Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6762 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

disgracefulldisgraceful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 388 times in 259 works
Consistency: 98.9% (388 of 392)
Reach if approved: ~412 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: disgraceful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 392 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (388 changes in 259 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 388)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Decorum in tranſgreſſing; and holds ſome ſinnes, at leaſt in the manner of committing, diſgracefulldisgraceful, and deteſtable: As it is ſaid of Scipio, when a beautifull ſtrumpet was tendered …
With rule
… Decorum in tranſgreſſing; and holds ſome ſinnes, at leaſt in the manner of committing, diſgracefulldisgraceful, and deteſtable: As it is ſaid of Scipio, when a beautifull ſtrumpet was tendered …
William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I beseech you abstaine from fleshly lusts: this inference sheweth what a dishonourable and disgracefulldisgraceful thing it were, for Christians so farre to forget their nobilitie and dignitie, to …
With rule
… I beseech you abstaine from fleshly lusts: this inference sheweth what a dishonourable and disgracefulldisgraceful thing it were, for Christians so farre to forget their nobilitie and dignitie, to …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 525 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods juſtice againſt Iudah, that would puniſh him by giving him up to this diſgracefulldisgraceful fact for his other ſinnes that were not joyned with ſo much reproach. So …
With rule
… Gods juſtice againſt Iudah, that would puniſh him by giving him up to this diſgracefulldisgraceful fact for his other ſinnes that were not joyned with ſo much reproach. So …
William Whately · Prototypes · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Pope, who hath approved, and confirmed, and yet still …hamelessie mayntayneth, that disgracefulldisgraceful Doctrine. And you, who see the Evill, are yet worse, than wo…st of …
With rule
… to the Pope, who hath approved, and confirmed, and yet still …hamelessie mayntayneth, that disgracefulldisgraceful Doctrine. And you, who see the Evill, are yet worse, than wo…st of …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man cheerefull within himselfe, and comfortable to others: so then mercy is neither disgracefulldisgraceful nor painefull: But is it not then perilous and dangerfull? No, nor yet so …
With rule
… a man cheerefull within himselfe, and comfortable to others: so then mercy is neither disgracefulldisgraceful nor painefull: But is it not then perilous and dangerfull? No, nor yet so …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were diſpleaſed they had beene formerly no more cut off; and caſt out ſome diſgracefulldisgraceful words of him.
With rule
… were diſpleaſed they had beene formerly no more cut off; and caſt out ſome diſgracefulldisgraceful words of him.
John Bastwick · Relation of Passages and Speeches in the Star Chamber · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and yet ſuffer them to remaine like Hogſties, or not to uſe a more diſgracefulldisgraceful phraſe) like old rotten and ruinous barnes. I could wiſh I were furniſhed with …
With rule
… and yet ſuffer them to remaine like Hogſties, or not to uſe a more diſgracefulldisgraceful phraſe) like old rotten and ruinous barnes. I could wiſh I were furniſhed with …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Pharisees in a selfe-conceit and singularitie called all but themselues, in a disgracefulldisgraceful scorne, Other men: so said he, Luk. 18. I am not as other men: whereas …
With rule
The Pharisees in a selfe-conceit and singularitie called all but themselues, in a disgracefulldisgraceful scorne, Other men: so said he, Luk. 18. I am not as other men: whereas …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 122 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience A27009

Printed
… to diſgrace us or impoveriſh us in the world: As the confeſſing of a DiſgracefullDisgraceful fault: the free Giving to the poor or ſacred uſes, according to our eſtates …
With rule
… to diſgrace us or impoveriſh us in the world: As the confeſſing of a DiſgracefullDisgraceful fault: the free Giving to the poor or ſacred uſes, according to our eſtates …
Richard Baxter · The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience · p. 96 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
… than the field-pease in the Country the rath ripe pease in the garden. DisgracefullDisgraceful in my opinion, that seeing the English victorious Armes had twice charged through the …
With rule
… than the field-pease in the Country the rath ripe pease in the garden. DisgracefullDisgraceful in my opinion, that seeing the English victorious Armes had twice charged through the …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 86 · Open in the reader