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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31718 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

equivocallequivocal

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
116 times in 65 works
Consistency
91.3% (116 of 127)
Reach if approved
~134 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: equivocal
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
128 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 65 works, 91.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 116)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    3. The third property in confession is, that it must be plain, & not equivocallequivocal; I speak not of Logicall Equivocation, which is when a word hath two or …
    With rule
    3. The third property in confession is, that it must be plain, & not equivocallequivocal; I speak not of Logicall Equivocation, which is when a word hath two or …

    Christopher Blackwood · Concerning Denial of Christ · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a Magiſtrate but verbo te…us; a ſtyle without truth; a barely pretended, nominal, equivocallequivocal authority; and therefore no reall denomination.
    With rule
    … a Magiſtrate but verbo te…us; a ſtyle without truth; a barely pretended, nominal, equivocallequivocal authority; and therefore no reall denomination.

    Edward Gee · The Divine Right and Original of the Civil Magistrate · p. 202 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … An Ordination comming by ſucceſſion from the Authority of the Pope.] the expreſſion is equivocallequivocal. Whether doth he meane, ſuch an Ordination as came by ſucceſſion from the Popes …
    With rule
    … An Ordination comming by ſucceſſion from the Authority of the Pope.] the expreſſion is equivocallequivocal. Whether doth he meane, ſuch an Ordination as came by ſucceſſion from the Popes …

    Richard Saunders · A Balm to Heal Religions Wounds · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … without all this adoe, the Priests absolution can make that other imperfect or rather equivocallequivocal contrition, arising from a carnall and servile feare, to be sufficient for the blotting …
    With rule
    … without all this adoe, the Priests absolution can make that other imperfect or rather equivocallequivocal contrition, arising from a carnall and servile feare, to be sufficient for the blotting …

    James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Rome, how justly and properly may they be called equivocallequivocal men? And not only equivocallequivocal in that sense, in which the Popes Legates, at your Nicene Councel were called …
    With rule
    … Rome, how justly and properly may they be called equivocallequivocal men? And not only equivocallequivocal in that sense, in which the Popes Legates, at your Nicene Councel were called …

    John Donne · Paradoxes Problems Essays Characters · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … somtime inferior, yet somtimes superior, and rationall, and spirituall life. Therefore the argument is equivocallequivocal.
    With rule
    … somtime inferior, yet somtimes superior, and rationall, and spirituall life. Therefore the argument is equivocallequivocal.

    George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Chriſt ſinneth daily, not in himſelfe, but his members. Suarez ſaith, that if an equivocallequivocal propoſition having two proper ſenſes, one Cath…lick, another hereticall be delivered abſolutely without …
    With rule
    … Chriſt ſinneth daily, not in himſelfe, but his members. Suarez ſaith, that if an equivocallequivocal propoſition having two proper ſenſes, one Cath…lick, another hereticall be delivered abſolutely without …

    Henry Jeanes · Concerning the Indifference of Human Actions · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … denied by Thomiſts, who will acquaint you with a middle kind of predication, betwixt equivocallequivocal and univocall, to wit, analogicall, according unto which they affirme thoſe attributes to be …
    With rule
    … denied by Thomiſts, who will acquaint you with a middle kind of predication, betwixt equivocallequivocal and univocall, to wit, analogicall, according unto which they affirme thoſe attributes to be …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 233 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dr Creeds Voluminous Defense of Hammons Ektenesteron A46698

  • Printed
    … the next place you tell us great news, of the difference betwixt Ʋnivocall and EquivocallEquivocal productions, a thing that is known, and obvious unto every Puiſny. But you ſpend …
    With rule
    … the next place you tell us great news, of the difference betwixt Ʋnivocall and EquivocallEquivocal productions, a thing that is known, and obvious unto every Puiſny. But you ſpend …

    Henry Jeanes · Dr Creeds Voluminous Defense of Hammons Ektenesteron · p. 45 · Open in the reader

The Riches of Gods Love A64002

  • Printed
    … will; but this Author hath no great luſt to oppoſe us here. The more EquivocallEquivocal a phraiſe is, the fitter it is to ſerve his turne, that lyes upon …
    With rule
    … will; but this Author hath no great luſt to oppoſe us here. The more EquivocallEquivocal a phraiſe is, the fitter it is to ſerve his turne, that lyes upon …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 236 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Secondly, there is a Metaphyſicall acception of Univocall, in which 'tis inadequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal, that is, partly unto EquivocallEquivocal, and partly unto Analogicall. An EquivocallEquivocal predicate only imparts …
    With rule
    Secondly, there is a Metaphyſicall acception of Univocall, in which 'tis inadequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal, that is, partly unto EquivocallEquivocal, and partly unto Analogicall. An EquivocallEquivocal predicate only imparts …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 234 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … acception of Univocall, in which 'tis inadequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal, that is, partly unto EquivocallEquivocal, and partly unto Analogicall. An EquivocallEquivocal predicate only imparts its name, and not any …
    With rule
    … acception of Univocall, in which 'tis inadequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal, that is, partly unto EquivocallEquivocal, and partly unto Analogicall. An EquivocallEquivocal predicate only imparts its name, and not any …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 234 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … inadequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal, that is, partly unto EquivocallEquivocal, and partly unto Analogicall. An EquivocallEquivocal predicate only imparts its name, and not any common ſignification thereof. An Analogicall predicate …
    With rule
    … inadequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal, that is, partly unto EquivocallEquivocal, and partly unto Analogicall. An EquivocallEquivocal predicate only imparts its name, and not any common ſignification thereof. An Analogicall predicate …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 234 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … them univocally in a Logicall acception of Univocall, as it is adequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal; that is, they are not predicated of God, and the Creature, meerely and purely …
    With rule
    … them univocally in a Logicall acception of Univocall, as it is adequately oppoſed unto EquivocallEquivocal; that is, they are not predicated of God, and the Creature, meerely and purely …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 234 · Open in the reader

The Covenant Sealed A76812

  • Printed
    EquivocallEquivocal. Men of a uiſible profeſſion, really and not equiuocally in Couenant with God Page. 128
    With rule
    EquivocallEquivocal. Men of a uiſible profeſſion, really and not equiuocally in Couenant with God Page. 128

    Thomas Blake · The Covenant Sealed · Open in the reader