Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6648 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

polliciespolicies

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 112 works
Consistency: 93.0% (161 of 173)
Reach if approved: ~182 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: policies
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 173 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 112 works, 93.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… part of their vnderstanding: but hee which can goe beyond all in shifts and polliciespolicies, is counted the wisest man in Court or Citie. Oh if Nabuchadnezzer had liued …
With rule
… part of their vnderstanding: but hee which can goe beyond all in shifts and polliciespolicies, is counted the wisest man in Court or Citie. Oh if Nabuchadnezzer had liued …
Henry Smith · The Restitution of King Nebuchadnezzar · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe: or els by craft and ſubtlety, as when a Prince is through wicked polliciespolicies and deceites circumuented, that he can not execute his office. For by theſe meanes …
With rule
… doe: or els by craft and ſubtlety, as when a Prince is through wicked polliciespolicies and deceites circumuented, that he can not execute his office. For by theſe meanes …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the Prince of darknesse, the rulers of the ayer, the spirituall craftinesse and polliciespolicies of hell; vouchsafe us wee beseech thee the compleate armour of true Christians. The …
With rule
… with the Prince of darknesse, the rulers of the ayer, the spirituall craftinesse and polliciespolicies of hell; vouchsafe us wee beseech thee the compleate armour of true Christians. The …
Robert Bolton · Prayers Upon Solemn Occasions · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
14 In polliciespolicies, lawes are next to the Magiſtrate, being the moſt ſtrong ſynowes of common wealths …
With rule
14 In polliciespolicies, lawes are next to the Magiſtrate, being the moſt ſtrong ſynowes of common wealths …
John Calvin · Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 392 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinne in the plaine fielde, and how thou mayst preuente sinne in all his polliciespolicies, thou hast a further assurance that sinne, although it be as great as Goliah …
With rule
… sinne in the plaine fielde, and how thou mayst preuente sinne in all his polliciespolicies, thou hast a further assurance that sinne, although it be as great as Goliah …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
But Christ knowing the bounds of his office, would not meddle with externe polliciespolicies, translating of realmes, and depriuing of true inheritors. Now whē he was desired to …
With rule
But Christ knowing the bounds of his office, would not meddle with externe polliciespolicies, translating of realmes, and depriuing of true inheritors. Now whē he was desired to …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… beeing the onely way in the world, to know all the secret purposes plots, polliciespolicies, and practises, that are either in Church, or Commonwealth.
With rule
… beeing the onely way in the world, to know all the secret purposes plots, polliciespolicies, and practises, that are either in Church, or Commonwealth.
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 623 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bee not consumed yet; nay, if they attempt to consume vs; if by Popish polliciespolicies, by superstitious tokēs, by blasphemous writings, by trayterous libels and conspiracies, they vndermine our …
With rule
… bee not consumed yet; nay, if they attempt to consume vs; if by Popish polliciespolicies, by superstitious tokēs, by blasphemous writings, by trayterous libels and conspiracies, they vndermine our …
John Rainolds · Sermon Upon Obadiah · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Devils Banket Described A00888

Printed
… in mourning, that art not short of them in offending. Religion is made but PolliciesPolicies stirrop, to get vp and ride on the backe of pleasure. Nimrod and Achitophell …
With rule
… in mourning, that art not short of them in offending. Religion is made but PolliciesPolicies stirrop, to get vp and ride on the backe of pleasure. Nimrod and Achitophell …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 240 · Open in the reader

The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism A10180

Printed
… dangers, discouer her increasing corruptions, detect her wily Adversaries, with all their overreaching, vndermining PolliciesPolicies, inlighten her intire body, direct her in the way of truth, of life, of …
With rule
… dangers, discouer her increasing corruptions, detect her wily Adversaries, with all their overreaching, vndermining PolliciesPolicies, inlighten her intire body, direct her in the way of truth, of life, of …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · Open in the reader

Healths Sickness A10184

Printed
… Rattes, and Mice, in despite of Guard, and Garrisons, and all those Artes, and PolliciesPolicies of Fire, and Water-workes, that were vsed to secure them: as the Histories …
With rule
… Rattes, and Mice, in despite of Guard, and Garrisons, and all those Artes, and PolliciesPolicies of Fire, and Water-workes, that were vsed to secure them: as the Histories …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light A56171

Printed
… compiled to discover bona fide to his Highnesse and others, by what Romish Stratagems, PolliciesPolicies, Councels, Instruments they have been for sundry by-past yeers seduced, circumvented, abused, miscounselled …
With rule
… compiled to discover bona fide to his Highnesse and others, by what Romish Stratagems, PolliciesPolicies, Councels, Instruments they have been for sundry by-past yeers seduced, circumvented, abused, miscounselled …
William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · Open in the reader
Printed
… Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and German Papists have combined all their Purses, Forces, Armes, PolliciesPolicies, and Power together, to assist the King (who yet adheres unto their party, Councels …
With rule
… Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and German Papists have combined all their Purses, Forces, Armes, PolliciesPolicies, and Power together, to assist the King (who yet adheres unto their party, Councels …
William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 223 · Open in the reader