fulness vs fullness

[openenglishbible]

Probably should harmonise on one of these...

[countingpine]

Looking at https://www.biblestudytools.com/colossians/2-9-compare.html, modern translations tend to prefer "fullness", and older ones tend to prefer "fulness".

My vote in any case would be for "fullness" - it's my preferred spelling, and it makes it slightly easier to search for, not being a substring of words like "faithfulness".

It should be an easy fix from the command line: sed -i 's/ fulness/ fullness/g' *.db or sed -i 's/ fullness/ fulness/g' *.db

Note, on taking a brief look through a wordlist, there are inconsistencies with fulfil/fulfill(/ing/ment/s), and one instance of "fullilled". Also wil[l]ful/skil[l]ful. Probably separate issues though..

Here are all the uses of fulness/fullness. There is at least consistency within books. Note: Isaiah includes one instance of "faithfullness", which should also be fixed.

Job (Fullness)
20:22 Brought to straits in the fullness of plenty,

Psalms (Fulness)
16:11
\v 11 You will show me the path that leads to life,
\q2 to that fulness of joy which is in your presence,

50:12
\v 12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you,
\q2 for the world and its fulness are mine.

89:11
\v 11 Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth,
\q2 the world and its fulness, it's you who did found them.

96:11
\v 11 Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice,
\q2 let the sea and its fulness thunder.

98:7
\v 7 Let the sea and its fulness roar,

Proverbs (Fulness)
3:2
\v 2 for a long and happy life
\q2 and fulness of peace will they bring you.

Isaiah (Fullness)
23:5
\v 5 Then the throne shall be established by kindness,
\q2 and on it shall sit
\q in the tent of King David in faithfullness

34:1
\v 1 Draw nigh, you nations, and hearken;
\q Let the earth and its fullness hearken,

42:10
\v 10 Sing a new song to the \nd Lord\nd*,
\q let the sea and its fullness roar,

63:1
\v 1 “Who is this that comes from Edom,
\q2 marching in fullness of strength?”

Jeremiah (Fulness)
47:2
\v 2 From the north, see! waters are rising,
\q They will sweep o'er the land and its fulness,

John (Fullness)
1:16
\v 16 out of his fullness we have all received

10:10
\v 10 \wj The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it in greater fullness.\wj*

17:13
\v 13 \wj But now I am to come to you; and I am speaking like this, while still in the world, so that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.\wj*

Ephesians (Fullness)
3:19
\v 19 and to understand – though it surpasses all understanding – the love of the Christ; and so be filled with all the fullness of God.

Colossians (Fulness)
1:19
\v 19 For it pleased the Father that in him the divine nature in all its fulness should live,

1:25
\v 25 of which I myself became a minister in virtue of the office with which God entrusted me for your benefit, to declare the message of God in all its fulness –

2:9
\v 9 For in Christ the Godhead in all its fulness dwells incarnate;

1 Thessalonians (Fulness)
1:5
\v 5 because the good news that we brought came home to you, not merely as so many words, but with a power and a fulness of conviction due to the Holy Spirit. For you know the life that we lived among you for your good.

Revelation (Fulness)
1:16
\v 16 in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun in the fulness of its power.

[mcepl]

It seems to me that fulness is dying archaism both in American and British English, isn’t it?