Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6804 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swiftnesswiftness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 107 times in 73 works
Consistency: 98.1% (107 of 109)
Reach if approved: ~115 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swiftness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 109 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (107 changes in 73 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 107)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… delusion, hath a power to peruert and seduce men with no lesse celerity and swiftnesswiftness, then fire hath to burne being kindled in a forest of Iuniper. Likewise the …
With rule
… delusion, hath a power to peruert and seduce men with no lesse celerity and swiftnesswiftness, then fire hath to burne being kindled in a forest of Iuniper. Likewise the …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a farre greater magnificent eſtate then euer before, & hath cōducted it by a maruelous ſwiftnesswiftness from Eaſt vnto weſt, hauing finally ouerturned the Romaine Empire, ſtubbornely ſette to hinder …
With rule
… a farre greater magnificent eſtate then euer before, & hath cōducted it by a maruelous ſwiftnesswiftness from Eaſt vnto weſt, hauing finally ouerturned the Romaine Empire, ſtubbornely ſette to hinder …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 374 · Open in the reader
Printed
… well furniſhed with tackle and ſailes, that may give the motion and advance the ſwiftnesswiftness of it; but if the ſhip hath not ballaſt in it, nor weight to …
With rule
… well furniſhed with tackle and ſailes, that may give the motion and advance the ſwiftnesswiftness of it; but if the ſhip hath not ballaſt in it, nor weight to …
John Stoughton · The Righteous Mans Plea to True Happiness · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the good… glosse inter. 7. By the wheeles is shadowed forth, incredibilis pernicitas, his incredible swiftnesswiftness to iudgement, Polan. and they are fierie, quod eius accessus impediri …equit, because his …
With rule
… the good… glosse inter. 7. By the wheeles is shadowed forth, incredibilis pernicitas, his incredible swiftnesswiftness to iudgement, Polan. and they are fierie, quod eius accessus impediri …equit, because his …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be a ſwift thought or counſel; neither do I denie but he notes the ſwiftnesswiftness of Cyrus his voyage.
With rule
… be a ſwift thought or counſel; neither do I denie but he notes the ſwiftnesswiftness of Cyrus his voyage.
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 494 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to a volume, if we ſhould declare all the euill that inſueth vpon this ſwiftnesswiftness of prayſing men at random, without the proofe & triall of them, for the countenancing …
With rule
… to a volume, if we ſhould declare all the euill that inſueth vpon this ſwiftnesswiftness of prayſing men at random, without the proofe & triall of them, for the countenancing …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 13-14 · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have the Saints tasted Christs sweetnes, but presently they are carried after him with swiftnesswiftness: they cannot rest till they are joyned unto him, whom their soul loveth.
With rule
… have the Saints tasted Christs sweetnes, but presently they are carried after him with swiftnesswiftness: they cannot rest till they are joyned unto him, whom their soul loveth.
John Trapp · Commentary on the Gospels and Acts · p. 553 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Interpreter inſiſts much upon the emphaſis of this Expreſſion, to ſhew not onely the ſwiftnesswiftness, but the feircenes of a wicked mans ſpirit in ſinning, hee is ſwift upon …
With rule
… Interpreter inſiſts much upon the emphaſis of this Expreſſion, to ſhew not onely the ſwiftnesswiftness, but the feircenes of a wicked mans ſpirit in ſinning, hee is ſwift upon …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 22-26 · p. 604 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

Printed
D. 8. SwiftnesSwiftness to sin brings a torrent of evill upon men.
With rule
D. 8. SwiftnesSwiftness to sin brings a torrent of evill upon men.
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 582 · Open in the reader