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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31055 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cittiescities

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
467 times in 177 works
Consistency
100% (467 of 467)
Reach if approved
~491 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cities
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
467 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (467 changes in 177 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 467)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … houſes of the high places which the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their CittiesCities wherein they dwelt. For the men of Babel made Succoth-Benoth, and the men …
    With rule
    … houſes of the high places which the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their CittiesCities wherein they dwelt. For the men of Babel made Succoth-Benoth, and the men …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … haue it, I may boldly ſay, as ſoundly and powerfully in all the chiefeſt CittiesCities and Townes, and in many other places, as any Church in Europe, whereby thouſands …
    With rule
    … haue it, I may boldly ſay, as ſoundly and powerfully in all the chiefeſt CittiesCities and Townes, and in many other places, as any Church in Europe, whereby thouſands …

    Elnathan Parr · The Grounds of Divinity · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Lord. The people of Israel travelling to the land of Canaan, they saw the CittiesCities walled to heaven, and that the Gyants were there, the sonnes of Anax, yet …
    With rule
    … Lord. The people of Israel travelling to the land of Canaan, they saw the CittiesCities walled to heaven, and that the Gyants were there, the sonnes of Anax, yet …

    John Preston · The Deformed Form · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … directly. But what now follows of all this for conclusion? Namely, that all Nations, CittiesCities, houses, &c. that is, every particular man, and woman, hath had the mercy of …
    With rule
    … directly. But what now follows of all this for conclusion? Namely, that all Nations, CittiesCities, houses, &c. that is, every particular man, and woman, hath had the mercy of …

    John Robinson · Defense of the Synod of Dort · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and his store their treasurie: but the true ministers of our dayes haue no cittiescities of refuge for others, for they haue none for themselues: they haue not wherewith …
    With rule
    … and his store their treasurie: but the true ministers of our dayes haue no cittiescities of refuge for others, for they haue none for themselues: they haue not wherewith …

    Henry Smith · The Sinful Mans Search · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in a little sheete, for great rivers, they draw small lines, and for great cittiescities, onely a period.
    With rule
    … in a little sheete, for great rivers, they draw small lines, and for great cittiescities, onely a period.

    Thomas Taylor · A Man in Christ · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … man ſhal be put to death for his owne ſinne. Deut. 19. Thou ſhalt make cittiescities of refuge, that innocent bloud be not ſhed within thy land. Here therefore is …
    With rule
    … man ſhal be put to death for his owne ſinne. Deut. 19. Thou ſhalt make cittiescities of refuge, that innocent bloud be not ſhed within thy land. Here therefore is …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 976 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Biſhops ſeates altered from townes to cittiescities 135
    With rule
    Biſhops ſeates altered from townes to cittiescities 135

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.