Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6377 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sicknessickness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 1,684 times in 574 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,684 of 1,686)
Reach if approved: ~1,772 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sickness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,686 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,684 changes in 574 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,684)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is with the body of a man. If it had ſome ſlightie diſeaſe or ſicknessickness, and that may (haply) be cured, but if his throate begin to ſwell, and …
With rule
… is with the body of a man. If it had ſome ſlightie diſeaſe or ſicknessickness, and that may (haply) be cured, but if his throate begin to ſwell, and …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of all my ioyes was in thy loue; and so now in my misery & sicknessickness, the sorrow of all my sorrowes, and anguish of all my paines, is in …
With rule
… of all my ioyes was in thy loue; and so now in my misery & sicknessickness, the sorrow of all my sorrowes, and anguish of all my paines, is in …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 530 · Open in the reader
Printed
… verſe vvhich vve haue novv read, hee laboureth to cure by vvholeſome medecine, the ſicknessickness of their ſoule, if poſſible the peruerſe diſpoſition of their hearts could be reformed.
With rule
… verſe vvhich vve haue novv read, hee laboureth to cure by vvholeſome medecine, the ſicknessickness of their ſoule, if poſſible the peruerſe diſpoſition of their hearts could be reformed.
John Forbes · Preparative Sermon to the Lords Table · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beſt for him, or elſe he ſhould not ſo be: if he be ſick, ſicknessickness is beſt for him then, otherwiſe God would not ſuffer him to keepe his …
With rule
… beſt for him, or elſe he ſhould not ſo be: if he be ſick, ſicknessickness is beſt for him then, otherwiſe God would not ſuffer him to keepe his …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the body, but ſhould have ever been able to uphold the body without corruption, ſicknessickness, or death. And although any particular change had beene in the body, yet ſhould …
With rule
… the body, but ſhould have ever been able to uphold the body without corruption, ſicknessickness, or death. And although any particular change had beene in the body, yet ſhould …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dangerous without restraint. Papists are ready instruments of commotion, peruersion, treason. These are a sicknessickness, immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum, ne pars sincera trahatur.
With rule
… dangerous without restraint. Papists are ready instruments of commotion, peruersion, treason. These are a sicknessickness, immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum, ne pars sincera trahatur.
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all compoſition. The ſicke body be recouered to health, but health can neuer be ſicknessickness. The ſinner may be made righteous, but ſinne can neuer become righteouſnes. Fire and …
With rule
… all compoſition. The ſicke body be recouered to health, but health can neuer be ſicknessickness. The ſinner may be made righteous, but ſinne can neuer become righteouſnes. Fire and …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many attendants, and it cannot be, that they ſhould goe ſingle. Sinne is the ſicknessickness of the ſoule. As therefore in the diſeaſes of the Bodie, we ſee, that …
With rule
… many attendants, and it cannot be, that they ſhould goe ſingle. Sinne is the ſicknessickness of the ſoule. As therefore in the diſeaſes of the Bodie, we ſee, that …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Supplications of Saints A12610

Printed
OH LORD God, which both in SICKNESSICKNESS and health, haſt appointed vs to pray one for another, promiſing a bleſſing in …
With rule
OH LORD God, which both in SICKNESSICKNESS and health, haſt appointed vs to pray one for another, promiſing a bleſſing in …
Thomas Sorocold · Supplications of Saints · p. 238 · Open in the reader