Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6474 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

semedseemed

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 472 times in 117 works
Consistency: 100% (472 of 472)
Reach if approved: ~496 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: seemed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 472 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (472 changes in 117 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 472)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hym selfe with hym to make shyppes to go into Charlis for golde, and semedseemed by this means both to haue his mynde estraunged from God, & hys affiaunce reposed …
With rule
… hym selfe with hym to make shyppes to go into Charlis for golde, and semedseemed by this means both to haue his mynde estraunged from God, & hys affiaunce reposed …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… before the Prince in the pulpit, and in the Parliament house, and haue not semedseemed to haue dispised what I haue saide: when as els then if ye hadde …
With rule
… before the Prince in the pulpit, and in the Parliament house, and haue not semedseemed to haue dispised what I haue saide: when as els then if ye hadde …
Nicholas Ridley · A Friendly Farewell · Open in the reader
Printed
… brethern with theyr deathe / and euer encreaſed the number of them. And thoughe they ſemedseemed to dye in the ſyght of the folyſſhe / yet they are in peace and …
With rule
… brethern with theyr deathe / and euer encreaſed the number of them. And thoughe they ſemedseemed to dye in the ſyght of the folyſſhe / yet they are in peace and …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader
Printed
… alſo ſo of anſwered vnto by the learned of our ſide, ſo that it ſemedseemed but actum agere, to make anye further anſwer thervnto: yet notwithſtāding of al theſe …
With rule
… alſo ſo of anſwered vnto by the learned of our ſide, ſo that it ſemedseemed but actum agere, to make anye further anſwer thervnto: yet notwithſtāding of al theſe …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · Open in the reader
Printed
… and pernicious doctrine. For howsoeuer ignorance before her fall, though it were inexcuseable, yet semedseemed to diminish the greatnest of the crime: Now that her wickednes is openly displaied …
With rule
… and pernicious doctrine. For howsoeuer ignorance before her fall, though it were inexcuseable, yet semedseemed to diminish the greatnest of the crime: Now that her wickednes is openly displaied …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 And one of his heades (sayth Saynt Iohan) semedseemed vnto me / as it had bene wounded vnto deathe. And it was not so …
With rule
1 And one of his heades (sayth Saynt Iohan) semedseemed vnto me / as it had bene wounded vnto deathe. And it was not so …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… In those daies there was no kyng in Israel, euery man did that which semedseemed right in hys owne eyes. Men wer then allowed to do what they wold …
With rule
… In those daies there was no kyng in Israel, euery man did that which semedseemed right in hys owne eyes. Men wer then allowed to do what they wold …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an houre, such a great light about the Alter, and the Temple, that it semedseemed to be mydday.
With rule
… an houre, such a great light about the Alter, and the Temple, that it semedseemed to be mydday.
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.