Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6507 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gredygreedy

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 98 times in 56 works
Consistency: 98.9% (98 of 99)
Reach if approved: ~104 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: greedy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 99 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (98 changes in 56 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 98)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of money: Hieremye accuſeth the princes of Iſraell, as ranening wolues, bloud-ſheaders, manquellers, gredygreedy guttes: and Dauld calleth them Lions lieng in theyr dennes, in waite for the …
With rule
… of money: Hieremye accuſeth the princes of Iſraell, as ranening wolues, bloud-ſheaders, manquellers, gredygreedy guttes: and Dauld calleth them Lions lieng in theyr dennes, in waite for the …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… same chap. wher in the fyrst is recited. Therfore deuoure this w^t no lesse gredygreedy appetyte than ye haue done y^• other. For this dysshe is much delicious & very …
With rule
… same chap. wher in the fyrst is recited. Therfore deuoure this w^t no lesse gredygreedy appetyte than ye haue done y^• other. For this dysshe is much delicious & very …
Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader
Printed
… there be any hope to come by it. For his drie iawes are as gredygreedy & as wide gaping for y^e litle as for the greate. Al is fysh y^t …
With rule
… there be any hope to come by it. For his drie iawes are as gredygreedy & as wide gaping for y^e litle as for the greate. Al is fysh y^t …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I ſay that it is much better to read the Scriptures, then to be gredygreedy and to fiſh for riches, and to gather & heay them together. S. Hierome vpon …
With rule
… I ſay that it is much better to read the Scriptures, then to be gredygreedy and to fiſh for riches, and to gather & heay them together. S. Hierome vpon …
Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For I knovve (sayth he) that after my departure, ther vvil come amongste you gredygreedy vvolues not sparing the flocke: Moreouer of your ovvne selues shall men arise speaking …
With rule
… For I knovve (sayth he) that after my departure, ther vvil come amongste you gredygreedy vvolues not sparing the flocke: Moreouer of your ovvne selues shall men arise speaking …
Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… maketh glad the hart of man) with great freedome preached / earnestly embraced / and with gredygreedy hartes in all places receaued.
With rule
… maketh glad the hart of man) with great freedome preached / earnestly embraced / and with gredygreedy hartes in all places receaued.
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader
Printed
… would fain haue me make another cheuance with the Bishops lands, to accomplish your gredygreedy appetites. But let no other bishops bestow their reuenewes worse then my L. of …
With rule
… would fain haue me make another cheuance with the Bishops lands, to accomplish your gredygreedy appetites. But let no other bishops bestow their reuenewes worse then my L. of …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1865 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo great, that thei forget any iotte of their coueteouſneſſe, whiche is greater, more gredygreedy and inſaciably in them, then euer it was, or is emong vs, whom thei …
With rule
… ſo great, that thei forget any iotte of their coueteouſneſſe, whiche is greater, more gredygreedy and inſaciably in them, then euer it was, or is emong vs, whom thei …
Pierre Viret · The World Possessed with Devils · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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