Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6644 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mournfullmournful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 410 times in 246 works
Consistency: 97.1% (410 of 422)
Reach if approved: ~443 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mournful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 422 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (410 changes in 246 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 410)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cannot be without much ſorrow of heart; where that is, there will be found mournfullmournful heauineſſe, and great dolour and griefe for ſinne, that hath been committed. And this …
With rule
… cannot be without much ſorrow of heart; where that is, there will be found mournfullmournful heauineſſe, and great dolour and griefe for ſinne, that hath been committed. And this …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 269 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not ſo delightfull and ſufficient, thy heart grows more inſenſible of ſinne, and hardly mournfullmournful; thy delights are leſſe in heavenly things. Ah now, how is the mighty fallen …
With rule
… not ſo delightfull and ſufficient, thy heart grows more inſenſible of ſinne, and hardly mournfullmournful; thy delights are leſſe in heavenly things. Ah now, how is the mighty fallen …
Obadiah Sedgwick · Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this ſweet Saint, as it was obſerued, and now faithfully witneſſed by her mournfullmournful husband, who wiſheth both his life and latter end like vnto hers.
With rule
… of this ſweet Saint, as it was obſerued, and now faithfully witneſſed by her mournfullmournful husband, who wiſheth both his life and latter end like vnto hers.
Thomas Taylor · Two Treatises · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an austere and streit life, sounded repentance & sharp reprehensions, as though he sang a mournfullmournful song, and the Lord himselfe, as with a mery & cheerefull song applyed himselfe more …
With rule
… an austere and streit life, sounded repentance & sharp reprehensions, as though he sang a mournfullmournful song, and the Lord himselfe, as with a mery & cheerefull song applyed himselfe more …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 299 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it makes a man condemne himselfe, rather then God; when Dauid lay in that mournfullmournful plight, that he could finde no comfort night nor daie, for a long season …
With rule
… it makes a man condemne himselfe, rather then God; when Dauid lay in that mournfullmournful plight, that he could finde no comfort night nor daie, for a long season …
Nicholas Byfield · The Signs · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of curing them; vnto whom sorrow and greefe being imparted by pitifull cryes and mournfullmournful complaints, is echoed back againe, and so redoubled both in the sound and strength …
With rule
… of curing them; vnto whom sorrow and greefe being imparted by pitifull cryes and mournfullmournful complaints, is echoed back againe, and so redoubled both in the sound and strength …
John Downame · Consolations for the Afflicted · p. 664 · Open in the reader
Printed
With her a troop of mournfullmournful grooms abiding,
With rule
With her a troop of mournfullmournful grooms abiding,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… band of duetie, and the bowels of compassion, to condole in soule, with that mournfullmournful King and Queene; so let us all desire the Lord, to put it into …
With rule
… band of duetie, and the bowels of compassion, to condole in soule, with that mournfullmournful King and Queene; so let us all desire the Lord, to put it into …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 342 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Funeral Sermon for Matthew Mead A44677

Printed
THE Request of the MournfullMournful Widow, and other Relatives, of the worthy Person, deceased; concurring with my own Inclination …
With rule
THE Request of the MournfullMournful Widow, and other Relatives, of the worthy Person, deceased; concurring with my own Inclination …
John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Matthew Mead · Open in the reader

The Valley of Vision A86450

Printed
MournfullMournful.
With rule
MournfullMournful.
Richard Holdsworth · The Valley of Vision · Open in the reader
Printed
MournfullMournful words to be uſed in confeſſion of ſin page 45
With rule
MournfullMournful words to be uſed in confeſſion of ſin page 45
Richard Holdsworth · The Valley of Vision · Open in the reader

The Mournful Note of the Dove A88692

Printed
Gemitus Columbae: The MournfullMournful Note of the DOVE.
With rule
Gemitus Columbae: The MournfullMournful Note of the DOVE.
John Langley · The Mournful Note of the Dove · Open in the reader