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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31451 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

commescomes

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
177 times in 23 works
Consistency
99.4% (177 of 178)
Reach if approved
~187 places (estimated)
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Agrees: comes
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (177 changes in 23 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 177)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … innes, to ſee what carriage of paper, and other ſtuffe, either goes from, or commescomes to London. Thereby you may happely learne ſomething. And marke if any Puritane receiueth …
    With rule
    … innes, to ſee what carriage of paper, and other ſtuffe, either goes from, or commescomes to London. Thereby you may happely learne ſomething. And marke if any Puritane receiueth …

    Martin Marprelate · The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … will aunswere, and while they speake I will heare. Therefore when an humbled sinner commescomes crying & knocking at his mercie gate for the forgiuenesse of sinne, either then or …
    With rule
    … will aunswere, and while they speake I will heare. Therefore when an humbled sinner commescomes crying & knocking at his mercie gate for the forgiuenesse of sinne, either then or …

    William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the rest. And when hee hath thus set them together by the eares, then commescomes hee as a rauenous Gripe, and deuoures eyther the one, or both of them …
    With rule
    … the rest. And when hee hath thus set them together by the eares, then commescomes hee as a rauenous Gripe, and deuoures eyther the one, or both of them …

    Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and that not without cauſe, for it is the mother of modeſtie, whereby it commescomes to paſſe, that yéelding as it were ſomewhat of our owne right, we graunt …
    With rule
    … and that not without cauſe, for it is the mother of modeſtie, whereby it commescomes to paſſe, that yéelding as it were ſomewhat of our owne right, we graunt …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Philippians · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … becauſe wee are by nature ouer much giuen to idolatrie, this threatning of God commescomes alwayes before our eyes, to the end we preſume not to mingle any thing …
    With rule
    … becauſe wee are by nature ouer much giuen to idolatrie, this threatning of God commescomes alwayes before our eyes, to the end we preſume not to mingle any thing …

    John Calvin · Sermons on the Ten Commandments · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to let the printing alone. But their desires continued as afore; and thence it commescomes to pass that the sermons are committed to publick view. Which I thus aquaint …
    With rule
    … to let the printing alone. But their desires continued as afore; and thence it commescomes to pass that the sermons are committed to publick view. Which I thus aquaint …

    Richard Mather · The Sum of Certain Sermons · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ruines both of Church and State: Nor let this motion be contemned, becauſe it commescomes from ſo meane a perſon, as (in the worlds opinion) a poore Miniſter of …
    With rule
    … ruines both of Church and State: Nor let this motion be contemned, becauſe it commescomes from ſo meane a perſon, as (in the worlds opinion) a poore Miniſter of …

    Henry Burton · An Apology of an Appeal · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … as may be. Among the other, there was one wyser then the rest, & he commescomes me to the Bishop, Why my lord, saith he, doth your lordshyp make to …
    With rule
    … as may be. Among the other, there was one wyser then the rest, & he commescomes me to the Bishop, Why my lord, saith he, doth your lordshyp make to …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians A11010

  • Printed
    … perſon he will enter in combat with the beaſt. Now what armour vſes he? CommesComes he on with this wordly armour, gunnes and gainzies, I aske of thee? No …
    With rule
    … perſon he will enter in combat with the beaſt. Now what armour vſes he? CommesComes he on with this wordly armour, gunnes and gainzies, I aske of thee? No …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 75 · Open in the reader