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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6652 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reproachfullreproachful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
620 times in 372 works
Consistency
96.7% (620 of 641)
Reach if approved
~674 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: reproachful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
641 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (620 changes in 372 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 620)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſtormes of this world, what winde ſoeuer bloweth, without any feare of danger. Let reproachfullreproachful words moue none of you to reuenge, or hatred of your neighbour. Be ye …
    With rule
    … ſtormes of this world, what winde ſoeuer bloweth, without any feare of danger. Let reproachfullreproachful words moue none of you to reuenge, or hatred of your neighbour. Be ye …

    John Mayer · A Pattern for Women · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … their writings, their bitternes and disdaine suffer them not to name, but in most reproachfullreproachful tearmes, the first reformers and restorers of our Religion: calling them vsually, Caluinists, Puritans …
    With rule
    … their writings, their bitternes and disdaine suffer them not to name, but in most reproachfullreproachful tearmes, the first reformers and restorers of our Religion: calling them vsually, Caluinists, Puritans …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Rome, the affronts he hath offred to the Church of England, and using such reproachfullreproachful words against your Majesties Supremacy, for which another happily might have had his head …
    With rule
    … Rome, the affronts he hath offred to the Church of England, and using such reproachfullreproachful words against your Majesties Supremacy, for which another happily might have had his head …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … by penall lawes. The names of Princes wee are iuſtly tender of, and the reproachfullreproachful traducing of their perſons is in ſome caſes capitall. For my part I could …
    With rule
    … by penall lawes. The names of Princes wee are iuſtly tender of, and the reproachfullreproachful traducing of their perſons is in ſome caſes capitall. For my part I could …

    William Sclater · Sermon · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … against vs in vaine for that same cause, saying, that the vile Novators vse reproachfullreproachful names and pictures, to the disgrace of the Apostolicke Sea, but they neede not …
    With rule
    … against vs in vaine for that same cause, saying, that the vile Novators vse reproachfullreproachful names and pictures, to the disgrace of the Apostolicke Sea, but they neede not …

    William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … they seemed not onely to be no more, but, also, that their memorie was reproachfullreproachful and odious: yet, hee did find them revived, in greater strength, and, visiblie, at …
    With rule
    … they seemed not onely to be no more, but, also, that their memorie was reproachfullreproachful and odious: yet, hee did find them revived, in greater strength, and, visiblie, at …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and I would bee much ashamed to bee overtaken with such & such foule and reproachfullreproachful evils, savours strongly of a proud Pharisaicall spirit: Indeed it is well, I must …
    With rule
    … and I would bee much ashamed to bee overtaken with such & such foule and reproachfullreproachful evils, savours strongly of a proud Pharisaicall spirit: Indeed it is well, I must …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … voluerunt. that is, The Romans accounting thoſe playes, and the whole Stage to be reproachfullreproachful, when they valued the goods and enrolled the names of their citizens, gaue not …
    With rule
    … voluerunt. that is, The Romans accounting thoſe playes, and the whole Stage to be reproachfullreproachful, when they valued the goods and enrolled the names of their citizens, gaue not …

    Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (21)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

  • Printed
    2. ReproachfullReproachful carriages, mowing, hanging out the lip.
    With rule
    2. ReproachfullReproachful carriages, mowing, hanging out the lip.

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 248 · Open in the reader

Harmony Upon 2 Samuel A15403

  • Printed
    2. ReproachfullReproachful and reuiling words proceede either from anger and desire of reuenge, as here in …
    With rule
    2. ReproachfullReproachful and reuiling words proceede either from anger and desire of reuenge, as here in …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 2 Samuel · p. 97 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 15-17 A35473

  • Printed
    Thirdly, ReproachfullReproachful, ſcornefull words againſt them, as if they were neither able nor worthy to be …
    With rule
    Thirdly, ReproachfullReproachful, ſcornefull words againſt them, as if they were neither able nor worthy to be …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 54 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

