Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6741 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spitefullspiteful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 365 times in 205 works
Consistency: 99.1% (365 of 368)
Reach if approved: ~387 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spiteful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 368 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (365 changes in 205 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 365)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… demerits, and to reconcile you base abiects and vile castawaies, and yet stubborne and spitefullspiteful haters of the great God Iehoua, who when there was no meanes to be …
With rule
… demerits, and to reconcile you base abiects and vile castawaies, and yet stubborne and spitefullspiteful haters of the great God Iehoua, who when there was no meanes to be …
Henry Smith · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… to these questiōs most aptly? yet mē must abhorre our saucinesse, or rather your spitefullspiteful malitiousnesse.
With rule
… to these questiōs most aptly? yet mē must abhorre our saucinesse, or rather your spitefullspiteful malitiousnesse.
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 488 · Open in the reader
Printed
And ſee thy ſpitefullspiteful meaning well.
With rule
And ſee thy ſpitefullspiteful meaning well.
Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader
Printed
… how little reaſon we haue to be ſecure, hauing ſuch a watchfull and a ſpitefullspiteful aduerſary, we haue no ſecurity but in God onely, and no hope to preuent …
With rule
… how little reaſon we haue to be ſecure, hauing ſuch a watchfull and a ſpitefullspiteful aduerſary, we haue no ſecurity but in God onely, and no hope to preuent …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the length he will be reuenged on those wicked and desperate verlettes, for the spitefullspiteful handlyng of hys holy and precious bloud.
With rule
… the length he will be reuenged on those wicked and desperate verlettes, for the spitefullspiteful handlyng of hys holy and precious bloud.
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader
Printed
… anothers glory, are men ledd forth violently into the vntilled and accursed fielde of spitefullspiteful Malice. This is the disposition of our Apostata'es. In whom, if time and place …
With rule
… anothers glory, are men ledd forth violently into the vntilled and accursed fielde of spitefullspiteful Malice. This is the disposition of our Apostata'es. In whom, if time and place …
Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
So then, a spitefullspiteful and malicious tongue wee see, is a fierie tongue, but that fire is taken …
With rule
So then, a spitefullspiteful and malicious tongue wee see, is a fierie tongue, but that fire is taken …
William Perkins · The Calling of the Ministry · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the truth, neuer so carefull to doe right: yet if there be a spitefullspiteful Accuser that will suggest any thing, or an audacious witnesse that will sweare any …
With rule
… of the truth, neuer so carefull to doe right: yet if there be a spitefullspiteful Accuser that will suggest any thing, or an audacious witnesse that will sweare any …
Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 201 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
SpitefullSpiteful and malicious Fiend; cursed enemie to heaven and earth; by the mercies of God …
With rule
SpitefullSpiteful and malicious Fiend; cursed enemie to heaven and earth; by the mercies of God …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 555 · Open in the reader