Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6770 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

frugallfrugal

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 138 times in 102 works
Consistency: 97.1% (138 of 142)
Reach if approved: ~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: frugal
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (138 changes in 102 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 138)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Secondly, Faith is painfull, prouident and frugallfrugal, though not diſtruſtfull, pinching or niggardly. It ſhakes off idleneſſe, obſerues Gods prouidence, takes …
With rule
Secondly, Faith is painfull, prouident and frugallfrugal, though not diſtruſtfull, pinching or niggardly. It ſhakes off idleneſſe, obſerues Gods prouidence, takes …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 367 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that thou ſpendeſt all, and neither needleſſely, nor riotouſly, nor ſuperfluouſly, that thou art frugallfrugal, provident, and circumſpect enough, in the managing of thy affaires, but yet canſt not …
With rule
… that thou ſpendeſt all, and neither needleſſely, nor riotouſly, nor ſuperfluouſly, that thou art frugallfrugal, provident, and circumſpect enough, in the managing of thy affaires, but yet canſt not …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 469 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoone ſpent; like a ſudden blaze conſumed in a preſent flame; which, by more frugallfrugal ordering of it, according to his ability, might laſt much longer, to the greater …
With rule
… ſoone ſpent; like a ſudden blaze conſumed in a preſent flame; which, by more frugallfrugal ordering of it, according to his ability, might laſt much longer, to the greater …
John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
Again, who will truſt a drunkard with either money or commodity? A frugallfrugal man that is worth but little, ſhall be truſted with more, then a drunkard …
With rule
Again, who will truſt a drunkard with either money or commodity? A frugallfrugal man that is worth but little, ſhall be truſted with more, then a drunkard …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
Reproofe of them that are frugallfrugal and thriftie, and neate, and husbandly for euery thing but for themſelues. Their carable …
With rule
Reproofe of them that are frugallfrugal and thriftie, and neate, and husbandly for euery thing but for themſelues. Their carable …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and blemiſh all other their good qualities: admit the Wife is chaſte, wiſe, diſcreet, frugallfrugal, an excellent Huſwife and ſuch like, yet if ſhee bee not ſubiect to her …
With rule
… and blemiſh all other their good qualities: admit the Wife is chaſte, wiſe, diſcreet, frugallfrugal, an excellent Huſwife and ſuch like, yet if ſhee bee not ſubiect to her …
Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of behaviour both towards his own and strangers. An excellent Governour of the Church; frugallfrugal and tem…rate in his diet; merry and pleasant with those that lived w …
With rule
… of behaviour both towards his own and strangers. An excellent Governour of the Church; frugallfrugal and tem…rate in his diet; merry and pleasant with those that lived w …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 744 · Open in the reader
Printed
Which to theſe frugallfrugal Branches is the well grown Tree?
With rule
Which to theſe frugallfrugal Branches is the well grown Tree?
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… his Chaplaine Vrswick, the greatest part of all his great negotiation passed. He was FrugallFrugal from his youth, not Covetous till ancient and sickly; and therefore what defect he …
With rule
… his Chaplaine Vrswick, the greatest part of all his great negotiation passed. He was FrugallFrugal from his youth, not Covetous till ancient and sickly; and therefore what defect he …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 161 · Open in the reader