Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7017 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

levelllevel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 456 times in 285 works
Consistency: 97.8% (456 of 466)
Reach if approved: ~490 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: level
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 466 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (456 changes in 285 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 456)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is required of you therein, and lay that and your hearts together, apply this levelllevel and square to your wayes, and it will discover the crookednesse of them, and …
With rule
… is required of you therein, and lay that and your hearts together, apply this levelllevel and square to your wayes, and it will discover the crookednesse of them, and …
John Preston · The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them into order,, in or after some generall confusion. The Prelates, and those which levelllevel by their lyne do highly advance ordination, and far above the administration of the …
With rule
… them into order,, in or after some generall confusion. The Prelates, and those which levelllevel by their lyne do highly advance ordination, and far above the administration of the …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 412 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhould aime at: The two latter, the line or rule by which we muſt levelllevel at that marke.
With rule
… ſhould aime at: The two latter, the line or rule by which we muſt levelllevel at that marke.
John Stoughton · A Form of Wholesome Words · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
As beſt may lay it levelllevel to thy Will.
With rule
As beſt may lay it levelllevel to thy Will.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… earth weare themſelves out in bruiſing duſt ſmall, when there are mountaines enough to levelllevel? God forbid. If you and your cauſes are ſuch, the Lord the Judge will …
With rule
… earth weare themſelves out in bruiſing duſt ſmall, when there are mountaines enough to levelllevel? God forbid. If you and your cauſes are ſuch, the Lord the Judge will …
Robert Abbot · Four Sermons · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do ſo, where it cannot bee generous, yet it would bee juſt; it would levelllevel all accounts, and pay all debts; love would have nothing but love owing. It …
With rule
… do ſo, where it cannot bee generous, yet it would bee juſt; it would levelllevel all accounts, and pay all debts; love would have nothing but love owing. It …
Richard Alleine · Heaven Opened · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are in compleat armour, abounding in all faith and knowledge; yet are fitteſt to levelllevel with, at ſuch as are more ignorant, and fly low, and have but ſome …
With rule
… are in compleat armour, abounding in all faith and knowledge; yet are fitteſt to levelllevel with, at ſuch as are more ignorant, and fly low, and have but ſome …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it up to the head in a bow, and then it will both carry levelllevel, hit ſure, and faſten to the marke the word we ſpeake is the arrow …
With rule
… it up to the head in a bow, and then it will both carry levelllevel, hit ſure, and faſten to the marke the word we ſpeake is the arrow …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 76 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

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

Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 A09272

Printed
… Prince; whom here he compares to an Architect, with a Plummet, Plumbe-Line, or LevellLevel, buſily imployed in laying of Stones ſquare, levelllevel, and perpendicular: For Over-ſeers and …
With rule
… Prince; whom here he compares to an Architect, with a Plummet, Plumbe-Line, or LevellLevel, buſily imployed in laying of Stones ſquare, levelllevel, and perpendicular: For Over-ſeers and …
William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 54 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
It is not so Champion and LevellLevel, and by consequence not so fruitfull as England, mostly rising up into Hills and …
With rule
It is not so Champion and LevellLevel, and by consequence not so fruitfull as England, mostly rising up into Hills and …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Discoverer A79829

Printed
5. If their deſigne hold, they will ſo LevellLevel the Nation, that there ſhall be no Corporations, Pattents, Charters throughout the Realme, in …
With rule
5. If their deſigne hold, they will ſo LevellLevel the Nation, that there ſhall be no Corporations, Pattents, Charters throughout the Realme, in …
John Canne · The Discoverer · p. 13 · Open in the reader

John Lilb Tried and Cast A86094

Printed
… be feared he would march another way, and doe as former Mutiners have don (LevellLevel all) who pretended as much to Juſtice, Reformation, and publick good, as ever Mr …
With rule
… be feared he would march another way, and doe as former Mutiners have don (LevellLevel all) who pretended as much to Juſtice, Reformation, and publick good, as ever Mr …
Arthur Hesilrige · John Lilb Tried and Cast · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perſons (whoſe names are in the Originall) in a tumultuous manner came into the LevellLevel, within the Mannor of Epworth, and there broke down the Fences, and deſtroyed about …
With rule
… perſons (whoſe names are in the Originall) in a tumultuous manner came into the LevellLevel, within the Mannor of Epworth, and there broke down the Fences, and deſtroyed about …
Arthur Hesilrige · John Lilb Tried and Cast · p. 84 · Open in the reader