Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6941 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lewdneslewdness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 135 times in 82 works
Consistency: 97.8% (135 of 138)
Reach if approved: ~145 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lewdness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 138 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (135 changes in 82 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 135)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… man, that are so impudent, as they care not who see, or know, what lewdneslewdness they do, Esa. 3.9. Such as declare their sin as Sodom, that hide it not …
With rule
… man, that are so impudent, as they care not who see, or know, what lewdneslewdness they do, Esa. 3.9. Such as declare their sin as Sodom, that hide it not …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kynde of deinty and fine fishe, whiche make theyr bodies muche more prone to lewdneslewdness, then the eatyng of flesh, and also bringeth the spirit into miserable seruitute & bondage …
With rule
… kynde of deinty and fine fishe, whiche make theyr bodies muche more prone to lewdneslewdness, then the eatyng of flesh, and also bringeth the spirit into miserable seruitute & bondage …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… that which is good and agreeable to Gods will: whereas naturallie it best remembreth lewdneslewdness, & wickednes, & vanitie. This holie memorie was in Dauid: I haue hid thy promises in …
With rule
… that which is good and agreeable to Gods will: whereas naturallie it best remembreth lewdneslewdness, & wickednes, & vanitie. This holie memorie was in Dauid: I haue hid thy promises in …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… through the dirtieſt place, ſo neither the dignitie nor vertue of Sacraments hindered by lewdneslewdness of the miniſter.
With rule
… through the dirtieſt place, ſo neither the dignitie nor vertue of Sacraments hindered by lewdneslewdness of the miniſter.
William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him were ſtarke nought, euery one ſtriuing to goe beyond his predeceſſor in all lewdneslewdness: ſo that, now a ſincke of all wickednes hath violently burſt into the Church …
With rule
… him were ſtarke nought, euery one ſtriuing to goe beyond his predeceſſor in all lewdneslewdness: ſo that, now a ſincke of all wickednes hath violently burſt into the Church …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but also doo accomplishe those incredible procéedings wherof Moises maketh report. But here the lewdneslewdness of man sheweth it selfe to malicious, in regardinge the woorkes of God. For …
With rule
… but also doo accomplishe those incredible procéedings wherof Moises maketh report. But here the lewdneslewdness of man sheweth it selfe to malicious, in regardinge the woorkes of God. For …
John Calvin · The Little Book · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
But the lewdneslewdness of this shift is then most manifest, when as I ex professo vndertaking to …
With rule
But the lewdneslewdness of this shift is then most manifest, when as I ex professo vndertaking to …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… others. It is wonderfull, that places ordained for reformation, should bee instructions of worse lewdneslewdness. I speak not against mercy: but experience & truth witnesseth that the mercy of some …
With rule
… others. It is wonderfull, that places ordained for reformation, should bee instructions of worse lewdneslewdness. I speak not against mercy: but experience & truth witnesseth that the mercy of some …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 126 · 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.

A Plain and Pithy Exposition of 2 Thessalonians A16616

Printed
The first Argument, whereby he describeth him, is his LewdnesLewdness, that he is a Man of sinne. Whereby we are to vnderstand, not onely …
With rule
The first Argument, whereby he describeth him, is his LewdnesLewdness, that he is a Man of sinne. Whereby we are to vnderstand, not onely …
William Bradshaw · A Plain and Pithy Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 100 · Open in the reader