Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6428 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

businesbusiness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 2,152 times in 796 works
Consistency: 99.2% (2,152 of 2,169)
Reach if approved: ~2,279 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: business
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,169 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,152 changes in 796 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for the Lorde commandeth by the Apostle in that place / …. Corint. 14. that those publique businesbusiness and exercises of the assembli…s / shoulde be done in order / in comlynes / to …
With rule
… for the Lorde commandeth by the Apostle in that place / …. Corint. 14. that those publique businesbusiness and exercises of the assembli…s / shoulde be done in order / in comlynes / to …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not grieuous for men to loſe all their labour, and that in the maine buſinesbusiness of their life? That ſo many hundred oblations, ſo many thouſand prayers, ſo much …
With rule
… not grieuous for men to loſe all their labour, and that in the maine buſinesbusiness of their life? That ſo many hundred oblations, ſo many thouſand prayers, ſo much …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mercy, labouring that nothing of his owne may be once thought vpon in this buſinesbusiness, hee ſhall ſtraight ſee ſuch a breadth and length, depth and height of comfort …
With rule
… mercy, labouring that nothing of his owne may be once thought vpon in this buſinesbusiness, hee ſhall ſtraight ſee ſuch a breadth and length, depth and height of comfort …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eternitie. Whether of ſauing the elect or deſtroying of the reprobate, or of the buſinesbusiness & affayres perteining to this life, and thy generall prouidence ouer all thinges; that thy …
With rule
… eternitie. Whether of ſauing the elect or deſtroying of the reprobate, or of the buſinesbusiness & affayres perteining to this life, and thy generall prouidence ouer all thinges; that thy …
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader
Printed
… of our faith. What doth it profit a man to be painefull in any buſinesbusiness for a time, and then to fainte and giue ouer before hee hath brought …
With rule
… of our faith. What doth it profit a man to be painefull in any buſinesbusiness for a time, and then to fainte and giue ouer before hee hath brought …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… spare his labour, for they two were euerlastingly fallen out. No lesse vaine a businesbusiness doth that man attempt, that would worke an agreement betwixt the Temple of God …
With rule
… spare his labour, for they two were euerlastingly fallen out. No lesse vaine a businesbusiness doth that man attempt, that would worke an agreement betwixt the Temple of God …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I dreame of théeues, I am troubled in my ſléepe with this and that buſinesbusiness. I perceiue that my hart neuer lieth downe, neuer taketh any reſt, but when …
With rule
… I dreame of théeues, I am troubled in my ſléepe with this and that buſinesbusiness. I perceiue that my hart neuer lieth downe, neuer taketh any reſt, but when …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… you are, in your persons the same Persons, doe with that decotum obserue the businesbusiness which you are about, as in your ordinary vocation, and Military profession, you seeme …
With rule
… you are, in your persons the same Persons, doe with that decotum obserue the businesbusiness which you are about, as in your ordinary vocation, and Military profession, you seeme …
William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Truths Purchase A03311

Printed
… value that which is taught, ſo the Preachers ought to beware of doing Gods BuſinesBusiness negligently, of ſlight and ſuperficiall performance of ſo waightie a matter. It is generally …
With rule
… value that which is taught, ſo the Preachers ought to beware of doing Gods BuſinesBusiness negligently, of ſlight and ſuperficiall performance of ſo waightie a matter. It is generally …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſecond Manager of Sathans BuſinesBusiness, in ſeeking to draw vs to an vnthriftie ſelling of the Truth, is the …
With rule
The ſecond Manager of Sathans BuſinesBusiness, in ſeeking to draw vs to an vnthriftie ſelling of the Truth, is the …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

Printed
… conduceth not to the Injoyment of Chriſt, is but loſt: The Life, Work, and BuſinesBusiness of a friend of Chriſt, conſiſts in converſation with Chriſt. Al we do without …
With rule
… conduceth not to the Injoyment of Chriſt, is but loſt: The Life, Work, and BuſinesBusiness of a friend of Chriſt, conſiſts in converſation with Chriſt. Al we do without …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 388 · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

Printed
… not troubled at all with it. So then this is the reſult of this BuſinesBusiness, That no Condition ſhall be troubleſome to that Perſon, which is in favour and …
With rule
… not troubled at all with it. So then this is the reſult of this BuſinesBusiness, That no Condition ſhall be troubleſome to that Perſon, which is in favour and …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 90 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined A90295

Printed
… of the Sonne of God, Isa 9 6. Wonderfull Councellour. It is in reference to the BusinesBusiness there spoken of, that be is so called. This is expressed at the beginning …
With rule
… of the Sonne of God, Isa 9 6. Wonderfull Councellour. It is in reference to the BusinesBusiness there spoken of, that be is so called. This is expressed at the beginning …
John Owen · The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined · p. 572 · Open in the reader