Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6786 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pittifullypitifully

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 159 times in 133 works
Consistency: 98.7% (159 of 161)
Reach if approved: ~169 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pitifully
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 161 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (159 changes in 133 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 159)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… no more; one thing is truly and ſimply neceſſarie, and in it you be pittifullypitifully negligent; Behold God offers you a Kingdome, the glorie whereof (if you had eyes …
With rule
… no more; one thing is truly and ſimply neceſſarie, and in it you be pittifullypitifully negligent; Behold God offers you a Kingdome, the glorie whereof (if you had eyes …
Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
When one shall doe many things, neeze, scritch, groane pittifullypitifully, start fearefully, heaue vp the belly, bounce vp with the body stran…ely, become …
With rule
When one shall doe many things, neeze, scritch, groane pittifullypitifully, start fearefully, heaue vp the belly, bounce vp with the body stran…ely, become …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heard it I will declare it: thus, there was a murtherer who eſcaping the pittifullypitifully hands of the mercifull Iudge, after he had killed two men, being taken and …
With rule
… heard it I will declare it: thus, there was a murtherer who eſcaping the pittifullypitifully hands of the mercifull Iudge, after he had killed two men, being taken and …
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that a man professing knowledge, should speak so vntruly. Do we mangle the text pittifullypitifully? or rather do not you slaunder vs shamefully? we neither take away, nor alter …
With rule
… that a man professing knowledge, should speak so vntruly. Do we mangle the text pittifullypitifully? or rather do not you slaunder vs shamefully? we neither take away, nor alter …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 583 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God:) fourthly, betweene her floriſhing eſtate, and that miſerable waſte by which ſhe was pittifullypitifully rent in ſunder before. For he calles the middeſt of her a perfect reſtauration …
With rule
… God:) fourthly, betweene her floriſhing eſtate, and that miſerable waſte by which ſhe was pittifullypitifully rent in ſunder before. For he calles the middeſt of her a perfect reſtauration …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
I Have not been so pittifullypitifully tired with any vanity, as with silly Old Mens exclaiming against these times, and …
With rule
I Have not been so pittifullypitifully tired with any vanity, as with silly Old Mens exclaiming against these times, and …
John Donne · Certain Paradoxes and Problems · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dealings, betwixt the weak and the willful; on the weak have compaſſion, deal more pittifullypitifully and more gently, and more tenderly with them, but more roughly with thoſe that …
With rule
… dealings, betwixt the weak and the willful; on the weak have compaſſion, deal more pittifullypitifully and more gently, and more tenderly with them, but more roughly with thoſe that …
Richard Alleine · A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their country-men at Rio Guana. In the mean time Captain Drakes ship was pittifullypitifully shaken with a great tempest; but having trimed her, they brought her safe into …
With rule
… their country-men at Rio Guana. In the mean time Captain Drakes ship was pittifullypitifully shaken with a great tempest; but having trimed her, they brought her safe into …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake · p. 15 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.