Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #30955 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

festivallfestival

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 700 times in 200 works
Consistency: 99.2% (700 of 705)
Reach if approved: ~741 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: festival
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 705 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (700 changes in 200 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 700)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… badge of our honor, prove the Character of our shame. The Persians had a festivallfestival time one day in the yeere which they cald Vitiorum interitum, wherein they slew …
With rule
… badge of our honor, prove the Character of our shame. The Persians had a festivallfestival time one day in the yeere which they cald Vitiorum interitum, wherein they slew …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place them in the number of the gods, erect Temples and Altars, and consecrate festivallfestival dayes unto them.
With rule
… place them in the number of the gods, erect Temples and Altars, and consecrate festivallfestival dayes unto them.
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the Passeover is a feast which we must keep, 1 Cor. 5.8. and such high festivallfestival daies are good daies; especially the first and last daies of the Passeover were …
With rule
… and the Passeover is a feast which we must keep, 1 Cor. 5.8. and such high festivallfestival daies are good daies; especially the first and last daies of the Passeover were …
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · p. 704 · Open in the reader
Printed
NEither Christ nor his Apostles appointed festivallfestival dayes to be observed by Christians, but rather inhibited the observation of them, and …
With rule
NEither Christ nor his Apostles appointed festivallfestival dayes to be observed by Christians, but rather inhibited the observation of them, and …
David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ver. 21, 22, 23. Thus God met with Nabal, David ſends for reliefe to him upon his feſtivallfestival day, and he in ſtead of an almes fals a railing on him, and …
With rule
… ver. 21, 22, 23. Thus God met with Nabal, David ſends for reliefe to him upon his feſtivallfestival day, and he in ſtead of an almes fals a railing on him, and …
Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 259 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Danes that were amongst them; The day was the thirteenth of November, being the FestivallFestival of Saint Bricius, in the yeare 1002. His command was accordingly performed, and with such …
With rule
… Danes that were amongst them; The day was the thirteenth of November, being the FestivallFestival of Saint Bricius, in the yeare 1002. His command was accordingly performed, and with such …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… antedated by a Prolepsis, then Heraclius gave the lustre (not first originall) to this festivallfestival, and scoured bright an old holy-day with a new solemnitie.
With rule
… antedated by a Prolepsis, then Heraclius gave the lustre (not first originall) to this festivallfestival, and scoured bright an old holy-day with a new solemnitie.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
For ſhutting vp of ſhops on Holy dayes and FeſtivallFestival dayes &c. (as he doth Popiſhly terme them): What if ſome think / that our …
With rule
For ſhutting vp of ſhops on Holy dayes and FeſtivallFestival dayes &c. (as he doth Popiſhly terme them): What if ſome think / that our …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

Perth Assembly A17583

Printed
REASONS AGAINST FESTIVALLFESTIVAL DAYES.
With rule
REASONS AGAINST FESTIVALLFESTIVAL DAYES.
David Calderwood · Perth Assembly · p. 63 · Open in the reader

A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 A17587

Printed
OF FESTIVALLFESTIVAL DAYES.
With rule
OF FESTIVALLFESTIVAL DAYES.
David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
REASONS AGAINST THE FESTIVALLFESTIVAL DAYES.
With rule
REASONS AGAINST THE FESTIVALLFESTIVAL DAYES.
David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 341 · Open in the reader
Printed
THE DEFINITION OF A FEstivallFestival day.
With rule
THE DEFINITION OF A FEstivallFestival day.
David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 187 · Open in the reader