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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6439 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prooveprove

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
1,062 times in 233 works
Consistency
99.0% (1,062 of 1,072)
Reach if approved
~1,126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: prove
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,072 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,062 changes in 233 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,062)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … may not vſe Lotts in ſport▪ The Aſſumption (ſaith Mr. Gataker) they ſeeme to prooveprove on this wiſe. To call God to ſitt in iudgment, where there is no …
    With rule
    … may not vſe Lotts in ſport▪ The Aſſumption (ſaith Mr. Gataker) they ſeeme to prooveprove on this wiſe. To call God to ſitt in iudgment, where there is no …

    James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … touching Hell and Hell paines, is to no purpoſe. If you cite them to prooveprove that Chriſt had no naturall feare of Death and Hell, you gainſay that your …
    With rule
    … touching Hell and Hell paines, is to no purpoſe. If you cite them to prooveprove that Chriſt had no naturall feare of Death and Hell, you gainſay that your …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of pietie and devotion: with bleſſed Zacheus be charitable to the poore, but withall prooveprove thy ſelfe to be a true childe of Abraham, and if any way injurious …
    With rule
    … of pietie and devotion: with bleſſed Zacheus be charitable to the poore, but withall prooveprove thy ſelfe to be a true childe of Abraham, and if any way injurious …

    Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … layed preaching by, long agoe) till you have done it, els these. Quaeligres will prooveprove fatall to your Popedomes, Episcopalities, Consistories, Visitations, and elegall Ecclesiasticall Iurisdictions, and proceedings, and …
    With rule
    … layed preaching by, long agoe) till you have done it, els these. Quaeligres will prooveprove fatall to your Popedomes, Episcopalities, Consistories, Visitations, and elegall Ecclesiasticall Iurisdictions, and proceedings, and …

    William Prynne · Sixteen New Queries · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … verſe, & the whole 7. verſe through out. Nowe as concerning the petition. Cauſe me to prooveprove in experience (ſayeth he) mine ende:] He might haue comprehended this in one word …
    With rule
    … verſe, & the whole 7. verſe through out. Nowe as concerning the petition. Cauſe me to prooveprove in experience (ſayeth he) mine ende:] He might haue comprehended this in one word …

    Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 204 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Reaſon it ſelfe will ſubſcribe to this Article, and prooveprove it too: for you know, the object of faith is God alone, and by …
    With rule
    Reaſon it ſelfe will ſubſcribe to this Article, and prooveprove it too: for you know, the object of faith is God alone, and by …

    John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Vers. 10. Bring all the tythes—that there may be meat in my house, and prooveprove me, if I will not open the windowes of heaven, and powre yee out …
    With rule
    … Vers. 10. Bring all the tythes—that there may be meat in my house, and prooveprove me, if I will not open the windowes of heaven, and powre yee out …

    William Ward · Short Grounds of Catechism · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … whereas they should labour to winne the Adversaries of the Trueth, and if they prooveprove obstinate, to defend and propugne the Trueth against them. In things of this life …
    With rule
    … whereas they should labour to winne the Adversaries of the Trueth, and if they prooveprove obstinate, to defend and propugne the Trueth against them. In things of this life …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Transubstantiation Exploded A00604

  • Printed
    … doe he can doe: but hee can doe many things which hee never will. ProoveProve that hee will put his body in a 1000 places at once, and we will …
    With rule
    … doe he can doe: but hee can doe many things which hee never will. ProoveProve that hee will put his body in a 1000 places at once, and we will …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 124 · Open in the reader

The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness A13554

  • Printed
    … here let us consider, 1. what an expresse commandement we have for the duty, Rom. 12.2. ProoveProve what is the good and acceptable will of God: and Eph. 5.10. ProoveProve what is …
    With rule
    … here let us consider, 1. what an expresse commandement we have for the duty, Rom. 12.2. ProoveProve what is the good and acceptable will of God: and Eph. 5.10. ProoveProve what is …

    Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … duty, Rom. 12.2. ProoveProve what is the good and acceptable will of God: and Eph. 5.10. ProoveProve what is pleasing unto God: Gal. 6.4. Let every man prooveprove his owne worke. Lam …
    With rule
    … duty, Rom. 12.2. ProoveProve what is the good and acceptable will of God: and Eph. 5.10. ProoveProve what is pleasing unto God: Gal. 6.4. Let every man prooveprove his owne worke. Lam …

    Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 71 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

  • Printed
    ProoveProve diſadvantages unto us.
    With rule
    ProoveProve diſadvantages unto us.

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 225 · Open in the reader

Reply to a Book A19884

  • Printed
    ProoveProve.
    With rule
    ProoveProve.

    John Davenport · Reply to a Book · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    To ProoveProve belongs to the Anſwerer, for divers reaſons. 32. 30
    With rule
    To ProoveProve belongs to the Anſwerer, for divers reaſons. 32. 30

    John Davenport · Reply to a Book · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance A53688

  • Printed
    … of the things themselves, suitably to the Properties of him, whose they are; And (2.) ProoveProve that any eternall Decree of God either as to its primitive enacting, or temporall …
    With rule
    … of the things themselves, suitably to the Properties of him, whose they are; And (2.) ProoveProve that any eternall Decree of God either as to its primitive enacting, or temporall …

    John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 75 · Open in the reader

The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus A68614

  • Printed
    … authorities are the cheife that the Papiſts, Jeſuites, and our Prelates inſiſt on, to ProoveProve, that the power of ordination belongs onely to Biſhops not to Presbyters.
    With rule
    … authorities are the cheife that the Papiſts, Jeſuites, and our Prelates inſiſt on, to ProoveProve, that the power of ordination belongs onely to Biſhops not to Presbyters.

    William Prynne · The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus · p. 84 · Open in the reader