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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6425 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tollerabletolerable

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
971 times in 528 works
Consistency
99.5% (971 of 975)
Reach if approved
~1,024 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: tolerable
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
975 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (971 changes in 528 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 971)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Lord, or no: which he hath not, unleſſe he hath gifts, in ſome tollerabletolerable meaſure, to diſ-charge that miniſterie: for God ſendeth no blind guides, unleſſe it …
    With rule
    … the Lord, or no: which he hath not, unleſſe he hath gifts, in ſome tollerabletolerable meaſure, to diſ-charge that miniſterie: for God ſendeth no blind guides, unleſſe it …

    Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … like euen to your owne receiuing into your Church at this time: nay more tollerabletolerable and more lawfull then yours: who to furniſh onely one congregation, haue receiued many …
    With rule
    … like euen to your owne receiuing into your Church at this time: nay more tollerabletolerable and more lawfull then yours: who to furniſh onely one congregation, haue receiued many …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that Idoll, and so will the rest of worldlie troubles to me be more tollerabletolerable. With my owen heart I oft common, yea, and as it wer comforting my …
    With rule
    … that Idoll, and so will the rest of worldlie troubles to me be more tollerabletolerable. With my owen heart I oft common, yea, and as it wer comforting my …

    John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … conscience, and againste the auncient practise and vsage of Christes church. It is more tollerabletolerable and praise worthy, that two or three pastoures should haue the ouersight of one …
    With rule
    … conscience, and againste the auncient practise and vsage of Christes church. It is more tollerabletolerable and praise worthy, that two or three pastoures should haue the ouersight of one …

    Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … faine suche fine fables, to prouoke people to deuotion, muche more then is it tollerabletolerable to rehearse some odde and strange iestes of Heretikes, as to wit, that they …
    With rule
    … faine suche fine fables, to prouoke people to deuotion, muche more then is it tollerabletolerable to rehearse some odde and strange iestes of Heretikes, as to wit, that they …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 263 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … euil meates) that a litle, wil do but a litle hurt, it were more tollerabletolerable. But seeing the matter standeth as it doth, in poysons, wherof euery litle dram …
    With rule
    … euil meates) that a litle, wil do but a litle hurt, it were more tollerabletolerable. But seeing the matter standeth as it doth, in poysons, wherof euery litle dram …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by Antichriſt, and maintaine ſuperſtition and an idol miniſterie. Therefore read praiers are not tollerabletolerable, &c.
    With rule
    … by Antichriſt, and maintaine ſuperſtition and an idol miniſterie. Therefore read praiers are not tollerabletolerable, &c.

    George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ever (ſaith Caſſander) that wee are juſtified by fayth onelie, it is the more tollerabletolerable; ſeeing they expound, that by fayth they vnderſtand grace, that is correſpondent there-to …
    With rule
    … ever (ſaith Caſſander) that wee are juſtified by fayth onelie, it is the more tollerabletolerable; ſeeing they expound, that by fayth they vnderſtand grace, that is correſpondent there-to …

    William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 110 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Cure of Church Divisions A26906

  • Printed
    … necessary truths and duties, and those which are not of necessity; and between the TollerableTolerable and the intollerable errours: And never think of a Common Unity or Concord, but …
    With rule
    … necessary truths and duties, and those which are not of necessity; and between the TollerableTolerable and the intollerable errours: And never think of a Common Unity or Concord, but …

    Richard Baxter · The Cure of Church Divisions · p. 360 · Open in the reader