Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7419 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

woorseworse

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 311 times in 78 works
Consistency: 99.6% (311 of 312)
Reach if approved: ~328 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: worse
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 312 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (311 changes in 78 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 311)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… This were good for your Popes, who hauing ill fauored faces, and wriemouthes, and woorſeworse maners, and yet when they can gette and clammer vp into the Papacy, they …
With rule
… This were good for your Popes, who hauing ill fauored faces, and wriemouthes, and woorſeworse maners, and yet when they can gette and clammer vp into the Papacy, they …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpectacles of the deuill. If they haue yong men among them, ſo much the woorſeworse, for ſo is the fyre neerer at hand and more kindled. If they bee …
With rule
… ſpectacles of the deuill. If they haue yong men among them, ſo much the woorſeworse, for ſo is the fyre neerer at hand and more kindled. If they bee …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… befall not vnto vs, that is, that he returne not thither with ſeuen others woorſeworse then the firſt, and that the latter thinges be not worſe then the firſt …
With rule
… befall not vnto vs, that is, that he returne not thither with ſeuen others woorſeworse then the firſt, and that the latter thinges be not worſe then the firſt …
Pierre Viret · Epistle to the Faithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… and graſſe periſhed: and thinke we that nothing will be ſpoken to vs, much woorſeworse and more abominable then they? For all men may ſée, if they will, that …
With rule
… and graſſe periſhed: and thinke we that nothing will be ſpoken to vs, much woorſeworse and more abominable then they? For all men may ſée, if they will, that …
John Bradford · The Complaint of Verity · Open in the reader
Printed
… sworne their owne destruction, prowdely reiectinge it, ceased not to fall from woorseworse to woorseworse. The very selfe same thinge, we may marke in this our age. Within these …
With rule
… sworne their owne destruction, prowdely reiectinge it, ceased not to fall from woorseworse to woorseworse. The very selfe same thinge, we may marke in this our age. Within these …
John Calvin · The Little Book · Open in the reader
Printed
… alſo that hee ranne headlongs into hell, and was (for this Romiſh matter) incomparably woorſeworse then any Pagane. And will you call this hote doctrine: But to proceede, you …
With rule
… alſo that hee ranne headlongs into hell, and was (for this Romiſh matter) incomparably woorſeworse then any Pagane. And will you call this hote doctrine: But to proceede, you …
William Charke · A Reply to a Censure · Open in the reader
Printed
… whole booke: but if I haue vsed such speeches, I thinke they are no woorseworse than his wicked behauiour, & popish sacrificing priesthoode deserue to haue. Blasphemous heretike he giueth …
With rule
… whole booke: but if I haue vsed such speeches, I thinke they are no woorseworse than his wicked behauiour, & popish sacrificing priesthoode deserue to haue. Blasphemous heretike he giueth …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it out in Creta. &c. To conclude, the foole deuoureth y^e wyſe, and the woorſeworse ſyde ſtill preuaileth
With rule
… it out in Creta. &c. To conclude, the foole deuoureth y^e wyſe, and the woorſeworse ſyde ſtill preuaileth
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Scepter of Judah A17243

Printed
To put a WoorſeWorse in ſtead of a better, maketh the partic chargeable to give both, 23.n.
With rule
To put a WoorſeWorse in ſtead of a better, maketh the partic chargeable to give both, 23.n.
Edmund Bunny · The Scepter of Judah · Open in the reader