Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31749 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

distresdistress

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 101 times in 64 works
Consistency: 97.1% (101 of 104)
Reach if approved: ~109 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 104 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (101 changes in 64 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 101)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… banded togeather in league: though they would conſpyre a confederacie, cannot help this our diſtresdistress of a troubled or vnquyet mynde. And yet this one comfort of a quyet …
With rule
… banded togeather in league: though they would conſpyre a confederacie, cannot help this our diſtresdistress of a troubled or vnquyet mynde. And yet this one comfort of a quyet …
Richard Greenham · Sermon for the Reformation of our Sinful and Wicked Lives · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. Spirituall diſtresdistress. 88.
With rule
1. Spirituall diſtresdistress. 88.
John Wall · None but Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… then their thankſgiuing. If trouble of minde or body, if any inward or outward diſtresdistress ſeaſe vpon men, if they feare any ſpirituall or temporall danger hanging ouer their …
With rule
… then their thankſgiuing. If trouble of minde or body, if any inward or outward diſtresdistress ſeaſe vpon men, if they feare any ſpirituall or temporall danger hanging ouer their …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 415 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Or was it any other God then this, to whom Ionah prayed in his diſtresdistress when he ſaith he prayed to the Lord his God &c. Or did he …
With rule
… Or was it any other God then this, to whom Ionah prayed in his diſtresdistress when he ſaith he prayed to the Lord his God &c. Or did he …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the highe powers, th…k that crosse to be layde vpon the… for thy distresdistress, amēd thy life, humbly lamēt thy cause to God which will not leaue thee …
With rule
… the highe powers, th…k that crosse to be layde vpon the… for thy distresdistress, amēd thy life, humbly lamēt thy cause to God which will not leaue thee …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… to do the like? Or what made the heathen in any dangerous or sodaine distresdistress to lift vp their eies or hands to heauen, mightily to feare and to …
With rule
… to do the like? Or what made the heathen in any dangerous or sodaine distresdistress to lift vp their eies or hands to heauen, mightily to feare and to …
Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader
Printed
… publik: and that they ceas not to be ſo euen then, when, for the diſtresdistress of perſecution, the church is driuē to hould her aſſembly in a priuate hows …
With rule
… publik: and that they ceas not to be ſo euen then, when, for the diſtresdistress of perſecution, the church is driuē to hould her aſſembly in a priuate hows …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… War to joyne with him againſt the Rochellers and them of the Religion to diſtresdistress them by Sea, as the Count of Soiſſons did by Land (for which the …
With rule
… War to joyne with him againſt the Rochellers and them of the Religion to diſtresdistress them by Sea, as the Count of Soiſſons did by Land (for which the …
Joseph Hill · The Interest of These United Provinces · 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.