Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6808 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unmercifullunmerciful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 359 times in 225 works
Consistency: 98.6% (359 of 364)
Reach if approved: ~382 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unmerciful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 364 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (359 changes in 225 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 359)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… filthy pleasures, to awake the old unhappy love, and to cause a cruell and unmercifullunmerciful pitty. For a cruell pitty it is, when the soule pitties her owne murtherer …
With rule
… filthy pleasures, to awake the old unhappy love, and to cause a cruell and unmercifullunmerciful pitty. For a cruell pitty it is, when the soule pitties her owne murtherer …
Francis Rous · The Mystical Marriage · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the presence of God in it, who made a pillar of dreadfull and unmercifullunmerciful fire a great mercy to his people, yea and most beneficiall. 6. The wisedome of …
With rule
… of the presence of God in it, who made a pillar of dreadfull and unmercifullunmerciful fire a great mercy to his people, yea and most beneficiall. 6. The wisedome of …
Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into juſtice, and kindle for the damned an unmercifullunmerciful fire. Wee can quench our unmercifullunmerciful fires with water: but in hell no water, no not a drop will bee …
With rule
… into juſtice, and kindle for the damned an unmercifullunmerciful fire. Wee can quench our unmercifullunmerciful fires with water: but in hell no water, no not a drop will bee …
John Yates · The Saints Sufferings and Sinners Sorrows · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
IVdge me, ô God, and defend my cauſe, agaynſt the unmercifullunmerciful people: deliver me from the deceitfull and wicked man.
With rule
IVdge me, ô God, and defend my cauſe, agaynſt the unmercifullunmerciful people: deliver me from the deceitfull and wicked man.
Edmund Bunny · The Coronation of David · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reproaching your holy profession, and saying, [There are none more proud, and covetous, and unmercifullunmerciful, then these Professors of so much strictness and holiness.] Though for the generall, it …
With rule
… reproaching your holy profession, and saying, [There are none more proud, and covetous, and unmercifullunmerciful, then these Professors of so much strictness and holiness.] Though for the generall, it …
Richard Baxter · The Crucifying of the World · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
Dives being unmercifullunmerciful to Lazarus: is now in hell torments.
With rule
Dives being unmercifullunmerciful to Lazarus: is now in hell torments.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
Famine makes unmercifullunmerciful. 169
With rule
Famine makes unmercifullunmerciful. 169
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… digest him, and send him downe by a very homely place. O cruell and unmercifullunmerciful fathers, so to handle your poore young old child! And this is the goodly …
With rule
… digest him, and send him downe by a very homely place. O cruell and unmercifullunmerciful fathers, so to handle your poore young old child! And this is the goodly …
Thomas Becon · The Displaying of the Popish Mass · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

Printed
UnmercifullUnmerciful. The evill of unmercifulneſſe 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302.
With rule
UnmercifullUnmerciful. The evill of unmercifulneſſe 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302.
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

Printed
… in Pharaoh, Ieroboam, Rehoboam, Nebuchanezzar, Darius, Nabal, Iesurum, Deut. 32.15. Herod, Dives, how Proud, Luxurious, UnmercifullUnmerciful. Luke 16. The poor men were bad in Ieremies time, but the rich were far …
With rule
… in Pharaoh, Ieroboam, Rehoboam, Nebuchanezzar, Darius, Nabal, Iesurum, Deut. 32.15. Herod, Dives, how Proud, Luxurious, UnmercifullUnmerciful. Luke 16. The poor men were bad in Ieremies time, but the rich were far …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 38 · Open in the reader

The Attributes of God Unfolded and Applied A88701

Printed
Ʋſe 1. UnmercifullUnmerciful men want a very glorious and commendable thing, ibid
With rule
Ʋſe 1. UnmercifullUnmerciful men want a very glorious and commendable thing, ibid
Thomas Larkham · The Attributes of God Unfolded and Applied · Open in the reader
Printed
And then Secondly, UnmercifullUnmerciful men are unbelievers, and ſuch ſhall be damned, Mark 16.16. Now that ſuch as are …
With rule
And then Secondly, UnmercifullUnmerciful men are unbelievers, and ſuch ſhall be damned, Mark 16.16. Now that ſuch as are …
Thomas Larkham · The Attributes of God Unfolded and Applied · p. 127 · Open in the reader