Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7072 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

smelssmells

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 276 times in 224 works
Consistency: 99.2% (276 of 278)
Reach if approved: ~292 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: smells
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 278 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (276 changes in 224 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 276)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… oyntment powred out, ſweet as a bundle of myrrhe which ſendeth forth moſt fragrant ſmelssmells; vpon theſe, and ſuch like grounds I am led to thinke, that theſe his …
With rule
… oyntment powred out, ſweet as a bundle of myrrhe which ſendeth forth moſt fragrant ſmelssmells; vpon theſe, and ſuch like grounds I am led to thinke, that theſe his …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… only nowe in heaven, Acts 3. 21. Hebr. 9. 28. John 14. 2. 3. 28. c. 16. 7. 16. 17. 19. 21. (the thinge they intend) then it smelssmells of ranke Popo…se, intimatinge a transubstantiation of the breade & wyne into Christs verie …
With rule
… only nowe in heaven, Acts 3. 21. Hebr. 9. 28. John 14. 2. 3. 28. c. 16. 7. 16. 17. 19. 21. (the thinge they intend) then it smelssmells of ranke Popo…se, intimatinge a transubstantiation of the breade & wyne into Christs verie …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him, because his letters written to the Emperour Constantius after his returning from banishment, smelssmells of Arrianisme.
With rule
… him, because his letters written to the Emperour Constantius after his returning from banishment, smelssmells of Arrianisme.
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he reckons that done to himself which is done to the least of his; & smelssmells as sweet a sauor of Cornelius his almes, as of his prayers, and counts …
With rule
… he reckons that done to himself which is done to the least of his; & smelssmells as sweet a sauor of Cornelius his almes, as of his prayers, and counts …
Samuel Ward · A Peace Offering to God · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And when the noſethrilles are ſpoken of, the receiuing of prayers, as of ſwéete ſmelssmells, is therby notified. And when the hand is talked of, it argueth that he …
With rule
… And when the noſethrilles are ſpoken of, the receiuing of prayers, as of ſwéete ſmelssmells, is therby notified. And when the hand is talked of, it argueth that he …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 614 · Open in the reader
Printed
… become out of it. So I feeling in that pleaſant garden of diuinitie, wōderfull ſmelssmells of heauenlie thinges, gathering out of euery ſection of the chapters, as from the …
With rule
… become out of it. So I feeling in that pleaſant garden of diuinitie, wōderfull ſmelssmells of heauenlie thinges, gathering out of euery ſection of the chapters, as from the …
John Calvin · Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſweet ſounds, to content the eares: delicious food, to ſweeten the pallat: and redolent ſmelssmells, to refreſh the noſtrils: and in all theſe hee alloweth vs a naturall delight …
With rule
… ſweet ſounds, to content the eares: delicious food, to ſweeten the pallat: and redolent ſmelssmells, to refreſh the noſtrils: and in all theſe hee alloweth vs a naturall delight …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 15-17 · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ſubſtance: Things may be ſenſible, and yet be no ſubſtances, as colours, ſounds, ſmelssmells, &c. But for the Diuels, the actions which they performe, the places where they …
With rule
… a ſubſtance: Things may be ſenſible, and yet be no ſubſtances, as colours, ſounds, ſmelssmells, &c. But for the Diuels, the actions which they performe, the places where they …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 80 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.