Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6262 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

formallformal

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 3,605 times in 1,034 works
Consistency: 99.8% (3,605 of 3,610)
Reach if approved: ~3,795 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: formal
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,612 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,605 changes in 1,034 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,605)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
You shall moreover from hence vnderstand, how Christianitic consists not in formallformal, and seeming puritie (vnder which who knowes not notorious villanie to maske?) but in …
With rule
You shall moreover from hence vnderstand, how Christianitic consists not in formallformal, and seeming puritie (vnder which who knowes not notorious villanie to maske?) but in …
Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… Relator, who hath heere added much more then was said: and in particular, those formallformal words which he reporteth Master Fisher to haue said, viz. A proofe à posteriori …
With rule
… Relator, who hath heere added much more then was said: and in particular, those formallformal words which he reporteth Master Fisher to haue said, viz. A proofe à posteriori …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of presbyteries wee have these words. It is thought impossible to attaine to any formallformal order likely to have continuance to the posteritie over our whole realme, while the …
With rule
… of presbyteries wee have these words. It is thought impossible to attaine to any formallformal order likely to have continuance to the posteritie over our whole realme, while the …
David Calderwood · An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning · Open in the reader
Printed
… schoole of flatterie, and brought the detestable excusing of most horrible sinnes, vnto a formallformal arte. It is long sith the Poete fayned that Gnato would haue bene the …
With rule
… schoole of flatterie, and brought the detestable excusing of most horrible sinnes, vnto a formallformal arte. It is long sith the Poete fayned that Gnato would haue bene the …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not only rip up the hypocrisy of their hearts, Vers. 15. but also gave a formallformal answer to their praetended reason, by shewing them how the Law is by him …
With rule
… not only rip up the hypocrisy of their hearts, Vers. 15. but also gave a formallformal answer to their praetended reason, by shewing them how the Law is by him …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Gods word, to fauour it whilest others doe fauour it, but when all formallformal liking of it beginneth to decay, then in truth and constancie to professe it …
With rule
… of Gods word, to fauour it whilest others doe fauour it, but when all formallformal liking of it beginneth to decay, then in truth and constancie to professe it …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 456 · Open in the reader
Printed
The next the other, makynge them very formallformal.
With rule
The next the other, makynge them very formallformal.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… argument, that that which is then done, is but a formallformal and extorted beneuolence. FormallFormal; men therein will doe as others doe: Extorted; becauſe it is done moſt commonly …
With rule
… argument, that that which is then done, is but a formallformal and extorted beneuolence. FormallFormal; men therein will doe as others doe: Extorted; becauſe it is done moſt commonly …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 71 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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.

The Deformed Form A09956

Printed
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION. OR, The description of a true and false christian, either excusing, or accusing …
With rule
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION. OR, The description of a true and false christian, either excusing, or accusing …
John Preston · The Deformed Form · Open in the reader

Sunbeams of Gospel Light A55754

Printed
TWO TREATISES, VIZ. THE CHRISTIAN FREEDOME, AND THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION.
With rule
TWO TREATISES, VIZ. THE CHRISTIAN FREEDOME, AND THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION.
John Preston · Sunbeams of Gospel Light · Open in the reader
Printed
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION: OR, The description of a true and false Christian, either excusing, or accusing …
With rule
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION: OR, The description of a true and false Christian, either excusing, or accusing …
John Preston · Sunbeams of Gospel Light · Open in the reader
Printed
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION.
With rule
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALLFORMAL PROFESSION.
John Preston · Sunbeams of Gospel Light · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent B15350

Printed
CHAP. IV. Of the FORMALLFORMAL Cauſe of Things indifferent.
With rule
CHAP. IV. Of the FORMALLFORMAL Cauſe of Things indifferent.
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 11 · Open in the reader