Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6743 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unskilfullunskillful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 342 times in 256 works
Consistency: 97.7% (342 of 350)
Reach if approved: ~368 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: unskilful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 350 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (342 changes in 256 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 342)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… if they have riches therein, they rejoyce; and so like the dunghill Cocke, or unskilfullunskillful Lapidaries, preferre vaine things before this precious Jewell; but they that have once found …
With rule
… if they have riches therein, they rejoyce; and so like the dunghill Cocke, or unskilfullunskillful Lapidaries, preferre vaine things before this precious Jewell; but they that have once found …
John Preston · A Lifeless Life · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of his way; he acts a part and aſſumes a perſon he is unskilfullunskillful to act, therfore he doth it untowardly. But a mans way is his courſe …
With rule
… out of his way; he acts a part and aſſumes a perſon he is unskilfullunskillful to act, therfore he doth it untowardly. But a mans way is his courſe …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 465 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect of any true remorse, as hard as a Rocke of flint. Now those unskilfullunskillful Physitions of the Soule, who in this and the like cases, will needs without …
With rule
… respect of any true remorse, as hard as a Rocke of flint. Now those unskilfullunskillful Physitions of the Soule, who in this and the like cases, will needs without …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 253 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and fooles both. They be children, Heb. 5. 13. For every one that uſeth milke is unskilfullunskillful in the word of righteouſneſſe, for he is a babe, 1 Cor. 14. 20. Be not children …
With rule
… and fooles both. They be children, Heb. 5. 13. For every one that uſeth milke is unskilfullunskillful in the word of righteouſneſſe, for he is a babe, 1 Cor. 14. 20. Be not children …
Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… accidental to Religion, and ſome things hard to be underſtood, which the ignorant and unskilfullunskillful wreſt to their deſtruction? This is but to be Devils to our ſelves, and …
With rule
… accidental to Religion, and ſome things hard to be underſtood, which the ignorant and unskilfullunskillful wreſt to their deſtruction? This is but to be Devils to our ſelves, and …
Richard Baxter · More Reasons for the Christian Religion · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… skill to be directed into the right way for comfort, Heb. 6. The babe is unskilfullunskillful in the word of Righteouſneſſe, As the young Childe though it cryeth for the …
With rule
… skill to be directed into the right way for comfort, Heb. 6. The babe is unskilfullunskillful in the word of Righteouſneſſe, As the young Childe though it cryeth for the …
Anthony Burgess · One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 · p. 404 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and that such a one might possibly be found faithfull; but a timorous or unskilfullunskillful man must needs ruine all. Wherfore they reflected on Massie, whose good services gave …
With rule
… and that such a one might possibly be found faithfull; but a timorous or unskilfullunskillful man must needs ruine all. Wherfore they reflected on Massie, whose good services gave …
John Corbet · Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… No man can bee ignorant of the direfull effects of blind zeale: when an unskilfullunskillful Phaeton takes upon him to drive the chariot of the ſunne, hee ſets the …
With rule
… No man can bee ignorant of the direfull effects of blind zeale: when an unskilfullunskillful Phaeton takes upon him to drive the chariot of the ſunne, hee ſets the …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

1 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.

Exposition of Job 15-17 A35473

Printed
… the ſoules that ſhould not dye, and ſave them alive, that ſhould not live. UnskilfullUnskillful Phyſitians of the body, kill more then bodily diſeaſes. And though the unskilfulneſſe of …
With rule
… the ſoules that ſhould not dye, and ſave them alive, that ſhould not live. UnskilfullUnskillful Phyſitians of the body, kill more then bodily diſeaſes. And though the unskilfulneſſe of …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 217 · Open in the reader