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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6550 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

asshesashes

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
133 times in 53 works
Consistency
93.0% (133 of 143)
Reach if approved
~150 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ashes
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
143 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 53 works, 93.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … body of man, cometh it of neuer so noble house, but earth, duste and asshesashes? Or as S. Barnard sayeth, a stynckynge sperme or seede, a sacke of dounge …
    With rule
    … body of man, cometh it of neuer so noble house, but earth, duste and asshesashes? Or as S. Barnard sayeth, a stynckynge sperme or seede, a sacke of dounge …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thee: And this shalbe the signe thereof, Thyne altar shall ryue asunder, and the asshesashes that are thereon shalbe powred downe. This Prophesie was fulfilled in all poynts by …
    With rule
    … thee: And this shalbe the signe thereof, Thyne altar shall ryue asunder, and the asshesashes that are thereon shalbe powred downe. This Prophesie was fulfilled in all poynts by …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 434 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … whiche thyng we commande all ſacrificers or preſtes lykewyſe to do / for if the aſſhesashes of a calfe ſprynkled with blode hallowed and clenged the peple / myche more water …
    With rule
    … whiche thyng we commande all ſacrificers or preſtes lykewyſe to do / for if the aſſhesashes of a calfe ſprynkled with blode hallowed and clenged the peple / myche more water …

    William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thynke not yt he was the worsse bycause ye deede body was burnt to asshesashes, but rather lerne to know the great desyre that hypocrytes haue to fynde one …
    With rule
    … thynke not yt he was the worsse bycause ye deede body was burnt to asshesashes, but rather lerne to know the great desyre that hypocrytes haue to fynde one …

    John Wycliffe · Wycliffes Wicket · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … owne wordes were falſe / whan he ſaide vnto god / I am but duſt and aſſhesashes?
    With rule
    … owne wordes were falſe / whan he ſaide vnto god / I am but duſt and aſſhesashes?

    Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and parts of the houſe. O! but marke, when it commeth to powder and aſſhesashes, it lieth not in the handes of death to deſtroy the powder and aſhes …
    With rule
    … and parts of the houſe. O! but marke, when it commeth to powder and aſſhesashes, it lieth not in the handes of death to deſtroy the powder and aſhes …

    Robert Rollock · Sermons · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … I doute not but that some good kynge wold haue burnt his bones to asshesashes / as wel as the brasen serpēt / that was as greate a relique as deed …
    With rule
    … I doute not but that some good kynge wold haue burnt his bones to asshesashes / as wel as the brasen serpēt / that was as greate a relique as deed …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. lxxvj · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to haue layed faggottes therupō, your ſelfs oughte to haue clenged & carryed awaye the aſſhesashes: but God ſhal be holde.
    With rule
    … to haue layed faggottes therupō, your ſelfs oughte to haue clenged & carryed awaye the aſſhesashes: but God ſhal be holde.

    John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · 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.

A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent A07085

  • Printed
    … vsed in the Chyrche this tyme of Lent, and what they signifye. Of the AsshesAshes.
    With rule
    … vsed in the Chyrche this tyme of Lent, and what they signifye. Of the AsshesAshes.

    Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … vsed in the Chyrche this tyme of Lent, is the imposiciō & layenge on of AsshesAshes vpon the heades of Christen men.
    With rule
    … vsed in the Chyrche this tyme of Lent, is the imposiciō & layenge on of AsshesAshes vpon the heades of Christen men.

    Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader

The Christian Disputations A14461

  • Printed
    … theirs, bicauſe that it is more vehement and more violent, and conſumeth it into AſſhesAshes.
    With rule
    … theirs, bicauſe that it is more vehement and more violent, and conſumeth it into AſſhesAshes.

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … it will not ceaſe vntill ſuch time as it hath conſumed it all into AſſhesAshes, for that is a fire which none can quench.
    With rule
    … it will not ceaſe vntill ſuch time as it hath conſumed it all into AſſhesAshes, for that is a fire which none can quench.

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of the other: And the conſecrations of Torches, Waxe, Waxcandles, Salt, holy Water, Fire, AſſhesAshes and many other ſuche diuers matters, by the which euory one may eaſely iudge …
    With rule
    … of the other: And the conſecrations of Torches, Waxe, Waxcandles, Salt, holy Water, Fire, AſſhesAshes and many other ſuche diuers matters, by the which euory one may eaſely iudge …

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    AſſhesAshes of Pope Boniface. 280.
    With rule
    AſſhesAshes of Pope Boniface. 280.

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

  • Printed
    AſshesAshes.
    With rule
    AſshesAshes.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … fall vpon you, (ſayeth Iob?) And afterward he addeth, That their memoriall is like AſſhesAshes, and their bodies are as a bodie of Clay. Hereby he meneth that when …
    With rule
    … fall vpon you, (ſayeth Iob?) And afterward he addeth, That their memoriall is like AſſhesAshes, and their bodies are as a bodie of Clay. Hereby he meneth that when …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 254 · Open in the reader