Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31756 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cudgellcudgel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 110 times in 76 works
Consistency: 88.0% (110 of 125)
Reach if approved: ~131 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cudgel
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 125 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (110 changes in 76 works, 88.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 110)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… France hath fallen upon us, and ſhall we not then thinke that he will cudgellcudgel us into ſuch conditions? It is true indeed, if England and we come to …
With rule
… France hath fallen upon us, and ſhall we not then thinke that he will cudgellcudgel us into ſuch conditions? It is true indeed, if England and we come to …
Joseph Hill · The Interest of These United Provinces · Open in the reader
Printed
… answer is either silence or laughter; or if neither of these will do, a cudgellcudgel. The best answer to words of scorn and petulancy, saith learned Hooker, is Isaacs …
With rule
… answer is either silence or laughter; or if neither of these will do, a cudgellcudgel. The best answer to words of scorn and petulancy, saith learned Hooker, is Isaacs …
Richard Younge · A Christian Library · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… become two bands. Do you not ſeeme to ſee the good Man holding his cudgellcudgel in his hand, and humbly looking downe upon it, whileſt hee ſpeaks to this …
With rule
… become two bands. Do you not ſeeme to ſee the good Man holding his cudgellcudgel in his hand, and humbly looking downe upon it, whileſt hee ſpeaks to this …
John Bond · Grapes Among Thorns · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Leaſt with his cudgellcudgel honeſt Nebulo
With rule
Leaſt with his cudgellcudgel honeſt Nebulo
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader
Printed
… he hath behaued himselfe verye scholerlike. His stile is as smooth as a crabtree cudgellcudgel. The lieader cannot chuse but haue as great delight therein / as a Iacke an …
With rule
… he hath behaued himselfe verye scholerlike. His stile is as smooth as a crabtree cudgellcudgel. The lieader cannot chuse but haue as great delight therein / as a Iacke an …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet there are many young men which cudgellcudgel their wits, and beate their braines, and spend all their time in the loue …
With rule
Yet there are many young men which cudgellcudgel their wits, and beate their braines, and spend all their time in the loue …
Joseph Swetnam · The Arraignment of Lewd Women · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… outrunne the punishments of God: as when a dogge feeleth a stripe with a cudgellcudgel, hee shaketh his …ares; and would faine scape, but the blowe doubleth, and he …
With rule
… outrunne the punishments of God: as when a dogge feeleth a stripe with a cudgellcudgel, hee shaketh his …ares; and would faine scape, but the blowe doubleth, and he …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1037 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with his sword with a base vnderling, hauing abused him, but will take a cudgellcudgel and thwacke him with it: So Is. 9.15. The false Prophet is as the tayle.
With rule
… with his sword with a base vnderling, hauing abused him, but will take a cudgellcudgel and thwacke him with it: So Is. 9.15. The false Prophet is as the tayle.
Daniel Dyke · Six Evangelical Histories of Water Turned into Wine · p. 48 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense A13248

Printed
… hilted Dagger: likewiſe you may tie a point at the But-end of the CudgellCudgel, to put in thy finger that thy CudgellCudgel ſlippe not out of thy hand …
With rule
… hilted Dagger: likewiſe you may tie a point at the But-end of the CudgellCudgel, to put in thy finger that thy CudgellCudgel ſlippe not out of thy hand …
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at the But-end of the CudgellCudgel, to put in thy finger that thy CudgellCudgel ſlippe not out of thy hand: this weapon I haue made good proofe of …
With rule
… at the But-end of the CudgellCudgel, to put in thy finger that thy CudgellCudgel ſlippe not out of thy hand: this weapon I haue made good proofe of …
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 185 · Open in the reader

The Victory of Patience A15848

Printed
… answer is either silence, or laughter; or if neither of these will do, a CudgellCudgel. The best answer to words of scorne and petulancy, saith learned Hooker, is Isaac's …
With rule
… answer is either silence, or laughter; or if neither of these will do, a CudgellCudgel. The best answer to words of scorne and petulancy, saith learned Hooker, is Isaac's …
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
The CudgellCudgel not of use when the beast but only barkes,
With rule
The CudgellCudgel not of use when the beast but only barkes,
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

Printed
… listeth. And I must not prouoke him too win mee with strokes of the CudgellCudgel: for in so dooyng God would bee discontented both with him and mee. So …
With rule
… listeth. And I must not prouoke him too win mee with strokes of the CudgellCudgel: for in so dooyng God would bee discontented both with him and mee. So …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 282 · Open in the reader

A Counterpoison A67746

Printed
… answer is either silence, or laughter; or if neither of these will doe, a CudgellCudgel. The best answer to words of scorne and petulancy, saith learned Hooker, is Isaac's …
With rule
… answer is either silence, or laughter; or if neither of these will doe, a CudgellCudgel. The best answer to words of scorne and petulancy, saith learned Hooker, is Isaac's …
Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 155 · Open in the reader