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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6273 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

devilldevil

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
11,476 times in 1,317 works
Consistency
100% (11,476 of 11,476)
Reach if approved
~12,060 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: devil
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
11,478 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11,476 changes in 1,317 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11,476)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Yea, but many others as well as Witches, ſell their ſoules to the DevillDevil; and thoſe, ſuch as never had any ſuch dealing with him, as they have …
    With rule
    Yea, but many others as well as Witches, ſell their ſoules to the DevillDevil; and thoſe, ſuch as never had any ſuch dealing with him, as they have …

    Thomas Gataker · Saint Stephens Last Will and Testament · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thinke to be quiet, ſecure and ſafe, as the Church in this world. The DevillDevil himſelfe as a roaring lyon walketh about ſeeking whom he may devoure, 1 Pet. 5. 8. And …
    With rule
    … thinke to be quiet, ſecure and ſafe, as the Church in this world. The DevillDevil himſelfe as a roaring lyon walketh about ſeeking whom he may devoure, 1 Pet. 5. 8. And …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 192 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … full of Bookes, set foorth vnder the false Title of excellent Mens Names. The DevillDevil having begun this Practise, even in the Apostles owne tymes, when the Mysterie of …
    With rule
    … full of Bookes, set foorth vnder the false Title of excellent Mens Names. The DevillDevil having begun this Practise, even in the Apostles owne tymes, when the Mysterie of …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … or sorrow for sinne to come neare thy heart, but hatest sorrow as the DevillDevil, and abandonest it from thee with all thy might, doe what thou canst sooner …
    With rule
    … or sorrow for sinne to come neare thy heart, but hatest sorrow as the DevillDevil, and abandonest it from thee with all thy might, doe what thou canst sooner …

    Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thoſe reproofes, thoſe inſtructions, thoſe admonitions which I have had, would have done the DevillDevil himſelfe good. But what ſhall I think that am not fitted and prepared for …
    With rule
    … thoſe reproofes, thoſe inſtructions, thoſe admonitions which I have had, would have done the DevillDevil himſelfe good. But what ſhall I think that am not fitted and prepared for …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … hath said so oft, I will seeke it once againe; as now the drunken devilldevil cannot be cast out of him: the matter were lesse if no body would …
    With rule
    … hath said so oft, I will seeke it once againe; as now the drunken devilldevil cannot be cast out of him: the matter were lesse if no body would …

    John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they doe it for the children to be baptized; that they will forsake the DevillDevil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and are …
    With rule
    … they doe it for the children to be baptized; that they will forsake the DevillDevil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and are …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and increase: perhaps somewhat changed, but for the worse: one sinne for another: one DevillDevil cast out, and seaven other entred: dead were they in nature, dead in sinnes …
    With rule
    … and increase: perhaps somewhat changed, but for the worse: one sinne for another: one DevillDevil cast out, and seaven other entred: dead were they in nature, dead in sinnes …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 136 · 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.