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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6771 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

godlesgodless

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
137 times in 75 works
Consistency
96.4% (137 of 142)
Reach if approved
~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: godless
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (137 changes in 75 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 137)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    The godlesgodless dreidis sair to die,
    With rule
    The godlesgodless dreidis sair to die,

    John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … manners of men were examined be this rule; wee ſuld find a multitude of godlesgodless people in this Country, quha hes their hearts raging with malice, ilke ane againſt …
    With rule
    … manners of men were examined be this rule; wee ſuld find a multitude of godlesgodless people in this Country, quha hes their hearts raging with malice, ilke ane againſt …

    Robert Bruce · Sermons Upon the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thankes to God for my labour, taken for their comfort. But as for the godlesgodless band of Atheiſtes and Apoſtates whom God hath ordained to diſtruction, I care not …
    With rule
    … thankes to God for my labour, taken for their comfort. But as for the godlesgodless band of Atheiſtes and Apoſtates whom God hath ordained to diſtruction, I care not …

    John Craig · A Short Sum of the Whole Catechism · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſome of your words, and reaſon from them: If I had ment in a godlesgodless manner wilfully to peruert your words, would I haue deliuered them whole and together …
    With rule
    … ſome of your words, and reaſon from them: If I had ment in a godlesgodless manner wilfully to peruert your words, would I haue deliuered them whole and together …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … elect and godly: who ſomtimes ſtagger, ſeeing their affliction, and the proſperity of the godlesgodless.
    With rule
    … elect and godly: who ſomtimes ſtagger, ſeeing their affliction, and the proſperity of the godlesgodless.

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … al men do applye and endeuour them selues (if they be not altogether rude & godlesgodless, but haue any sparkle of godlye knowledge and of the true faythe in their …
    With rule
    … al men do applye and endeuour them selues (if they be not altogether rude & godlesgodless, but haue any sparkle of godlye knowledge and of the true faythe in their …

    Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … muſt ſhine in ſome meaſure in vs. Let the worlde therfore, in that ſame godlesgodless contēpt of God & his diuine iudgement, ſee what fel vppon their predeceſſours the wicked …
    With rule
    … muſt ſhine in ſome meaſure in vs. Let the worlde therfore, in that ſame godlesgodless contēpt of God & his diuine iudgement, ſee what fel vppon their predeceſſours the wicked …

    Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … be vnto vs, requiting like for like: all which although they shew a most godlesgodless and comfortlesse condition, yet we liued in this gracelesse course, that is, passed our …
    With rule
    … be vnto vs, requiting like for like: all which although they shew a most godlesgodless and comfortlesse condition, yet we liued in this gracelesse course, that is, passed our …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 616 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 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.

Thirty-One Epigrams A19663

  • Printed
    Of GodlesGodless men
    With rule
    Of GodlesGodless men

    Robert Crowley · Thirty-One Epigrams · Open in the reader