Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6610 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wretchedneswretchedness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 198 times in 121 works
Consistency: 99.5% (198 of 199)
Reach if approved: ~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wretchedness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (198 changes in 121 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 198)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and makes her to trudge up and down in businesses of darknesse, filthinesse and wretchedneswretchedness: The soule is set on work in things that are no kin to her …
With rule
… and makes her to trudge up and down in businesses of darknesse, filthinesse and wretchedneswretchedness: The soule is set on work in things that are no kin to her …
Francis Rous · The Mystical Marriage · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Againe, who is he that will not confeſſe it to be a moſt vile wretchedneswretchedness, when a man doth ſet more by his riches, then by relieuing Chriſte?
With rule
… Againe, who is he that will not confeſſe it to be a moſt vile wretchedneswretchedness, when a man doth ſet more by his riches, then by relieuing Chriſte?
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Rome, as to an other heauen, and that he shoulde leaue them in wretchedneswretchedness and beggerye: Thus it pleased hym to dally & sport him selfe with the phrase …
With rule
… of Rome, as to an other heauen, and that he shoulde leaue them in wretchedneswretchedness and beggerye: Thus it pleased hym to dally & sport him selfe with the phrase …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sortes of sinners, the one be they who mourne, lamēt, and bewaile their owne wretchedneswretchedness, and miserie vnfainedly before God, cōfessing not onely that their hole nature is sinfull …
With rule
… sortes of sinners, the one be they who mourne, lamēt, and bewaile their owne wretchedneswretchedness, and miserie vnfainedly before God, cōfessing not onely that their hole nature is sinfull …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 393 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinners, and can do nothing but ſinne, that ſo they acknowledging theyr miſerye and wretchedneswretchedness with an humble and contrite hart, myght thirſt after grace, the Apoſtle S. Paule …
With rule
… ſinners, and can do nothing but ſinne, that ſo they acknowledging theyr miſerye and wretchedneswretchedness with an humble and contrite hart, myght thirſt after grace, the Apoſtle S. Paule …
Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… sauiour Christ therfore knowynge our imbecillite & weakenes to be no lesse than oure miserye & wretchedneswretchedness, exortetth vs principallye & aboue all thynges to praye. Watche & praye, sayth he, that ye …
With rule
… sauiour Christ therfore knowynge our imbecillite & weakenes to be no lesse than oure miserye & wretchedneswretchedness, exortetth vs principallye & aboue all thynges to praye. Watche & praye, sayth he, that ye …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… frō all the enemyes of thy soule, frō all perell & from all misery and wretchedneswretchedness: folow this captayn goyng before the in this cō flicte and battell: he is …
With rule
… frō all the enemyes of thy soule, frō all perell & from all misery and wretchedneswretchedness: folow this captayn goyng before the in this cō flicte and battell: he is …
Thomas Becon · The Solace of the Soul Against the Bitter Storms of Sickness and Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… life rise againe to condemnation, which is the accomplishment of their eternall woe and wretchedneswretchedness; a rufull and dolefull case to consider, and yet is it the state of …
With rule
… life rise againe to condemnation, which is the accomplishment of their eternall woe and wretchedneswretchedness; a rufull and dolefull case to consider, and yet is it the state of …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 526 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
The Miserie and WretchednesWretchedness of our state compared with that slauerie of Gods people.
With rule
The Miserie and WretchednesWretchedness of our state compared with that slauerie of Gods people.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader