Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31180 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oftimesofttimes

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 331 times in 175 works
Consistency: 98.2% (331 of 337)
Reach if approved: ~354 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 337 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (331 changes in 175 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 331)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… remoue mountains, & that nothing suld be impossible to them. Farther, albeit our Saviour had oftimesofttimes instructed his Disciples and forewarned them with his own mouth, that he wald rise …
With rule
… remoue mountains, & that nothing suld be impossible to them. Farther, albeit our Saviour had oftimesofttimes instructed his Disciples and forewarned them with his own mouth, that he wald rise …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe who deſpiſed the ſame, and abandoned it from them? For the worde foreign doth oftimesofttimes declare thys: as I chn. 12.48. and 1. Theſſa. 4.8. in the whiche place thou thy ſelfe …
With rule
… thoſe who deſpiſed the ſame, and abandoned it from them? For the worde foreign doth oftimesofttimes declare thys: as I chn. 12.48. and 1. Theſſa. 4.8. in the whiche place thou thy ſelfe …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by sight than by faith, wherein they might honour God more, he leaves them oftimesofttimes. Sight is reserved for another world, (for the Church triumphant) there wee shall have …
With rule
… by sight than by faith, wherein they might honour God more, he leaves them oftimesofttimes. Sight is reserved for another world, (for the Church triumphant) there wee shall have …
Richard Sibbes · The Saints Safety in Evil Times · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of them, in this place it ſignifieth (as we haue ſayde) couenantes, which God oftimesofttimes made with the people. And therefore the Apoſtle vſeth the plurall number. For God …
With rule
… of them, in this place it ſignifieth (as we haue ſayde) couenantes, which God oftimesofttimes made with the people. And therefore the Apoſtle vſeth the plurall number. For God …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… before: by very good reason may we doubt, that we in such case are oftimesofttimes in our affairs ouer hasty also, & do not so precisely heed the rules that …
With rule
… before: by very good reason may we doubt, that we in such case are oftimesofttimes in our affairs ouer hasty also, & do not so precisely heed the rules that …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
Couragious Princes are most commonly subject to love Mars and Venus, which are oftimesofttimes link'd together.
With rule
Couragious Princes are most commonly subject to love Mars and Venus, which are oftimesofttimes link'd together.
Archibald Argyll · Instructions to a Son · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such, as go for beleevers; for we observe them to be as little lively oftimesofttimes, as others, and as unfit for duties; yea and sometimes, as much subject to …
With rule
… such, as go for beleevers; for we observe them to be as little lively oftimesofttimes, as others, and as unfit for duties; yea and sometimes, as much subject to …
John Brown · Christ the Way and the Truth and the Life · p. 306 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prince, that the deep Theorems of Philoſophy, make men Learned, but ſeldom better, and oftimesofttimes worſe, even meer Atheiſts. 3. The major part of the common people refuſe Chriſt. The …
With rule
… Prince, that the deep Theorems of Philoſophy, make men Learned, but ſeldom better, and oftimesofttimes worſe, even meer Atheiſts. 3. The major part of the common people refuſe Chriſt. The …
John Crump · The Parable of the Great Supper Opened · p. 116 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes A52356

Printed
Hence Learn. 1. OftimesOfttimes theſe who doth moſt painfully and honeſtly Labour in their Callings, remain Poor in …
With rule
Hence Learn. 1. OftimesOfttimes theſe who doth moſt painfully and honeſtly Labour in their Callings, remain Poor in …
Alexander Nisbet · Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes · p. 355 · Open in the reader

Gospel Marrow A77501

Printed
… Iewes to the Gentiles, it was not becauſe they were in themſelves more worthy. OftimesOfttimes ſo it is, that the Goſpel is preached, and Chriſt made known to thoſe …
With rule
… Iewes to the Gentiles, it was not becauſe they were in themſelves more worthy. OftimesOfttimes ſo it is, that the Goſpel is preached, and Chriſt made known to thoſe …
John Brinsley · Gospel Marrow · p. 63 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A96524

Printed
4. The Riches of Chriſt are Eternal Riches. OftimesOfttimes Men are deprived of their Eſtates in this Life, even whilſt they live, but …
With rule
4. The Riches of Chriſt are Eternal Riches. OftimesOfttimes Men are deprived of their Eſtates in this Life, even whilſt they live, but …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Two Treatises · p. 140 · Open in the reader