Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31394 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

damselldamsel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 195 times in 130 works
Consistency: 100% (195 of 195)
Reach if approved: ~205 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: damsel
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 195 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (195 changes in 130 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 195)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
In a certeine place is feigned a damſelldamsel deſpiſed and polluted to lye in her filthineſſe, and a certeine noble man commeth …
With rule
In a certeine place is feigned a damſelldamsel deſpiſed and polluted to lye in her filthineſſe, and a certeine noble man commeth …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 867 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Philip Melancton hauinge made mention of diuers which were poſſeſſed, & nam lye of a DamſellDamsel in Marchia, who had bene healed of that diſeaſe, by the prayers of the …
With rule
… Philip Melancton hauinge made mention of diuers which were poſſeſſed, & nam lye of a DamſellDamsel in Marchia, who had bene healed of that diſeaſe, by the prayers of the …
John Darrell · Narration of the Strange and Grievous Vexation by the Devil · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his saying unto Iairus daughter, Matth. 5.41, 42. DamsellDamsel (I say unto thee) arise, straightway the damselldamsel arose and walked. And such a mighty worke of Christ as this, is the …
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… his saying unto Iairus daughter, Matth. 5.41, 42. DamsellDamsel (I say unto thee) arise, straightway the damselldamsel arose and walked. And such a mighty worke of Christ as this, is the …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 516 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaw Bathſheba, how ſoone is he ouercome? When Peter heard the voyce of the DamſellDamsel, how eaſily he fayled? ſo that if theſe things be conſidered it can be …
With rule
… ſaw Bathſheba, how ſoone is he ouercome? When Peter heard the voyce of the DamſellDamsel, how eaſily he fayled? ſo that if theſe things be conſidered it can be …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sword, and himselfe in this Riuer by himselfe drowned. Bacchus loued Alphoesibaea, an Armenian DamsellDamsel, and while Tygris, then (if you beleeue the Storie) called Sollax, was too coole …
With rule
… sword, and himselfe in this Riuer by himselfe drowned. Bacchus loued Alphoesibaea, an Armenian DamsellDamsel, and while Tygris, then (if you beleeue the Storie) called Sollax, was too coole …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 289 · Open in the reader
Printed
Euen to this damselldamsel is he come at last
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Euen to this damselldamsel is he come at last
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſent vnto Ioab in the matter of Vriah; and thus the mother of the DamſellDamsel became guiltie of the Baptiſts death, by councelling her daughter to require his head.
With rule
… ſent vnto Ioab in the matter of Vriah; and thus the mother of the DamſellDamsel became guiltie of the Baptiſts death, by councelling her daughter to require his head.
Samuel Smith · The Admirable Convert · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
DamsellDamsel. sig:
With rule
DamsellDamsel. sig:
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 181 · 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.