Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6575 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cananitescanaanites

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 538 times in 253 works
Consistency: 99.2% (538 of 542)
Reach if approved: ~569 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: canaanites
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 542 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (538 changes in 253 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 538)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… some parts of the land that were dispeopled and more annoy them then the CananitesCanaanites. In like maner God renues the conscience, but so as it shall still accuse …
With rule
… some parts of the land that were dispeopled and more annoy them then the CananitesCanaanites. In like maner God renues the conscience, but so as it shall still accuse …
William Perkins · Conscience · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… committed not any of those abominable customes, which were committed before them, by the CananitesCanaanites: that they should not defile themselues therein, but take heede, lest they were taken …
With rule
… committed not any of those abominable customes, which were committed before them, by the CananitesCanaanites: that they should not defile themselues therein, but take heede, lest they were taken …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
Obiect. 2. God bade the Israelites kill the CananitesCanaanites, man, woman and childe, and spare none.
With rule
Obiect. 2. God bade the Israelites kill the CananitesCanaanites, man, woman and childe, and spare none.
John Rogers · A Treatise of Love · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a temptation was this to her that was of the cursed stock of the CananitesCanaanites, which Gods people were commanded vtterly to destroy, and to make no league or …
With rule
… a temptation was this to her that was of the cursed stock of the CananitesCanaanites, which Gods people were commanded vtterly to destroy, and to make no league or …
William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man labouring to cate and deuoure another , the encreasing of Papists, who (like the CananitesCanaanites to the Israelites) are as a whippe on our sides, or as Thornes in …
With rule
… man labouring to cate and deuoure another , the encreasing of Papists, who (like the CananitesCanaanites to the Israelites) are as a whippe on our sides, or as Thornes in …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… things▪ was because those nations did vse them. Likely enough it is that the CananitesCanaanites vsed to feed as well on sheepes as on swines flesh; & therefore if the …
With rule
… things▪ was because those nations did vse them. Likely enough it is that the CananitesCanaanites vsed to feed as well on sheepes as on swines flesh; & therefore if the …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fourthly, to obſerue what a deale of darknes and luſts of darkneſſe remaine, like CananitesCanaanites, as prickes and thornes in vs.
With rule
Fourthly, to obſerue what a deale of darknes and luſts of darkneſſe remaine, like CananitesCanaanites, as prickes and thornes in vs.
Paul Baynes · Two Treatises, The Lords Prayer, The Six Principles · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. The Aramites, Philiſtims, Midianites, Moabites, CananitesCanaanites, and Ammonites.
With rule
A. The Aramites, Philiſtims, Midianites, Moabites, CananitesCanaanites, and Ammonites.
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 107 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

Printed
… part ye do. for in the end and after ye haue affirmed that the cananitescanaanites were cast owt of the land by reason of their wickednes, ye return to …
With rule
… part ye do. for in the end and after ye haue affirmed that the cananitescanaanites were cast owt of the land by reason of their wickednes, ye return to …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 139 · Open in the reader

The New Policy of War A06920

Printed
… hadde a manifest promyse made to hym of God, that he should sudue the cananitescanaanites, & enioye theyr l…nde peasably, & that therfore he neded not to feare for to …
With rule
… hadde a manifest promyse made to hym of God, that he should sudue the cananitescanaanites, & enioye theyr l…nde peasably, & that therfore he neded not to feare for to …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader