Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6726 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

woefullwoeful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 583 times in 285 works
Consistency: 98.8% (583 of 590)
Reach if approved: ~620 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: woeful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 590 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (583 changes in 285 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 583)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Eſtate, againſt the Blood, and againſt his owne Perſon. The King was now in woefullwoeful caſe, and in great perplexitie and diſtreſſe, neither durſt he vſe the auctoritie of …
With rule
… Eſtate, againſt the Blood, and againſt his owne Perſon. The King was now in woefullwoeful caſe, and in great perplexitie and diſtreſſe, neither durſt he vſe the auctoritie of …
Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee are not of the number of the bleſſed, but our eſtate is a woefullwoeful eſtate; wee muſt take this as a Rule, that to whom Abraham our heauenly …
With rule
… wee are not of the number of the bleſſed, but our eſtate is a woefullwoeful eſtate; wee muſt take this as a Rule, that to whom Abraham our heauenly …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Beautie, Policie, these and the like are not oftentimes so, as we see by woefullwoeful experience in Nabal, Haman, Absalom, Achitophel; but the feare of the Lord is euer …
With rule
… Beautie, Policie, these and the like are not oftentimes so, as we see by woefullwoeful experience in Nabal, Haman, Absalom, Achitophel; but the feare of the Lord is euer …
Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of my counſell, meerely of Chriſtian Charity, tha… yée may neuer taſte of the woefullwoeful damnation of Tophet.
With rule
… of my counſell, meerely of Chriſtian Charity, tha… yée may neuer taſte of the woefullwoeful damnation of Tophet.
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… minde, and his heart is of an other frame; now he hath found by woefullwoeful experience, that there is no hope, nor helpe in himſelfe nor in the creature.
With rule
… minde, and his heart is of an other frame; now he hath found by woefullwoeful experience, that there is no hope, nor helpe in himſelfe nor in the creature.
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the law, and ſee himſelfe, as much, if not more, then any, in woefullwoeful and wretched eſtate: ſecondly, the promiſe of pardon in the Goſpel, and vpon both …
With rule
… of the law, and ſee himſelfe, as much, if not more, then any, in woefullwoeful and wretched eſtate: ſecondly, the promiſe of pardon in the Goſpel, and vpon both …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Miniſter & people, in their Courts, then the preuarication of the whole law, as by woefullwoeful and dayly experience we are taught. Neither can any man deny what I ſay …
With rule
… Miniſter & people, in their Courts, then the preuarication of the whole law, as by woefullwoeful and dayly experience we are taught. Neither can any man deny what I ſay …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the next degree to hardneſſe of heart, and already lulled aſleepe in that woefullwoeful ſecurity, that will one day awaken into horror and amazement. Meane while it is …
With rule
… in the next degree to hardneſſe of heart, and already lulled aſleepe in that woefullwoeful ſecurity, that will one day awaken into horror and amazement. Meane while it is …
Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 240 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

3 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.

Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies A01760

Printed
… them, and fostering of them in the same, were to weane them from it. WoefullWoeful proofe hath taught us, that they are but more and more hardened, and resolutely …
With rule
… them, and fostering of them in the same, were to weane them from it. WoefullWoeful proofe hath taught us, that they are but more and more hardened, and resolutely …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 25 · Open in the reader

The Disabled Debtor Discharged A57544

Printed
… gotten Salvation already: But in not believing and repenting a man is condemned allready: WoefullWoeful therefore is the eſtate of ſuch men who never acquaint themſelves with Salvation before …
With rule
… gotten Salvation already: But in not believing and repenting a man is condemned allready: WoefullWoeful therefore is the eſtate of ſuch men who never acquaint themſelves with Salvation before …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 257 · Open in the reader

Christs Kingdom A73373

Printed
… and targets, the dung of their ſtables, and in the end their very children. WoefullWoeful was their caſe, when they began to iſſue out, compelled with famine, when they …
With rule
… and targets, the dung of their ſtables, and in the end their very children. WoefullWoeful was their caſe, when they began to iſſue out, compelled with famine, when they …
Richard Webb · Christs Kingdom · p. 82 · Open in the reader