Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6891 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mispendingmisspending

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 185 times in 149 works
Consistency: 97.8% (185 of 189)
Reach if approved: ~199 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: misspending
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 189 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (185 changes in 149 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 185)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wealth cōſumed, are as vnrighteous in miſplating their cōplaints as the very vnthrifty in miſpendingmisspending their portions. Some par…e of the blame muſt lie vpon the greatnes of …
With rule
… wealth cōſumed, are as vnrighteous in miſplating their cōplaints as the very vnthrifty in miſpendingmisspending their portions. Some par…e of the blame muſt lie vpon the greatnes of …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 13-14 · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and convinceth the Conscience, commonly the first thing the Conscience fastens on, is the mispendingmisspending the Sabbath, and the first duty that he conscionably putteth in practice upon his …
With rule
… and convinceth the Conscience, commonly the first thing the Conscience fastens on, is the mispendingmisspending the Sabbath, and the first duty that he conscionably putteth in practice upon his …
George Abbot · The Sabbath Vindicated · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a meer imposing upon the Understandings of the most ordinary Reader, and a miserable mispendingmisspending of time, to goe about the evincing of this, which is so obvious. But …
With rule
… a meer imposing upon the Understandings of the most ordinary Reader, and a miserable mispendingmisspending of time, to goe about the evincing of this, which is so obvious. But …
John Brown · The Life of Justification Opened · p. 438 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the hands of a little childe, what pitiful work would he make in the miſpendingmisspending of it? I have thought many times, what mercy it was, that in the …
With rule
… the hands of a little childe, what pitiful work would he make in the miſpendingmisspending of it? I have thought many times, what mercy it was, that in the …
John Canne · the Time of Finding · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… purpoſe that item which the wiſe man giueth to the young man perſiſting in miſpendingmisspending his pretious time, to whom ironically he ſaith, Reioyce ô young man in thy …
With rule
… purpoſe that item which the wiſe man giueth to the young man perſiſting in miſpendingmisspending his pretious time, to whom ironically he ſaith, Reioyce ô young man in thy …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not your ſelues according to the world, in the prophanenes of too many Seruitors, miſpendingmisspending time and life: forgetting God and religion: remember the iudgement of olde: not a …
With rule
… not your ſelues according to the world, in the prophanenes of too many Seruitors, miſpendingmisspending time and life: forgetting God and religion: remember the iudgement of olde: not a …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… inordinate care to prouide apparell superfluous, sumptuous and curious, which is ioyned with the mispendingmisspending of much time, and mony, beyond our estate and abilitie.
With rule
… inordinate care to prouide apparell superfluous, sumptuous and curious, which is ioyned with the mispendingmisspending of much time, and mony, beyond our estate and abilitie.
William Perkins · The Reformation of Covetousness · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of Swearing, or miſpendingmisspending of our Time;
With rule
Of Swearing, or miſpendingmisspending of our Time;
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Addresses to Old Men Young Men and Little Children B09510

Printed
Lastly, Overcome the Devil, when he tempts you to the youthful sin of MispendingMisspending precious time. We are told of some young men, in Job 30.2. In whom old …
With rule
Lastly, Overcome the Devil, when he tempts you to the youthful sin of MispendingMisspending precious time. We are told of some young men, in Job 30.2. In whom old …
Cotton Mather · Addresses to Old Men Young Men and Little Children · p. 80 · Open in the reader