Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31457 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swelsswells

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 176 times in 135 works
Consistency: 98.8% (176 of 178)
Reach if approved: ~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swells
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 (176 changes in 135 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
As the stommack swelsswells eyther with good meat excessively used, or with winde, and ill humours: so there …
With rule
As the stommack swelsswells eyther with good meat excessively used, or with winde, and ill humours: so there …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 289 · Open in the reader
Printed
Though every page ſwelsswells with ingenuous …lots,
With rule
Though every page ſwelsswells with ingenuous …lots,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot beare any hard thing upon it: though a member growes bigger when it ſwelsswells, yet it growes weaker; ſo it is with the ſoule.
With rule
… cannot beare any hard thing upon it: though a member growes bigger when it ſwelsswells, yet it growes weaker; ſo it is with the ſoule.
Jeremiah Burroughs · The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit · p. 429 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee this flood (the anger of God) ſwell as faſt as the ambitious man ſwelsswells, and purſue him through all his titles, and and at laſt ſuddenly, and violently …
With rule
… ſee this flood (the anger of God) ſwell as faſt as the ambitious man ſwelsswells, and purſue him through all his titles, and and at laſt ſuddenly, and violently …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 365 · Open in the reader
Printed
… look with a distance of Mind upon others below them. Prosperity in any kind, swelsswells Men with a vain opinion of their Worth and Dignity; and makes them insolent …
With rule
… look with a distance of Mind upon others below them. Prosperity in any kind, swelsswells Men with a vain opinion of their Worth and Dignity; and makes them insolent …
William Bates · The Danger of Prosperity · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſwelling words; that is, words greatly ſwelled with vanity. Or ſwel'd, as the fleſh ſwelsswells, by the gathering of corruption, and ill humours. The greatneſſe of theſe words was …
With rule
… ſwelling words; that is, words greatly ſwelled with vanity. Or ſwel'd, as the fleſh ſwelsswells, by the gathering of corruption, and ill humours. The greatneſſe of theſe words was …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 544 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could knocke out a starre in heauen. Especially the proud man, like the Sea, swelsswells if the Moone inclines, if his Mistris grace him.
With rule
… could knocke out a starre in heauen. Especially the proud man, like the Sea, swelsswells if the Moone inclines, if his Mistris grace him.
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paſſe for one cauſe of weakeneſſe. The ſecond is pride, a ſinne that ſo ſwelsswells the ſoule that it breaks the skin and caſe, the body: pride breakes the …
With rule
… paſſe for one cauſe of weakeneſſe. The ſecond is pride, a ſinne that ſo ſwelsswells the ſoule that it breaks the skin and caſe, the body: pride breakes the …
Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

Printed
SwelsSwells high enough to set his prayses forth
With rule
SwelsSwells high enough to set his prayses forth
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 523 · Open in the reader