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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6594 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forwardnesforwardness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
176 times in 134 works
Consistency
100% (176 of 176)
Reach if approved
~185 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: forwardness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
176 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (176 changes in 134 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … stubborne and stifnecked a people: or it may be some want of zeale or forwardnesforwardness, these, or some such were the cause of his feare: And the conscience of …
    With rule
    … stubborne and stifnecked a people: or it may be some want of zeale or forwardnesforwardness, these, or some such were the cause of his feare: And the conscience of …

    William Perkins · The Calling of the Ministry · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſure therefore we prouide ill for our ſelues, if we pinne our zeale and forwardnesforwardness vpon others, and gather not ſtrength enough from our owne aſſurance of Gods peculiar …
    With rule
    … ſure therefore we prouide ill for our ſelues, if we pinne our zeale and forwardnesforwardness vpon others, and gather not ſtrength enough from our owne aſſurance of Gods peculiar …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 597 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … his dreames: and the ſonnes of Iſhai, that diſdained their brother Dauid, for his forwardnesforwardness in the combate with Goliah.
    With rule
    … his dreames: and the ſonnes of Iſhai, that diſdained their brother Dauid, for his forwardnesforwardness in the combate with Goliah.

    Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … that being the true members of the Church, we are in the way and forwardnesforwardness to enter, & make our abode in heauen. It is alſo called the houſe of …
    With rule
    … that being the true members of the Church, we are in the way and forwardnesforwardness to enter, & make our abode in heauen. It is alſo called the houſe of …

    Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of the libertie wch I might lawfully take, & make a further demōstration of my forwardnesforwardness in undertaking the maintenāce of so good a cause, by giving the first onset …
    With rule
    … of the libertie wch I might lawfully take, & make a further demōstration of my forwardnesforwardness in undertaking the maintenāce of so good a cause, by giving the first onset …

    James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in CHRIST? all is nothing. Wee must stirre vp our owne sluggishnes, by the forwardnesforwardness we see in others, so shall we rightly profit by Gods graces in them.
    With rule
    … in CHRIST? all is nothing. Wee must stirre vp our owne sluggishnes, by the forwardnesforwardness we see in others, so shall we rightly profit by Gods graces in them.

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 797 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … you alone? But what of all this▪ If any man should thinke that alacrity & forwardnesforwardness in good things doth adde nothing vnto mens commendation; the two former speeches of …
    With rule
    … you alone? But what of all this▪ If any man should thinke that alacrity & forwardnesforwardness in good things doth adde nothing vnto mens commendation; the two former speeches of …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … incyte and inflame vs to doo good. Now we haue thys chearefull towardnes and forwardnesforwardness, to the ende that wee myght be moſte prompt and ready willingly and of …
    With rule
    … incyte and inflame vs to doo good. Now we haue thys chearefull towardnes and forwardnesforwardness, to the ende that wee myght be moſte prompt and ready willingly and of …

    Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · 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.