Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6862 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fruitlesfruitless

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 125 times in 97 works
Consistency: 99.2% (125 of 126)
Reach if approved: ~132 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fruitless
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 126 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (125 changes in 97 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 125)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Good God! how many dung-botes full of fruitlesfruitless Volumnes doe they yearely foyst vpon his Maiesties subiectes, by lying Titles, insinuations, and …
With rule
Good God! how many dung-botes full of fruitlesfruitless Volumnes doe they yearely foyst vpon his Maiesties subiectes, by lying Titles, insinuations, and …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… followeth that the ſacrifice of the death of Chriſt, ſhoulde be in vayne and fruitlesfruitless, except there appeared fruite in the celeſtial renouation.
With rule
… followeth that the ſacrifice of the death of Chriſt, ſhoulde be in vayne and fruitlesfruitless, except there appeared fruite in the celeſtial renouation.
John Calvin · Commentary on Romans · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… making whereof, I would be loth to be imployed, seeing personall quarrells breed endles & fruitlesfruitless contentions, & being the chiefe blemish of all books of controuersie, ought in handling of …
With rule
… making whereof, I would be loth to be imployed, seeing personall quarrells breed endles & fruitlesfruitless contentions, & being the chiefe blemish of all books of controuersie, ought in handling of …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… well liking of his children. If (happelie) it be ſaid, that it is therefore fruitlesfruitless, becauſe it is a doing of a thing that is alreadie done, by a …
With rule
… well liking of his children. If (happelie) it be ſaid, that it is therefore fruitlesfruitless, becauſe it is a doing of a thing that is alreadie done, by a …
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader
Printed
… good conscience: what doth make it wither and wauer? euen because we haue been fruitlesfruitless, and haue not done good workes. This then must be our comfort in trouble …
With rule
… good conscience: what doth make it wither and wauer? euen because we haue been fruitlesfruitless, and haue not done good workes. This then must be our comfort in trouble …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 532 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of repentances, they were and will be found to be but counterfeit, and very fruitlesfruitless, repentances euer to be repented of, becauſe they that haue reſted moſt on thē …
With rule
… of repentances, they were and will be found to be but counterfeit, and very fruitlesfruitless, repentances euer to be repented of, becauſe they that haue reſted moſt on thē …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no further dealt withall, but ſuffered to goe on as they doe in a fruitlesfruitless, dead and dull manner. Some of theſe ſay, they hope their deſire is to …
With rule
… no further dealt withall, but ſuffered to goe on as they doe in a fruitlesfruitless, dead and dull manner. Some of theſe ſay, they hope their deſire is to …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was therefore called the sonne of the promise; So the Church was of a fruitlesfruitless and barren wombe, and had never brought forth children to Christ, were it not …
With rule
… was therefore called the sonne of the promise; So the Church was of a fruitlesfruitless and barren wombe, and had never brought forth children to Christ, were it not …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

Printed
9. FruitlesFruitless Trees muſt be cut down or pluck'd up, Luke 3.7. Cut it downe. Matth. 3.10. Now …
With rule
9. FruitlesFruitless Trees muſt be cut down or pluck'd up, Luke 3.7. Cut it downe. Matth. 3.10. Now …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 69 · Open in the reader