Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6981 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

decretalldecretal

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 299 times in 107 works
Consistency: 99.6% (299 of 300)
Reach if approved: ~315 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: decretal
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 300 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (299 changes in 107 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 299)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… how ſell was firſt inſtytute by pope Zepherinus and after confermed by a popyſhe decretalldecretal called, Omnis vtriuſ que ſexus. The communyon of Chriſt ys fre to hys peple …
With rule
… how ſell was firſt inſtytute by pope Zepherinus and after confermed by a popyſhe decretalldecretal called, Omnis vtriuſ que ſexus. The communyon of Chriſt ys fre to hys peple …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
… our deare mother the holy Church doth make so high an holiday of these decretalldecretal letters of Clement, and of other his companions, that she h…th out of …
With rule
… our deare mother the holy Church doth make so high an holiday of these decretalldecretal letters of Clement, and of other his companions, that she h…th out of …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… phraſes, among many other euident reaſons, deſcrie that he is an admirer of the DecretallDecretal doctrine; which appeareth as well out of this very Title, as out of the …
With rule
… phraſes, among many other euident reaſons, deſcrie that he is an admirer of the DecretallDecretal doctrine; which appeareth as well out of this very Title, as out of the …
Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the like reason is to be held of other Saincts. The Glosse upon this DecretallDecretal layeth down the reason of this mutation a little more roundly: Of old they …
With rule
… the like reason is to be held of other Saincts. The Glosse upon this DecretallDecretal layeth down the reason of this mutation a little more roundly: Of old they …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… still in your furie, we condemne you together with this Bull and all the decretalldecretal, and giue you to sathan to the destruction of the flesh, that your spirit …
With rule
… still in your furie, we condemne you together with this Bull and all the decretalldecretal, and giue you to sathan to the destruction of the flesh, that your spirit …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
DecretallDecretal; see Constitutions,
With rule
DecretallDecretal; see Constitutions,
Edmund Bunny · Of Divorce for Adultery · Open in the reader
Printed
… it to the Lawyers, (whose tongues, and pennes are not silenc…d by this DecretallDecretal,) to argue whether they be oathes of Alleageance, or no, and imposed by the …
With rule
… it to the Lawyers, (whose tongues, and pennes are not silenc…d by this DecretallDecretal,) to argue whether they be oathes of Alleageance, or no, and imposed by the …
John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sedes, &c. the first see is not iudged of any, which in euery counterfait decretalldecretal epistle almost must haue a place.
With rule
… sedes, &c. the first see is not iudged of any, which in euery counterfait decretalldecretal epistle almost must haue a place.
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 286 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Some New Blazing Stars Styling Themselves New Lights A91187

Printed
… of all others againſt the Ordinance, is the prophane, ſcurrilous Libell, intituled. A Sacred DECRETALLDECRETAL nor Hue and cry from his ſuperlative holineſſe, Sir Simon Synod, for the apprehenſion …
With rule
… of all others againſt the Ordinance, is the prophane, ſcurrilous Libell, intituled. A Sacred DECRETALLDECRETAL nor Hue and cry from his ſuperlative holineſſe, Sir Simon Synod, for the apprehenſion …
William Prynne · Some New Blazing Stars Styling Themselves New Lights · p. 11 · Open in the reader