Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7045 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pittiespities

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 230 times in 177 works
Consistency: 97.8% (230 of 235)
Reach if approved: ~247 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pities
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 235 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (230 changes in 177 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 230)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… his creatures offending. Gen. 6.3. and 8.21. Pſal. 78.38.39. Mercie is more common then grace, for he pittiespities all, though he but receiue ſome againe into favour. He feeds the filthy as …
With rule
… his creatures offending. Gen. 6.3. and 8.21. Pſal. 78.38.39. Mercie is more common then grace, for he pittiespities all, though he but receiue ſome againe into favour. He feeds the filthy as …
John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
Publiſhed by one that much pittiespities them and prayes dayly for their deliverance.
With rule
Publiſhed by one that much pittiespities them and prayes dayly for their deliverance.
John Davenport · A Just Complaint Against an Unjust Doer · Open in the reader
Printed
… being ſo much above the fear of man: And I think it a thouſand pittiespities that you have not 1. A better Cauſe, 2. A humbler mind, and better acquaintance with …
With rule
… being ſo much above the fear of man: And I think it a thouſand pittiespities that you have not 1. A better Cauſe, 2. A humbler mind, and better acquaintance with …
Richard Baxter · A Second Admonition to Edward Bagshaw · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much: that ſeeing God himſelfe (who knowes us better than we our ſelves, and pittiespities us as a father his children) allowes us theſe helpes; it is but fit …
With rule
… much: that ſeeing God himſelfe (who knowes us better than we our ſelves, and pittiespities us as a father his children) allowes us theſe helpes; it is but fit …
Daniel Cawdry · Three Sermons · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wrath and diſpleaſure of God meant: And now being full of compaſſion, he pittiespities all thoſe that are under the diſfavour of God; he knows ſinners have broken …
With rule
… the wrath and diſpleaſure of God meant: And now being full of compaſſion, he pittiespities all thoſe that are under the diſfavour of God; he knows ſinners have broken …
William Greenhill · Sermons of Christ · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be tormented, with the worme that never dies. And here now, for very pittiespities sake, let me put all poore soules in minde; that they bee carefull to …
With rule
… to be tormented, with the worme that never dies. And here now, for very pittiespities sake, let me put all poore soules in minde; that they bee carefull to …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cursed disposition, to make bare pudenda parentum: But it is lamentable, and a thousand pittiespities, that in high places, which are as the Sunne-risings of a State, there …
With rule
… cursed disposition, to make bare pudenda parentum: But it is lamentable, and a thousand pittiespities, that in high places, which are as the Sunne-risings of a State, there …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
God pittiespities our weakenesse in all our troubles and afflictions, he will not stay too long …
With rule
God pittiespities our weakenesse in all our troubles and afflictions, he will not stay too long …
Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · p. 6 · 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.

The Gentile Sinner A39252

Printed
He PittiesPities the unskilfull wantonnesse of the world, which allwaies (as Children and Fools use to …
With rule
He PittiesPities the unskilfull wantonnesse of the world, which allwaies (as Children and Fools use to …
Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 110 · Open in the reader