Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6593 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forgetfulnesforgetfulness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 218 times in 140 works
Consistency: 96.4% (218 of 226)
Reach if approved: ~237 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: forgetfulness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 226 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (218 changes in 140 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 218)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hee heard in confession, it presently ran out of his memory. This gift of forgetfulnesforgetfulness is not now so rare; therefore you might haue spared this obseruation: howbeit, if …
With rule
… hee heard in confession, it presently ran out of his memory. This gift of forgetfulnesforgetfulness is not now so rare; therefore you might haue spared this obseruation: howbeit, if …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… knowledge must be brought into practise, wee shall finde such difficulties, such wawardnes, such forgetfulnesforgetfulness, such wants, that although we haue had with the Prophet a very good direction …
With rule
… knowledge must be brought into practise, wee shall finde such difficulties, such wawardnes, such forgetfulnesforgetfulness, such wants, that although we haue had with the Prophet a very good direction …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 598 · Open in the reader
Printed
That church ſervice which worketh among Chriſtian people, any neglect, contempt, or forgetfulnesforgetfulness of any one Sainte canonized by the church according to that order which the …
With rule
That church ſervice which worketh among Chriſtian people, any neglect, contempt, or forgetfulnesforgetfulness of any one Sainte canonized by the church according to that order which the …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and some are beaten and conpulsed. And they that marrye thus marrye in a forgetfulnesforgetfulness and obliuiousnes of goddes commaundementes. But as in the tyme of Noe, sodenlye a …
With rule
… and some are beaten and conpulsed. And they that marrye thus marrye in a forgetfulnesforgetfulness and obliuiousnes of goddes commaundementes. But as in the tyme of Noe, sodenlye a …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… that which is good; in our conſciences of guiltines, and in our memories of forgetfulnesforgetfulness, in our words and deeds of manifold offences, in the whole man wee are …
With rule
… that which is good; in our conſciences of guiltines, and in our memories of forgetfulnesforgetfulness, in our words and deeds of manifold offences, in the whole man wee are …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… occaſions, or if they haue waxen afterward more dull through want of knowledge or forgetfulnesforgetfulness vnfitter to Gods ſeruice, then they were before; then they haue iudged themſelues the …
With rule
… occaſions, or if they haue waxen afterward more dull through want of knowledge or forgetfulnesforgetfulness vnfitter to Gods ſeruice, then they were before; then they haue iudged themſelues the …
Richard Rogers · Sermons · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forgotten: and the ſcholler that carying away many a ſtripe for his dulnes and forgetfulnesforgetfulness was much diſcouraged, and not daring for feare to aske his master againe the …
With rule
… forgotten: and the ſcholler that carying away many a ſtripe for his dulnes and forgetfulnesforgetfulness was much diſcouraged, and not daring for feare to aske his master againe the …
John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · Open in the reader
Printed
… which remayneth without end: And so among the Grecians: whatsoever sinnes the penitent for forgetfulnesforgetfulness or shamefastnesse doth leave unconfessed, we pray the mercifull and most pitifull God that …
With rule
… which remayneth without end: And so among the Grecians: whatsoever sinnes the penitent for forgetfulnesforgetfulness or shamefastnesse doth leave unconfessed, we pray the mercifull and most pitifull God that …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 123 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02178

Printed
… that not onely for sinnes committed by ignorance, but also by error, that is, ForgetfulnesForgetfulness, Frailenes, Retchlesnes, Carelesnes, &c. If you haue not Tremelius his Translation by you, you …
With rule
… that not onely for sinnes committed by ignorance, but also by error, that is, ForgetfulnesForgetfulness, Frailenes, Retchlesnes, Carelesnes, &c. If you haue not Tremelius his Translation by you, you …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 869 · Open in the reader
Printed
ForgetfulnesForgetfulness, the cause of it, 609,
With rule
ForgetfulnesForgetfulness, the cause of it, 609,
Richard Greenham · Works · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
ForgetfulnesForgetfulness.
With rule
ForgetfulnesForgetfulness.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
Touching the ForgetfulnesForgetfulness of Gods benefites▪
With rule
Touching the ForgetfulnesForgetfulness of Gods benefites▪
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

The Works of Heaven Upon Earth A46702

Printed
… Thirdly, the forgetfulnesforgetfulness of mercies, or of God their donor, 1. Sam. 12.9. Pſalm 106.21, 22, 23. Ier. 2.6, 7, 8, 9. Hoſ. 13.6, 7, 8. ForgetfulnesForgetfulness of benefits is ſo borrid a ſin, as that for it the Lamb of …
With rule
… Thirdly, the forgetfulnesforgetfulness of mercies, or of God their donor, 1. Sam. 12.9. Pſalm 106.21, 22, 23. Ier. 2.6, 7, 8, 9. Hoſ. 13.6, 7, 8. ForgetfulnesForgetfulness of benefits is ſo borrid a ſin, as that for it the Lamb of …
Henry Jeanes · The Works of Heaven Upon Earth · p. 59 · Open in the reader