Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7281 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

looseneslooseness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 117 times in 76 works
Consistency: 99.1% (117 of 118)
Reach if approved: ~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: looseness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (117 changes in 76 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 117)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The cauſe of all looſeneslooseness of life, and wickedneſſe of heart, is cheifly this, that though we thinke wee …
With rule
The cauſe of all looſeneslooseness of life, and wickedneſſe of heart, is cheifly this, that though we thinke wee …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… commanded, in concerneth the duty of the church by law to prouide, that the looseneslooseness and slacknes of men may not cause the commandements of God to be vnexecuted …
With rule
… commanded, in concerneth the duty of the church by law to prouide, that the looseneslooseness and slacknes of men may not cause the commandements of God to be vnexecuted …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… glorie as I…h… was: and hence it comes, that many fall away to looseneslooseness of life from a strict profession of religion, because they receiued not the truth …
With rule
… glorie as I…h… was: and hence it comes, that many fall away to looseneslooseness of life from a strict profession of religion, because they receiued not the truth …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for children, that they had not need to be croſſes to their parents, by looſeneslooseness and diſobedience: for their parents are many waies grieued by them in other reſpects …
With rule
… for children, that they had not need to be croſſes to their parents, by looſeneslooseness and diſobedience: for their parents are many waies grieued by them in other reſpects …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 578 · Open in the reader
Printed
The moſt points, wherein the Proteſtants diſſent from Catholikes, tend to looſeneslooseness of life, and carnell liberty.
With rule
The moſt points, wherein the Proteſtants diſſent from Catholikes, tend to looſeneslooseness of life, and carnell liberty.
Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to their knowlege any other ſuch naughtineſſe: or otherwiſe ſuffer them to decline to looſeneslooseness of lyfe: or put not ſo much vnto them in matters of good learning …
With rule
… to their knowlege any other ſuch naughtineſſe: or otherwiſe ſuffer them to decline to looſeneslooseness of lyfe: or put not ſo much vnto them in matters of good learning …
Edmund Bunny · The Whole Sum of Christian Religion · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the fauour of earthly Princes, being first highly aduaunced, and so thereby growing to looseneslooseness and profanenes; and so iustly left to grosse errors: both for the conceiuing, as …
With rule
… the fauour of earthly Princes, being first highly aduaunced, and so thereby growing to looseneslooseness and profanenes; and so iustly left to grosse errors: both for the conceiuing, as …
Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this 7th. Cōmandement forbids wanton company, Eph. 5. 7. al drunkenes & exceſſe, 1. Pet. 4. 3. idlenes, Ex…. 16. 49. ſleepines & looſeneslooseness of eyes, 2. Sam. 11. 23 and an impudent forehead, Ier. 3. 3. all kinds of light talking, 1 Tim …
With rule
… this 7th. Cōmandement forbids wanton company, Eph. 5. 7. al drunkenes & exceſſe, 1. Pet. 4. 3. idlenes, Ex…. 16. 49. ſleepines & looſeneslooseness of eyes, 2. Sam. 11. 23 and an impudent forehead, Ier. 3. 3. all kinds of light talking, 1 Tim …
William Fenner · The Spiritual Mans Directory · p. 47 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.