Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7399 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unfruitfullunfruitful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 670 times in 363 works
Consistency: 99.2% (670 of 675)
Reach if approved: ~709 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unfruitful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 675 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (670 changes in 363 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 670)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ye partakers of other mens ſinnes, and be not; Have no fellowſhip with the unfruitfullunfruitful workes of darknes, and yet have. Magna inter molles concordia; This and theirs is …
With rule
… ye partakers of other mens ſinnes, and be not; Have no fellowſhip with the unfruitfullunfruitful workes of darknes, and yet have. Magna inter molles concordia; This and theirs is …
John Canne · A Stay Against Straying · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… matters to steale it away frō us, that we may be wholy barren and unfruitfullunfruitful. Now then how lamentable is it to see men so carefull in this earthly …
With rule
… matters to steale it away frō us, that we may be wholy barren and unfruitfullunfruitful. Now then how lamentable is it to see men so carefull in this earthly …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for it. The heart of a man is compared to fallow ground that is unfruitfullunfruitful; you must not sow amongst thornes and thistles, first plow it, and lay it …
With rule
… for it. The heart of a man is compared to fallow ground that is unfruitfullunfruitful; you must not sow amongst thornes and thistles, first plow it, and lay it …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and practice of their wicked doings, that in nothing wee have fellowship with the unfruitfullunfruitful workes of darknesse. How shall wee doe this, yee will say? The best way …
With rule
… and practice of their wicked doings, that in nothing wee have fellowship with the unfruitfullunfruitful workes of darknesse. How shall wee doe this, yee will say? The best way …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God in my afflictions as he findes. But I am a poore ignorant, unfruitfullunfruitful, and unserviceable creature, who doe more blemish then adorne my profession of the Gospell …
With rule
… of God in my afflictions as he findes. But I am a poore ignorant, unfruitfullunfruitful, and unserviceable creature, who doe more blemish then adorne my profession of the Gospell …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 350 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conceit, that his Master was a hard man; hereby to flatter himselfe in his unfruitfullunfruitful courses, in not improving that talent which he had.
With rule
… conceit, that his Master was a hard man; hereby to flatter himselfe in his unfruitfullunfruitful courses, in not improving that talent which he had.
Richard Sibbes · The Bruised Reed · p. 175 · Open in the reader
Printed
… creature, (that is) the calling of a Christian: Wee must neither be idle nor unfruitfullunfruitful in the worke of the Lord.
With rule
… creature, (that is) the calling of a Christian: Wee must neither be idle nor unfruitfullunfruitful in the worke of the Lord.
Thomas Taylor · A Man in Christ · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
Or made to labour for unfruitfullunfruitful ends.
With rule
Or made to labour for unfruitfullunfruitful ends.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus A15408

Printed
… and private prayer. 2. To pray with the lippes, and and not with the heart. 3. UnfruitfullUnfruitful prayer in an unknowne tongue: against the which S. Paul speaketh, 1 Cor. 14.17. Thou givest …
With rule
… and private prayer. 2. To pray with the lippes, and and not with the heart. 3. UnfruitfullUnfruitful prayer in an unknowne tongue: against the which S. Paul speaketh, 1 Cor. 14.17. Thou givest …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 306 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
6. UnfruitfullUnfruitful and stony hearted …, Luke 8. 13.
With rule
6. UnfruitfullUnfruitful and stony hearted …, Luke 8. 13.
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 540 · Open in the reader