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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7405 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unusefullunuseful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
156 times in 117 works
Consistency
99.3% (156 of 157)
Reach if approved
~165 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unuseful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
157 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (156 changes in 117 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 156)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … is of more importance, and will give occasion to a Disconrse, I hope, not unusefullunuseful or unprofitable to the Reader; I shall therefore assigne it a peculiar place and …
    With rule
    … is of more importance, and will give occasion to a Disconrse, I hope, not unusefullunuseful or unprofitable to the Reader; I shall therefore assigne it a peculiar place and …

    John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in it self good and usefull, doth yet by some accident become unlawfull or unusefullunuseful. As when some Manufacture is prohibited by the State; or when some more exact …
    With rule
    … in it self good and usefull, doth yet by some accident become unlawfull or unusefullunuseful. As when some Manufacture is prohibited by the State; or when some more exact …

    Robert Sanderson · Fourteen Sermons · p. 269 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the right use and end of the Lords Ordinance formerly abused by them, and unusefullunuseful to them: and so might Simon Magus, by repentance, of the baptism prophanely, on …
    With rule
    … the right use and end of the Lords Ordinance formerly abused by them, and unusefullunuseful to them: and so might Simon Magus, by repentance, of the baptism prophanely, on …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    …0. You will be much unuſefullunuseful to others, p. 140
    With rule
    …0. You will be much unuſefullunuseful to others, p. 140

    Richard Baxter · The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that which is putrid rotten and ſtinking, and becauſe rotten and putrifying things are unuſefullunuseful and unprofitable: Hence it is that, Rom. 3. 12. the word out of the Pſalmiſt is …
    With rule
    … that which is putrid rotten and ſtinking, and becauſe rotten and putrifying things are unuſefullunuseful and unprofitable: Hence it is that, Rom. 3. 12. the word out of the Pſalmiſt is …

    Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 438 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … had thus expreſſed himſelf, Thou, Lord, ſeemeſt to adjudge me not only as an unuſefullunuseful and unſerviceable creature, but alſo as a dangerous, and a noxious creature, as a …
    With rule
    … had thus expreſſed himſelf, Thou, Lord, ſeemeſt to adjudge me not only as an unuſefullunuseful and unſerviceable creature, but alſo as a dangerous, and a noxious creature, as a …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 8-10 · p. 554 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to the uſe wherefore it is given, all inſtruction in Divine matters, is either unuſefullunuseful or hurtfull. For unleſſe divine inſtruction end in the fruit of the Spirit, which …
    With rule
    … to the uſe wherefore it is given, all inſtruction in Divine matters, is either unuſefullunuseful or hurtfull. For unleſſe divine inſtruction end in the fruit of the Spirit, which …

    John Dury · A Motion Tending to the Public Good of this Age and Posterity · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Way, againſt Dean F's charge of Schiſme; and of the freedome of Conſcience, from unuſefullunuseful Laws, and the power of conſtraint againſt his Exceptions.
    With rule
    … Way, againſt Dean F's charge of Schiſme; and of the freedome of Conſcience, from unuſefullunuseful Laws, and the power of conſtraint againſt his Exceptions.

    John Humfrey · A Plea for the Non-Conformists · p. 1 · 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.