Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6686 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

glosesglosses

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 275 times in 86 works
Consistency: 97.5% (275 of 282)
Reach if approved: ~296 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: gloss
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 282 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (275 changes in 86 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 275)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, Esa. 5, 18. for their fair pretenses, their cunning glosesglosses, their goodly circumstance of speeche, and all to vpholde and bolster out the vniust …
With rule
… that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, Esa. 5, 18. for their fair pretenses, their cunning glosesglosses, their goodly circumstance of speeche, and all to vpholde and bolster out the vniust …
Andrew Willet · Sermon on Zechariah 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs: whiche thing all the writinges of the Apoſtles doe witneſſe, but ſuche feigned gloſesglosses do obſcure and darken. To be ſhorte, there is one GOD and Sauiour of …
With rule
… vs: whiche thing all the writinges of the Apoſtles doe witneſſe, but ſuche feigned gloſesglosses do obſcure and darken. To be ſhorte, there is one GOD and Sauiour of …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 1002 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinke that I am forſaken. Nowe, this declareth, that they which ſéeke after ſuche gloſesglosses, are not onely ignorant, but alſo verie blockheades and doltes: and ceaſe not beſides …
With rule
… thinke that I am forſaken. Nowe, this declareth, that they which ſéeke after ſuche gloſesglosses, are not onely ignorant, but alſo verie blockheades and doltes: and ceaſe not beſides …
John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prayer, the two Tables of the Law, and they expounded and vindicated from false glosesglosses and interpretations by our Saviour in the 5 of Math. which that Temple had not …
With rule
… prayer, the two Tables of the Law, and they expounded and vindicated from false glosesglosses and interpretations by our Saviour in the 5 of Math. which that Temple had not …
Walter Balcanquhall · The Honor of Christian Churches · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crept in at once, which was vnlawfull, and contrarie to Gods ordinance, (notwithſtanding their gloſesglosses in their other writinges, to allow them to be lawfull by Zadok and Ahimelech …
With rule
… crept in at once, which was vnlawfull, and contrarie to Gods ordinance, (notwithſtanding their gloſesglosses in their other writinges, to allow them to be lawfull by Zadok and Ahimelech …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… woorde wyth myngeling hys chaffe, drosse, darnell, cockell and tares, I mean the false glosesglosses, and vnsauery exposicions of the papistes, Anabaptistes, and suche other sec…aries? Howe wickedlye …
With rule
… woorde wyth myngeling hys chaffe, drosse, darnell, cockell and tares, I mean the false glosesglosses, and vnsauery exposicions of the papistes, Anabaptistes, and suche other sec…aries? Howe wickedlye …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… as they are coombred with, (though often plaine and easie;) to péece out their glosesglosses with braine-sicke dreames, and sotti…h fables. In Genesis it is prophecied of …
With rule
… as they are coombred with, (though often plaine and easie;) to péece out their glosesglosses with braine-sicke dreames, and sotti…h fables. In Genesis it is prophecied of …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the kyngedome of heauen cleaue vnto the pure lawe of God without all mennes gloſesglosses.
With rule
… the kyngedome of heauen cleaue vnto the pure lawe of God without all mennes gloſesglosses.
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

Printed
… Faithe: but the Pope with his Doctorlie Schoolemen, and Cloiſtered Diuines, hath with their GloſesGlosses mangled this woorde, and wreſted it to the maintenaunce of their lyes and trifles …
With rule
… Faithe: but the Pope with his Doctorlie Schoolemen, and Cloiſtered Diuines, hath with their GloſesGlosses mangled this woorde, and wreſted it to the maintenaunce of their lyes and trifles …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation A19563

Printed
… Gods worke is to be accompted wrought. And I finde it not in blynd GlosesGlosses, but in the chief authors of the Papistes, that the conuersion is not wrought …
With rule
… Gods worke is to be accompted wrought. And I finde it not in blynd GlosesGlosses, but in the chief authors of the Papistes, that the conuersion is not wrought …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 258 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

Printed
I do but onely wype away the filthie and roten GloſesGlosses wherewith the Scribes and the Phariſeis haue ſmered the law, and the Prophetes, & rebuke …
With rule
I do but onely wype away the filthie and roten GloſesGlosses wherewith the Scribes and the Phariſeis haue ſmered the law, and the Prophetes, & rebuke …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
GloſesGlosses. 200. a. Phariſaicall. 264. b
With rule
GloſesGlosses. 200. a. Phariſaicall. 264. b
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader