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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7023 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

looserslosers

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
210 times in 167 works
Consistency
91.7% (210 of 229)
Reach if approved
~241 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: losers'
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
229 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (210 changes in 167 works, 91.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 210)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not that varietie in him that is in the creature, certainely, we should be looserslosers, the soule should not be filled, nor satisfied: And therefore, sayth the Text; There …
    With rule
    … not that varietie in him that is in the creature, certainely, we should be looserslosers, the soule should not be filled, nor satisfied: And therefore, sayth the Text; There …

    John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … if he should say, let the Lord pay the increase, feare not to be looserslosers by doing good, for God hath giuen his word to requite it himselfe. As …
    With rule
    … if he should say, let the Lord pay the increase, feare not to be looserslosers by doing good, for God hath giuen his word to requite it himselfe. As …

    Henry Smith · A Preparative to Marriage · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and in multiplying I will multiply thee. Neither Father nor ſonne you ſee were looſerslosers, by yeelding up the one his ſonne, the other his life into the hands …
    With rule
    … and in multiplying I will multiply thee. Neither Father nor ſonne you ſee were looſerslosers, by yeelding up the one his ſonne, the other his life into the hands …

    William Whately · Prototypes · p. 245 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … willingly hee would haue spent himselfe; so that few are left behind, but are looserslosers by his death, Heauen only a gainer, in whose blessed mansions hee now rests …
    With rule
    … willingly hee would haue spent himselfe; so that few are left behind, but are looserslosers by his death, Heauen only a gainer, in whose blessed mansions hee now rests …

    John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … had written. Had the ſame jealouſy hindred Auguſtine, the wholl Chriſtian world had bene looſerslosers thereby, wanting that helpe by his booke of Retractations, which now they have. Which …
    With rule
    … had written. Had the ſame jealouſy hindred Auguſtine, the wholl Chriſtian world had bene looſerslosers thereby, wanting that helpe by his booke of Retractations, which now they have. Which …

    John Davenport · Reply to a Book · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … justified, yet by their words they may not be condemned. They can be no looserslosers by it: for at the utmost, 'tis but keeping in a little unsavory breath …
    With rule
    … justified, yet by their words they may not be condemned. They can be no looserslosers by it: for at the utmost, 'tis but keeping in a little unsavory breath …

    Richard Allestree · The Government of the Tongue · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a worſe Teacher than you, it is not you but they that are the looſerslosers: If they chooſe a better, you have your end, if you are Chriſtians; If …
    With rule
    … a worſe Teacher than you, it is not you but they that are the looſerslosers: If they chooſe a better, you have your end, if you are Chriſtians; If …

    Richard Baxter · Sacrilegious Desertion of the Holy Ministry Rebuked · p. 124 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … haue done thus; when themselues (in the iudgement of flesh and bloud) haue become looserslosers by it; when the forwardnesse and zeale of others could not choose but tend …
    With rule
    … haue done thus; when themselues (in the iudgement of flesh and bloud) haue become looserslosers by it; when the forwardnesse and zeale of others could not choose but tend …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 267 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.