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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31413 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mettmet

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
190 times in 95 works
Consistency
98.9% (190 of 192)
Reach if approved
~202 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: met
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
192 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (190 changes in 95 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 190)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … came than to London to destroye the kynge / that he in his owne persone mettmet with them there in armes / that they cowardlye fledde / that some were taken there …
    With rule
    … came than to London to destroye the kynge / that he in his owne persone mettmet with them there in armes / that they cowardlye fledde / that some were taken there …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Bathkol, which was a little ſlender voyce ſounding in the eares of the aſſembly mettmet together once at the hundreths end. Now what ſhould I ſay? that the ſtate …
    With rule
    … Bathkol, which was a little ſlender voyce ſounding in the eares of the aſſembly mettmet together once at the hundreths end. Now what ſhould I ſay? that the ſtate …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … reuolting and doubts raiſed, and ſometimes ſtrongly mainetaine them, ſhould haue the ſame meaſure mettmet vnto them, and thereby fall into perdition.
    With rule
    … reuolting and doubts raiſed, and ſometimes ſtrongly mainetaine them, ſhould haue the ſame meaſure mettmet vnto them, and thereby fall into perdition.

    Willem Teellinck · The Balance of the Sanctuary · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of this preſent meteing after, (and I knovve not hovv long after) they vvere mettmet, to preache vnto them, and after he had begune once then he held one …
    With rule
    … of this preſent meteing after, (and I knovve not hovv long after) they vvere mettmet, to preache vnto them, and after he had begune once then he held one …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Discourse Upon the Sabbath Day · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to meete in priuate, and then ſhutt the doore, when their own companie is mettmet together, or elſe I cannot ſee, how they can auoyd communion with wicked men,
    With rule
    … to meete in priuate, and then ſhutt the doore, when their own companie is mettmet together, or elſe I cannot ſee, how they can auoyd communion with wicked men,

    John Canne · A Stay Against Straying · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Apoſtles at Maſſe, I preſume hee meanes no more, then that they were mettmet at ſuch publique Prayer, as at thoſe times they might make. Sure Pope Clemens …
    With rule
    … the Apoſtles at Maſſe, I preſume hee meanes no more, then that they were mettmet at ſuch publique Prayer, as at thoſe times they might make. Sure Pope Clemens …

    John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will read the Elders of the Churches, in the Plural, viz. of Asia, then mettmet at Ephesus. The Scripture expresses Provincial Churches in the plural, as the Churches of …
    With rule
    … will read the Elders of the Churches, in the Plural, viz. of Asia, then mettmet at Ephesus. The Scripture expresses Provincial Churches in the plural, as the Churches of …

    Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … his Brother going in hast by night to call a coach for a Lady, mettmet a fellow then in drink, with his Doxy in his hand. Some way or …
    With rule
    … his Brother going in hast by night to call a coach for a Lady, mettmet a fellow then in drink, with his Doxy in his hand. Some way or …

    Cotton Mather · The Wonders of the Invisible World · p. 80 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier A05548

  • Printed
    MettMet with Semeramis the quene
    With rule
    MettMet with Semeramis the quene

    David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

  • Printed
    … together with, it seemed good to the HolyGhost, and to us, And to us, MettMet with one accord. Wher is, I say, this joynt decisive power of Church Judicatories …
    With rule
    … together with, it seemed good to the HolyGhost, and to us, And to us, MettMet with one accord. Wher is, I say, this joynt decisive power of Church Judicatories …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 9 · Open in the reader