Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pennancepenance

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 759 times in 319 works
Consistency: 100% (759 of 759)
Reach if approved: ~797 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: penance
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 759 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (759 changes in 319 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 759)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
PennancePenance and displing. 175
With rule
PennancePenance and displing. 175
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader
Printed
… out ſins with money, or redeeme them with Maſſes, and by a little ſhort pennancepenance purchaſe a large and long pardon.
With rule
… out ſins with money, or redeeme them with Maſſes, and by a little ſhort pennancepenance purchaſe a large and long pardon.
Henry Smith · Jonah the Messenger of Ninevehs Repentance · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet repent of it in truth, yet if they can pay well, a little pennancepenance shall acquit them. A worship wherein if they neuer were good, nor did good …
With rule
… yet repent of it in truth, yet if they can pay well, a little pennancepenance shall acquit them. A worship wherein if they neuer were good, nor did good …
Thomas Taylor · The Beauties of Bethel · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is too earely for me to fall to Mortification; would you put me to pennancepenance, before I haue had the leaſure and pleaſure to offend? He is ready to …
With rule
… is too earely for me to fall to Mortification; would you put me to pennancepenance, before I haue had the leaſure and pleaſure to offend? He is ready to …
Thomas Adams · The Barren Tree · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aſhamed to make open confeſſion of their ſinne, and be willing to undergoe any pennancepenance that by the true Church ſhall be enjoyned to them.
With rule
… aſhamed to make open confeſſion of their ſinne, and be willing to undergoe any pennancepenance that by the true Church ſhall be enjoyned to them.
William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… puniſhed all ſuch Archdeacons of his Iuriſdiction that were bribers, & would not haue offenders pennancepenance commuted: his diligence in cō ferring holy Orders vpon ſuch as ſought them is …
With rule
… puniſhed all ſuch Archdeacons of his Iuriſdiction that were bribers, & would not haue offenders pennancepenance commuted: his diligence in cō ferring holy Orders vpon ſuch as ſought them is …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… right into Paradiſe, and taſted not of Purgatory, ſeeing he had not done any pennancepenance here on earth; anſwered, that the reaſon (as he found it related in a …
With rule
… right into Paradiſe, and taſted not of Purgatory, ſeeing he had not done any pennancepenance here on earth; anſwered, that the reaſon (as he found it related in a …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 336 · Open in the reader
Printed
… death, openeth paradise; and giueth hope of saluation: and hereby it may appeare, that pennancepenance is one of the greatest points of the popish religion.
With rule
… death, openeth paradise; and giueth hope of saluation: and hereby it may appeare, that pennancepenance is one of the greatest points of the popish religion.
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 643 · 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.