Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6893 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

needleslyneedlessly

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 639 times in 404 works
Consistency: 99.2% (639 of 644)
Reach if approved: ~678 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: needlessly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 645 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (639 changes in 404 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 639)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… trouble which he hath already brought upon his freinds, and others, in the Claſſis, needleſlyneedlessly, might ſeeme enough, that he ſhould not put them upon more worke, to anſwer …
With rule
… trouble which he hath already brought upon his freinds, and others, in the Claſſis, needleſlyneedlessly, might ſeeme enough, that he ſhould not put them upon more worke, to anſwer …
John Davenport · Reply to a Book · Open in the reader
Printed
… enjoy a settlement of their Church and State, according to their own desires, should needleslyneedlessly and ingratefully imbroile themselves in a businesse that concernes them not, forfeit their rights …
With rule
… enjoy a settlement of their Church and State, according to their own desires, should needleslyneedlessly and ingratefully imbroile themselves in a businesse that concernes them not, forfeit their rights …
Archibald Argyll · A Letter Sent to Thomas Glemham · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 Qu. Doth it not needleslyneedlessly constrain men to wrest most plain and frequent expressions of Scripture?
With rule
1 Qu. Doth it not needleslyneedlessly constrain men to wrest most plain and frequent expressions of Scripture?
Richard Baxter · Aphorisms of Justification · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pleasure were not asked and my will obeyed in the least occurrences, by carping needleslyneedlessly sometimes at the manner of his teaching; sometimes at this, sometimes at that point …
With rule
… pleasure were not asked and my will obeyed in the least occurrences, by carping needleslyneedlessly sometimes at the manner of his teaching; sometimes at this, sometimes at that point …
Richard Hooker · Answer to Supplication Preferred by Walter Tavers · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not bee vnderſtood; ſhal any thinke God in vaine gaue it, or that Iohn needleſlyneedlessly wrote it?
With rule
… not bee vnderſtood; ſhal any thinke God in vaine gaue it, or that Iohn needleſlyneedlessly wrote it?
Richard Bernard · A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelues from that vntoward, that curſed generation. If Papiſts may be ſaued, we haue needleſlyneedlessly ſeparated: if they hold the head, the foundation in ſuch ſort and degree as …
With rule
… ſelues from that vntoward, that curſed generation. If Papiſts may be ſaued, we haue needleſlyneedlessly ſeparated: if they hold the head, the foundation in ſuch ſort and degree as …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… name; but this was in Thracia neer Macedonia: and the reason added is not needleslyneedlessly affixed to the Apostles iniunction, but to encourage Titus vnto so long a iourney …
With rule
… name; but this was in Thracia neer Macedonia: and the reason added is not needleslyneedlessly affixed to the Apostles iniunction, but to encourage Titus vnto so long a iourney …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 726 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you had beſtowed that paines and time in confirming your propoſition, which you waſte needleſlyneedlessly in proouing that, which no man denieth: you might perhaps haue ſpoken ſomewhat more …
With rule
… you had beſtowed that paines and time in confirming your propoſition, which you waſte needleſlyneedlessly in proouing that, which no man denieth: you might perhaps haue ſpoken ſomewhat more …
Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · p. 98 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

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

A Good Day Well Improved A63826

Printed
3. NeedleſlyNeedlessly and fruitleſly, for which God will never thank you, but before he hath done …
With rule
3. NeedleſlyNeedlessly and fruitleſly, for which God will never thank you, but before he hath done …
Anthony Tuckney · A Good Day Well Improved · p. 220 · Open in the reader