Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6659 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sweetnessweetness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 659 times in 356 works
Consistency: 98.3% (659 of 670)
Reach if approved: ~704 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sweetness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 670 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (659 changes in 356 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 659)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… life is nothing but a trade of doing well, & suffering evill. Such was the sweetnessweetness of his nature and so affectionatelie charitable was his heart, that no froward, and …
With rule
… life is nothing but a trade of doing well, & suffering evill. Such was the sweetnessweetness of his nature and so affectionatelie charitable was his heart, that no froward, and …
William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Lawes sweetnessweetness.
With rule
The Lawes sweetnessweetness.
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee adde to this, that this new man in him having once taſted what ſweetnessweetness is in God, and How good the Lord is, is then like a man …
With rule
… wee adde to this, that this new man in him having once taſted what ſweetnessweetness is in God, and How good the Lord is, is then like a man …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 306 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Oliue is yet ouer vs with her fatnes, and the Figge with her sweetnessweetness, and the Vine with her fruitfulries, that (amongst many other sinnes of our land …
With rule
… the Oliue is yet ouer vs with her fatnes, and the Figge with her sweetnessweetness, and the Vine with her fruitfulries, that (amongst many other sinnes of our land …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, the more it doth desire, because it feeleth so much the more the sweetnessweetness of it; as so we see, that none are so desirous of riches as …
With rule
… it, the more it doth desire, because it feeleth so much the more the sweetnessweetness of it; as so we see, that none are so desirous of riches as …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all, the sharpnes of adversitie which wee suffer, makes vs both to know the sweetnessweetness of prosperitie, and what our Saviour Iesus Christ suffered for vs: which should inflame …
With rule
… all, the sharpnes of adversitie which wee suffer, makes vs both to know the sweetnessweetness of prosperitie, and what our Saviour Iesus Christ suffered for vs: which should inflame …
Alexander Hume · The Felicity of the Life to Come · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Obiect. Ob. 2 Men ſay, Men ſay, this is ſo effectuall, ſo comfortable: but what ſweetnessweetness, what power, what terrour doeſt thou finde, in the promiſes or threatnings of it …
With rule
… Obiect. Ob. 2 Men ſay, Men ſay, this is ſo effectuall, ſo comfortable: but what ſweetnessweetness, what power, what terrour doeſt thou finde, in the promiſes or threatnings of it …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſeaſes and doth much hurt: ſo, greedie hunting after praiſe or honor (things in ſweetnessweetness like to hony) is no commendation but a ſhame and an hurtfull thing.
With rule
… diſeaſes and doth much hurt: ſo, greedie hunting after praiſe or honor (things in ſweetnessweetness like to hony) is no commendation but a ſhame and an hurtfull thing.
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 218 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Judges A10933

Printed
… ſhall it worke: all ſhall worke for the beſt to them to loue God: SweetnesSweetness ſhall come out of bitternes to them: whereas the other hauing no ſuch promiſe …
With rule
… ſhall it worke: all ſhall worke for the beſt to them to loue God: SweetnesSweetness ſhall come out of bitternes to them: whereas the other hauing no ſuch promiſe …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 522 · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

Printed
… elect, love, and enjoy him for himſelf? Farther, doth al the Beautie, Amenitie, Majeſtie, SweetnesSweetness, Amiablenes of God the Father, ſhine in the lovely Face of Chriſt? Yea, he …
With rule
… elect, love, and enjoy him for himſelf? Farther, doth al the Beautie, Amenitie, Majeſtie, SweetnesSweetness, Amiablenes of God the Father, ſhine in the lovely Face of Chriſt? Yea, he …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt amiable object? Is it not ſad, that Chriſt ſhould have ſo much Beautie, SweetnesSweetness, Excellence for his friends; and yet they ſhould have ſo little Love for him …
With rule
… moſt amiable object? Is it not ſad, that Chriſt ſhould have ſo much Beautie, SweetnesSweetness, Excellence for his friends; and yet they ſhould have ſo little Love for him …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 365 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

Printed
D. 6. SweetnesSweetness and plenty may well move soules to come out of famine. Ver. 18.
With rule
D. 6. SweetnesSweetness and plenty may well move soules to come out of famine. Ver. 18.
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 549 · Open in the reader

Golden Sands A76090

Printed
… Gentlewomen, (I might ſay the greateſt & eldeſt too) take Lively patterns of Ingenuity, Piety, SweetnesSweetness, and Goodnes, from your Highnes, though as yet not full 11 years of age, and …
With rule
… Gentlewomen, (I might ſay the greateſt & eldeſt too) take Lively patterns of Ingenuity, Piety, SweetnesSweetness, and Goodnes, from your Highnes, though as yet not full 11 years of age, and …
John Batchiler · Golden Sands · Open in the reader