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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7086 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

virgillvirgil

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
161 times in 75 works
Consistency
96.9% (161 of 166)
Reach if approved
~174 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: virgil
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
166 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 75 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it they haue wrought many miracles. But I prooue the contrary: 1. Their owne Polidore VirgillVirgil affirmes, that Alexander the first a Pope instituted it; and therefore not the Apostles …
    With rule
    … it they haue wrought many miracles. But I prooue the contrary: 1. Their owne Polidore VirgillVirgil affirmes, that Alexander the first a Pope instituted it; and therefore not the Apostles …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … before that time, euen in a manner from the firſt preaching of it, Polydor VirgillVirgil no Proteſtant may teach you out of Gildas a Brittiſh writer, ancienter then Bede …
    With rule
    … before that time, euen in a manner from the firſt preaching of it, Polydor VirgillVirgil no Proteſtant may teach you out of Gildas a Brittiſh writer, ancienter then Bede …

    Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · p. 377 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    For the Poetes / the ſaying of VirgillVirgil / all are full off Iupiter: maie declare / that the honour / and ſeruice which the …
    With rule
    For the Poetes / the ſaying of VirgillVirgil / all are full off Iupiter: maie declare / that the honour / and ſeruice which the …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CLXXXV · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of chambers, or habitations then Superi, which ſignifieth thoſe that liue vpon the earth. VirgillVirgil. Aeneid. 6. Apud ſuperos furto laetatus inani.
    With rule
    … of chambers, or habitations then Superi, which ſignifieth thoſe that liue vpon the earth. VirgillVirgil. Aeneid. 6. Apud ſuperos furto laetatus inani.

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … wherefore he doth none otherwise call the image reuerende, or to be reuerenced, then VirgillVirgil calleth the image of his father Anchises troubled: Admonet in somnis & turbida terret imago …
    With rule
    … wherefore he doth none otherwise call the image reuerende, or to be reuerenced, then VirgillVirgil calleth the image of his father Anchises troubled: Admonet in somnis & turbida terret imago …

    William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 675 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Diuell, that he should at length be Pope of Rome. Whereupon saith Polidor VirgillVirgil in his sixt booke of his storie of Englande, Monkes and priestes at this …
    With rule
    … the Diuell, that he should at length be Pope of Rome. Whereupon saith Polidor VirgillVirgil in his sixt booke of his storie of Englande, Monkes and priestes at this …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … two hundreth yeeres ſince: And Cornelius Agrippa, of the vanity of Sciences: And Polidore VirgillVirgil, and Aluarus Pelagius, and Palingenius, with Arioſto an Italian Poet, &c. and he ſhall …
    With rule
    … two hundreth yeeres ſince: And Cornelius Agrippa, of the vanity of Sciences: And Polidore VirgillVirgil, and Aluarus Pelagius, and Palingenius, with Arioſto an Italian Poet, &c. and he ſhall …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 377 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … owne errors, and wee will not forsake Aristotle, that we may defend Gods Truth. VirgillVirgil gathered gold out of the dunghil of E…ius; and shall we scrape together …
    With rule
    … owne errors, and wee will not forsake Aristotle, that we may defend Gods Truth. VirgillVirgil gathered gold out of the dunghil of E…ius; and shall we scrape together …

    John Rainolds · An Excellent Oration · p. 68 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

Abrahams Faith A08201

  • Printed
    But Polydor virgillvirgil, a verie zealous patron of Romiſh ſuperſtition; For the honor of that ſea, ſearched …
    With rule
    But Polydor virgillvirgil, a verie zealous patron of Romiſh ſuperſtition; For the honor of that ſea, ſearched …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 220 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and that in it newe religions haue riſen vp ſodainly like padſtooles) as Polydor virgillvirgil ſaith) ſo from 600. yeres after Chriſt vntill our time, it could not come to …
    With rule
    … and that in it newe religions haue riſen vp ſodainly like padſtooles) as Polydor virgillvirgil ſaith) ſo from 600. yeres after Chriſt vntill our time, it could not come to …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 275 · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

  • Printed
    … neuer ſuche a Hector / or Achilles / or troye as is deſcribed off Homere and virgillvirgil / I ſinne not: and if I thincke there was / neither is that imputed vnto …
    With rule
    … neuer ſuche a Hector / or Achilles / or troye as is deſcribed off Homere and virgillvirgil / I ſinne not: and if I thincke there was / neither is that imputed vnto …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. XVI · Open in the reader