Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31365 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

figgsfigs

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 209 times in 135 works
Consistency: 100% (209 of 209)
Reach if approved: ~220 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 209 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (209 changes in 135 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 209)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… That the manner, how, be all right. He that seeks Grapes of Thorns, or FiggsFigs of Thistles, neither finds what he seeks, no… indeed seeks to find: for he …
With rule
… That the manner, how, be all right. He that seeks Grapes of Thorns, or FiggsFigs of Thistles, neither finds what he seeks, no… indeed seeks to find: for he …
Phineas Fletcher · A Fathers Testament · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… skins, bones, excrements; Sciomancy, by ſhadowes; Aſtragalomancy, by dice; Otnomancy, by Wine; Sycomancy, by FiggsFigs; Typomancy, by the coagulation of cheeſe; Alphitomancy, by meal, flower, or branne; Crithomancy, by …
With rule
… skins, bones, excrements; Sciomancy, by ſhadowes; Aſtragalomancy, by dice; Otnomancy, by Wine; Sycomancy, by FiggsFigs; Typomancy, by the coagulation of cheeſe; Alphitomancy, by meal, flower, or branne; Crithomancy, by …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
Chap. XI. Note a. To prove that figgsfigs were then ripe at the time of Chriſts curſing the tree, Adde, that the …
With rule
Chap. XI. Note a. To prove that figgsfigs were then ripe at the time of Chriſts curſing the tree, Adde, that the …
Henry Hammond · Review of the Paraphrase of the New Testament · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Plaiſter; a Lumpe, boyle, riſing and ſwelling of the Plague, and a lumpe of FiggsFigs as a plaiſter for the ſame.
With rule
… Plaiſter; a Lumpe, boyle, riſing and ſwelling of the Plague, and a lumpe of FiggsFigs as a plaiſter for the ſame.
Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as they ſay in the Schooles; as we cannot gather grapes of thornes, or figgsfigs of thiſtels, Matth. 7. 16. So new wine cannot be the cauſe why the Apoſtles ſpake …
With rule
… as they ſay in the Schooles; as we cannot gather grapes of thornes, or figgsfigs of thiſtels, Matth. 7. 16. So new wine cannot be the cauſe why the Apoſtles ſpake …
John Weemes · Exercitations Divine · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them the Sword, the Famine, and the Peſtilence, and will make them like vile figgsfigs, that cannot be eaten they are ſo vile. And I will perſecute them with …
With rule
… them the Sword, the Famine, and the Peſtilence, and will make them like vile figgsfigs, that cannot be eaten they are ſo vile. And I will perſecute them with …
Richard Alleine · The Best Remedies for the Worst of Maladies · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ye ſhall know them by their fruits, do men gather grapes of thorns, or figgsfigs of thiſtle? And have not the Miniſtery of England their ordination from Rome? As …
With rule
… Ye ſhall know them by their fruits, do men gather grapes of thorns, or figgsfigs of thiſtle? And have not the Miniſtery of England their ordination from Rome? As …
Edward Barber · The Storming and Routing of Tithes · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all know that Ezechias being sick unto death, was cured with a bunch of FiggsFigs, which having a peculiar Nature to drie Vlcers, in time would have Matured the …
With rule
… all know that Ezechias being sick unto death, was cured with a bunch of FiggsFigs, which having a peculiar Nature to drie Vlcers, in time would have Matured the …
Edward Corbet · Gods Providence · p. 25 · 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.