Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31679 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deferrdefer

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 116 times in 84 works
Consistency: 98.3% (116 of 118)
Reach if approved: ~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: defer
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (116 changes in 84 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 116)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… out of hazard, when we think of Heaven seriously while we are Young. Most deferrdefer this main care out of hope of long Life: The Young as well as …
With rule
… out of hazard, when we think of Heaven seriously while we are Young. Most deferrdefer this main care out of hope of long Life: The Young as well as …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 4 · p. 287 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we a much better people than I can ſuppoſe we are, God might juſtly deferrdefer the accompliſhment of ſuch hopes; and yet be as good as his word here …
With rule
… we a much better people than I can ſuppoſe we are, God might juſtly deferrdefer the accompliſhment of ſuch hopes; and yet be as good as his word here …
Simon Patrick · Sermon on 8 April 1692 · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
Others deferrdefer Morning Prayer till it be almoſt Noon. They will adventure into all worldly imployments …
With rule
Others deferrdefer Morning Prayer till it be almoſt Noon. They will adventure into all worldly imployments …
Lewis Stuckley · A Gospel Glass · p. 274 · Open in the reader
Printed
… both, viz. of Time; But that pertains to the Third point, to which I deferrdefer it.
With rule
… both, viz. of Time; But that pertains to the Third point, to which I deferrdefer it.
Thomas Beverley · The Prophetical History of the Reformation · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo long time & opportunity to teach and learne in, could finde out none, but deferrdefer it vn…ll the very inſtant they were to be practiſed.
With rule
… ſo long time & opportunity to teach and learne in, could finde out none, but deferrdefer it vn…ll the very inſtant they were to be practiſed.
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo, as may beſt ſerve the Purpoſes of the Hiſtory: And yet we cannot deferrdefer ſo little to the Majeſty of Divine Prophecy, as is even challengeable by Humane …
With rule
… ſo, as may beſt ſerve the Purpoſes of the Hiſtory: And yet we cannot deferrdefer ſo little to the Majeſty of Divine Prophecy, as is even challengeable by Humane …
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is of God, or that Destruction which is of your selves. Who therefore would deferrdefer the Settlement of the Affairs of his Soul, that lives so uncertainly in the …
With rule
… is of God, or that Destruction which is of your selves. Who therefore would deferrdefer the Settlement of the Affairs of his Soul, that lives so uncertainly in the …
Timothy Cruso · Discourses Upon the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
D. 5. Gods patience toward sinnes of enemies, may deferrdefer' mercies to his friends.
With rule
D. 5. Gods patience toward sinnes of enemies, may deferrdefer' mercies to his friends.
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 187 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.