  • Printed
    … Poor, Old, Sick, or a little burdensome, to them; then oh what Bitter, Saucy, ReproachfullReproachful words: what harsh, Vexatious, and Uncivill carriage, do they expresse towards them, as if …
    With rule
    … Poor, Old, Sick, or a little burdensome, to them; then oh what Bitter, Saucy, ReproachfullReproachful words: what harsh, Vexatious, and Uncivill carriage, do they expresse towards them, as if …

    Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    [See more cordialls against ReproachfullReproachful slander. Doctor Hall's Balme of Gilead. p. 142. &c. Byfeilds Marrow. p. 319. &c. Burroughes Moses …
    With rule
    [See more cordialls against ReproachfullReproachful slander. Doctor Hall's Balme of Gilead. p. 142. &c. Byfeilds Marrow. p. 319. &c. Burroughes Moses …

    Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 88 · Open in the reader

Thirteen Sermons A61630

  • Printed
    … particularly requires of his Disciples. He strictly forbids all Causeless Anger, all Contumelious and ReproachfullReproachful Words; and when Injuries are done us, he commands us that we resist not …
    With rule
    … particularly requires of his Disciples. He strictly forbids all Causeless Anger, all Contumelious and ReproachfullReproachful Words; and when Injuries are done us, he commands us that we resist not …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Thirteen Sermons · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … lies the insuperable Difficulty; how the exposing one anothers Lives for the sake of ReproachfullReproachful Words or Personal Affronts, can be reconciled to this Command of Christ? For my …
    With rule
    … lies the insuperable Difficulty; how the exposing one anothers Lives for the sake of ReproachfullReproachful Words or Personal Affronts, can be reconciled to this Command of Christ? For my …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Thirteen Sermons · p. 270 · Open in the reader

The Grand Trial of True Conversion A76748

  • Printed
    By this ReproachfullReproachful ſpeech men draw great guilt upon themſelves before the judgement ſeat of God, as …
    With rule
    By this ReproachfullReproachful ſpeech men draw great guilt upon themſelves before the judgement ſeat of God, as …

    John Bisco · The Grand Trial of True Conversion · p. 152 · Open in the reader

The Discoverer Part 2 A79828

  • Printed
    … dangerous and deſtructive to all formes and kinds of Government, are Trayterous, Mutinous, and ReproachfullReproachful Libels, and Paſquils, In truth the wiſeſt of the Gentiles underſtood ſo much, and …
    With rule
    … dangerous and deſtructive to all formes and kinds of Government, are Trayterous, Mutinous, and ReproachfullReproachful Libels, and Paſquils, In truth the wiſeſt of the Gentiles underſtood ſo much, and …

    John Canne · The Discoverer Part 2 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Part. Wherein is ſhewed in what part the ſayd BOOKE is Falſe, Scandalous, and ReproachfullReproachful; in what, Deſtructive to the preſent Government; in what particulars it tends to Diviſion …
    With rule
    … Part. Wherein is ſhewed in what part the ſayd BOOKE is Falſe, Scandalous, and ReproachfullReproachful; in what, Deſtructive to the preſent Government; in what particulars it tends to Diviſion …

    John Canne · The Discoverer Part 2 · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … have of the contrary: And this ſhall ſuffice for what is Falſe, Scandalous, and ReproachfullReproachful.
    With rule
    … have of the contrary: And this ſhall ſuffice for what is Falſe, Scandalous, and ReproachfullReproachful.

    John Canne · The Discoverer Part 2 · p. 36 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 6-13 A85667

  • Printed
    3. ReproachfullReproachful, 2 Tim. 1.16. Oneſiphorus was not aſhamed of my chaine. There is ſhame and reproach attending …
    With rule
    3. ReproachfullReproachful, 2 Tim. 1.16. Oneſiphorus was not aſhamed of my chaine. There is ſhame and reproach attending …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 6-13 · p. 103 · Open in the reader