Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6824 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

graduallgradual

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 297 times in 167 works
Consistency: 92.5% (297 of 321)
Reach if approved: ~337 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gradual
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 321 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (297 changes in 167 works, 92.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 297)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to full perfection in one day, ſo as they had no need of a graduallgradual growth as my brother Burton affirmeth. All theſe things I ſay, the Independents do …
With rule
… to full perfection in one day, ſo as they had no need of a graduallgradual growth as my brother Burton affirmeth. All theſe things I ſay, the Independents do …
John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
A TREATISE OF THE Covenant of GRACE: WHEREIN The graduallgradual breakings out of Goſpel grace from Adam to Chriſt are clearly diſcovered the differences …
With rule
A TREATISE OF THE Covenant of GRACE: WHEREIN The graduallgradual breakings out of Goſpel grace from Adam to Chriſt are clearly diſcovered the differences …
John Ball · A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace · Open in the reader
Printed
Hope and truſt are often taken promiſcuouſly. There is a graduallgradual difference between them, not an eſſentiall. Truſt being the ſtrength of hope, or the …
With rule
Hope and truſt are often taken promiſcuouſly. There is a graduallgradual difference between them, not an eſſentiall. Truſt being the ſtrength of hope, or the …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 8-10 · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… best some diminution and abatement of his Goodnesse? Why will he not prevent this graduallgradual destruction of the Foundations, which so much grieveth the godly, and giveth occasion to …
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… best some diminution and abatement of his Goodnesse? Why will he not prevent this graduallgradual destruction of the Foundations, which so much grieveth the godly, and giveth occasion to …
Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whosoever confides in his own Parts and Abilities may probably promise to himself a graduallgradual Ascent even to the satiety of worldly Ease, Riches, and Honour. Did not these …
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… whosoever confides in his own Parts and Abilities may probably promise to himself a graduallgradual Ascent even to the satiety of worldly Ease, Riches, and Honour. Did not these …
William Jameson · The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy Examined and Disproved · Open in the reader
Printed
… then in the other; but magis & minus non variant speciem; agrauating circumstances make a graduallgradual, not a specificall difference in sinne.
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… then in the other; but magis & minus non variant speciem; agrauating circumstances make a graduallgradual, not a specificall difference in sinne.
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
Firſt, good and euill things haue their meaſure of graduallgradual quantitie according to the greatneſſe of their effects. An euill thing the more it …
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Firſt, good and euill things haue their meaſure of graduallgradual quantitie according to the greatneſſe of their effects. An euill thing the more it …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the things compounded of them, I never heard till now: Degrees, or rather a graduallgradual extension of quantity is gotten by that act of vegetation which is called growth …
With rule
… the things compounded of them, I never heard till now: Degrees, or rather a graduallgradual extension of quantity is gotten by that act of vegetation which is called growth …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 143 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Happiness of the Church A01956

Printed
More particularly in the words wee may consider fiue GraduallGradual Circumstances.
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More particularly in the words wee may consider fiue GraduallGradual Circumstances.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 349 · Open in the reader

The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law A12183

Printed
1. Reall, …. GraduallGradual. 345
With rule
1. Reall, …. GraduallGradual. 345
Richard Sibbes · The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law · Open in the reader

The Inability of Natural Man to Attain Right Knowledge A45220

Printed
2. GraduallGradual increaſe of this ſins ſtrength is occaſiō of naturall mans ignorance of this ſin.
With rule
2. GraduallGradual increaſe of this ſins ſtrength is occaſiō of naturall mans ignorance of this ſin.
Henry Hurst · The Inability of Natural Man to Attain Right Knowledge · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… error and renders it impoſſible he ſhould diſcover this ſin fully; That is, the GraduallGradual increaſe, and conſtant growth in the ſoule which keeps even pace with his improvement …
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… error and renders it impoſſible he ſhould diſcover this ſin fully; That is, the GraduallGradual increaſe, and conſtant growth in the ſoule which keeps even pace with his improvement …
Henry Hurst · The Inability of Natural Man to Attain Right Knowledge · p. 82 · Open in the reader

A Parallel Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass Book A77473

Printed
… Maſſe: the next foure are leſſe principall and of ſmall conſideration, to wit, the GraduallGradual, Halelujah, tractus, and ſequentia, theſe the Papiſts will diſpenſe with, though they bee left …
With rule
… Maſſe: the next foure are leſſe principall and of ſmall conſideration, to wit, the GraduallGradual, Halelujah, tractus, and ſequentia, theſe the Papiſts will diſpenſe with, though they bee left …
Robert Baillie · A Parallel Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass Book · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
As for the foure leſſe principall parts of the Inſtruction, to wit, the GraduallGradual, Halelujah, tractus, and ſequentia, which are ſung betwixt the Epiſtle and the Goſpell, the …
With rule
As for the foure leſſe principall parts of the Inſtruction, to wit, the GraduallGradual, Halelujah, tractus, and ſequentia, which are ſung betwixt the Epiſtle and the Goſpell, the …
Robert Baillie · A Parallel Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass Book · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Councell of Toledo, and came in only by cuſtome; heare Walafridus Confeſſion of the GraduallGradual and Halelujah, as for the tractus & ſequentia, they were not heard of even in …
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… Councell of Toledo, and came in only by cuſtome; heare Walafridus Confeſſion of the GraduallGradual and Halelujah, as for the tractus & ſequentia, they were not heard of even in …
Robert Baillie · A Parallel Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass Book · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we have all in the ſame order, foure of little moment, to wit, the GraduallGradual, Halelujah, Tractus, and Sequentia. Theſe with the Popes good leave may all be omitted …
With rule
… we have all in the ſame order, foure of little moment, to wit, the GraduallGradual, Halelujah, Tractus, and Sequentia. Theſe with the Popes good leave may all be omitted …
Robert Baillie · A Parallel Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass Book · p. 86 · Open in the reader

Truth Tried A97067

Printed
… each is other, or of the ſame Particular nature, without any other then a GraduallGradual difference;) I muſt deny both. And Mr. Sadler (his Lordſhips Champion) denies it with …
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… each is other, or of the ſame Particular nature, without any other then a GraduallGradual difference;) I muſt deny both. And Mr. Sadler (his Lordſhips Champion) denies it with …
John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lordſhip yet contend, That this Being is alſo Specifically the Same, only with a GraduallGradual Diſtinction.
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… Lordſhip yet contend, That this Being is alſo Specifically the Same, only with a GraduallGradual Diſtinction.
John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath not Man the Loadſtones Magnetick faculty? For if there be onely a bare GraduallGradual diſtinction in their Eſſence: then the Inferiour Eſſence is actually included in the Superiour …
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… hath not Man the Loadſtones Magnetick faculty? For if there be onely a bare GraduallGradual diſtinction in their Eſſence: then the Inferiour Eſſence is actually included in the Superiour …
John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſame Nature with Faith; Yet doth it not preſently follow, That their difference is GraduallGradual, and the one but a greater Degree of the ſame Light: For Skill in …
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… ſame Nature with Faith; Yet doth it not preſently follow, That their difference is GraduallGradual, and the one but a greater Degree of the ſame Light: For Skill in …
John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are not the Same (though of the ſame nature;) neither yet is their difference GraduallGradual; For the one is not the way to attain the other and the other …
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… are not the Same (though of the ſame nature;) neither yet is their difference GraduallGradual; For the one is not the way to attain the other and the other …
John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 84 · Open in the reader