Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6986 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

disdainfulldisdainful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 182 times in 126 works
Consistency: 97.3% (182 of 187)
Reach if approved: ~196 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: disdainful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 187 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (182 changes in 126 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 182)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Sobriety are deformed, vilified, derided, sentenced, condemned, and scoffed at, vnder the approbrious and disdainfulldisdainful names, of puritanisme, precisenesse, stoicisme, singularity, vnsociablenesse, clownishnesse, rudenesse, basenesse, melancholly, discourtesie, pride, surlinesse …
With rule
… Sobriety are deformed, vilified, derided, sentenced, condemned, and scoffed at, vnder the approbrious and disdainfulldisdainful names, of puritanisme, precisenesse, stoicisme, singularity, vnsociablenesse, clownishnesse, rudenesse, basenesse, melancholly, discourtesie, pride, surlinesse …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · Open in the reader
Printed
… hire of an whoore nor the price of a Dog. But thoſe are not diſdainfulldisdainful. At the leaſt wiſe they did as the Emperour Alexander, who did forbid that …
With rule
… hire of an whoore nor the price of a Dog. But thoſe are not diſdainfulldisdainful. At the leaſt wiſe they did as the Emperour Alexander, who did forbid that …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shake his shag-haire in aboisterous and ruffian-like manner, carie himselfe with a disdainfulldisdainful neglect and proud bravery, and with an affected, and artificiall haughtinesse of countenance, outbrave …
With rule
… shake his shag-haire in aboisterous and ruffian-like manner, carie himselfe with a disdainfulldisdainful neglect and proud bravery, and with an affected, and artificiall haughtinesse of countenance, outbrave …
Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to thoſe that be lerned in the Lords ſchoole. Experience it ſelfe teacheth, how diſdainfulldisdainful the eares of men bée. Indeede ſuch irkſomneſſe muſt be far from the godly …
With rule
… to thoſe that be lerned in the Lords ſchoole. Experience it ſelfe teacheth, how diſdainfulldisdainful the eares of men bée. Indeede ſuch irkſomneſſe muſt be far from the godly …
John Calvin · Commentary on 1 John and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… by their very lookes; and their eye lids are lifted vp, by ſcornefull and diſdainfulldisdainful lookes, bewraying the arrogancie of their ſpirits: for he putteth the ſigne of pride …
With rule
… by their very lookes; and their eye lids are lifted vp, by ſcornefull and diſdainfulldisdainful lookes, bewraying the arrogancie of their ſpirits: for he putteth the ſigne of pride …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 522 · Open in the reader
Printed
Another not so cruell and disdainfulldisdainful as the former, yet cruell and disdainfulldisdainful enough to plucke downe vengeace upon his head, would not see his father beg …
With rule
Another not so cruell and disdainfulldisdainful as the former, yet cruell and disdainfulldisdainful enough to plucke downe vengeace upon his head, would not see his father beg …
Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and hatefull a person. 4. All personal reflections would be abstained, as also sleighting answers, disdainfulldisdainful-like words and salutations, and such like, would be shunned; But on the contrary …
With rule
… and hatefull a person. 4. All personal reflections would be abstained, as also sleighting answers, disdainfulldisdainful-like words and salutations, and such like, would be shunned; But on the contrary …
James Durham · The Dying Mans Testament to the Church of Scotland · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in thoſe things which concerne men, there you ſhall find them exceeding faulty; proud, diſdainfulldisdainful, malicious, reuengeful, cruell, oppreſſing, all for themſelues, without reſpect to others: Others there are …
With rule
… in thoſe things which concerne men, there you ſhall find them exceeding faulty; proud, diſdainfulldisdainful, malicious, reuengeful, cruell, oppreſſing, all for themſelues, without reſpect to others: Others there are …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

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

A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered A13078

Printed
… over their Lawes in a directiue Power; And censuring them by a coactiue power. DisdainfullDisdainful Speeches are the first fruits of their prid, & contempt of Princes: So they call …
With rule
… over their Lawes in a directiue Power; And censuring them by a coactiue power. DisdainfullDisdainful Speeches are the first fruits of their prid, & contempt of Princes: So they call …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 9 · Open in the reader

A Body of Divinity A64622

Printed
2. DisdainfullDisdainful speaking, when words are contemptuously uttered, whether they carry with them any further signification …
With rule
2. DisdainfullDisdainful speaking, when words are contemptuously uttered, whether they carry with them any further signification …
James Ussher · A Body of Divinity · p. 272 · Open in the reader

Of Domestical Duties A68107

Printed
2. DiſdainfullDisdainful ſtatelineſſe, when they thinke much to ſtand bare-headed any while in their parents …
With rule
2. DiſdainfullDisdainful ſtatelineſſe, when they thinke much to ſtand bare-headed any while in their parents …
William Gouge · Of Domestical Duties · p. 440 · Open in the reader

A Short Treatise Containing the Principal Grounds of Christian Religion B00150

Printed
… of the voice, Eph. 4. 31. complaints to euery one of the iniurie wee haue receiued. DiſdainfullDisdainful or ſcornefull carriage, as deiectedneſſe of countenance, Geneſ. 4. 5. nodding the head, pointing with the …
With rule
… of the voice, Eph. 4. 31. complaints to euery one of the iniurie wee haue receiued. DiſdainfullDisdainful or ſcornefull carriage, as deiectedneſſe of countenance, Geneſ. 4. 5. nodding the head, pointing with the …
John Ball · A Short Treatise Containing the Principal Grounds of Christian Religion · p. 204 · Open in the reader