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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6712 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sekingseeking

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
131 times in 77 works
Consistency
98.5% (131 of 133)
Reach if approved
~140 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: seeking
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
133 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (131 changes in 77 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 131)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lacke most playne and cleare aucthorites of the same in the scriptures. But in sekingseeking of the scriptures / let vs seke no farther then is left in writīg by …
    With rule
    … lacke most playne and cleare aucthorites of the same in the scriptures. But in sekingseeking of the scriptures / let vs seke no farther then is left in writīg by …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … any occasion to speake or to roare out when he … hys tyme. …, … goeth about sekingseeking and not sleping, as our Byshops do, but he seketh diligently, he searcheth diligently …
    With rule
    … any occasion to speake or to roare out when he … hys tyme. …, … goeth about sekingseeking and not sleping, as our Byshops do, but he seketh diligently, he searcheth diligently …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    IF Sathan by this subtile and crafty suggestion sekingseeking thy dānation, go about to pluck thy faith, confidence, and truste from Christe his …
    With rule
    IF Sathan by this subtile and crafty suggestion sekingseeking thy dānation, go about to pluck thy faith, confidence, and truste from Christe his …

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

  4. Printed
    … diſſimulatiō ſeketh to abuſe al thoſe yt ether behold him or heare him: in ſekingseeking his own comodite, wt the detrement & domage of other. But as for me I …
    With rule
    … diſſimulatiō ſeketh to abuſe al thoſe yt ether behold him or heare him: in ſekingseeking his own comodite, wt the detrement & domage of other. But as for me I …

    Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Churches of Antichrist in the N. Testament: contraryweise in his Character of the Beast, sekingseeking shifts for his anabaptisme, he sayth Israels apostasie did not destroy the true constitution …
    With rule
    … Churches of Antichrist in the N. Testament: contraryweise in his Character of the Beast, sekingseeking shifts for his anabaptisme, he sayth Israels apostasie did not destroy the true constitution …

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … but rather a Stone, an enemye to Nature, a rebel to God him selfe, sekingseeking through his owne …olye, his last ende and destruction.
    With rule
    … but rather a Stone, an enemye to Nature, a rebel to God him selfe, sekingseeking through his owne …olye, his last ende and destruction.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to eſcape out. That is / yf thou put thy hole truſt onely in hym / ſekingseeking onely his glorye & prayſe in all that thou goeſt about / he wyll (I ſaye …
    With rule
    … to eſcape out. That is / yf thou put thy hole truſt onely in hym / ſekingseeking onely his glorye & prayſe in all that thou goeſt about / he wyll (I ſaye …

    Henrich Bullinger · Two Epistles · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … wtout any mocion or applicatiō of ye whole life to be beſtowed ī ye ſekingseeking & beholdīg of ye face of god. But ſo ſone as he hath determined yt …
    With rule
    … wtout any mocion or applicatiō of ye whole life to be beſtowed ī ye ſekingseeking & beholdīg of ye face of god. But ſo ſone as he hath determined yt …

    John Calvin · Four Sermons Against the Pollution of Idolatries · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Observer of Time A07942

  • Printed
    … of you, howe I haue alwayes behaued my ſelfe in this variete of religion. SekingSeeking nothing ſo much as to liue in peace and quietneſſe, for the mayntenaunce whereof …
    With rule
    … of you, howe I haue alwayes behaued my ſelfe in this variete of religion. SekingSeeking nothing ſo much as to liue in peace and quietneſſe, for the mayntenaunce whereof …

    Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader