Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7152 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bashfullbashful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 99 works
Consistency: 97.5% (120 of 123)
Reach if approved: ~129 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bashful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 123 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 99 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſide, who after invitation come not, through a kind of unmannerly modeſtie, or a baſhfullbashful deſpair; Some there are, that may perhaps go ſo farre as to acknowledge their …
With rule
… ſide, who after invitation come not, through a kind of unmannerly modeſtie, or a baſhfullbashful deſpair; Some there are, that may perhaps go ſo farre as to acknowledge their …
Isaac Ambrose · The Last things · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no more but so, no more but the frailty of the earth, and the bashfullbashful acknowledgement and confession of that frailty, in infinite infirmities, there is no great hope …
With rule
… no more but so, no more but the frailty of the earth, and the bashfullbashful acknowledgement and confession of that frailty, in infinite infirmities, there is no great hope …
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 448 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their own in the moſt Rhetorical ſtyle, and have often ſeen the moſt baſhfullbashful, and leaſt-promiſing boyes, to out-ſtrip their fellowes in pronouncing with a courage …
With rule
… of their own in the moſt Rhetorical ſtyle, and have often ſeen the moſt baſhfullbashful, and leaſt-promiſing boyes, to out-ſtrip their fellowes in pronouncing with a courage …
Charles Hoole · A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… home worth looking after, where it is likely he will provide something beyond the bashfullbashful modesty of those that think our former commons good enough if they may be …
With rule
… home worth looking after, where it is likely he will provide something beyond the bashfullbashful modesty of those that think our former commons good enough if they may be …
William Mewe · The Robbing and Spoiling of Jacob and Israel · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may freely come, and though he sends special invitations to them that are most bashfullbashful, because their case is extraordinary: What do you think now, that Christ will come …
With rule
… may freely come, and though he sends special invitations to them that are most bashfullbashful, because their case is extraordinary: What do you think now, that Christ will come …
James Ussher · Eighteen Sermons · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meete withall in the world? is it because you are ashamed, because you are bashfullbashful, and fearefull to expresse your selves, and to make an open profession of that …
With rule
… meete withall in the world? is it because you are ashamed, because you are bashfullbashful, and fearefull to expresse your selves, and to make an open profession of that …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were as ſinfull as Marie Magdalen, as outragious as the prodigall ſonne, and as baſhfullbashful to come neere, as the Publican, yet Ieſus hath made ſatisfaction for my ſinne …
With rule
… were as ſinfull as Marie Magdalen, as outragious as the prodigall ſonne, and as baſhfullbashful to come neere, as the Publican, yet Ieſus hath made ſatisfaction for my ſinne …
Thomas Sorocold · Supplications of Saints · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lord hath comforted his owne, hee shall turne him to the Goats, that bashfullbashful band, trembling at his left hand: Before that hee open his mouth to speake …
With rule
… the Lord hath comforted his owne, hee shall turne him to the Goats, that bashfullbashful band, trembling at his left hand: Before that hee open his mouth to speake …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 677 · 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.

The True Convert A10929

Printed
Many poſſeſſed with a BaſhfullBashful Deuill. page 199.
With rule
Many poſſeſſed with a BaſhfullBashful Deuill. page 199.
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · Open in the reader