Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6631 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

devillsdevils

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 1,435 times in 464 works
Consistency: 100% (1,435 of 1,435)
Reach if approved: ~1,508 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devils
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,435 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,435 changes in 464 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,435)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and not to god. I wolde not that ye sholde haue fellowshippe with the devillsdevils: ye can not drincke of the cuppe of the lorde / and of the cuppe …
With rule
… and not to god. I wolde not that ye sholde haue fellowshippe with the devillsdevils: ye can not drincke of the cuppe of the lorde / and of the cuppe …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… bee holden in estimation or authoritie as the words of the Prophets. For the DevillsDevils, said hee, spake true things of Christ, yet were not of as great authoritie …
With rule
… bee holden in estimation or authoritie as the words of the Prophets. For the DevillsDevils, said hee, spake true things of Christ, yet were not of as great authoritie …
David Calderwood · An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning · Open in the reader
Printed
… teares, and whereby ſome of you have taken vpon you to caſt out manie DevillsDevils, goeing on to the hight in ſhewing ſignes and lying wonders, to deceave if …
With rule
… teares, and whereby ſome of you have taken vpon you to caſt out manie DevillsDevils, goeing on to the hight in ſhewing ſignes and lying wonders, to deceave if …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forbidding of Meats and Mariage at certayne tymes: which the Apoſtle calleth Doctrines of DevillsDevils? Doth your Church hold them as things indifferent? Or will not this prove a …
With rule
… forbidding of Meats and Mariage at certayne tymes: which the Apoſtle calleth Doctrines of DevillsDevils? Doth your Church hold them as things indifferent? Or will not this prove a …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to certaine men that were poſſeſſed, whom as ſoone as his croſſes touche the DevillsDevils roare, wallowe, tumble, and laſtly flye away like madd. Did not Henrie the third …
With rule
… to certaine men that were poſſeſſed, whom as ſoone as his croſſes touche the DevillsDevils roare, wallowe, tumble, and laſtly flye away like madd. Did not Henrie the third …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
Iland of DevillsDevils. 453
With rule
Iland of DevillsDevils. 453
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader
Printed
… the soules of men, and there broods and hatches all sinne whatsoever: All the devillsdevils in hell cannot force us to sinne, he workes by suggestions, stirring up humors …
With rule
… the soules of men, and there broods and hatches all sinne whatsoever: All the devillsdevils in hell cannot force us to sinne, he workes by suggestions, stirring up humors …
Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they are overcome, who would in that courſe overcome others) Duellers degenerate into incarnate devillsdevils: And while they thus contend to gain or maintaine reputation of Honour and Valour …
With rule
… they are overcome, who would in that courſe overcome others) Duellers degenerate into incarnate devillsdevils: And while they thus contend to gain or maintaine reputation of Honour and Valour …
John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 115 · 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.