Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6622 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bilsbills

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 298 times in 183 works
Consistency: 100% (298 of 298)
Reach if approved: ~313 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bills
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 298 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (298 changes in 183 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 298)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… therefore called the Accuser of the brethren; one which ceasseth not to put vp bilsbills of accusation against vs, and to accuse vs vnto God, as he dealt with …
With rule
… therefore called the Accuser of the brethren; one which ceasseth not to put vp bilsbills of accusation against vs, and to accuse vs vnto God, as he dealt with …
William Perkins · Satans Sophistry Answered · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God might satisfie him, what should anxious thoughts disquiet us. When we have such bilsbills, such obligations from him who is faithfullnesse it selfe, when a Christian cannot say …
With rule
… God might satisfie him, what should anxious thoughts disquiet us. When we have such bilsbills, such obligations from him who is faithfullnesse it selfe, when a Christian cannot say …
Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 455 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnrepented, vnreformed, as euer before? pride, prophanenesse, drunkennesse, swearing, ryot, excesse, vnmercifulnesse, while your bilsbills bring you in some starued in your streetes? Nay, are not things growne farre …
With rule
… vnrepented, vnreformed, as euer before? pride, prophanenesse, drunkennesse, swearing, ryot, excesse, vnmercifulnesse, while your bilsbills bring you in some starued in your streetes? Nay, are not things growne farre …
Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themselves (which you may see set up in Gurmionds hall) that all promises, Oaths, BilsBills, Bonds, Indentures, or any other conveyances whatsoever, made or caused to bee made in …
With rule
… themselves (which you may see set up in Gurmionds hall) that all promises, Oaths, BilsBills, Bonds, Indentures, or any other conveyances whatsoever, made or caused to bee made in …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they may haue the better leiſure to caſt ouer their reckonings, to reade their bilsbills and obligations, to count what gaines are come in by their vſurie, Vſurie. and …
With rule
… they may haue the better leiſure to caſt ouer their reckonings, to reade their bilsbills and obligations, to count what gaines are come in by their vſurie, Vſurie. and …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 595 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Aristophanes Fawners, and Herodian Picke-thankes, that cry, foreign, and Vox Dei, like the Churchwardens BilsBills, Omnia bene, euery thing is as it should be, when all the foundations of …
With rule
… Aristophanes Fawners, and Herodian Picke-thankes, that cry, foreign, and Vox Dei, like the Churchwardens BilsBills, Omnia bene, euery thing is as it should be, when all the foundations of …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him, he slipt againe to Tiburie: the Romaynes pursued him forthwith, with bowes and bilsbills, and draue him from Tiburie into Fraunce. And at length he returned to Rome …
With rule
… him, he slipt againe to Tiburie: the Romaynes pursued him forthwith, with bowes and bilsbills, and draue him from Tiburie into Fraunce. And at length he returned to Rome …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… beggars and fall to many follyes, or els (as many have done) set vp bilsbills at Paules or at the Royall exchaunge and in such publick places, to see …
With rule
… beggars and fall to many follyes, or els (as many have done) set vp bilsbills at Paules or at the Royall exchaunge and in such publick places, to see …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 116 · 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.