Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6347 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

madnesmadness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 997 times in 449 works
Consistency: 99.9% (997 of 998)
Reach if approved: ~1,049 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: madness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 998 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (997 changes in 449 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 997)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and cōuicting of the gros, malicius and blind ignorance of this Author. What a madnesmadness and phrenesie, shall we think it in this Scripturer, that he can not content …
With rule
… and cōuicting of the gros, malicius and blind ignorance of this Author. What a madnesmadness and phrenesie, shall we think it in this Scripturer, that he can not content …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
Anſ. By reaſon of this ſinne, in my ſoule I am ſubiect to madnesmadness, in my body to diſeaſes, in my goods to loſſe, … in my name to …
With rule
Anſ. By reaſon of this ſinne, in my ſoule I am ſubiect to madnesmadness, in my body to diſeaſes, in my goods to loſſe, … in my name to …
Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the memorie, or vther offices of the spirit, & wil strike man with frensie, with madnesmadness, or forgetfulnes; & restore them againe at his pleasure. But the troble of mans Conscience …
With rule
… the memorie, or vther offices of the spirit, & wil strike man with frensie, with madnesmadness, or forgetfulnes; & restore them againe at his pleasure. But the troble of mans Conscience …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life? Psal. 63. 3. And are not all these spirituall, immortall, and glorious? were it not madnesmadness then in thee, being an immortall spirit, to forsake all these, and cleaue to …
With rule
… life? Psal. 63. 3. And are not all these spirituall, immortall, and glorious? were it not madnesmadness then in thee, being an immortall spirit, to forsake all these, and cleaue to …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 269 · Open in the reader
Printed
… religion when they say in their harts there is no God. Against whose impietie & madnesmadness, the time wil not serue me to spek so much as their wickednes deserueth …
With rule
… religion when they say in their harts there is no God. Against whose impietie & madnesmadness, the time wil not serue me to spek so much as their wickednes deserueth …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sauiour Chriſt ſayeth: that the holy Ghoſt ſhall not ſpeake of him ſelfe, what madnesmadness is it, that any man ſhoulde preſume to beleue any thing, without the authoritie …
With rule
… Sauiour Chriſt ſayeth: that the holy Ghoſt ſhall not ſpeake of him ſelfe, what madnesmadness is it, that any man ſhoulde preſume to beleue any thing, without the authoritie …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the other. Other ſtrāg thinges this Marcus wrought, wherbi he drewe many to his madnesmadness. The prophaue hiſtories do tell vs of an hundred ſtrange wonders wrought by the …
With rule
… the other. Other ſtrāg thinges this Marcus wrought, wherbi he drewe many to his madnesmadness. The prophaue hiſtories do tell vs of an hundred ſtrange wonders wrought by the …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. ciiii · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinges whereof they should bee ashamed? neither in this strein can we forget the madnesmadness of them, who may seeme to step one degree farther towardes this examination of …
With rule
… thinges whereof they should bee ashamed? neither in this strein can we forget the madnesmadness of them, who may seeme to step one degree farther towardes this examination of …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · 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.

Works A02178

Printed
MAdnesMadness, the cause of it. 20 Magistrates how they may winne the peoples fauour, 260, they must …
With rule
MAdnesMadness, the cause of it. 20 Magistrates how they may winne the peoples fauour, 260, they must …
Richard Greenham · Works · Open in the reader