Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6586 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bitternesbitterness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 742 times in 388 works
Consistency: 97.8% (742 of 758)
Reach if approved: ~796 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bitterness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 758 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (742 changes in 388 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 742)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the good worke of receiuing it vpon a foundation of malice, or spirit of bitternesbitterness, when we come together to eate of one bread, and to drinke of one …
With rule
… the good worke of receiuing it vpon a foundation of malice, or spirit of bitternesbitterness, when we come together to eate of one bread, and to drinke of one …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… but haue ſunke vnder the ſame 300. tymes alſo. Alas, we litle thinke what the bitternesbitterness of Gods wrath is, and what the waight of his indignation is to the …
With rule
… but haue ſunke vnder the ſame 300. tymes alſo. Alas, we litle thinke what the bitternesbitterness of Gods wrath is, and what the waight of his indignation is to the …
Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For whilest thou followest the pleasures of the flesh, thou shalt fall into the bitternesbitterness of the spirit, and what that is, thou shalt feele when the time commeth …
With rule
… For whilest thou followest the pleasures of the flesh, thou shalt fall into the bitternesbitterness of the spirit, and what that is, thou shalt feele when the time commeth …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… church saith besides, That Moses did with the figure of the crosse change the bitternesbitterness of the waters in the wildernesse, and caused the water to flowe out of …
With rule
… church saith besides, That Moses did with the figure of the crosse change the bitternesbitterness of the waters in the wildernesse, and caused the water to flowe out of …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 241 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vndiſcreet, childiſh, fond, loſe their authoritie, or keepe it not, but alſo their hardneſſe, bitternesbitterness, want of wiſdom in framing them to perfection in obedience.
With rule
… vndiſcreet, childiſh, fond, loſe their authoritie, or keepe it not, but alſo their hardneſſe, bitternesbitterness, want of wiſdom in framing them to perfection in obedience.
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it in outward ſhew to others, when his heart is full of heauineſſe and bitternesbitterness within him, and wringeth and pincheth him priuily there where none is aware of …
With rule
… it in outward ſhew to others, when his heart is full of heauineſſe and bitternesbitterness within him, and wringeth and pincheth him priuily there where none is aware of …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men, wee roare like Beares, and mourne like Doues. Soe complaines Hezechias in the bitternesbitterness of his soule 34. 14. of Esay. Like a Crane, or a swallowe, so did I …
With rule
… men, wee roare like Beares, and mourne like Doues. Soe complaines Hezechias in the bitternesbitterness of his soule 34. 14. of Esay. Like a Crane, or a swallowe, so did I …
Richard Greenham · Propositions Containing Answers in Divers Spiritual Matters · Open in the reader
Printed
… them, and when by ſuch temptations they are brought low, in the anguiſh and bitternesbitterness of their ſoules, the Deuill laboureth eſpecially to dimme their knowledge and iudgement, that …
With rule
… them, and when by ſuch temptations they are brought low, in the anguiſh and bitternesbitterness of their ſoules, the Deuill laboureth eſpecially to dimme their knowledge and iudgement, that …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 190 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (16)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Golden Chain A09339

Printed
II. In wordes: 1. BitternesBitterness in speaking. Prou. 12. 18. There is that speaketh wordes, like the prickinges of a sword …
With rule
II. In wordes: 1. BitternesBitterness in speaking. Prou. 12. 18. There is that speaketh wordes, like the prickinges of a sword …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 73 · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon Colossians A11011

Printed
… ſhalt feele the dint of this iniquitie. Yet to come againe to the word, BitternesBitterness: looke that your loue turne not into gall. There be many, who haue bin …
With rule
… ſhalt feele the dint of this iniquitie. Yet to come againe to the word, BitternesBitterness: looke that your loue turne not into gall. There be many, who haue bin …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 346 · Open in the reader
Printed
… monſter to her without affection either to loue thy wife or care for her. BitternesBitterness in the behauiour, is either in word or deede. Indeede it is true, this …
With rule
… monſter to her without affection either to loue thy wife or care for her. BitternesBitterness in the behauiour, is either in word or deede. Indeede it is true, this …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 346 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

Printed
D. 6. BitternesBitterness in child bearing is the portion which God himself hath laid, as the womans …
With rule
D. 6. BitternesBitterness in child bearing is the portion which God himself hath laid, as the womans …
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… naming of the place, Therefore he called the name thereof Marah, Readings most agree, — BitternesBitterness. Sept. — He imposed a fit name, &c. vulg. Here is onely recorded a monument …
With rule
… naming of the place, Therefore he called the name thereof Marah, Readings most agree, — BitternesBitterness. Sept. — He imposed a fit name, &c. vulg. Here is onely recorded a monument …
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 836 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. The name, BitternesBitterness.
With rule
3. The name, BitternesBitterness.
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 836 · Open in the reader