Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6767 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fatherlesfatherless

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 212 times in 118 works
Consistency: 100% (212 of 212)
Reach if approved: ~223 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fatherless
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 212 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (212 changes in 118 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 212)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… daye that thou fastest lay it vp, & giue it to the widow, to the fatherlesfatherless childē, or to the poremā, and so shalt thou fast a good fast, that …
With rule
… daye that thou fastest lay it vp, & giue it to the widow, to the fatherlesfatherless childē, or to the poremā, and so shalt thou fast a good fast, that …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… a deare frende to suche as were studious of good letters, to widdowes, to fatherlesfatherless: children, to pore yonge maides mariages, to yong mē that had not wherwith to …
With rule
… a deare frende to suche as were studious of good letters, to widdowes, to fatherlesfatherless: children, to pore yonge maides mariages, to yong mē that had not wherwith to …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 538 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were strangers in the land of Egypt. Yee shall not trouble any widow or fatherlesfatherless childe. 25. Thou shalt not be an vsurer vnto the poore. We then iniurie these …
With rule
… were strangers in the land of Egypt. Yee shall not trouble any widow or fatherlesfatherless childe. 25. Thou shalt not be an vsurer vnto the poore. We then iniurie these …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but now manie Gentlemen of the countrey, are content to suffer the stranger, the fatherlesfatherless and the widdow, not onely to lye, but euen to starue and die in …
With rule
… but now manie Gentlemen of the countrey, are content to suffer the stranger, the fatherlesfatherless and the widdow, not onely to lye, but euen to starue and die in …
Henry Smith · The Sinners Confession · Open in the reader
Printed
h The holy Ghoſt the comforter of the fatherlesfatherless.
With rule
h The holy Ghoſt the comforter of the fatherlesfatherless.
Pierre Viret · Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may practise all these my precepts This doing ye shal neuer find your selues fatherlesfatherless: The great God shalbe your Father: To this Father now I giue you, irtreating …
With rule
… may practise all these my precepts This doing ye shal neuer find your selues fatherlesfatherless: The great God shalbe your Father: To this Father now I giue you, irtreating …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1027 · Open in the reader
Printed
The fatherlesfatherless I make.
With rule
The fatherlesfatherless I make.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… y^e Iewes to the mayntenaunce of theyr church ministers of the clergy, poore widowes, fatherlesfatherless children, mayntenaunce of poore scolers. This was the cause that god assigned the Iewes …
With rule
… y^e Iewes to the mayntenaunce of theyr church ministers of the clergy, poore widowes, fatherlesfatherless children, mayntenaunce of poore scolers. This was the cause that god assigned the Iewes …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.