Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6940 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hyperbolicallhyperbolical

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 228 times in 143 works
Consistency: 83.2% (228 of 274)
Reach if approved: ~288 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hyperbolical
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 274 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (228 changes in 143 works, 83.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 228)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ad Hebr. In the same woorke, de sacerdo…o. Lib. 3. Hée saieth the lyke hyperbolicallhyperbolical spéech. Nam dum conspicis dominum immolatum, &c.
With rule
… ad Hebr. In the same woorke, de sacerdo…o. Lib. 3. Hée saieth the lyke hyperbolicallhyperbolical spéech. Nam dum conspicis dominum immolatum, &c.
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is very lively ſet out thereby: to which purpoſe tend thoſe other high tranſcendent hyperbolicallhyperbolical phraſes of the Prophet Iſay, Chap. 11. Verſ. 6, 7, 8, 9.
With rule
… is very lively ſet out thereby: to which purpoſe tend thoſe other high tranſcendent hyperbolicallhyperbolical phraſes of the Prophet Iſay, Chap. 11. Verſ. 6, 7, 8, 9.
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeemd to blame ſome three paſſages, as not ſo graue but comicall, others to hyperbolicallhyperbolical, and ſauouring of ſome virulency: and in fine thinke, that ſome others will be …
With rule
… ſeemd to blame ſome three paſſages, as not ſo graue but comicall, others to hyperbolicallhyperbolical, and ſauouring of ſome virulency: and in fine thinke, that ſome others will be …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt (for that were ſinfull ſo to wiſh) but this is a kind of hyperbolicallhyperbolical ſpeech, ſpoken in the higheſt degree, to ſhew forth his great loue to them …
With rule
… Chriſt (for that were ſinfull ſo to wiſh) but this is a kind of hyperbolicallhyperbolical ſpeech, ſpoken in the higheſt degree, to ſhew forth his great loue to them …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out by the quantitie and cauſe of it. The quantitie is expreſſed in that hyperbolicallhyperbolical phraſe, Riuers of waters runne downe mine eyes. Whereby is meant, that his ſorrow …
With rule
… out by the quantitie and cauſe of it. The quantitie is expreſſed in that hyperbolicallhyperbolical phraſe, Riuers of waters runne downe mine eyes. Whereby is meant, that his ſorrow …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make no difference betweene Proteſtants, Mahometans, and Infidels. It is, at the beſt, rather hyperbolicallhyperbolical Rhetorick, then Logicall diuinitie, whereof there is promiſe, and ſhew made in this treatiſe …
With rule
… make no difference betweene Proteſtants, Mahometans, and Infidels. It is, at the beſt, rather hyperbolicallhyperbolical Rhetorick, then Logicall diuinitie, whereof there is promiſe, and ſhew made in this treatiſe …
Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take not vpon vs to offer Chriſt really in the Euchariſt. As for the hyperbolicallhyperbolical ſpeeches, which the fathers vſe ſometimes, which is his firſt reaſon, we learne thereby …
With rule
… take not vpon vs to offer Chriſt really in the Euchariſt. As for the hyperbolicallhyperbolical ſpeeches, which the fathers vſe ſometimes, which is his firſt reaſon, we learne thereby …
Francis Bunny · Truth and Falsehood · Open in the reader
Printed
hyperbolicallhyperbolical (g) beyond all credite, or likelihoode of truth.
With rule
hyperbolicallhyperbolical (g) beyond all credite, or likelihoode of truth.
Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (46)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 33 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Retractive from the Romish Religion A06106

Printed
… their writings: But the Romaniſts conclude poſitiuely, and doctrinally, without any Rhetoricall figures, or HyperbolicallHyperbolical elocutions. Sixtly, as Caſſander confeſſeth, when the Fathers ſaid to the Saints, Orate pronobis …
With rule
… their writings: But the Romaniſts conclude poſitiuely, and doctrinally, without any Rhetoricall figures, or HyperbolicallHyperbolical elocutions. Sixtly, as Caſſander confeſſeth, when the Fathers ſaid to the Saints, Orate pronobis …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 224 · Open in the reader

Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking A15295

Printed
The rest of your HyperbolicallHyperbolical, that is rauing and rouing speeches without all truth I omit, and come to …
With rule
The rest of your HyperbolicallHyperbolical, that is rauing and rouing speeches without all truth I omit, and come to …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus A15408

