Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6915 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

smelsmell

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 343 times in 223 works
Consistency: 97.1% (343 of 353)
Reach if approved: ~371 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 353 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (343 changes in 223 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 343)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… their children in their houſes in the Popes religion, that they may taſt and ſmelsmell therof when theyr parentes be dead and rotten. And great pittie it is, that …
With rule
… their children in their houſes in the Popes religion, that they may taſt and ſmelsmell therof when theyr parentes be dead and rotten. And great pittie it is, that …
John Stockwood · Sermon 24 August 1578 · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… defiled therewithal: euen so, they that vse the society of the wicked must néedes smelsmell of their wickednes as is prooued before.
With rule
… defiled therewithal: euen so, they that vse the society of the wicked must néedes smelsmell of their wickednes as is prooued before.
John Udall · Peters Fall · Open in the reader
Printed
That, raps the melted eare; this, both the smelsmell & sight.
With rule
That, raps the melted eare; this, both the smelsmell & sight.
Phineas Fletcher · Britains Ida · Open in the reader
Printed
Theſe louely flowers that giue a ſmelsmell, & about our gates all precious things, new, and alſo old, my well-beloued I …
With rule
Theſe louely flowers that giue a ſmelsmell, & about our gates all precious things, new, and alſo old, my well-beloued I …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offered. Let the indifferēt reader iudge, whether that you, or we do now more smelsmell of a careles, and a libertines life. But this after.
With rule
… offered. Let the indifferēt reader iudge, whether that you, or we do now more smelsmell of a careles, and a libertines life. But this after.
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 382 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their prating, yet must this needes be true: That they are but Heretikes, and smelsmell after the fagot, the good yere and all, the cause why: For that they …
With rule
… their prating, yet must this needes be true: That they are but Heretikes, and smelsmell after the fagot, the good yere and all, the cause why: For that they …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… amongest vs (as one grayne of muske in the Apothecaries shoppe maketh a greater smelsmell then all other powders bee they neuer so many) nothyng will the knowledge of …
With rule
… amongest vs (as one grayne of muske in the Apothecaries shoppe maketh a greater smelsmell then all other powders bee they neuer so many) nothyng will the knowledge of …
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader
Printed
… make them more lovely. Hence are they inwardly more glorious, and hence outwardly they smelsmell more sweetly in their conversations. The Kings daughter is all glorious within, and her …
With rule
… make them more lovely. Hence are they inwardly more glorious, and hence outwardly they smelsmell more sweetly in their conversations. The Kings daughter is all glorious within, and her …
Francis Rous · The Mystical Marriage · p. 269 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Pleasant New Nosegay A07010

Printed
SmelSmell wel on this your floure, Redy assistence. Let euery man looke not for his …
With rule
SmelSmell wel on this your floure, Redy assistence. Let euery man looke not for his …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader

A Comment Upon Christs Last Prayer A44344

Printed
… of the Cordial is one thing, the Cordial another. The Poſie is one, the SmelSmell another.
With rule
… of the Cordial is one thing, the Cordial another. The Poſie is one, the SmelSmell another.
Thomas Hooker · A Comment Upon Christs Last Prayer · p. 526 · Open in the reader