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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31746 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bignesbigness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
100 times in 51 works
Consistency
99.0% (100 of 101)
Reach if approved
~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bigness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 51 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … measure all the parts of the earth, and take the height, and demonstrate the bignesbigness of all the starres of heauen; if they haue no measure in their passions …
    With rule
    … measure all the parts of the earth, and take the height, and demonstrate the bignesbigness of all the starres of heauen; if they haue no measure in their passions …

    John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of the fruit of her body, vntill it come to the byrth, for the bignesbigness of the woombe may proceede of ſome Tympany. Secondlye, in aſmuch as the manner …
    With rule
    … of the fruit of her body, vntill it come to the byrth, for the bignesbigness of the woombe may proceede of ſome Tympany. Secondlye, in aſmuch as the manner …

    John Penry · Exhortation Unto Governors and People in Wales · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … yet not any one limbe or part of the body hath attained its ful bignesbigness, neither the whole body came to its ſtature, ful bulk and taleneſſe, vnto which …
    With rule
    … yet not any one limbe or part of the body hath attained its ful bignesbigness, neither the whole body came to its ſtature, ful bulk and taleneſſe, vnto which …

    Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 444 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Niger, Nilus, Zaire, and others, haue store of Crocodiles, whereof some are of incredible bignesbigness and greedy denourers. Mount Atlas hath plenty of Dragons, grosse of bodie, flow of …
    With rule
    … Niger, Nilus, Zaire, and others, haue store of Crocodiles, whereof some are of incredible bignesbigness and greedy denourers. Mount Atlas hath plenty of Dragons, grosse of bodie, flow of …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 466 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſo long as it remaineth feeble and infant-like; adde vnto it growth and bignesbigness, and it will be out of queſtion. No man can be aſſured of his …
    With rule
    … ſo long as it remaineth feeble and infant-like; adde vnto it growth and bignesbigness, and it will be out of queſtion. No man can be aſſured of his …

    William Whately · The New Birth · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Goliah of Geth, a manne of sixe cubites high. This souldiour, when through the bignesbigness and stature of his body, and also with greate bragges, & terrible threatenynges, he had …
    With rule
    … Goliah of Geth, a manne of sixe cubites high. This souldiour, when through the bignesbigness and stature of his body, and also with greate bragges, & terrible threatenynges, he had …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they saw a nature of a certayn bignesse, not a nature which had no bignesbigness. I heard furthermore the lord say, You shall see the sonne of man come …
    With rule
    … they saw a nature of a certayn bignesse, not a nature which had no bignesbigness. I heard furthermore the lord say, You shall see the sonne of man come …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and his book, till he was forced. When he was grown up to some bignesbigness, his parents sent him abroad into other countries with slender provision, that by singing …
    With rule
    … and his book, till he was forced. When he was grown up to some bignesbigness, his parents sent him abroad into other countries with slender provision, that by singing …

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 599 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.