Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6662 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

willfullwillful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 315 times in 206 works
Consistency: 98.1% (315 of 321)
Reach if approved: ~337 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: wilful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 321 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (315 changes in 206 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 315)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
4. The Prelats willfullwillful, and continuall breaking of many, substantiall, & wholsome Canons, is not denied by the Rej …
With rule
4. The Prelats willfullwillful, and continuall breaking of many, substantiall, & wholsome Canons, is not denied by the Rej …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
Answ. Vsuall, ordinary and willfullwillful absence from them, is altogether vnlawfull; yet there be three cases wherein a Minister …
With rule
Answ. Vsuall, ordinary and willfullwillful absence from them, is altogether vnlawfull; yet there be three cases wherein a Minister …
Edward Elton · Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of mercie and loue not tranſgreſſed. Thus may ſuites of law be made, and willfullwillful or negligent debters caſt into priſon, as theſe are parts of publicke iuſtice, and …
With rule
… of mercie and loue not tranſgreſſed. Thus may ſuites of law be made, and willfullwillful or negligent debters caſt into priſon, as theſe are parts of publicke iuſtice, and …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are yet ſo blind, that they ſee them not in the Text? or ſo willfullwillful that they will not follow it? at the name of Ieſus ſaith the text …
With rule
… are yet ſo blind, that they ſee them not in the Text? or ſo willfullwillful that they will not follow it? at the name of Ieſus ſaith the text …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the name Iesus, in time of Divine Service and Sermons; be not an expresse willfullwillful perverting, corrupting, yea abusing of the Scripture, (and so a dangerous soule-condemning sinne …
With rule
… the name Iesus, in time of Divine Service and Sermons; be not an expresse willfullwillful perverting, corrupting, yea abusing of the Scripture, (and so a dangerous soule-condemning sinne …
William Prynne · Queries Propounded to the Bowers · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for them that ſinne through ignorance, their is a Sacrifice for their ſinnes: Lett willfullwillful ſcorners looke to them ſelves.
With rule
… for them that ſinne through ignorance, their is a Sacrifice for their ſinnes: Lett willfullwillful ſcorners looke to them ſelves.
John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in them. This ignorance, is either simple, when meanes of knowledge be wanting: or willfullwillful and affected, when one may know & will not. Ignorance being in it selfe a …
With rule
… in them. This ignorance, is either simple, when meanes of knowledge be wanting: or willfullwillful and affected, when one may know & will not. Ignorance being in it selfe a …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
… should be vext with al manner of indignities and torments for the grosse and willfullwillful impieties of sinfull men.
With rule
… should be vext with al manner of indignities and torments for the grosse and willfullwillful impieties of sinfull men.
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 36 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

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

The Kings Shoe A06191

Printed
… seeme … affront Gods secret will, which is to take the …ther away by death. WillfullWillful art thou then O …ypocrite, that conceitest thou maist make thy …rother an vnder …
With rule
… seeme … affront Gods secret will, which is to take the …ther away by death. WillfullWillful art thou then O …ypocrite, that conceitest thou maist make thy …rother an vnder …
William Loe · The Kings Shoe · p. 40 · Open in the reader

Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship A19142

Printed
… degree, are sayd to be alike hote, though there may be found some difference. WillfullWillful disobedience is sayd to be as the sinne of Witchcraft; and stubbernesse as Idolatrie …
With rule
… degree, are sayd to be alike hote, though there may be found some difference. WillfullWillful disobedience is sayd to be as the sinne of Witchcraft; and stubbernesse as Idolatrie …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 515 · Open in the reader