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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6898 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

poeticallpoetical

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
344 times in 185 works
Consistency
98.2% (344 of 350)
Reach if approved
~368 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: poetical
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
350 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (344 changes in 185 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 344)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … curiouſlie, to diſpute touching the paines of Hell, leſt that wee thereby run into poeticallpoetical fables.
    With rule
    … curiouſlie, to diſpute touching the paines of Hell, leſt that wee thereby run into poeticallpoetical fables.

    Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … selves farre better in undergoing the office of a comforter; but the fictions of poeticallpoetical, and comicall witts are nothing to be regarded as of any force to discover …
    With rule
    … selves farre better in undergoing the office of a comforter; but the fictions of poeticallpoetical, and comicall witts are nothing to be regarded as of any force to discover …

    William Twisse · The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort · p. 137 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … such an honourable testimonie and commendation of him: Mar. Borr. 4. Neither was this a poeticallpoetical and fained lamentation for Saul: for the people of Israel verily and in deed …
    With rule
    … such an honourable testimonie and commendation of him: Mar. Borr. 4. Neither was this a poeticallpoetical and fained lamentation for Saul: for the people of Israel verily and in deed …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 2 Samuel · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … The Legall, are the fiue bookes of Moſes. Hiſtoricall, the twelue following to Iob. PoeticallPoetical, the ſix following from the beginning of Iob to Eſay. Propheticall, the three great …
    With rule
    … The Legall, are the fiue bookes of Moſes. Hiſtoricall, the twelue following to Iob. PoeticallPoetical, the ſix following from the beginning of Iob to Eſay. Propheticall, the three great …

    John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … est radius diuini luminis, and r… cta ratio ſūmi Iouis. Plato, by way of PoeticallPoetical fiction doth imagine that there were a… the firſt, two contrarie humors that raigne …
    With rule
    … est radius diuini luminis, and r… cta ratio ſūmi Iouis. Plato, by way of PoeticallPoetical fiction doth imagine that there were a… the firſt, two contrarie humors that raigne …

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … all images in religion. Finally, it is also manifest, that his versifier making a PoeticallPoetical prosopopeia, induceth Christe hanging vpon the crosse, and speaking to him that commeth into …
    With rule
    … all images in religion. Finally, it is also manifest, that his versifier making a PoeticallPoetical prosopopeia, induceth Christe hanging vpon the crosse, and speaking to him that commeth into …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … things alſo argue the difficultie of it. 1. The very phraſe and ſtile, which being poeticallpoetical is the more obſcure. 2. The manie Rhetoricall allegories, and hyperbolicall metaphors which are hard …
    With rule
    … things alſo argue the difficultie of it. 1. The very phraſe and ſtile, which being poeticallpoetical is the more obſcure. 2. The manie Rhetoricall allegories, and hyperbolicall metaphors which are hard …

    Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … distinguished the Gods of old tyme into thrée sortes, that is to wit, Philosophicall, PoeticallPoetical, and Ciuill; and wee haue séene how the Philosophers and Poets, (notwithstanding their owne …
    With rule
    … distinguished the Gods of old tyme into thrée sortes, that is to wit, Philosophicall, PoeticallPoetical, and Ciuill; and wee haue séene how the Philosophers and Poets, (notwithstanding their owne …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 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.

Rocks Improved A70872

  • Printed
    ROCKES IMPROVED, COMPRISING CERTAINE POETICALLPOETICAL MEDITATIONS, Extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Quality of ROCKES; a barren …
    With rule
    ROCKES IMPROVED, COMPRISING CERTAINE POETICALLPOETICAL MEDITATIONS, Extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Quality of ROCKES; a barren …

    William Prynne · Rocks Improved · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

  • Printed
    A POETICALLPOETICAL DESCRIPtion of Mount-Orgueil Caſtle in the Iſle of Ierſy, interlaced, with ſome briefe …
    With rule
    A POETICALLPOETICAL DESCRIPtion of Mount-Orgueil Caſtle in the Iſle of Ierſy, interlaced, with ſome briefe …

    William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ROCKES IMPROVED, COMPRISING CERTAINE POETICALLPOETICAL MEDITATIONS, Extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Quality of ROCKES; a barren …
    With rule
    ROCKES IMPROVED, COMPRISING CERTAINE POETICALLPOETICAL MEDITATIONS, Extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Quality of ROCKES; a barren …

    William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · Open in the reader