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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7038 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oportunityopportunity

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
368 times in 220 works
Consistency
92.4% (368 of 398)
Reach if approved
~418 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: opportunity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
398 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (368 changes in 220 works, 92.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 368)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ceremonies, and sacrifices to be done there: The Diuell hereupon taking occasion and fit oportunityopportunity (purposing alwaies to seduce the world, and to hold them in error so far …
    With rule
    … ceremonies, and sacrifices to be done there: The Diuell hereupon taking occasion and fit oportunityopportunity (purposing alwaies to seduce the world, and to hold them in error so far …

    Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … any other than a rebel in an high degree, only quiet till he have oportunityopportunity, and till hee can conquer his Master according to their doctrine? All which I …
    With rule
    … any other than a rebel in an high degree, only quiet till he have oportunityopportunity, and till hee can conquer his Master according to their doctrine? All which I …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 535 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … your great fauour, and my owne bond, with a continuall deſire of ſome better oportunityopportunity to ſhew my thankfulneſſe. Which if it pleaſe your Lordſhip to take in good …
    With rule
    … your great fauour, and my owne bond, with a continuall deſire of ſome better oportunityopportunity to ſhew my thankfulneſſe. Which if it pleaſe your Lordſhip to take in good …

    Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … were, would haue kept them a good way from the wal, and haue giuen oportunityopportunity to the enemy, both against themselues and their Citty. So are they yet at …
    With rule
    … were, would haue kept them a good way from the wal, and haue giuen oportunityopportunity to the enemy, both against themselues and their Citty. So are they yet at …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 545 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … our good workes, not onely when necessity requireth, but also when ability furnisheth, and oportunityopportunity occurreth, Gal: 6. 10. Tit. 2. 14.
    With rule
    … our good workes, not onely when necessity requireth, but also when ability furnisheth, and oportunityopportunity occurreth, Gal: 6. 10. Tit. 2. 14.

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … I either wiſhed or imagined: but I was willing, ſeeing God had giuen this oportunityopportunity, to mention as much as I could remember of things which I haue heard …
    With rule
    … I either wiſhed or imagined: but I was willing, ſeeing God had giuen this oportunityopportunity, to mention as much as I could remember of things which I haue heard …

    Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … any company, he sits oft times still, and retired to himselfe, watching and waiting oportunityopportunity when hee may speake words, that may minister grace vnto the hearers.
    With rule
    … any company, he sits oft times still, and retired to himselfe, watching and waiting oportunityopportunity when hee may speake words, that may minister grace vnto the hearers.

    William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Players, and laid upon the ground, as if he were one of them: Afterwards oportunityopportunity calling him forth, he did caper, he did dance and iest with the Players …
    With rule
    … Players, and laid upon the ground, as if he were one of them: Afterwards oportunityopportunity calling him forth, he did caper, he did dance and iest with the Players …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 221 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (30)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 are listed here. 17 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Babylons Downfall A29365

  • Printed
    3. Conſider your preſent oportunityopportunity. OportunityOpportunity once loſt, is never recovered. My words ſhall know no flattery, never did England …
    With rule
    3. Conſider your preſent oportunityopportunity. OportunityOpportunity once loſt, is never recovered. My words ſhall know no flattery, never did England …

    William Bridge · Babylons Downfall · p. 21 · Open in the reader

Truth with Time A33252

  • Printed
    … I believe) ſtir, or act any thing, meerly as having ſuch an Advantage or OportunityOpportunity: for they eye more then what men call Providence, (which Thieves of all ſorts …
    With rule
    … I believe) ſtir, or act any thing, meerly as having ſuch an Advantage or OportunityOpportunity: for they eye more then what men call Providence, (which Thieves of all ſorts …

    John Canne · Truth with Time · Open in the reader

Of Sincerity and Constancy in Faith A62570

  • Printed
    … But this, together with the Application of this Discourse, shall be reserved to another OportunityOpportunity.
    With rule
    … But this, together with the Application of this Discourse, shall be reserved to another OportunityOpportunity.

    John Tillotson · Of Sincerity and Constancy in Faith · p. 392 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Discourse of his own Sufferings, as the fittest time for it, he takes the OportunityOpportunity to tell them plainly of their own Sufferings; and that unless they were prepared …
    With rule
    … Discourse of his own Sufferings, as the fittest time for it, he takes the OportunityOpportunity to tell them plainly of their own Sufferings; and that unless they were prepared …

    John Tillotson · Of Sincerity and Constancy in Faith · p. 401 · Open in the reader

Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah A62634

  • Printed
    … the Miſeries of others, that doth not relieve them when he hath Ability and OportunityOpportunity in his Hands. Tenderneſs and Compaſſion for the Sufferings of others is a Virtue …
    With rule
    … the Miſeries of others, that doth not relieve them when he hath Ability and OportunityOpportunity in his Hands. Tenderneſs and Compaſſion for the Sufferings of others is a Virtue …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 363 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in the Bleſſings of this Life, it is on purpoſe to give us an OportunityOpportunity, and to engage us to be ſo to others that ſtand in need of …
    With rule
    … in the Bleſſings of this Life, it is on purpoſe to give us an OportunityOpportunity, and to engage us to be ſo to others that ſtand in need of …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 366 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … an Advantage to inſult over and deſpiſe others, but that there might be an OportunityOpportunity for the exerciſe of ſeveral Virtues; that the poor might have an OportunityOpportunity to …
    With rule
    … an Advantage to inſult over and deſpiſe others, but that there might be an OportunityOpportunity for the exerciſe of ſeveral Virtues; that the poor might have an OportunityOpportunity to …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 368 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … an OportunityOpportunity for the exerciſe of ſeveral Virtues; that the poor might have an OportunityOpportunity to exerciſe their Dependance upon God, and their Patience and Submiſſion to his Will …
    With rule
    … an OportunityOpportunity for the exerciſe of ſeveral Virtues; that the poor might have an OportunityOpportunity to exerciſe their Dependance upon God, and their Patience and Submiſſion to his Will …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 368 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Books of the holy Scriptures are. But this I ſhall refer to another OportunityOpportunity, in a particular Diſcourſe upon the 31 verſe, which contains the main Deſign, the Sum …
    With rule
    … the Books of the holy Scriptures are. But this I ſhall refer to another OportunityOpportunity, in a particular Diſcourſe upon the 31 verſe, which contains the main Deſign, the Sum …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 416 · Open in the reader

Sermons and Discourses Volume 8 A62638

  • Printed
    … generous Diſpoſition to do good to all, as far as we have Power and OportunityOpportunity. In a word, there is no real Intereſt of this World, but may ordinarily …
    With rule
    … generous Diſpoſition to do good to all, as far as we have Power and OportunityOpportunity. In a word, there is no real Intereſt of this World, but may ordinarily …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 8 · p. 238 · Open in the reader

The Oppressed Close Prisoner in Windsor Castle A85177

  • Printed
    … fall into the Ditch. And this ſhall ſuffice for this matter, untill a better OportunityOpportunity.
    With rule
    … fall into the Ditch. And this ſhall ſuffice for this matter, untill a better OportunityOpportunity.

    Christopher Feake · The Oppressed Close Prisoner in Windsor Castle · p. 114 · Open in the reader

The Protector A96764

  • Printed
    And, now, a better OportunityOpportunity
    With rule
    And, now, a better OportunityOpportunity

    George Wither · The Protector · Open in the reader