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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6291 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diocessediocese

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
1,438 times in 349 works
Consistency
99.9% (1,438 of 1,439)
Reach if approved
~1,512 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: diocese
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,439 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,438 changes in 349 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,438)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … conjoyning of many Congregations under one mans government, commonly called the Biſhop of the DioceſſeDiocese. That this is plainly divers from; nay, contrary to the conſtitutions of the Church …
    With rule
    … conjoyning of many Congregations under one mans government, commonly called the Biſhop of the DioceſſeDiocese. That this is plainly divers from; nay, contrary to the conſtitutions of the Church …

    Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … see now it is no maruaile though Paul be put to silence within the diocessediocese of London / for I perceiue there is an olde grudg betweene my Lord and …
    With rule
    … see now it is no maruaile though Paul be put to silence within the diocessediocese of London / for I perceiue there is an olde grudg betweene my Lord and …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to a learned Arch-deacon, to ſpeake for him to the Biſhop of the dioceſſediocese, that he might be releaſed and tolerated: alleadging for himſelfe that their godly wiſdome …
    With rule
    … to a learned Arch-deacon, to ſpeake for him to the Biſhop of the dioceſſediocese, that he might be releaſed and tolerated: alleadging for himſelfe that their godly wiſdome …

    Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Eccleſiaſticall authoritie ſpeaking. Laſtly, wee haue bookes of Articles from our Ordinaries, in euery DioceſſeDiocese, for enquirie into this; and the Church wardens are vrged vpon their ſole…ne …
    With rule
    … Eccleſiaſticall authoritie ſpeaking. Laſtly, wee haue bookes of Articles from our Ordinaries, in euery DioceſſeDiocese, for enquirie into this; and the Church wardens are vrged vpon their ſole…ne …

    Richard Bernard · Two Twins · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … brought in against Iba the Bishop of Edessa, that in some Church in his DiocesseDiocese, at the Commemoration of the holy Martyrs, there was but a little wine, and …
    With rule
    … brought in against Iba the Bishop of Edessa, that in some Church in his DiocesseDiocese, at the Commemoration of the holy Martyrs, there was but a little wine, and …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in Wisbich castell, to direct their letters to the Bishoppe of Elye (in whose diocessediocese and castle the prisoners were kept) requiring him to prouide, that they might haue …
    With rule
    … in Wisbich castell, to direct their letters to the Bishoppe of Elye (in whose diocessediocese and castle the prisoners were kept) requiring him to prouide, that they might haue …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … sawcie; exalting his vniuersal Lordship, and hedging in the whole Christian world for his DiocesseDiocese. Stretching his arme to heauen, in rubricking what Saints he lift: to hell, in …
    With rule
    … sawcie; exalting his vniuersal Lordship, and hedging in the whole Christian world for his DiocesseDiocese. Stretching his arme to heauen, in rubricking what Saints he lift: to hell, in …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … what hath he to do with mee? to play the Biſhop in another mans DioceſſeDiocese, and to row in another mans Boat, &c.
    With rule
    … what hath he to do with mee? to play the Biſhop in another mans DioceſſeDiocese, and to row in another mans Boat, &c.

    Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 4 · 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.

The True and Absolute Bishop A36980

  • Printed
    … doth appeare to bee, which are out of CHRISTS Fold, Or, out of CHRISTS DIOCESSEDIOCESE.
    With rule
    … doth appeare to bee, which are out of CHRISTS Fold, Or, out of CHRISTS DIOCESSEDIOCESE.

    Nicholas Darton · The True and Absolute Bishop · Open in the reader