Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6761 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

direfulldireful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 288 times in 207 works
Consistency: 98.6% (288 of 292)
Reach if approved: ~307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: direful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 292 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (288 changes in 207 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 288)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… one example, Abſolom the rebellious and traiterous ſonne of Dauid, whoſe fearfull end and direfulldireful iudgement all men know, namely▪ that by that his long haire he was hanged …
With rule
… one example, Abſolom the rebellious and traiterous ſonne of Dauid, whoſe fearfull end and direfulldireful iudgement all men know, namely▪ that by that his long haire he was hanged …
Thomas Stoughton · The Christians Sacrifice Better than all the Legal Sacrifices of Jews · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their actions. If not by the thunder and lightning of their fierce anathemaes, and direfulldireful imprecations.
With rule
… their actions. If not by the thunder and lightning of their fierce anathemaes, and direfulldireful imprecations.
John Wall · The Seraphims Wings to Raise Us Unto Heaven · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, the fearfull blaſphemies and ſwaringes in houſes, and ſtreates, ſo alſo the direfulldireful curſings, the open contempt of the word & Sacraments, the wicked profanations of the Lords …
With rule
… of God, the fearfull blaſphemies and ſwaringes in houſes, and ſtreates, ſo alſo the direfulldireful curſings, the open contempt of the word & Sacraments, the wicked profanations of the Lords …
William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
HE deſcribeth the direfulldireful condition of refractarie and graceleſſe children. In the former part their contumacie and ſtubbornes …
With rule
HE deſcribeth the direfulldireful condition of refractarie and graceleſſe children. In the former part their contumacie and ſtubbornes …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 525 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Jaylor? whom? good and bad Angels: for both theſe are the executioners of Gods direfulldireful ſentence.
With rule
… Jaylor? whom? good and bad Angels: for both theſe are the executioners of Gods direfulldireful ſentence.
Isaac Ambrose · The Last things · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not need to feare any more inuasion of cruell enemies, any leading away into direfulldireful captiuitie, any dreadfull punishment of your haynous impietie. For the time shall come, when …
With rule
… not need to feare any more inuasion of cruell enemies, any leading away into direfulldireful captiuitie, any dreadfull punishment of your haynous impietie. For the time shall come, when …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the ſtead of it. Davids murtherous and adulterous marriage with Bathſheba, brought many direfulldireful curſes, but yet unfained repentance turned all thoſe curſes into bleſſings unto them, and …
With rule
… in the ſtead of it. Davids murtherous and adulterous marriage with Bathſheba, brought many direfulldireful curſes, but yet unfained repentance turned all thoſe curſes into bleſſings unto them, and …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
Or while we speake within he direfulldireful graspe
With rule
Or while we speake within he direfulldireful graspe
John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… Note well; What Judgment this was, he ſpecifies not; but deſcribes by its Effects, DirefullDireful enough: Saying, it were better and more bleſſed ye were Barren, than bring forth …
With rule
… Note well; What Judgment this was, he ſpecifies not; but deſcribes by its Effects, DirefullDireful enough: Saying, it were better and more bleſſed ye were Barren, than bring forth …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 222 · Open in the reader