Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6264 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

woontwont

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 555 times in 134 works
Consistency: 100% (555 of 555)
Reach if approved: ~583 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wont
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 555 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (555 changes in 134 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 555)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the strict account that euery man is to giue for himselfe. The Iewes were woontwont to …east at the threatnings of God, denounced by the Prophets, and to call …
With rule
… the strict account that euery man is to giue for himselfe. The Iewes were woontwont to …east at the threatnings of God, denounced by the Prophets, and to call …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 529 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and better experienced in matters of this kinde, doeth note that mens maners are woontwont to be corrupted and made worse by playes which haue a bawde, or boore …
With rule
… and better experienced in matters of this kinde, doeth note that mens maners are woontwont to be corrupted and made worse by playes which haue a bawde, or boore …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my moneths, or my yeares, but he ſpeakes of dayes: ſo the Scripture is woontwont to number our life by dayes, and houres, and minutes, to ſhewe vs that …
With rule
… my moneths, or my yeares, but he ſpeakes of dayes: ſo the Scripture is woontwont to number our life by dayes, and houres, and minutes, to ſhewe vs that …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 558 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which were condemned by Steven Bishop of Paris. Yet of those Articles it was woontwont to be sayde, non transcendunt Alpes, they doe not climbe over the Alpes; and …
With rule
… which were condemned by Steven Bishop of Paris. Yet of those Articles it was woontwont to be sayde, non transcendunt Alpes, they doe not climbe over the Alpes; and …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Metz in Lorain, for breaking downe the Images, which they were (at certaine times woontwont to worſhip in the ſuburbes of y^e citie: for which fact he was cōdemned …
With rule
… Metz in Lorain, for breaking downe the Images, which they were (at certaine times woontwont to worſhip in the ſuburbes of y^e citie: for which fact he was cōdemned …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 432 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Then we looke rather he should doe as the rest of his comperes are woontwont to doe, that is, liue of the stocke, and waste of the stoare, till …
With rule
… Then we looke rather he should doe as the rest of his comperes are woontwont to doe, that is, liue of the stocke, and waste of the stoare, till …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being ashamed of her, should be ſaid to shame her, as ſtumpets are uſually woontwont to doe.]
With rule
… being ashamed of her, should be ſaid to shame her, as ſtumpets are uſually woontwont to doe.]
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet. The ſtile and the phraſe is very like her huſbands / y^t was ſomtimes woontwont to write vnto doctor Day of Welles. You ſee I can do it in …
With rule
… yet. The ſtile and the phraſe is very like her huſbands / y^t was ſomtimes woontwont to write vnto doctor Day of Welles. You ſee I can do it in …
Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.