Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31714 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

merilymerrily

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 107 times in 87 works
Consistency: 100% (107 of 107)
Reach if approved: ~112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: merrily
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 107 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (107 changes in 87 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 107)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be paſſing the time with my friends at their curteous inuitements, it goeth on merilymerrily, deadneſſe and vncomfortablenes I feele them not for the time. Fie, ſhall I haue …
With rule
… be paſſing the time with my friends at their curteous inuitements, it goeth on merilymerrily, deadneſſe and vncomfortablenes I feele them not for the time. Fie, ſhall I haue …
Paul Baynes · A Letter Instructing to Repentance Love and New Obedience · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
A freind of myne in the university was wont to tell me merilymerrily, and wittily, that surely there was something in this mony, more, and better, then …
With rule
A freind of myne in the university was wont to tell me merilymerrily, and wittily, that surely there was something in this mony, more, and better, then …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… also goe to heauen by a deputie, but not in his owne person; as merilymerrily and wittily, Iodocus a famous French preacher, witnessed by Espenceus. From all which I …
With rule
… also goe to heauen by a deputie, but not in his owne person; as merilymerrily and wittily, Iodocus a famous French preacher, witnessed by Espenceus. From all which I …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 728 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cunnyng, and I thynke euen thei that can best moue laughter, would rather laugh merilymerrily whē suche a question is put furthe, then geue answere earnestly, what, and how …
With rule
… cunnyng, and I thynke euen thei that can best moue laughter, would rather laugh merilymerrily whē suche a question is put furthe, then geue answere earnestly, what, and how …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… in time of his Majesties Progresse into Scotland, when he was more then ordinarily merilymerrily disposed. They that were the compilers of it (for we must not thinke the …
With rule
… in time of his Majesties Progresse into Scotland, when he was more then ordinarily merilymerrily disposed. They that were the compilers of it (for we must not thinke the …
Henry Burton · For God and the King · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this, if there be a faire Lamp in the Church, if the Organes pipe merilymerrily, if there be ſtore of gay copes and veſtimentes, if the puppets bee well …
With rule
… this, if there be a faire Lamp in the Church, if the Organes pipe merilymerrily, if there be ſtore of gay copes and veſtimentes, if the puppets bee well …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader
Printed
… good creatures: the wine delights their eye, and pleaseth their taste, and goeth downe merilymerrily: but in the end it will bite like a Serpent, and hurt like a …
With rule
… good creatures: the wine delights their eye, and pleaseth their taste, and goeth downe merilymerrily: but in the end it will bite like a Serpent, and hurt like a …
John Dod · Four Godly and Fruitful Sermons · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a game at the cardes or bowles, or to hunt and to ſit & talk merilymerrily together? can men ſpare ſome time for theſe, and not to ſeeke God, and …
With rule
… a game at the cardes or bowles, or to hunt and to ſit & talk merilymerrily together? can men ſpare ſome time for theſe, and not to ſeeke God, and …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.