Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6926 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wilfulneswillfulness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 159 times in 101 works
Consistency: 98.1% (159 of 162)
Reach if approved: ~170 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: wilfulness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 162 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (159 changes in 101 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 159)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it in Latine; & wheras they were to begin, they vtterly refused: & so through their wilfulneswillfulness the disputation brake off. The conference in the Tower, to whose disgrace it tended …
With rule
… it in Latine; & wheras they were to begin, they vtterly refused: & so through their wilfulneswillfulness the disputation brake off. The conference in the Tower, to whose disgrace it tended …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
That ſuch wilfulneswillfulness maie wel bee called obſtinacy, partlie in reſpect of the foū taine from whence …
With rule
That ſuch wilfulneswillfulness maie wel bee called obſtinacy, partlie in reſpect of the foū taine from whence …
Francis Bunny · An Answer to a Popish Libel · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lot did most shamefully abuse his body, where though hee cannot be accused for wilfulneswillfulness, yet he may be condemned of negligence. And what children came of that stocke …
With rule
… Lot did most shamefully abuse his body, where though hee cannot be accused for wilfulneswillfulness, yet he may be condemned of negligence. And what children came of that stocke …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 807 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vaine queſtions, Whether your whole aſſemblyes; all and every of your aſſemblyes? erre of wilfulneswillfulness and of a conuicted conſcience? whether we know the heart and conſcience of men …
With rule
… vaine queſtions, Whether your whole aſſemblyes; all and every of your aſſemblyes? erre of wilfulneswillfulness and of a conuicted conſcience? whether we know the heart and conſcience of men …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eſſentiall properties of a man, a falſe man; becauſe through follie, or madneſſe, or wilfulneswillfulness he neglects the welfare of his bodie, or any of the members thereof? I …
With rule
… eſſentiall properties of a man, a falſe man; becauſe through follie, or madneſſe, or wilfulneswillfulness he neglects the welfare of his bodie, or any of the members thereof? I …
Richard Bernard · Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man is free from these common infirmities of Mortality,) impute it not is the wilfulneswillfulness but weakenes of him, who wilbe more glad, more ready, to see & correct his …
With rule
… man is free from these common infirmities of Mortality,) impute it not is the wilfulneswillfulness but weakenes of him, who wilbe more glad, more ready, to see & correct his …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… welfare heere in this life, that I ſay no more, becauſe that vnrulines and wilfulneswillfulness, doe depriue vs of our beſt good things, eating away the beautie of them …
With rule
… welfare heere in this life, that I ſay no more, becauſe that vnrulines and wilfulneswillfulness, doe depriue vs of our beſt good things, eating away the beautie of them …
Richard Rogers · Samuels Encounter with Saul · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. Continuance in a knowne error, addeth wilfulneswillfulness to ignorance, and when men see and wil not see, God giues them vp …
With rule
3. Continuance in a knowne error, addeth wilfulneswillfulness to ignorance, and when men see and wil not see, God giues them vp …
Thomas Taylor · The Kings Bath · p. 104 · 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.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
How men with WilfulnesWillfulness haue estranged themselues from God in all cases: looke well vpon that.
With rule
How men with WilfulnesWillfulness haue estranged themselues from God in all cases: looke well vpon that.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader