Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7021 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lippslips

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 192 times in 128 works
Consistency: 92.7% (192 of 207)
Reach if approved: ~217 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lips
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 207 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (192 changes in 128 works, 92.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 192)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great congregation; Loe I will not refraine my lippslips ô Lord, and that thou knowest. verse 11.
With rule
… haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great congregation; Loe I will not refraine my lippslips ô Lord, and that thou knowest. verse 11.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a poore soule that stands need of ghostly ayde, and repaires to the Priests lippslips, saying, Stay me with Apples, comfort me with flagons, returne Sermon-sick, complaining, I …
With rule
… a poore soule that stands need of ghostly ayde, and repaires to the Priests lippslips, saying, Stay me with Apples, comfort me with flagons, returne Sermon-sick, complaining, I …
John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuperſtitious Iewes; a name not to bee pronounced, not to be taken within polluted lippslips. In which regard when, reading the Scriptures, they meet with this name either they …
With rule
… ſuperſtitious Iewes; a name not to bee pronounced, not to be taken within polluted lippslips. In which regard when, reading the Scriptures, they meet with this name either they …
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be negative, which is not: as if he had made a covenant with his lippslips to lye, treadinge in the stepps of those wicked wretches of whom it is …
With rule
… be negative, which is not: as if he had made a covenant with his lippslips to lye, treadinge in the stepps of those wicked wretches of whom it is …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pickpot, rinſeth & toſſeth vpſidowne here, his Chalice and licketh it with his tong and lippslips. There is no doubt but that he maketh cleane his plate. For, there was …
With rule
… pickpot, rinſeth & toſſeth vpſidowne here, his Chalice and licketh it with his tong and lippslips. There is no doubt but that he maketh cleane his plate. For, there was …
Pierre Viret · Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… worship of mans invention; and therefore though they draw neere to God with their lippslips, yet their hearts are farre from him. And so in vaine they worship him …
With rule
… worship of mans invention; and therefore though they draw neere to God with their lippslips, yet their hearts are farre from him. And so in vaine they worship him …
Henry Burton · For God and the King · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giuen him his hearts deſire, and thou haſt not withholden the requeſt of his lippslips: for the King truſteth in the Lord, and by the mercy of the moſt …
With rule
… giuen him his hearts deſire, and thou haſt not withholden the requeſt of his lippslips: for the King truſteth in the Lord, and by the mercy of the moſt …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that error and humain inventions in Religion will not offer themselves, but with wiped lippslips, and a countenance as demure as may be, and also being perswaded that this …
With rule
… that error and humain inventions in Religion will not offer themselves, but with wiped lippslips, and a countenance as demure as may be, and also being perswaded that this …
John Bunyan · A Case of Conscience Resolved · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

Printed
As her LippsLips whom he doth loue,
With rule
As her LippsLips whom he doth loue,
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Defensive Armor Against Four of Satans Most Fiery Darts A33961

Printed
… in the Heart, it is an Atheiſtical Thought, when we deny it with our LippsLips they are Atheſtical words: more largely for a man to deny Gods Wiſdom, Power …
With rule
… in the Heart, it is an Atheiſtical Thought, when we deny it with our LippsLips they are Atheſtical words: more largely for a man to deny Gods Wiſdom, Power …
John Collinges · Defensive Armor Against Four of Satans Most Fiery Darts · p. 4 · Open in the reader

Truth and Innocence Vindicated A53733

Printed
… the Rod of his Mouth, and slay the Wicked with the breath of his LippsLips, when he is constituted a judge of the Faith, Repentance, and Obedience of men …
With rule
… the Rod of his Mouth, and slay the Wicked with the breath of his LippsLips, when he is constituted a judge of the Faith, Repentance, and Obedience of men …
John Owen · Truth and Innocence Vindicated · p. 168 · Open in the reader

The Floating Island A94057

Printed
Are not our Eyes and LippsLips and touch our own,
With rule
Are not our Eyes and LippsLips and touch our own,
William Strode · The Floating Island · Open in the reader