Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6964 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blesbless

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 126 works
Consistency: 85.6% (161 of 188)
Reach if approved: ~199 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: bles
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 189 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 126 works, 85.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… alſo this excellent Chalice into his holy and reuerend handes, and againe giuing thankes, bleſbless † ſed it, and gaue it vnto his Diſciples, ſaying, ^c Take and drinke ye …
With rule
… alſo this excellent Chalice into his holy and reuerend handes, and againe giuing thankes, bleſbless † ſed it, and gaue it vnto his Diſciples, ſaying, ^c Take and drinke ye …
Pierre Viret · Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aboundance and plentie … all good things. And indeed they were …nderfully enriched, proſpered and bleſbless…d, far beyond all other Nations (as the …riptures report.) In thi… ſenſe, vnder …
With rule
… aboundance and plentie … all good things. And indeed they were …nderfully enriched, proſpered and bleſbless…d, far beyond all other Nations (as the …riptures report.) In thi… ſenſe, vnder …
John Carpenter · The Song of the Beloved Concerning His Vineyard · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all these Countries, … brought great furniture for warre, or for shipping, as Masts, C…blesbless, Steele, Saddles, Arm…ur, Gunpowder, & the l…ke: And that in the seas adjoyning …
With rule
… all these Countries, … brought great furniture for warre, or for shipping, as Masts, C…blesbless, Steele, Saddles, Arm…ur, Gunpowder, & the l…ke: And that in the seas adjoyning …
Archbishop George Abbot · A Brief Description of the Whole World · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of his tr…blesbless at home.
With rule
Of his tr…blesbless at home.
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in condemning Stage-playes, as being ordinarily stuffed with the names, histories, persons, f …blesbless, rites, ceremonies, villanies, incests, rapes, applauses, oaths, imprecations, and invocations of the Idol-gods …
With rule
… in condemning Stage-playes, as being ordinarily stuffed with the names, histories, persons, f …blesbless, rites, ceremonies, villanies, incests, rapes, applauses, oaths, imprecations, and invocations of the Idol-gods …
James Durham · Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
INterprise nathing … thou first call vnto the Lord to blesbless it, and to blesso the …, and then refer the succes theirof to him.
With rule
INterprise nathing … thou first call vnto the Lord to blesbless it, and to blesso the …, and then refer the succes theirof to him.
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by thy bloude. To hym that syttethe on the Throne, & to the lābe be blesbless syng, honour, glory, & power, worldes without ende. Amen.
With rule
… by thy bloude. To hym that syttethe on the Throne, & to the lābe be blesbless syng, honour, glory, & power, worldes without ende. Amen.
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… word for buds, is also use… for younglings or youth; as in Iob 30. 12. The blesbless soming (or flourishing) of this rod, figured also the comfortable and glorious effect of …
With rule
… word for buds, is also use… for younglings or youth; as in Iob 30. 12. The blesbless soming (or flourishing) of this rod, figured also the comfortable and glorious effect of …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 106 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (27)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent A07085

Printed
BlesBless sed be God for it.
With rule
BlesBless sed be God for it.
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader

Two Sermons at Pauls Cross A11458

Printed
… full of Enuy, and his heart of Cursing, yet God put a parable of BlesBless…ing into his mouth, and he was not able to vtter a syllable of …
With rule
… full of Enuy, and his heart of Cursing, yet God put a parable of BlesBless…ing into his mouth, and he was not able to vtter a syllable of …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 105 · Open in the reader

Works A62040

Printed
… they leave me dying. Thou hast told me, Behold I come as a Theif; BlesBless…ed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and …
With rule
… they leave me dying. Thou hast told me, Behold I come as a Theif; BlesBless…ed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and …
George Swinnock · Works · p. 541 · Open in the reader

Gods Love to Man and Mans Duty Towards God A78190

Printed
… in their Callings, or no; becauſe they know not, whether God hath Decreed to BleſBless… and proſper them. Why then do any frame ſuc… an Objection againſt themſelves, to …
With rule
… in their Callings, or no; becauſe they know not, whether God hath Decreed to BleſBless… and proſper them. Why then do any frame ſuc… an Objection againſt themſelves, to …
John Barret · Gods Love to Man and Mans Duty Towards God · p. 196 · Open in the reader

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

Printed
… in any other way, ſo they have … reaſon to expect any thing with a BleſBless…ng atte…ding it, but a Curſe; for Prayerleſs P…rſ…ns are expoſed …
With rule
… in any other way, ſo they have … reaſon to expect any thing with a BleſBless…ng atte…ding it, but a Curſe; for Prayerleſs P…rſ…ns are expoſed …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 882 · Open in the reader