Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6528 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bisshopbishop

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 208 times in 39 works
Consistency: 100% (208 of 208)
Reach if approved: ~219 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bishop
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 208 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (208 changes in 39 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 208)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But now there is no biſſhopbishop in the world that dare call the pope / brother / as thei did comonly in …
With rule
But now there is no biſſhopbishop in the world that dare call the pope / brother / as thei did comonly in …
Martin Luther · Last Will and Confession · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ What token can you haue more euydent, more plaine to ſpye and know a biſſhopbishop, an Archdeacon, a Deane, a Perſon a curate of his church, than when you …
With rule
¶ What token can you haue more euydent, more plaine to ſpye and know a biſſhopbishop, an Archdeacon, a Deane, a Perſon a curate of his church, than when you …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. lxxxxvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… bē made both by chriſten emperours / & alſo counſels to receyue the traditions of the biſſhopbishop of Rome / & of the moſt wycked womā / whoſe delyte & pleſure both of thē / was …
With rule
… bē made both by chriſten emperours / & alſo counſels to receyue the traditions of the biſſhopbishop of Rome / & of the moſt wycked womā / whoſe delyte & pleſure both of thē / was …
Martin Bucer · Images Not to be Suffered in Churches · Open in the reader
Printed
… sone haue ben quenched, nor the pore soule & proctour ther be with his blody bisshopbishop crystē catte so farre cōiured into his owne Utopia with a sechel about his …
With rule
… sone haue ben quenched, nor the pore soule & proctour ther be with his blody bisshopbishop crystē catte so farre cōiured into his owne Utopia with a sechel about his …
William Tyndale · The Supper of the Lord · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is as lawful for my lord Mayr, to take the pulpet, as for the BiſshopBishop to take his iudgment ſeat, 11, 12. And that yf ether were to be permitted, with …
With rule
… is as lawful for my lord Mayr, to take the pulpet, as for the BiſshopBishop to take his iudgment ſeat, 11, 12. And that yf ether were to be permitted, with …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him how to demeane himſelfe in that office, 1. Tim. 3, 4. and 5. Therefore hee was a BiſſhopBishop.
With rule
… him how to demeane himſelfe in that office, 1. Tim. 3, 4. and 5. Therefore hee was a BiſſhopBishop.
William Prynne · The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which we sayed before doth signifie the head of this Churche, which is the bisshopbishop of Rome. And if any man cōtend that it were not the same in …
With rule
… which we sayed before doth signifie the head of this Churche, which is the bisshopbishop of Rome. And if any man cōtend that it were not the same in …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he his selfe had also bene a monke. E…helwoldus in lyke case the bisshopbishop of Wynchestre / ded the same selfe holye acte also at the same tyme in …
With rule
… he his selfe had also bene a monke. E…helwoldus in lyke case the bisshopbishop of Wynchestre / ded the same selfe holye acte also at the same tyme in …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · 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.