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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6637 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

folishfoolish

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
219 times in 109 works
Consistency
99.1% (219 of 221)
Reach if approved
~232 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: foolish
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
221 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (219 changes in 109 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 219)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    This witlesse chaplaine dwelleth not alone in this most folishfoolish opiniō, but he hath more fellowes. For the last tyme I was at Oxforde …
    With rule
    This witlesse chaplaine dwelleth not alone in this most folishfoolish opiniō, but he hath more fellowes. For the last tyme I was at Oxforde …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Where as the worlde by his wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by folishfoolish preaching to saue credentes, those that beleue, per stultitiam praedicationis, by foo lishues of …
    With rule
    … Where as the worlde by his wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by folishfoolish preaching to saue credentes, those that beleue, per stultitiam praedicationis, by foo lishues of …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the will of god, that with well doing ye may stop the mouthes of folishfoolish and ignoraunt men, as free, and not as hauing the liherty for a cloke …
    With rule
    … the will of god, that with well doing ye may stop the mouthes of folishfoolish and ignoraunt men, as free, and not as hauing the liherty for a cloke …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … newe Teſtament, or in the auncient church. For verie children know this, how falſe, foliſhfoolish, and abſurd arguments they be, whatſoeuer they bring out of the ſcriptures to proue …
    With rule
    … newe Teſtament, or in the auncient church. For verie children know this, how falſe, foliſhfoolish, and abſurd arguments they be, whatſoeuer they bring out of the ſcriptures to proue …

    Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … manye ſtrong, not many noble according to the fleſhe. And God hath choſen the foliſhfoolish, the weak, the deſpiſed, to cōfound the wiſe, the ſtrong, and the eſteemed. Simon …
    With rule
    … manye ſtrong, not many noble according to the fleſhe. And God hath choſen the foliſhfoolish, the weak, the deſpiſed, to cōfound the wiſe, the ſtrong, and the eſteemed. Simon …

    John Stockwood · Sermon 24 August 1578 · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    For frenchmen are not so folishfoolish to haue done it so vnaduisedlye and so rashlye / seynge they had to many …
    With rule
    For frenchmen are not so folishfoolish to haue done it so vnaduisedlye and so rashlye / seynge they had to many …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … deadly a plague ambition is, but simply teacheth that there is not a more folishfoolish thing, then to striue about nothing. For he declareth that there shall be no …
    With rule
    … deadly a plague ambition is, but simply teacheth that there is not a more folishfoolish thing, then to striue about nothing. For he declareth that there shall be no …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 542 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … jnough to convince ſo foule and ſhamfull impudencye. But if thes mē be ſo foliſhfoolish and dull witted that thei ꝑceave not this filthines / the word of god muſt …
    With rule
    … jnough to convince ſo foule and ſhamfull impudencye. But if thes mē be ſo foliſhfoolish and dull witted that thei ꝑceave not this filthines / the word of god muſt …

    John Calvin · Homilies · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.