Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6296 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

widdowwidow

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 1,248 times in 586 works
Consistency: 100% (1,248 of 1,248)
Reach if approved: ~1,312 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: widow
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,249 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,248 changes in 586 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,248)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… This drawes the heart from GOD; you shall finde that noted in 1 Tim. 1.6. The WiddowWidow that trusts in God prayeth day and night. Therefore when thou hast the best …
With rule
… This drawes the heart from GOD; you shall finde that noted in 1 Tim. 1.6. The WiddowWidow that trusts in God prayeth day and night. Therefore when thou hast the best …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for euermore. In ſtead that thou waſt deſolate and forſaken, and fatteſt as a widdowwidow, thou ſhalt flouriſh as in the dayes of thy youth. Nay, aboue and beyond …
With rule
… for euermore. In ſtead that thou waſt deſolate and forſaken, and fatteſt as a widdowwidow, thou ſhalt flouriſh as in the dayes of thy youth. Nay, aboue and beyond …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · Open in the reader
Printed
3. God did extraordinarily prouide for a poore widdowwidow wherewithall ſhe might pay her debt. Had it beene vnlawfull for a Creditor to …
With rule
3. God did extraordinarily prouide for a poore widdowwidow wherewithall ſhe might pay her debt. Had it beene vnlawfull for a Creditor to …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to laſt out to the end of the famine. He prouided ſtrangely for the widdowwidow of the prophet, when the cruell Creditor was come to take her ſonnes to …
With rule
… to laſt out to the end of the famine. He prouided ſtrangely for the widdowwidow of the prophet, when the cruell Creditor was come to take her ſonnes to …
Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſent, ſave unto Sarepta a City of Sidon, unto a woman which was a widdowwidow; and this was onely out of Gods free grace: he may take the meanes …
With rule
… ſent, ſave unto Sarepta a City of Sidon, unto a woman which was a widdowwidow; and this was onely out of Gods free grace: he may take the meanes …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with theues, they punish not robbers, nether any other vice, they helpe not the widdowwidow, nether yet the fatherles. They loke not to the good education of youth. As …
With rule
… with theues, they punish not robbers, nether any other vice, they helpe not the widdowwidow, nether yet the fatherles. They loke not to the good education of youth. As …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 408 · Open in the reader
Printed
THe Prophet Helias raised vp frō death vnto life the Sonne of the widdowwidow of Sarepta, which is in Sidon.
With rule
THe Prophet Helias raised vp frō death vnto life the Sonne of the widdowwidow of Sarepta, which is in Sidon.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… Croffe out of this Tau, but alſo out of the two ſtickes which the WiddowWidow of Sarepta gathered, yea to fetche a Croſſe and a T. too out of …
With rule
… Croffe out of this Tau, but alſo out of the two ſtickes which the WiddowWidow of Sarepta gathered, yea to fetche a Croſſe and a T. too out of …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 118 · 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.