Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6813 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

widdowswidows

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 435 times in 259 works
Consistency: 99.7% (435 of 436)
Reach if approved: ~458 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: widows
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 436 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (435 changes in 259 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 435)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… you would have given, is set down on your account as given indeed. The WiddowsWidows two mites were praised by Christ as a bountiful gift, and a Cup of …
With rule
… you would have given, is set down on your account as given indeed. The WiddowsWidows two mites were praised by Christ as a bountiful gift, and a Cup of …
Richard Baxter · Directions for Weak Distempered Christians · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themſelves to God in that pure and undefiled Religion which viſiteth the fatherleſs and widdowswidows in their affliction, and keepeth men unſpotted from the world,] Jam. 1. 27. What houſes or …
With rule
… themſelves to God in that pure and undefiled Religion which viſiteth the fatherleſs and widdowswidows in their affliction, and keepeth men unſpotted from the world,] Jam. 1. 27. What houſes or …
Richard Baxter · The Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no new Officers created: Chriſt hath made Paſtors, and Teachers, Elders, and Decons, and WiddowsWidows in the Church; and not any new ſort can be added by all the …
With rule
… no new Officers created: Chriſt hath made Paſtors, and Teachers, Elders, and Decons, and WiddowsWidows in the Church; and not any new ſort can be added by all the …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Conversation · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… But it proved the leaven of his own destruction. His practice (together with the WiddowsWidows) was to procure the present Pope, who (Steven being dead) was one Adrian, a …
With rule
… But it proved the leaven of his own destruction. His practice (together with the WiddowsWidows) was to procure the present Pope, who (Steven being dead) was one Adrian, a …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Alexander the Great · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… truſt in and rely upon, but God alone, (who is the Father of the widdowswidows and the fatherleſs, Pſal. 68.6.), and ſuch as daily give themſelves to the exerciſes of …
With rule
… truſt in and rely upon, but God alone, (who is the Father of the widdowswidows and the fatherleſs, Pſal. 68.6.), and ſuch as daily give themſelves to the exerciſes of …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they haue taken the riches and the precious thinges: they haue made her many widdowswidows in the middeſt thereof, her prieſts haue broken my law, and haue defiled my …
With rule
… they haue taken the riches and the precious thinges: they haue made her many widdowswidows in the middeſt thereof, her prieſts haue broken my law, and haue defiled my …
John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all men were euen as I my ſelfe. 8. I ſay to the vnmarried and widdowswidows, it is good for them, if they abide, euen as I, that is, ſingle …
With rule
… all men were euen as I my ſelfe. 8. I ſay to the vnmarried and widdowswidows, it is good for them, if they abide, euen as I, that is, ſingle …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the unjuſt Judge; who neither feared God nor man, yet becauſe of the WiddowsWidows importunity, he would judge her cauſe; And ſhall not the Judge of all do …
With rule
… of the unjuſt Judge; who neither feared God nor man, yet becauſe of the WiddowsWidows importunity, he would judge her cauſe; And ſhall not the Judge of all do …
Timothy Armitage · A Trial of Faith · p. 94 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Last Collection of Speeches Letters and Prayers A71165

Printed
The HUMBLE PETITION OF THE WIDDOWSWIDOWS AND FATHERLESS CHIDREN IN THE Weſt of England, (TO BE) Preſented to this preſent …
With rule
The HUMBLE PETITION OF THE WIDDOWSWIDOWS AND FATHERLESS CHIDREN IN THE Weſt of England, (TO BE) Preſented to this preſent …
John Tutchin · Last Collection of Speeches Letters and Prayers · p. 28 · Open in the reader