Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6421 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hilshills

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 1,440 times in 527 works
Consistency: 100% (1,440 of 1,440)
Reach if approved: ~1,514 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hills
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,441 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,440 changes in 527 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,440)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… this Reuelation was written, Rome was then the greatest Cittye being built on seuen hilshills, as Mantuan testifyeth in the life of Syluester, speaking of S. Blaze at the …
With rule
… this Reuelation was written, Rome was then the greatest Cittye being built on seuen hilshills, as Mantuan testifyeth in the life of Syluester, speaking of S. Blaze at the …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee what the text ſaith, Pſalme 114.5, 7. The ſea fled, and the earth trembled, the hilshills melted at the preſence of the Lord, nay, the devils themſelves tremble; as in …
With rule
… ſee what the text ſaith, Pſalme 114.5, 7. The ſea fled, and the earth trembled, the hilshills melted at the preſence of the Lord, nay, the devils themſelves tremble; as in …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · Open in the reader
Printed
… is on… gone forth in fury; as i… Noah his flood, when the higheſt hilshills, and mo… towring mountaines coul… not ſhelter them that fle… thither for refuge, but …
With rule
… is on… gone forth in fury; as i… Noah his flood, when the higheſt hilshills, and mo… towring mountaines coul… not ſhelter them that fle… thither for refuge, but …
Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can denie; becauſe ſpirituall Babylon is ſaid to bee a Citie ſituate vpon ſeuen hilshills, and not onely ſo, but that raigned ouer the Kings of the earth; both …
With rule
… can denie; becauſe ſpirituall Babylon is ſaid to bee a Citie ſituate vpon ſeuen hilshills, and not onely ſo, but that raigned ouer the Kings of the earth; both …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 531 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Pope ruleth now doe vnto him, being alſo likewiſe apparelled; and vpon ſeuen hilshills, becauſe the City was anciently ſeated vpon ſeuen hills. And this variation maketh it …
With rule
… the Pope ruleth now doe vnto him, being alſo likewiſe apparelled; and vpon ſeuen hilshills, becauſe the City was anciently ſeated vpon ſeuen hills. And this variation maketh it …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 483 · Open in the reader
Printed
With terrour reels, the hilshills runne farre away;
With rule
With terrour reels, the hilshills runne farre away;
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Cytie of Rome, although it be builded not on one, but vpon seuen hilshills, For our Sauiour Christ (as the whole contexte of his speach doth euydently declare …
With rule
… the Cytie of Rome, although it be builded not on one, but vpon seuen hilshills, For our Sauiour Christ (as the whole contexte of his speach doth euydently declare …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very injuriously. For, may we not thinke that as in the earth there are HilsHills and Dales, high Mountaines and low Valeys; which seeme to us to make a …
With rule
… very injuriously. For, may we not thinke that as in the earth there are HilsHills and Dales, high Mountaines and low Valeys; which seeme to us to make a …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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