Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6564 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

handfullhandful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 895 times in 497 works
Consistency: 98.3% (895 of 910)
Reach if approved: ~956 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: handful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 910 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (895 changes in 497 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 895)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… amiſſe) how can it be let, how can it be hindered by ſuch a handfullhandful? And becauſe hee muſt vſe Subſtitute Rulers in his general overſeeing the Churches of …
With rule
… amiſſe) how can it be let, how can it be hindered by ſuch a handfullhandful? And becauſe hee muſt vſe Subſtitute Rulers in his general overſeeing the Churches of …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 313 · Open in the reader
Printed
… What might we come to in Chriſt, if wee would ſtriue: but oh, a handfullhandful with eaſe, better keepe where we are with quiet we thinke, then to make …
With rule
… What might we come to in Chriſt, if wee would ſtriue: but oh, a handfullhandful with eaſe, better keepe where we are with quiet we thinke, then to make …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… amongſt the Iewes were not deſtitute of the Spirit, yet they being but a handfullhandful in compariſon of the reſt of the world, the beſtowing hereof was not ſo …
With rule
… amongſt the Iewes were not deſtitute of the Spirit, yet they being but a handfullhandful in compariſon of the reſt of the world, the beſtowing hereof was not ſo …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… small nūber: for, in most ages, the church of God hath beene but a handfullhandful, to the rest of the world. And in the Church this likewise is true …
With rule
… small nūber: for, in most ages, the church of God hath beene but a handfullhandful, to the rest of the world. And in the Church this likewise is true …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 493 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. There be Pyrates in the Sea. Alas! but a handfullhandful to that huge army of them in the world. Take a short view of …
With rule
2. There be Pyrates in the Sea. Alas! but a handfullhandful to that huge army of them in the world. Take a short view of …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the falſe Prophets in Eechiels time, that would pollute Gods name for an handfullhandful of barly.
With rule
… and the falſe Prophets in Eechiels time, that would pollute Gods name for an handfullhandful of barly.
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
Better is an handfullhandful with quietneſſe, &c. Thirdly, the ſluggard is here deſcribed by his inward effects, or …
With rule
Better is an handfullhandful with quietneſſe, &c. Thirdly, the ſluggard is here deſcribed by his inward effects, or …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the duſt of the earth, ſhould not ſuffice for euery man to take an handfullhandful, and all your drift is, that you may haue inough for preſent maintenance; Behold …
With rule
… the duſt of the earth, ſhould not ſuffice for euery man to take an handfullhandful, and all your drift is, that you may haue inough for preſent maintenance; Behold …
Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 63 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

Printed
… and 9. 29. See Lifting. Hand for worke or plague, Exod. 9. 3. and 14. 31. Hand for power, Num. 11. 23. HandfullHandful of the Meat-offering was burnt on the Altar, Lev. 2. 2.
With rule
… and 9. 29. See Lifting. Hand for worke or plague, Exod. 9. 3. and 14. 31. Hand for power, Num. 11. 23. HandfullHandful of the Meat-offering was burnt on the Altar, Lev. 2. 2.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · Open in the reader

Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms A45442

Printed
V. 16. HandfullHandful] foreign a small quantity of corne (from foreign minutus est) is in all the copies of …
With rule
V. 16. HandfullHandful] foreign a small quantity of corne (from foreign minutus est) is in all the copies of …
Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
HandfullHandful pag. 351 col. 1
With rule
HandfullHandful pag. 351 col. 1
Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

Printed
… good as dead. Thus he multiplyes his Church into great Multitudes, out of an HandfullHandful of Corn ſowne on the top of the Mountains, Pſal. 72.16. And no marvel, ſeeing …
With rule
… good as dead. Thus he multiplyes his Church into great Multitudes, out of an HandfullHandful of Corn ſowne on the top of the Mountains, Pſal. 72.16. And no marvel, ſeeing …
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 112 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
HandfullHandful]
With rule
HandfullHandful]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 285 · Open in the reader

Works Volume 4 A70318

Printed
… thy right Hand 17 7 51 2 110 5 322 2 my ſoul is in my Hand 119 109 355 2 found their Hands 76 5 216 1 Hand breadth 39 5 120 1 HandfullHandful 72 16 202 1 Happy 146 5 399 1 Harps 43 4 130 2 my Haſte 31 22 96 2 ſoul Hateth 11 5 37 2 as an Heap 33 7 91 2 on Heaps 79 1 228 1 Heapeth up 39 6 120 1 haſt …
With rule
… thy right Hand 17 7 51 2 110 5 322 2 my ſoul is in my Hand 119 109 355 2 found their Hands 76 5 216 1 Hand breadth 39 5 120 1 HandfullHandful 72 16 202 1 Happy 146 5 399 1 Harps 43 4 130 2 my Haſte 31 22 96 2 ſoul Hateth 11 5 37 2 as an Heap 33 7 91 2 on Heaps 79 1 228 1 Heapeth up 39 6 120 1 haſt …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · Open in the reader