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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31696 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abhorrsabhors

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
114 times in 86 works
Consistency
97.4% (114 of 117)
Reach if approved
~123 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abhors
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
117 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (114 changes in 86 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 114)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … onely vain, or offensive, or odious, but 'tis abominable unto God; he loaths and abhorrsabhors it: but the prayer of the upright is his delight; not onely accepts it …
    With rule
    … onely vain, or offensive, or odious, but 'tis abominable unto God; he loaths and abhorrsabhors it: but the prayer of the upright is his delight; not onely accepts it …

    Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 339 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … so, when this is the sole or principal restraint from sin: when a man abhorrsabhors not sin, because of the intrinsick …ilth, but only because of the troublesome consequents …
    With rule
    … so, when this is the sole or principal restraint from sin: when a man abhorrsabhors not sin, because of the intrinsick …ilth, but only because of the troublesome consequents …

    John Flavel · Divine Conduct · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … are no better than howling of dogs, or lowing of Oxen, yea the Lord abhorrsabhors them. O what poor incouragements canſt thou have, ſeeing the Lord never tallies down …
    With rule
    … are no better than howling of dogs, or lowing of Oxen, yea the Lord abhorrsabhors them. O what poor incouragements canſt thou have, ſeeing the Lord never tallies down …

    William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … chance or importunity tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhorrsabhors the relish ever after. To the Scribes and Pharises, woe was denounc'd by our …
    With rule
    … chance or importunity tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhorrsabhors the relish ever after. To the Scribes and Pharises, woe was denounc'd by our …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … else the Merit and Travel of Christ must be lost, which the preciousness thereof abhorrsabhors: And if Christ did not merit it for all, then neither did he (if …
    With rule
    … else the Merit and Travel of Christ must be lost, which the preciousness thereof abhorrsabhors: And if Christ did not merit it for all, then neither did he (if …

    Edward Polhill · The Divine Will Considered in its Eternal Decrees and Holy Execution · p. 333 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … must all be brought forth before the judgement seat of Christ who hates and abhorrsabhors them? If men can so hardly endure to have the deformity of their vices …
    With rule
    … must all be brought forth before the judgement seat of Christ who hates and abhorrsabhors them? If men can so hardly endure to have the deformity of their vices …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … his diſpiſing of Government, and rayling of dignities, a Sin which God ſo much abhorrsabhors, 2 Pet. 2. Iude and which belongs to thoſe in authority to redreſſe, and whom it …
    With rule
    … his diſpiſing of Government, and rayling of dignities, a Sin which God ſo much abhorrsabhors, 2 Pet. 2. Iude and which belongs to thoſe in authority to redreſſe, and whom it …

    John Bastwick · Defense Against John Lilburne · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … glory of the holines of God, who is an infinite, pure, glorious Spirit. God abhorrsabhors not any other filthineſſe, but the filth of ſpirits. The Devills are abhorred of …
    With rule
    … glory of the holines of God, who is an infinite, pure, glorious Spirit. God abhorrsabhors not any other filthineſſe, but the filth of ſpirits. The Devills are abhorred of …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit · p. 108 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.