Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6852 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

earnestnesearnestness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 225 times in 154 works
Consistency: 98.6% (225 of 228)
Reach if approved: ~240 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: earnestness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 228 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (225 changes in 154 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 225)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… shew that the word is to bee heard with all humilitie: hir diligence and earnestnesearnestness appeareth, in that shee would not depart to helpe hir sister, to signifie that …
With rule
… shew that the word is to bee heard with all humilitie: hir diligence and earnestnesearnestness appeareth, in that shee would not depart to helpe hir sister, to signifie that …
Henry Smith · The Sinful Mans Search · Open in the reader
Printed
… note, that the thing that God requireth in a professor, is zeale, forwardnes, and earnestnesearnestness in well doing, and that his whole course should be a studious prosecuting of …
With rule
… note, that the thing that God requireth in a professor, is zeale, forwardnes, and earnestnesearnestness in well doing, and that his whole course should be a studious prosecuting of …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 529 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I haue withſtood ſo many motions of friends, who haue ſet vpon me with earneſtnesearnestness to haue publiſhed in print diuers things, God enabled me to vtter in preaching …
With rule
… I haue withſtood ſo many motions of friends, who haue ſet vpon me with earneſtnesearnestness to haue publiſhed in print diuers things, God enabled me to vtter in preaching …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chro. 29. 9. Strength is, whē according as the good or euill is, there lacketh no earneſtnesearnestness of affection. Deut 6. 5. Mat. 22. 37. Here is forbidden the leaſt remiſſion or weaknes. Reuel. 2. 4. Vprightnes …
With rule
… Chro. 29. 9. Strength is, whē according as the good or euill is, there lacketh no earneſtnesearnestness of affection. Deut 6. 5. Mat. 22. 37. Here is forbidden the leaſt remiſſion or weaknes. Reuel. 2. 4. Vprightnes …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… and your eares to harken to his voice, which ſeing you wil al with earneſtnesearnestness profeſſe to do, do it with faithfulnes, and caſt away al ignorant hipocriſie, and …
With rule
… and your eares to harken to his voice, which ſeing you wil al with earneſtnesearnestness profeſſe to do, do it with faithfulnes, and caſt away al ignorant hipocriſie, and …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stone do we not mou…? what corner do we not ra…s…ck…? what earnestnesearnestness and acrimonie do we not apparantly reueale? or else like some stupid or dul …
With rule
… stone do we not mou…? what corner do we not ra…s…ck…? what earnestnesearnestness and acrimonie do we not apparantly reueale? or else like some stupid or dul …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… counſel of Iude renew the battle againe with your ſpiritual enimy, and contend with earneſtnesearnestness. It maie pleaſe God though the liuelie branches be cut off, to quicken vs …
With rule
… counſel of Iude renew the battle againe with your ſpiritual enimy, and contend with earneſtnesearnestness. It maie pleaſe God though the liuelie branches be cut off, to quicken vs …
John Penry · Equity of a Humble Supplication · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the miniſters, to pitty this miſerable condicion of the people, and with all earneſtnesearnestness and loue, to make the ſame known vnto them, and to diſſwade them from …
With rule
… in the miniſters, to pitty this miſerable condicion of the people, and with all earneſtnesearnestness and loue, to make the ſame known vnto them, and to diſſwade them from …
Richard Rogers · Samuels Encounter with Saul · p. 86 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

Commentary on Romans A15525

Printed
… Gods messengers. First for the commandement sake, Es. 58, 1. Cry aloud, spare not, tell &c. EarnestnesEarnestness and freedome of speech, is heere inioyned to Gods messengers. Secondly, a Messenger is …
With rule
… Gods messengers. First for the commandement sake, Es. 58, 1. Cry aloud, spare not, tell &c. EarnestnesEarnestness and freedome of speech, is heere inioyned to Gods messengers. Secondly, a Messenger is …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 1214 · Open in the reader