Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6625 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cavillcavil

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 603 times in 322 works
Consistency: 100% (603 of 603)
Reach if approved: ~634 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cavil
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 603 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (603 changes in 322 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 603)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… writing: alas, What was become of your wittes and senses, when by such a cavillcavil you thought to convince me, that, because you said not An vos, but An …
With rule
… writing: alas, What was become of your wittes and senses, when by such a cavillcavil you thought to convince me, that, because you said not An vos, but An …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of desertion, search narrowly wha… we have of Christs in us, and doe not cavillcavil against our selves too much in times of temptation. If wee have but desires …
With rule
… of desertion, search narrowly wha… we have of Christs in us, and doe not cavillcavil against our selves too much in times of temptation. If wee have but desires …
Richard Sibbes · The Christians End · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the hurt: Ier. 38.4. There are ſome that haue the Garb of wiſe ones, that cavillcavil at our plaine and neceſſary preachings, and endure not our fore-warnings of the …
With rule
… the hurt: Ier. 38.4. There are ſome that haue the Garb of wiſe ones, that cavillcavil at our plaine and neceſſary preachings, and endure not our fore-warnings of the …
Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in our ſelues that we are ſtill guilty: all which is but a blinde cavillcavil. For what though they ſay they offer the ſame, did not the Prieſts the …
With rule
… in our ſelues that we are ſtill guilty: all which is but a blinde cavillcavil. For what though they ſay they offer the ſame, did not the Prieſts the …
George Gifford · Treatise Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, happily her friends will be reaſoning about the portion, and there is a cavillcavil on the one ſide, and an objection on the other, povertie on one ſide …
With rule
… man, happily her friends will be reaſoning about the portion, and there is a cavillcavil on the one ſide, and an objection on the other, povertie on one ſide …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the phraſe is, and how apt to be miſtaken, ſpecially where men liſt to cavillcavil. Alſo people vntaught and vnſetled in conſtruing the ſcriptures ſenſe do quickly take offenſe …
With rule
… the phraſe is, and how apt to be miſtaken, ſpecially where men liſt to cavillcavil. Alſo people vntaught and vnſetled in conſtruing the ſcriptures ſenſe do quickly take offenſe …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… light of it, he may be juſtly upbraided with this benefit: and though he cavillcavil and quarrell that hee is not redeemed, for as much as he ſtill lies …
With rule
… light of it, he may be juſtly upbraided with this benefit: and though he cavillcavil and quarrell that hee is not redeemed, for as much as he ſtill lies …
Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · Open in the reader
Printed
… if the one doth the other doth not. Ans. This reason is but a cavillcavil of mans braine: for we must not think that whatsoeuer entreth into the bodie …
With rule
… if the one doth the other doth not. Ans. This reason is but a cavillcavil of mans braine: for we must not think that whatsoeuer entreth into the bodie …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 523 · 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.