Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6715 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

skillfullskillful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 117 times in 95 works
Consistency: 95.9% (117 of 122)
Reach if approved: ~128 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: skilful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 122 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (117 changes in 95 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 117)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… people ſhould be able to judge, without the helps of thoſe that are more ſkillfullskillful, much leſſe that they ſhould doe it perfectly: but they muſt have ſo much …
With rule
… people ſhould be able to judge, without the helps of thoſe that are more ſkillfullskillful, much leſſe that they ſhould doe it perfectly: but they muſt have ſo much …
John Davenport · Reply to a Book · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… here different mourners, they ſhall call the huſbandman to mourning and ſuch as are skillfullskillful of lamentation to wailing. You ſee he ſpeakes of two ſorts of perſons, they …
With rule
… here different mourners, they ſhall call the huſbandman to mourning and ſuch as are skillfullskillful of lamentation to wailing. You ſee he ſpeakes of two ſorts of perſons, they …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 375 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Matth. 7.23. And Luk. 13.27. foreign, workers of iniquity; that is the trade they profeſſe, and are skillfullskillful in. Samuel calls them, Doers of evill. 2 Sam. 3.39. Iſaiah, Evill doers, Chap. 9.17. Solomon, Wicked …
With rule
… Matth. 7.23. And Luk. 13.27. foreign, workers of iniquity; that is the trade they profeſſe, and are skillfullskillful in. Samuel calls them, Doers of evill. 2 Sam. 3.39. Iſaiah, Evill doers, Chap. 9.17. Solomon, Wicked …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 547 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thaddaeus Hagecius, ab Hayck Bohemus, Aulae Caesareae medicus, most skillfullskillful in Physick, Philosophy and Astronomy.
With rule
Thaddaeus Hagecius, ab Hayck Bohemus, Aulae Caesareae medicus, most skillfullskillful in Physick, Philosophy and Astronomy.
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stand still. How full of uncertainty have been the most witty Philosophers, the most skillfullskillful Rabbins, the most acute Papists in their way, following their own reason, or tradition …
With rule
… stand still. How full of uncertainty have been the most witty Philosophers, the most skillfullskillful Rabbins, the most acute Papists in their way, following their own reason, or tradition …
John Tombes · True Old Light Exalted Above Pretended New Light · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… converſations: as it is with the poyſon that is taken in hand by a skillfullskillful Phyſitian, hee knowes the nature of it, and knowes how to correct it, and …
With rule
… converſations: as it is with the poyſon that is taken in hand by a skillfullskillful Phyſitian, hee knowes the nature of it, and knowes how to correct it, and …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who are better met and yoaked than a Poor Sick Dying-man and a skillfullskillful Physician; Who is better yoaked than a crying Begging-sinner and a Rich Christ …
With rule
… who are better met and yoaked than a Poor Sick Dying-man and a skillfullskillful Physician; Who is better yoaked than a crying Begging-sinner and a Rich Christ …
Samuel Rutherford · Christ and the Doves · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I was borne. Thou gavest mee a most loving and kinde Father, a very skillfullskillful and learned Schoole-master, worthy and ingenuous education, &c. Thou preservedst me mightily and …
With rule
… I was borne. Thou gavest mee a most loving and kinde Father, a very skillfullskillful and learned Schoole-master, worthy and ingenuous education, &c. Thou preservedst me mightily and …
Robert Bolton · Prayers Upon Solemn Occasions · p. 284 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

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