Printed
    … that then lighted upon Ierusalem. Was their wound but a scratch, or affliction little? DolefullDoleful and sad ruine was brought upon that place, the City and the Temple burnt …
    With rule
    … that then lighted upon Ierusalem. Was their wound but a scratch, or affliction little? DolefullDoleful and sad ruine was brought upon that place, the City and the Temple burnt …

    Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 510 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Holy Spirit A53720

  • Printed
    … me, I mourn in my Complaint, and make a Noyse. His Prayer was a DolefullDoleful Lamentation. And Psal. 142. 2. I powred out my Complaint before him, I shewed before him …
    With rule
    … me, I mourn in my Complaint, and make a Noyse. His Prayer was a DolefullDoleful Lamentation. And Psal. 142. 2. I powred out my Complaint before him, I shewed before him …

    John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 490 · Open in the reader

Saul and David Compared A61680

  • Printed
    … Wonder, if ſuch a one be afraid of Death. But yet it is very DolefullDoleful, ſince Death cannot be avoided, Heb. 9. 27. and ſince there the Weary be at Reſt …
    With rule
    … Wonder, if ſuch a one be afraid of Death. But yet it is very DolefullDoleful, ſince Death cannot be avoided, Heb. 9. 27. and ſince there the Weary be at Reſt …

    Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 94 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

  • Printed
    3. DolefullDoleful, 2 Sam. 1. 19. & 3. 35, 36. 2 Chron. 35. 25.
    With rule
    3. DolefullDoleful, 2 Sam. 1. 19. & 3. 35, 36. 2 Chron. 35. 25.

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 589 · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

  • Printed
    … makes horrour, and horrour makes diſtraction; diſtracted perſons whip, and cut, and wound themſelves. DolefullDoleful conditions would be pitied above, but ſinners have no pity to themſelves, to think …
    With rule
    … makes horrour, and horrour makes diſtraction; diſtracted perſons whip, and cut, and wound themſelves. DolefullDoleful conditions would be pitied above, but ſinners have no pity to themſelves, to think …

    Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 112 · Open in the reader