Printed
… no lye. 2. Neither alwayes in the excesse is a lye committed: as in the HyperbolicallHyperbolical speeches in Scripture, which must be understood not after an Arithmeticall, but a Geometricall …
With rule
… no lye. 2. Neither alwayes in the excesse is a lye committed: as in the HyperbolicallHyperbolical speeches in Scripture, which must be understood not after an Arithmeticall, but a Geometricall …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 350 · Open in the reader

The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary A19670

Printed
… pen to declare it at the full. And therefore doth he vſe ſo many HyperbolicallHyperbolical ſpéeches, and calleth it myſticall bloud. And ſo many as be ſprinckled with this …
With rule
… pen to declare it at the full. And therefore doth he vſe ſo many HyperbolicallHyperbolical ſpéeches, and calleth it myſticall bloud. And ſo many as be ſprinckled with this …
Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… muſt be vnderſtanded to be ſpirituall: and therfore the maner of ſpéeche to be HyperbolicallHyperbolical? He ſayth alſo, that the vowes of the people be ſuſtayned or borne vpon …
With rule
… muſt be vnderſtanded to be ſpirituall: and therfore the maner of ſpéeche to be HyperbolicallHyperbolical? He ſayth alſo, that the vowes of the people be ſuſtayned or borne vpon …
Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · p. 202 · Open in the reader

Eighty Sermons A20637

Printed
… praiſe, and ſet forth our lands, and fruits, and fowle, and cattle, with all HyperbolicallHyperbolical praiſes; and this is not reddere debitum, no paiment of a debt, where it …
With rule
… praiſe, and ſet forth our lands, and fruits, and fowle, and cattle, with all HyperbolicallHyperbolical praiſes; and this is not reddere debitum, no paiment of a debt, where it …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… language, and upon beſt Authority too, the word ſignifies a Vehement, a Patheticall, a HyperbolicallHyperbolical aſſeveration, and atteſtation, and ratification of ſomething ſaid before. Such, in a proportion, as …
With rule
… language, and upon beſt Authority too, the word ſignifies a Vehement, a Patheticall, a HyperbolicallHyperbolical aſſeveration, and atteſtation, and ratification of ſomething ſaid before. Such, in a proportion, as …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 579 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

Printed
V. 9. go forth] HyperbolicallHyperbolical termes to expresse an exceeding great discomfiture, after which the Church shall have great …
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V. 9. go forth] HyperbolicallHyperbolical termes to expresse an exceeding great discomfiture, after which the Church shall have great …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
V. 10. The earth] HyperbolicallHyperbolical termes, frequent in the Prophets, to signifie a horrible desolation.
With rule
V. 10. The earth] HyperbolicallHyperbolical termes, frequent in the Prophets, to signifie a horrible desolation.
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2 A46699

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… being at my house, brake out into extraordinary, (that I say not excessive, and HyperbolicallHyperbolical) prayses of D^r Ieremy Taylor; I expressed my concurrence with him in great part …
With rule
… being at my house, brake out into extraordinary, (that I say not excessive, and HyperbolicallHyperbolical) prayses of D^r Ieremy Taylor; I expressed my concurrence with him in great part …
Henry Jeanes · Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2 · Open in the reader

Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 A68508

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… enemies, thence will I command the ſword, and it ſhall ſlay them. In this HyperbolicallHyperbolical exaggeration, (for ſuch it is in the iudgements of S. Hierome, Remigius, Albertus, Hugo …
With rule
… enemies, thence will I command the ſword, and it ſhall ſlay them. In this HyperbolicallHyperbolical exaggeration, (for ſuch it is in the iudgements of S. Hierome, Remigius, Albertus, Hugo …
Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 · p. 344 · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 A69234

Printed
… ſillie fiſh in the nets of his judgements, but onely vſed theſe Rhetoricall and HyperbolicallHyperbolical amplyfications, that hereby hee might more feelingly affect the ſecure and hard hearted iſraelites …
With rule
… ſillie fiſh in the nets of his judgements, but onely vſed theſe Rhetoricall and HyperbolicallHyperbolical amplyfications, that hereby hee might more feelingly affect the ſecure and hard hearted iſraelites …
John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 B11412

Printed
… enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them. In this HyperbolicallHyperbolical exaggeration, (for such it is in the iudgements of S. Hierome, Remigius, Albertus, Hugo …
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… enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them. In this HyperbolicallHyperbolical exaggeration, (for such it is in the iudgements of S. Hierome, Remigius, Albertus, Hugo …
Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · p. 344 · Open in the reader