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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6846 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dilligentdiligent

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
119 times in 74 works
Consistency
97.5% (119 of 122)
Reach if approved
~128 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: diligent
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
122 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (119 changes in 74 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 119)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and redeem it again: by how much more careleſs we have been, the more dilligentdiligent ſhould we be for the future, compenſating former neglects by our after-care: a …
    With rule
    … and redeem it again: by how much more careleſs we have been, the more dilligentdiligent ſhould we be for the future, compenſating former neglects by our after-care: a …

    Abraham Caley · A Glimpse of Eternity · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    1 To giue dilligentdiligent heede to the word of God, and the rather: 1 for that according to it …
    With rule
    1 To giue dilligentdiligent heede to the word of God, and the rather: 1 for that according to it …

    George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Christ him-selfe if hee liued againe vpon the earth, if hee should bee dilligentdiligent at Sermons, yet seeing ye Lord hath honoured mee so highly as to become …
    With rule
    … Christ him-selfe if hee liued againe vpon the earth, if hee should bee dilligentdiligent at Sermons, yet seeing ye Lord hath honoured mee so highly as to become …

    Thomas Taylor · The Beauties of Bethel · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thy carriage bee humble, without baſe aſſentation, and yet ſecure to preuent allurements: Bee dilligentdiligent in thine affaires, that thou maiſt ſtand before Princes, and yet patient of preferment …
    With rule
    … thy carriage bee humble, without baſe aſſentation, and yet ſecure to preuent allurements: Bee dilligentdiligent in thine affaires, that thou maiſt ſtand before Princes, and yet patient of preferment …

    Thomas Cooper · The Churchs Deliverance · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … questions & answers, with diuers additions and illustrations of mine owne, hoping that in the dilligentdiligent reading hereof, the ignorant shall get knowledge, the wauering finde resolution, the distressed receiue …
    With rule
    … questions & answers, with diuers additions and illustrations of mine owne, hoping that in the dilligentdiligent reading hereof, the ignorant shall get knowledge, the wauering finde resolution, the distressed receiue …

    Thomas Draxe · The Sick Mans Catechism · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … oppoſition is great, Miniſters are often perſecuted, and reproacht, and the more faithfull and dilligentdiligent they are, the more they are oppoſed and reproached. To preach the Goſpel fully …
    With rule
    … oppoſition is great, Miniſters are often perſecuted, and reproacht, and the more faithfull and dilligentdiligent they are, the more they are oppoſed and reproached. To preach the Goſpel fully …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 32-24 · p. 381 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    And now if upon dilligentdiligent enquiry thy conscience accuse thee, and thine owne heart condemne thee, oh then be …
    With rule
    And now if upon dilligentdiligent enquiry thy conscience accuse thee, and thine owne heart condemne thee, oh then be …

    Nathaniel Hardy · First Epistle of John Applied Part 2 · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    A dilligentdiligent Searcher of Antiquity, tells us , That he cannot find, among all the Interpreters of …
    With rule
    A dilligentdiligent Searcher of Antiquity, tells us , That he cannot find, among all the Interpreters of …

    Simon Patrick · Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church Relating to the Eucharist · p. 146 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 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.