Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6886 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

metaphysicallmetaphysical

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 188 times in 91 works
Consistency: 100% (188 of 188)
Reach if approved: ~198 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: metaphysical
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 188 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (188 changes in 91 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 188)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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But, partly metaphysicallmetaphysical appears,
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But, partly metaphysicallmetaphysical appears,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
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… whether in the faculties and powers of it. But we need not be ſo MetaphyſicallMetaphysical and nice: This is enough to conclude, that grace doth firſt heale and renew …
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… whether in the faculties and powers of it. But we need not be ſo MetaphyſicallMetaphysical and nice: This is enough to conclude, that grace doth firſt heale and renew …
Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 219 · Open in the reader
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… none of his favour. Mr. B. muſt be taught, that the adequate ſubject of MetaphyſicallMetaphysical ſcience is, Ens quatenus ens, reale illud, non omnimodò poſitivum quatenus eſt poſitivum. A …
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… none of his favour. Mr. B. muſt be taught, that the adequate ſubject of MetaphyſicallMetaphysical ſcience is, Ens quatenus ens, reale illud, non omnimodò poſitivum quatenus eſt poſitivum. A …
Henry Hickman · Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen · p. 67 · Open in the reader
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St. Paul confeſſeth that leaſt he ſhould be too much exalted with that MetaphyſicallMetaphysical rapture above meaſure. There was given me a thorn in the fleſh, the meſſenger …
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St. Paul confeſſeth that leaſt he ſhould be too much exalted with that MetaphyſicallMetaphysical rapture above meaſure. There was given me a thorn in the fleſh, the meſſenger …
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 206 · Open in the reader
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… ſchooles haue wearied themſelues in the ſolution; To what purpoſe ſhould I reade a MetaphyſicallMetaphysical Lecture to Courtiers? Truth is as Time, one in all; yet, as Time, though …
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… ſchooles haue wearied themſelues in the ſolution; To what purpoſe ſhould I reade a MetaphyſicallMetaphysical Lecture to Courtiers? Truth is as Time, one in all; yet, as Time, though …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 515 · Open in the reader
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… late yeers, they will a little refine their doctrine concerning Imageworſhip, by Diſtinctions and MetaphyſicallMetaphysical Notions, yet the practice of the people among them (to my knowledge) is no …
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… late yeers, they will a little refine their doctrine concerning Imageworſhip, by Diſtinctions and MetaphyſicallMetaphysical Notions, yet the practice of the people among them (to my knowledge) is no …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 15 · Open in the reader
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… winne an enimy of grace vnto the loue of Chriſt, by the moſt accurate MetaphyſicallMetaphysical diſcourſes of thoſe infinitely ſuperlatiue beauties in the Deity abſolutely conſidered, either they would …
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… winne an enimy of grace vnto the loue of Chriſt, by the moſt accurate MetaphyſicallMetaphysical diſcourſes of thoſe infinitely ſuperlatiue beauties in the Deity abſolutely conſidered, either they would …
William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 105 · Open in the reader
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… of the word Doctrine which I uſed; But I will not inſiſt upon theſe MetaphyſicallMetaphysical and generall notions, which are little ſought into by reaſon of the difficult abſtraction …
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… of the word Doctrine which I uſed; But I will not inſiſt upon theſe MetaphyſicallMetaphysical and generall notions, which are little ſought into by reaſon of the difficult abſtraction …
John Stoughton · A Learned Treatise in Three Parts · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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