Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6518 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

punctuallpunctual

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 503 times in 276 works
Consistency: 99.4% (503 of 506)
Reach if approved: ~532 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: punctual
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 506 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (503 changes in 276 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 503)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but a single Testimonie, & therfore ought not to …ver-ballance those many pregnant, weighty, punctuallpunctual authorities to the contrary.
With rule
… but a single Testimonie, & therfore ought not to …ver-ballance those many pregnant, weighty, punctuallpunctual authorities to the contrary.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ten Commandements hee offended; I confesse I could not readily giue him a direct punctuallpunctual answer: Not that he sinneth not against any; but because hee sinneth against so …
With rule
… ten Commandements hee offended; I confesse I could not readily giue him a direct punctuallpunctual answer: Not that he sinneth not against any; but because hee sinneth against so …
Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 439 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mr. IOHN COSENS hath lately brought into the ſaid Cathedrall Church: But likewiſe a punctuallpunctual confuration of them; eſpecially of erecting Altars, and cringing to them, (a practiſe much …
With rule
… Mr. IOHN COSENS hath lately brought into the ſaid Cathedrall Church: But likewiſe a punctuallpunctual confuration of them; eſpecially of erecting Altars, and cringing to them, (a practiſe much …
Peter Smart · The Vanity and Downfall of Superstitious Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader
Printed
… and yet the ſame men will grant, that a ſervant can never be too punctuallpunctual in his obedience to his Maſters lawfull commands: but you ſee the reaſon, they …
With rule
… and yet the ſame men will grant, that a ſervant can never be too punctuallpunctual in his obedience to his Maſters lawfull commands: but you ſee the reaſon, they …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 763 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are neuer able to shew on their part. For they cannot exactly tell the punctuallpunctual time, wherein all their errours, and numberlesse ceremonies entred into their Church, nor can …
With rule
… are neuer able to shew on their part. For they cannot exactly tell the punctuallpunctual time, wherein all their errours, and numberlesse ceremonies entred into their Church, nor can …
Henry Burton · Grounds of Christian Religion · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… confident chalenger. Who vpon the receipt thereof, vndertooke to returne forthwith a direct and punctuallpunctual anſwer. But this Dutch Champion quitting the field, tooke Sea, and returned into Holland …
With rule
… confident chalenger. Who vpon the receipt thereof, vndertooke to returne forthwith a direct and punctuallpunctual anſwer. But this Dutch Champion quitting the field, tooke Sea, and returned into Holland …
Daniel Featley · Pelagius Raked out of the Ashes by Arminius and his Scholars · Open in the reader
Printed
… in many particulars that fall out, wherein they could not foreſee to give ſo punctuallpunctual and particular directions, he ſwerve from the directions, yet if he keeps to the …
With rule
… in many particulars that fall out, wherein they could not foreſee to give ſo punctuallpunctual and particular directions, he ſwerve from the directions, yet if he keeps to the …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet here about the heads and hornes of the beaſt the ſpirit is more punctuallpunctual, for the ſeuen heads it is agreed, and why ſhould another kinde of expoſition …
With rule
… yet here about the heads and hornes of the beaſt the ſpirit is more punctuallpunctual, for the ſeuen heads it is agreed, and why ſhould another kinde of expoſition …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 487 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
… in some cases; as of Controversie, or some other such like necessity of more PunctuallPunctual quotation).
With rule
… in some cases; as of Controversie, or some other such like necessity of more PunctuallPunctual quotation).
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 136 · Open in the reader

Gospel Liberty A80742

Printed
PunctuallPunctual lawes in the old Teſtament. Part. 1. Page 15.
With rule
PunctuallPunctual lawes in the old Teſtament. Part. 1. Page 15.
Walter Cradock · Gospel Liberty · Open in the reader