Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6880 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maddmad

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 184 times in 110 works
Consistency: 98.9% (184 of 186)
Reach if approved: ~195 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mad
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 186 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (184 changes in 110 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 184)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Altarwise at the East end of the Church. This ce…tainely is but a maddmad Consequence.
With rule
… Altarwise at the East end of the Church. This ce…tainely is but a maddmad Consequence.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Christian, who therefore willingly makes his sinne abound, because grace hath abounded. A maddmad man he is that will therefore breake his head, or wound his members, because …
With rule
… a Christian, who therefore willingly makes his sinne abound, because grace hath abounded. A maddmad man he is that will therefore breake his head, or wound his members, because …
Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 337 · Open in the reader
Printed
You are moou'd, and maddmad with vexing;
With rule
You are moou'd, and maddmad with vexing;
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader
Printed
… all whom to much want of learning with conceit of ſome witt, maketh not maddmad with Feſtus, that the ſpeach is a Iudaique dalliance to trappe an aſſe, like …
With rule
… all whom to much want of learning with conceit of ſome witt, maketh not maddmad with Feſtus, that the ſpeach is a Iudaique dalliance to trappe an aſſe, like …
Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… geſtures in laughing, dauncing & ſuch like lighte behauiour, that he was ſuſpected to be maddmad: ſundry times he refuſed all kynd of meate for a long ſpace togither, inſomuch …
With rule
… geſtures in laughing, dauncing & ſuch like lighte behauiour, that he was ſuſpected to be maddmad: ſundry times he refuſed all kynd of meate for a long ſpace togither, inſomuch …
John Darrell · Narration of the Strange and Grievous Vexation by the Devil · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… words of men poſſeſſed with afrenſie, give us a King or wee ſhall run maddmad for him, wee will have one whatſoever it coſt us, that we may be …
With rule
… words of men poſſeſſed with afrenſie, give us a King or wee ſhall run maddmad for him, wee will have one whatſoever it coſt us, that we may be …
John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee how they made a quarrell more than needed. For though Neſtorius had beene maddmad, yet would he never have held one Perſon of both natures, and alſo two …
With rule
… ſee how they made a quarrell more than needed. For though Neſtorius had beene maddmad, yet would he never have held one Perſon of both natures, and alſo two …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and counterfayte riche. With whō almoſt now euery corner throngs: whō, who is ſo maddmad to recken in this number? Of whō Salomon ſayeth in maner thus Ther be …
With rule
… and counterfayte riche. With whō almoſt now euery corner throngs: whō, who is ſo maddmad to recken in this number? Of whō Salomon ſayeth in maner thus Ther be …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · 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.

Vindication of Baptizing Believers Infants A86506

Printed
… leaſt they ſhould goe headlong into the PERNICIOVS ERRORS of former Anabaptiſts, and their MADDMAD FVRIES, or 2 leaſt they ſhould ſeem to deſert the leading men of the Reformed …
With rule
… leaſt they ſhould goe headlong into the PERNICIOVS ERRORS of former Anabaptiſts, and their MADDMAD FVRIES, or 2 leaſt they ſhould ſeem to deſert the leading men of the Reformed …
Nathanael Homes · Vindication of Baptizing Believers Infants · p. 192 · Open in the reader