Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6702 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pittifullpitiful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 666 times in 411 works
Consistency: 98.5% (666 of 676)
Reach if approved: ~710 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pitiful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 676 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (666 changes in 411 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 666)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… when you heare Heaven and your Crowne is parted from you: it was a pittifullpitiful ſaying to Nebuchadnezzar, thy kingdome is departed from thee; much more to us then …
With rule
… when you heare Heaven and your Crowne is parted from you: it was a pittifullpitiful ſaying to Nebuchadnezzar, thy kingdome is departed from thee; much more to us then …
Thomas Goodwin · The Happiness of the Saints in Glory · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his owne kind red, so that though hee came vnto them laying open his pittifullpitiful estate, if he put them in minde of the brother-hood had betweene them …
With rule
… his owne kind red, so that though hee came vnto them laying open his pittifullpitiful estate, if he put them in minde of the brother-hood had betweene them …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 685 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no: much leſſe will God; (who is more mercifull then any Father, and more pittifullpitiful then any Mother) hold vs ouerlong, or deale rigorouſly with vs: but ordering all …
With rule
… no: much leſſe will God; (who is more mercifull then any Father, and more pittifullpitiful then any Mother) hold vs ouerlong, or deale rigorouſly with vs: but ordering all …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 347 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his ſore hunger. Theſe beſtowed what they had, they would beſtowe nothing. Theſe were pittifullpitiful to man; they were cruell to poore man, and inhumane to Lazarus, a godly …
With rule
… his ſore hunger. Theſe beſtowed what they had, they would beſtowe nothing. Theſe were pittifullpitiful to man; they were cruell to poore man, and inhumane to Lazarus, a godly …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee a poore Snake goe in filthy tottered rags all ſtinking loathſomely, is a pittifullpitiful ſpectacle: But if we could ſee with what menſtruous garments all thy ſoule is …
With rule
… ſee a poore Snake goe in filthy tottered rags all ſtinking loathſomely, is a pittifullpitiful ſpectacle: But if we could ſee with what menſtruous garments all thy ſoule is …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… full of all vngodlinesse, vncleannes and blasphemy, so was his end miserable hard and pittifullpitiful: his last words were these; In case the foure thousand Guilders were ready, the …
With rule
… full of all vngodlinesse, vncleannes and blasphemy, so was his end miserable hard and pittifullpitiful: his last words were these; In case the foure thousand Guilders were ready, the …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 383 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them, who are altogether ignorant, that they should mocke they knowe not what. A pittifullpitiful thing to here one, who himselfe cannot giue the meaning of one petition in …
With rule
… them, who are altogether ignorant, that they should mocke they knowe not what. A pittifullpitiful thing to here one, who himselfe cannot giue the meaning of one petition in …
William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… scar-crowes. Thou loosest the pleasures of sinne, true; and is it not a pittifullpitiful thing for a swine to loose his tumbling in the mire? Thou loosest thy …
With rule
… scar-crowes. Thou loosest the pleasures of sinne, true; and is it not a pittifullpitiful thing for a swine to loose his tumbling in the mire? Thou loosest thy …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

4 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.

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

Printed
… wee haue so great encowragement, to get Entrie through IESVS CHRIST, so Mercifull and PittifullPitiful an High Priest, Vers. 14 15. let vs bee steadfast in our Fayth, and come, confidentlie …
With rule
… wee haue so great encowragement, to get Entrie through IESVS CHRIST, so Mercifull and PittifullPitiful an High Priest, Vers. 14 15. let vs bee steadfast in our Fayth, and come, confidentlie …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 53 · Open in the reader

Christs Kingdom A73373

Printed
… which haply was not there, to the number of two thouſand in one night. PittifullPitiful was their condition, when there was a deſire to know the number of dead …
With rule
… which haply was not there, to the number of two thouſand in one night. PittifullPitiful was their condition, when there was a deſire to know the number of dead …
Richard Webb · Christs Kingdom · p. 82 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Baptizing Believers Infants A86506

Printed
… not, that Infants are not capable of Sacramentall grace in and by another way. PittifullPitiful are the ſhifts of them that have no other way to ſtoppe an Anabaptiſts …
With rule
… not, that Infants are not capable of Sacramentall grace in and by another way. PittifullPitiful are the ſhifts of them that have no other way to ſtoppe an Anabaptiſts …
Nathanael Homes · Vindication of Baptizing Believers Infants · p. 198 · Open in the reader

Christ and Moses Excellency A90893

Printed
PittifullPitiful.
With rule
PittifullPitiful.
Vavasor Powell · Christ and Moses Excellency · p. 411 · Open in the reader