Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7030 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mistresmistress

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 178 times in 105 works
Consistency: 100% (178 of 178)
Reach if approved: ~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mistress
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (178 changes in 105 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 178)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and, as I may ſay, noble, vnnoble; ſubiect, ſovereigne; learned, vnlearned: ſervant, maſter; handmaide, miſtresmistress: people, prince: diſciple, doctor: ſcholer, tutor: but in every nation, he that feareth him …
With rule
… and, as I may ſay, noble, vnnoble; ſubiect, ſovereigne; learned, vnlearned: ſervant, maſter; handmaide, miſtresmistress: people, prince: diſciple, doctor: ſcholer, tutor: but in every nation, he that feareth him …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would not haue bin tollerated by them that ſaw and allowed the book / vnleſſe miſtresmistress Coopers huſband had bin the author of it.
With rule
… would not haue bin tollerated by them that ſaw and allowed the book / vnleſſe miſtresmistress Coopers huſband had bin the author of it.
Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Madam is as good as Mounſieur, and Mounſieur as Madam, maiſter as miſtresmistress, and miſtresmistress as maiſter: nay heere it is and among theſe you ſhall finde all ſtinking …
With rule
… Madam is as good as Mounſieur, and Mounſieur as Madam, maiſter as miſtresmistress, and miſtresmistress as maiſter: nay heere it is and among theſe you ſhall finde all ſtinking …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tempte is mortified leaste it should tempt: but when the handmaid is aboue the mistresmistress, and a man hath lost the image of God, and scarce retayneth the image …
With rule
… tempte is mortified leaste it should tempt: but when the handmaid is aboue the mistresmistress, and a man hath lost the image of God, and scarce retayneth the image …
Henry Smith · The First Sermon of Noahs Drunkenness · Open in the reader
Printed
… his Angel controlleth this course, and giueth her better counsell; returne home to thy mistresmistress, and humble thy selfe vnder her hand, or suffer thy selfe to be afflicted …
With rule
… his Angel controlleth this course, and giueth her better counsell; returne home to thy mistresmistress, and humble thy selfe vnder her hand, or suffer thy selfe to be afflicted …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 423 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the election or damnation of those that are departed, she is nowe a MistresMistress and Lady rather of the Saintes, then they Lords or patrones to her, as …
With rule
… of the election or damnation of those that are departed, she is nowe a MistresMistress and Lady rather of the Saintes, then they Lords or patrones to her, as …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 323 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which the people had. For (as the cō mon prouerbe sayth) experience is the mistresmistress of fooles. The people had then already of long time knowen what it was …
With rule
… which the people had. For (as the cō mon prouerbe sayth) experience is the mistresmistress of fooles. The people had then already of long time knowen what it was …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1091 · Open in the reader
Printed
… It is no rare thing for a man to make an Idol of his MistresMistress, and to spend more time in her courtings, then he doth at his prayers …
With rule
… It is no rare thing for a man to make an Idol of his MistresMistress, and to spend more time in her courtings, then he doth at his prayers …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.