Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6749 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

belzebubbeelzebub

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 254 times in 194 works
Consistency: 99.2% (254 of 256)
Reach if approved: ~269 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: belzebub
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 256 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (254 changes in 194 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 254)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Iewes sinisterly attributed all hee did to vainglory, and to the worke of BelzebubBeelzebub. In the other words following with Paul in future euents, let vs learn quietly …
With rule
… the Iewes sinisterly attributed all hee did to vainglory, and to the worke of BelzebubBeelzebub. In the other words following with Paul in future euents, let vs learn quietly …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 1236 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſeruaunt as his maiſter. If they haue called the maiſter of the houſhold BelzebubBeelzebub, how much more his houſhold ſeruaunts? But feare them not (ſayth Chriſte.) But when …
With rule
… the ſeruaunt as his maiſter. If they haue called the maiſter of the houſhold BelzebubBeelzebub, how much more his houſhold ſeruaunts? But feare them not (ſayth Chriſte.) But when …
John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… them in an euerlasting victorye: yet horribly they reproched him by the naine of BelzebubBeelzebub, sayd he had a deuill, and by the power of Satan hee wrought all …
With rule
… them in an euerlasting victorye: yet horribly they reproched him by the naine of BelzebubBeelzebub, sayd he had a deuill, and by the power of Satan hee wrought all …
Edward Dering · Exposition of Hebrews 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… friend of Publicans and ſinners, a Conjurer, one that wrought by the helpe of BelzebubBeelzebub: was he not buffeted, ſpit on, whipped, crowned with thornes, & laſt of all deſpitefully …
With rule
… friend of Publicans and ſinners, a Conjurer, one that wrought by the helpe of BelzebubBeelzebub: was he not buffeted, ſpit on, whipped, crowned with thornes, & laſt of all deſpitefully …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… persecute vs his seruauntes & Disciples. If they haue called the father of the houshold BelzebubBeelzebub, much more they wyl cal them so, that are of hys housholde. If we …
With rule
… persecute vs his seruauntes & Disciples. If they haue called the father of the houshold BelzebubBeelzebub, much more they wyl cal them so, that are of hys housholde. If we …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… diuell in him, and for ſuch a one as had caſt out diuels by BelzebubBeelzebub, the chiefe of the Deuils, all which they broached, yea and in a full …
With rule
… diuell in him, and for ſuch a one as had caſt out diuels by BelzebubBeelzebub, the chiefe of the Deuils, all which they broached, yea and in a full …
Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God; a () man possessed with a deuill, and one () casting out diuills through BelzebubBeelzebub the Prince of the diuills? were not all his glorious and holy Apostles, condemned …
With rule
… of God; a () man possessed with a deuill, and one () casting out diuills through BelzebubBeelzebub the Prince of the diuills? were not all his glorious and holy Apostles, condemned …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… else, for to that end only were they erected, & therfore now are consecrate to BelzebubBeelzebub and Cerberus archdiuels of great ruffes.
With rule
… else, for to that end only were they erected, & therfore now are consecrate to BelzebubBeelzebub and Cerberus archdiuels of great ruffes.
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.