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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7343 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rottennesrottenness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
112 times in 81 works
Consistency
99.1% (112 of 113)
Reach if approved
~119 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: rottenness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
113 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (112 changes in 81 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 112)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … noſes and eyes eaten with corruption, and their other members waſted with filth and rottennesrottenness, ſo that the mind deteſteth to thinke therof, much leſſe can ye eie abide …
    With rule
    … noſes and eyes eaten with corruption, and their other members waſted with filth and rottennesrottenness, ſo that the mind deteſteth to thinke therof, much leſſe can ye eie abide …

    Martin Luther · Fourteen Points of Consolation · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … armes a man with terrours and amazements against himselfe. It is sin which puts rottennesrottenness and dishonour into the grave; he that died without sin rose up without corruption …
    With rule
    … armes a man with terrours and amazements against himselfe. It is sin which puts rottennesrottenness and dishonour into the grave; he that died without sin rose up without corruption …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 332 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … will be to Ephraim, as a moth, & to the house of Iudah as a rottennesrottenness; that is, by leisure and smaller iudgements beginne to consume them: and if Ephraim …
    With rule
    … will be to Ephraim, as a moth, & to the house of Iudah as a rottennesrottenness; that is, by leisure and smaller iudgements beginne to consume them: and if Ephraim …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 363 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … neither house nor citie: or as the graue, wherein is nothing but stinke and rottennesrottenness: yea if they were not 1000. times more hurtful, then any of these, they might …
    With rule
    … neither house nor citie: or as the graue, wherein is nothing but stinke and rottennesrottenness: yea if they were not 1000. times more hurtful, then any of these, they might …

    William Burton · The Rousing of the Sluggard · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … poynt as good as antiquitie without the word of God (which is nothing but rottennesrottenness) could make it. But for ſo much as thoſe auncient collegiate churches were no …
    With rule
    … poynt as good as antiquitie without the word of God (which is nothing but rottennesrottenness) could make it. But for ſo much as thoſe auncient collegiate churches were no …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 204 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſtrength and life; whereof followeth the corruption of the blood, diſſolution of the ſinewes, rottennesrottenness of the marrow, aches in the ioynts, cruditie in ſtomacke, paine in the head …
    With rule
    … ſtrength and life; whereof followeth the corruption of the blood, diſſolution of the ſinewes, rottennesrottenness of the marrow, aches in the ioynts, cruditie in ſtomacke, paine in the head …

    John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · p. 166 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a touch with the top of thy little finger, thou ſhalt preſently find the rottennesrottenness of his heart. In that ſenſe the word imports an extenuation of Jobs ſincerity …
    With rule
    … a touch with the top of thy little finger, thou ſhalt preſently find the rottennesrottenness of his heart. In that ſenſe the word imports an extenuation of Jobs ſincerity …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … they doubted not to dig vp the bodie of Pope Iulius almost consumed with rottennesrottenness, and to spoile it of his ring. Is this the dealing of Spaniardes with …
    With rule
    … they doubted not to dig vp the bodie of Pope Iulius almost consumed with rottennesrottenness, and to spoile it of his ring. Is this the dealing of Spaniardes with …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 199 · 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.