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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7075 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

specificallspecifical

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
210 times in 116 works
Consistency
87.8% (210 of 239)
Reach if approved
~251 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: specifical
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
239 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 116 works, 87.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 210)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … from it selfe, for the degree of entitative goodnesse in any thing and the specificallspecifical nature thereof is all one; Your other derivation of the degree of entitative goodnesse …
    With rule
    … from it selfe, for the degree of entitative goodnesse in any thing and the specificallspecifical nature thereof is all one; Your other derivation of the degree of entitative goodnesse …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 411 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſeruant, are Relatiues, that is Contraries, oppoſite in the generall, yet hauing mutuall and ſpecificallspecifical reference each to other. Hence it is that the Miniſter is cōſidered, ſomtimes with …
    With rule
    … ſeruant, are Relatiues, that is Contraries, oppoſite in the generall, yet hauing mutuall and ſpecificallspecifical reference each to other. Hence it is that the Miniſter is cōſidered, ſomtimes with …

    Samuel Crook · Three Sermons · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … now: There is onely a graduall difference in the manifeſtation of the duties, no ſpecificallspecifical difference of the duties themſelves. And that this may appeare the more to the …
    With rule
    … now: There is onely a graduall difference in the manifeſtation of the duties, no ſpecificallspecifical difference of the duties themſelves. And that this may appeare the more to the …

    Anthony Burgess · A Vindication of the Moral Law and the Covenants · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … what is particularly set downe in the first Chapter, as also that (all Gods specificallspecifical workes finished on the sixth day) he rested on the seventh. The like inconvenient …
    With rule
    … what is particularly set downe in the first Chapter, as also that (all Gods specificallspecifical workes finished on the sixth day) he rested on the seventh. The like inconvenient …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … effect doth follow the univerſall, indefinite, equivocall, and remote: or elſe the univocall, proximate ſpecificallspecifical and particular cauſe? And which of theſe is that which doth determine, and diſtinguiſh …
    With rule
    … effect doth follow the univerſall, indefinite, equivocall, and remote: or elſe the univocall, proximate ſpecificallspecifical and particular cauſe? And which of theſe is that which doth determine, and diſtinguiſh …

    John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    § 3. The forme or specificallspecifical difference of a Lot is taken from the vse and intent or purpose of …
    With rule
    § 3. The forme or specificallspecifical difference of a Lot is taken from the vse and intent or purpose of …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Montebankes ſell the ſight of one thing to a thouſand. Chriſtian marchants haue certaine ſpecificallspecifical kinds of Marchantdizing, but theſe Antichriſtian Montebankes ſell heauē, and earth, & hell, ſell tovvling …
    With rule
    … Montebankes ſell the ſight of one thing to a thouſand. Chriſtian marchants haue certaine ſpecificallspecifical kinds of Marchantdizing, but theſe Antichriſtian Montebankes ſell heauē, and earth, & hell, ſell tovvling …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … surpasse us: but to direct our Diligence most to the improving of our owne specificallspecifical and rationall perfection, to wit, our Understandings. Other Faculties are tyred, and will be …
    With rule
    … surpasse us: but to direct our Diligence most to the improving of our owne specificallspecifical and rationall perfection, to wit, our Understandings. Other Faculties are tyred, and will be …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 446 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (29)

24 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 are listed here. 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Art of Building Comfort A01750

  • Printed
    1. The SpecificallSpecifical Difference of this from other Buildings p. 7. 8.
    With rule
    1. The SpecificallSpecifical Difference of this from other Buildings p. 7. 8.

    William Gilbert · The Art of Building Comfort · Open in the reader

A Declaration and Plainer Opening of Certain Points A04212

  • Printed
    … Single and Compound formes of governement differ the one from the other by a SpecificallSpecifical & Essentiall difference: and "the one ceasseth necessarily when the other cometh in place. And …
    With rule
    … Single and Compound formes of governement differ the one from the other by a SpecificallSpecifical & Essentiall difference: and "the one ceasseth necessarily when the other cometh in place. And …

    Henry Jacob · A Declaration and Plainer Opening of Certain Points · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

  • Printed
    … Desire of Knowledge. Nature dictating to every Creature to be more intent upon its SpecificallSpecifical than upon its Genericall perfection. And hence it is that though Man be perfectest …
    With rule
    … Desire of Knowledge. Nature dictating to every Creature to be more intent upon its SpecificallSpecifical than upon its Genericall perfection. And hence it is that though Man be perfectest …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 446 · Open in the reader

The Marrow of Sacred Divinity A25291

  • Printed
    SpecificallSpecifical the same in kind. ibidem.
    With rule
    SpecificallSpecifical the same in kind. ibidem.

    William Ames · The Marrow of Sacred Divinity · Open in the reader

The Elements of Logic A69248

  • Printed
    … the foure Elements. The next forme of any thing is that which wee call SpecificallSpecifical; but the remote formes are thoſe of the next or of the remote Genus …
    With rule
    … the foure Elements. The next forme of any thing is that which wee call SpecificallSpecifical; but the remote formes are thoſe of the next or of the remote Genus …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · p. 63 · Open in the reader

A Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline A86533

  • Printed
    … act which belongs to an officer, and therefore without this, he hath not the SpecificallSpecifical form of an officer.
    With rule
    … act which belongs to an officer, and therefore without this, he hath not the SpecificallSpecifical form of an officer.

    Thomas Hooker · A Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Truth Tried A97067

  • Printed
    Yea, though his Argument ſhould proceed thus, [The SpecificallSpecifical Eſſence of the Underſtanding, conſiſts in this, that it is a Ray of the …
    With rule
    Yea, though his Argument ſhould proceed thus, [The SpecificallSpecifical Eſſence of the Underſtanding, conſiſts in this, that it is a Ray of the …

    John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a Ray of Divinity; Beſides this, I ſay, although they had all the ſame SpecificallSpecifical Eſſence; Yet doth it not follow that they muſt be all One and the …
    With rule
    … a Ray of Divinity; Beſides this, I ſay, although they had all the ſame SpecificallSpecifical Eſſence; Yet doth it not follow that they muſt be all One and the …

    John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſame, It will be granted alſo, That they are all, Things of the ſame SpecificallSpecifical nature; and (if you will) That All Being falls under the ſame Praedicament▪ (Though …
    With rule
    … ſame, It will be granted alſo, That they are all, Things of the ſame SpecificallSpecifical nature; and (if you will) That All Being falls under the ſame Praedicament▪ (Though …

    John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … thoſe things which agree in a Univerſall Genericall Nature, may not admit of a SpecificallSpecifical difference? And for This, it will not be ſufficient to prove That every Being …
    With rule
    … thoſe things which agree in a Univerſall Genericall Nature, may not admit of a SpecificallSpecifical difference? And for This, it will not be ſufficient to prove That every Being …

    John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … at all. And being ſo, it availeth little to prove either a Phyſicall or SpecificallSpecifical Identity of Being.
    With rule
    … at all. And being ſo, it availeth little to prove either a Phyſicall or SpecificallSpecifical Identity of Being.

    John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 37 · Open in the reader