Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6241 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melanchollymelancholy

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 855 times in 398 works
Consistency: 99.8% (855 of 856)
Reach if approved: ~899 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: melancholy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 856 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (855 changes in 398 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 855)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… judgement now, but come (say they) cast care away, fling away and casheer those melanchollymelancholy imaginations: we have many failings, let us not therefore be pondering of them, and …
With rule
… judgement now, but come (say they) cast care away, fling away and casheer those melanchollymelancholy imaginations: we have many failings, let us not therefore be pondering of them, and …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this other sorrow ariseth of a mans sinnes for which his conscience accuseth him. MelanchollyMelancholy may be cured by phi…e this sorow … not be cured by any thing …
With rule
… this other sorrow ariseth of a mans sinnes for which his conscience accuseth him. MelanchollyMelancholy may be cured by phi…e this sorow … not be cured by any thing …
William Perkins · Conscience · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is thy fault and neglect of this exercise, if thou suffer either thy own melanchollymelancholy humor, or Satan to interrupt thy mirth and spirituall alacritie, and to detaine thee …
With rule
… is thy fault and neglect of this exercise, if thou suffer either thy own melanchollymelancholy humor, or Satan to interrupt thy mirth and spirituall alacritie, and to detaine thee …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in thy company: ſo may the religious, we are never ſo ſolitary, never ſo melanchollymelancholy; as when in ſociety with you that are vicious. This was David's caſe, which …
With rule
… in thy company: ſo may the religious, we are never ſo ſolitary, never ſo melanchollymelancholy; as when in ſociety with you that are vicious. This was David's caſe, which …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 813 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as in Sauls caſe, then why not with hearbs, ſaith Gulielmus Pariſienſis? Anſw. The melanchollymelancholy humour being the diuels ſeat, muſicke had force to aſſwage the force of the …
With rule
… as in Sauls caſe, then why not with hearbs, ſaith Gulielmus Pariſienſis? Anſw. The melanchollymelancholy humour being the diuels ſeat, muſicke had force to aſſwage the force of the …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises 2 · p. 347 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Judgement, Scripture Reclaim, is Censuring and Rash Iudgment of Superiours. Godly sorrw must be melanchollymelancholy sighing; attending upon Gods Word Preached, shall be running from Sermon to Sermon: And …
With rule
… Judgement, Scripture Reclaim, is Censuring and Rash Iudgment of Superiours. Godly sorrw must be melanchollymelancholy sighing; attending upon Gods Word Preached, shall be running from Sermon to Sermon: And …
Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
10. A galled perſon that ſmarteth if the wind blow on him: And a melanchollymelancholy man that thinketh that all that you think and ſay is againſt him, and …
With rule
10. A galled perſon that ſmarteth if the wind blow on him: And a melanchollymelancholy man that thinketh that all that you think and ſay is againſt him, and …
Richard Baxter · Answer to Stillingfleets Charge of Separation · Open in the reader
Printed
… knauish Parasite no obscene iest, that may giue him delight? Alas! Hell is too melanchollymelancholy a place for mirth. All the Musicke is round-ecchoing groanes: all the water …
With rule
… knauish Parasite no obscene iest, that may giue him delight? Alas! Hell is too melanchollymelancholy a place for mirth. All the Musicke is round-ecchoing groanes: all the water …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 146 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Trouble of the Mind and the Disease of Melancholy A57573

Printed
… I treat in the following Book, and I heartily pray you never may: For MELANCHOLLYMELANCHOLY is the worſt of all Diſtempers; and thoſe ſinking and guilty Fears which it …
With rule
… I treat in the following Book, and I heartily pray you never may: For MELANCHOLLYMELANCHOLY is the worſt of all Diſtempers; and thoſe ſinking and guilty Fears which it …
Timothy Rogers · Trouble of the Mind and the Disease of Melancholy · Open in the reader