Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6629 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

controllcontrol

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 722 times in 445 works
Consistency: 97.8% (722 of 738)
Reach if approved: ~775 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: control
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 738 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (722 changes in 445 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 722)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſcripture, yet it made the leſſe matter, becauſe ſhe founde meanes to diminiſh, and controllcontrol the authority therof by aduancing decrees of men, Popes, and Councells, to be equall …
With rule
… ſcripture, yet it made the leſſe matter, becauſe ſhe founde meanes to diminiſh, and controllcontrol the authority therof by aduancing decrees of men, Popes, and Councells, to be equall …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord, when I hear, they ſpeak what they liſt, as either thinking I cannot controllcontrol them or not caring whether I can or no: but whē thou heareſt, they …
With rule
… Lord, when I hear, they ſpeak what they liſt, as either thinking I cannot controllcontrol them or not caring whether I can or no: but whē thou heareſt, they …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feed them with miraculous bread: they followed him, that could quiet the seas, and controllcontrol the windes: they saw a precedent, in whom there was no defect, no default …
With rule
… feed them with miraculous bread: they followed him, that could quiet the seas, and controllcontrol the windes: they saw a precedent, in whom there was no defect, no default …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… free from all ſinne) thus to ſpeake and to wiſh ſuddainly, and ſuddainly to controllcontrol it againe, as Chriſt did: then what minde beare you, and how may we …
With rule
… free from all ſinne) thus to ſpeake and to wiſh ſuddainly, and ſuddainly to controllcontrol it againe, as Chriſt did: then what minde beare you, and how may we …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finde more fauour, then they, which flatter. Indeede many finde fault with other, and controllcontrol them, but becauſe they do this with an harſh ſpirite and in an vndiſcreet …
With rule
… finde more fauour, then they, which flatter. Indeede many finde fault with other, and controllcontrol them, but becauſe they do this with an harſh ſpirite and in an vndiſcreet …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Arminian Bookes, and since suppressed; may be henceforth lawfully printed and dispersed without controllcontrol, to counterplead and beat down Popery and Arminianisme; and to giue publike testimonie and …
With rule
… or Arminian Bookes, and since suppressed; may be henceforth lawfully printed and dispersed without controllcontrol, to counterplead and beat down Popery and Arminianisme; and to giue publike testimonie and …
William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · Open in the reader
Printed
… Emperour by speaking expresselie against that which his law allowed. For hee did expressely controllcontrol the Empero…rs law in saying of the wife. If shee depart from her …
With rule
… Emperour by speaking expresselie against that which his law allowed. For hee did expressely controllcontrol the Empero…rs law in saying of the wife. If shee depart from her …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he cryed, I commaund you to returne: the sturde waters, (scornefull of such a controllcontrol, as the Deuils were of the sons of Sceua, Iesus wee know, but who …
With rule
… he cryed, I commaund you to returne: the sturde waters, (scornefull of such a controllcontrol, as the Deuils were of the sons of Sceua, Iesus wee know, but who …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (16)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Two Treatises Against the Papists A01335

Printed
… two after this life, then there be more wayes then two in this life. ControllControl our Sauiour Christes partition as vnperfect, if you list. You will saye, that needeth …
With rule
… two after this life, then there be more wayes then two in this life. ControllControl our Sauiour Christes partition as vnperfect, if you list. You will saye, that needeth …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 444 · Open in the reader

Works of Hooker A44334

Printed
… power of determining of all kinde of Ecclesiastical Causes, and authority to Convent, to ControllControl, to Punish, as far as with Excommunication, whom soever they should think worthy, none …
With rule
… power of determining of all kinde of Ecclesiastical Causes, and authority to Convent, to ControllControl, to Punish, as far as with Excommunication, whom soever they should think worthy, none …
Richard Hooker · Works of Hooker · Open in the reader

Several Sermons A45658

Printed
1. To ControllControl.
With rule
1. To ControllControl.
Robert Harris · Several Sermons · p. 116 · Open in the reader

The Glass of Gods Providence A70812

Printed
… Praiſe, becauſe in All He manifells Himſelfe to be Holy, Unblameable and beyond all ControllControl. Which alſo the 4. ver. confirmes, The Kings ſtrength alſo Loves Judgement, Thou doſt establiſh …
With rule
… Praiſe, becauſe in All He manifells Himſelfe to be Holy, Unblameable and beyond all ControllControl. Which alſo the 4. ver. confirmes, The Kings ſtrength alſo Loves Judgement, Thou doſt establiſh …
Herbert Palmer · The Glass of Gods Providence · p. 3 · Open in the reader

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

Printed
… get out of God: Sight, and from his Watch, and there to Sin without ControllControl: but this is a grand Cheat of themſelves: Hence,
With rule
… get out of God: Sight, and from his Watch, and there to Sin without ControllControl: but this is a grand Cheat of themſelves: Hence,
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 135 · Open in the reader