Rules
All candidates
Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31517 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

immateriallimmaterial

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
166 times in 95 works
Consistency
91.7% (166 of 181)
Reach if approved
~190 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: immaterial
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
181 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (166 changes in 95 works, 91.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 166)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … bodily member, as eye, or ear, &c. God is a Spirit, a ſubſtance incorporall, immateriallimmaterial; but as David teacheth to interpret, hereby he ſignifies, not the inſtrument, but the …
    With rule
    … bodily member, as eye, or ear, &c. God is a Spirit, a ſubſtance incorporall, immateriallimmaterial; but as David teacheth to interpret, hereby he ſignifies, not the inſtrument, but the …

    William Sclater · Sermons Experimental · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … his members, do ascend and descend vpon the Sonne of man, that mysticall and immateriallimmaterial ladder.
    With rule
    … his members, do ascend and descend vpon the Sonne of man, that mysticall and immateriallimmaterial ladder.

    Thomas Wilson · Theological Rules to Guide Us in the Understanding and Practice of Scripture · p. 200 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    But ſeeing now of things created, part are Bodies part are Spirits and immateriallimmaterial Subſtances, among the Spirits the Angels are moſt eminent, next vnto which are the …
    With rule
    But ſeeing now of things created, part are Bodies part are Spirits and immateriallimmaterial Subſtances, among the Spirits the Angels are moſt eminent, next vnto which are the …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Knowledge of God · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as this spiritual and unperceivable way of tempting doth follow upon his spirituall and immateriallimmaterial substance; So also the words, rendred the spirit which worketh, may relate either to …
    With rule
    … as this spiritual and unperceivable way of tempting doth follow upon his spirituall and immateriallimmaterial substance; So also the words, rendred the spirit which worketh, may relate either to …

    James Fergusson · Brief Exposition of Galatians and Ephesians · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is most high and sublime; and therefore were much fitter for your high and immateriallimmaterial soules, then those base things here below? Take a survey of some of them:
    With rule
    … is most high and sublime; and therefore were much fitter for your high and immateriallimmaterial soules, then those base things here below? Take a survey of some of them:

    Christopher Jelinger · The Usefulness and Excellency of Christ · p. 137 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his own ſoul, my ſoul is heavy unto death. And that Chriſts ſoul was immateriallimmaterial who can deny, eſpecially ſince he was not born in the common way? Secondly …
    With rule
    … his own ſoul, my ſoul is heavy unto death. And that Chriſts ſoul was immateriallimmaterial who can deny, eſpecially ſince he was not born in the common way? Secondly …

    John Sherman · A Greek in the Temple · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … this materiall one is his Temple: a houſe neither of fleſh nor ſtone, but immateriallimmaterial, immortall in the heauens. And as Chriſt ſayes, that in his Fathers Houſe there …
    With rule
    … this materiall one is his Temple: a houſe neither of fleſh nor ſtone, but immateriallimmaterial, immortall in the heauens. And as Chriſt ſayes, that in his Fathers Houſe there …

    Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … these properties, that a man loves the brethren, for how canst thou love an immateriallimmaterial holinesse in God, which is stampt upon the creature like thy selfe, so likewise …
    With rule
    … these properties, that a man loves the brethren, for how canst thou love an immateriallimmaterial holinesse in God, which is stampt upon the creature like thy selfe, so likewise …

    John Preston · The Deformed Form · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

  • Printed
    Another reason of Aristotle in the same place, is the difference betweene Materiall and ImmateriallImmaterial powers. For (saith he) all bodily cognoscitive faculties doe suffer offence and dammage from …
    With rule
    Another reason of Aristotle in the same place, is the difference betweene Materiall and ImmateriallImmaterial powers. For (saith he) all bodily cognoscitive faculties doe suffer offence and dammage from …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 404 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Divinity A47629

  • Printed
    … are no qualities nor any limitation of essence. Hee is a Spirituall, Simple, and ImmateriallImmaterial essence. His essence is substantiall, an essence which hath a being in it selfe …
    With rule
    … are no qualities nor any limitation of essence. Hee is a Spirituall, Simple, and ImmateriallImmaterial essence. His essence is substantiall, an essence which hath a being in it selfe …

    Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … imperfect thing as growth or sense, for he is a spirituall, a Simple and ImmateriallImmaterial essence; but his life is to be understood by the similitude of the life …
    With rule
    … imperfect thing as growth or sense, for he is a spirituall, a Simple and ImmateriallImmaterial essence; but his life is to be understood by the similitude of the life …

    Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and this cannot be found in God, who is not a body, but an ImmateriallImmaterial essence.
    With rule
    … and this cannot be found in God, who is not a body, but an ImmateriallImmaterial essence.

    Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 48 · Open in the reader

The Rule of Faith A69028

  • Printed
    … ſo pure as no ſenſes can diſcerne them: for though God onely be ſimply foreign, ImmateriallImmaterial, yet Angels are ImmateriallImmaterial in reſpect of any Phyſicall compoſition, for they conſiſt not …
    With rule
    … ſo pure as no ſenſes can diſcerne them: for though God onely be ſimply foreign, ImmateriallImmaterial, yet Angels are ImmateriallImmaterial in reſpect of any Phyſicall compoſition, for they conſiſt not …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſenſes can diſcerne them: for though God onely be ſimply foreign, ImmateriallImmaterial, yet Angels are ImmateriallImmaterial in reſpect of any Phyſicall compoſition, for they conſiſt not of matter and forme …
    With rule
    … ſenſes can diſcerne them: for though God onely be ſimply foreign, ImmateriallImmaterial, yet Angels are ImmateriallImmaterial in reſpect of any Phyſicall compoſition, for they conſiſt not of matter and forme …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … diſcerne things by reaſoning and inward diſcourſe, ſeeing things by a light that is ImmateriallImmaterial, and with great variety contemplating of things that the ſenſes cannot reach to, and …
    With rule
    … diſcerne things by reaſoning and inward diſcourſe, ſeeing things by a light that is ImmateriallImmaterial, and with great variety contemplating of things that the ſenſes cannot reach to, and …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 197 · Open in the reader