Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6802 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stiflystiffly

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 449 times in 332 works
Consistency: 99.5% (449 of 451)
Reach if approved: ~474 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stiffly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 451 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (449 changes in 332 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 449)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… rentes. I warrant you, or any suche matter. And the bishop for standing so stiflystiffly by the matter, and bearyng vp the order of our mother the holy churche …
With rule
… rentes. I warrant you, or any suche matter. And the bishop for standing so stiflystiffly by the matter, and bearyng vp the order of our mother the holy churche …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe that doe adhere to them, defend on the other ſide, and either partie ſtiflystiffly and violently perſecuting other, as is the cuſtome in ſuch commotions, without regard of …
With rule
… thoſe that doe adhere to them, defend on the other ſide, and either partie ſtiflystiffly and violently perſecuting other, as is the cuſtome in ſuch commotions, without regard of …
Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… must bee, as it hath beene in all ages and times of the world, stiflystiffly and instantly accused of rebellions, insurrections, seditions, treasons, and the most grievous scandals that …
With rule
… must bee, as it hath beene in all ages and times of the world, stiflystiffly and instantly accused of rebellions, insurrections, seditions, treasons, and the most grievous scandals that …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 572 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the communion, the benefit of this body we exclude not from the ſupper: but ſtiflystiffly maintaine, that in the ſupper whole Chriſt is preſent to each mans faith. This …
With rule
… the communion, the benefit of this body we exclude not from the ſupper: but ſtiflystiffly maintaine, that in the ſupper whole Chriſt is preſent to each mans faith. This …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet, all the day, he ſtiflystiffly ploddeth on,
With rule
Yet, all the day, he ſtiflystiffly ploddeth on,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his hart or the likinges of his owne will for seruices vnto God, nor stiflystiffly vrged them vpon other men to be kept: but persisted simply and vncorruptly in …
With rule
… his hart or the likinges of his owne will for seruices vnto God, nor stiflystiffly vrged them vpon other men to be kept: but persisted simply and vncorruptly in …
Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. What ſay yee then vnto thoſe, which hold ſtiflystiffly, that none are Saintes, while they liue?
With rule
Q. What ſay yee then vnto thoſe, which hold ſtiflystiffly, that none are Saintes, while they liue?
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… a mans own particular reconciliation with God. Now it is certaine, that Papiſts do ſtiflystiffly maintaine it, that it is vnpoſſible for a man by an ordinary faith to …
With rule
… a mans own particular reconciliation with God. Now it is certaine, that Papiſts do ſtiflystiffly maintaine it, that it is vnpoſſible for a man by an ordinary faith to …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 67 · 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.