Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6800 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sorowfullsorrowful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 304 times in 133 works
Consistency: 98.7% (304 of 308)
Reach if approved: ~324 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sorrowful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 308 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (304 changes in 133 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 304)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with moche more polycie, than do the chyldren of lyght. Whiche thynge is as sorowfullsorrowful to be sayd, as it semeth absurde to be herde. Whan ye here the …
With rule
… with moche more polycie, than do the chyldren of lyght. Whiche thynge is as sorowfullsorrowful to be sayd, as it semeth absurde to be herde. Whan ye here the …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader
Printed
… beareth not in the hand, but in the mouth. And not onely comforteth the ſorowfullsorrowful therwyth, but dryueth awaye the deuell alſo and all hys Apoſtels, be they neuer …
With rule
… beareth not in the hand, but in the mouth. And not onely comforteth the ſorowfullsorrowful therwyth, but dryueth awaye the deuell alſo and all hys Apoſtels, be they neuer …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If we be cōfortles, prayer is redy to …ssyst & helpe vs. If we be sorowfullsorrowful, prayer cōforteth vs. If we be poore, prayer entychethe vs. If we be prophane …
With rule
… If we be cōfortles, prayer is redy to …ssyst & helpe vs. If we be sorowfullsorrowful, prayer cōforteth vs. If we be poore, prayer entychethe vs. If we be prophane …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… he wyll do that I haue spoken: wherfore put out of thy mynde, all sorowfullsorrowful care of worldly thynges, and commende it to God. Rather take thoughte for thy …
With rule
… he wyll do that I haue spoken: wherfore put out of thy mynde, all sorowfullsorrowful care of worldly thynges, and commende it to God. Rather take thoughte for thy …
Thomas Becon · The Solace of the Soul Against the Bitter Storms of Sickness and Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſickneſſe or trouble of mind, or otherwiſe in their wants, we do eaſe their ſorowfullsorrowful hearts, with ſweet words from God, wiſely and fitly applied to them, and comfort …
With rule
… ſickneſſe or trouble of mind, or otherwiſe in their wants, we do eaſe their ſorowfullsorrowful hearts, with ſweet words from God, wiſely and fitly applied to them, and comfort …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 372 · Open in the reader
Printed
… soules to whom ye ought not to promise life / ye haue made sad and sorowfullsorrowful the hearte of the righteous with a lye / when as I made him not …
With rule
… soules to whom ye ought not to promise life / ye haue made sad and sorowfullsorrowful the hearte of the righteous with a lye / when as I made him not …
William Turner · The Hunting of the Fox and the Wolf · Open in the reader
Printed
… and thou shalt neuer finde them any more. Nothing could happen more grieuouse or sorowfullsorrowful to a harlotte that is drowned in riote and excesse, then that all her …
With rule
… and thou shalt neuer finde them any more. Nothing could happen more grieuouse or sorowfullsorrowful to a harlotte that is drowned in riote and excesse, then that all her …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
Quben thou art sorowfullsorrowful, or ioyfull, consider qubere fra the sorrow, or the ioy procéeds, if they proceid …
With rule
Quben thou art sorowfullsorrowful, or ioyfull, consider qubere fra the sorrow, or the ioy procéeds, if they proceid …
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 63 · 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.

Sermon in Edinburgh A04931

Printed
THE SOROWfullSorrowful complayntes of all Ministers in generall, and of some nowe more to be lamented …
With rule
THE SOROWfullSorrowful complayntes of all Ministers in generall, and of some nowe more to be lamented …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

Printed
… them. sory men] in Hebrew Aenosh, the proper name of Adams nephew, Gen. 4. 26. signifying SorowfullSorrowful; and is after commonly given to every man for his dolefull state and mortalitie …
With rule
… them. sory men] in Hebrew Aenosh, the proper name of Adams nephew, Gen. 4. 26. signifying SorowfullSorrowful; and is after commonly given to every man for his dolefull state and mortalitie …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 16 · Open in the reader