Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7097 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mettalsmetals

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 342 times in 225 works
Consistency: 70.9% (342 of 482)
Reach if approved: ~506 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: metals
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 482 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (342 changes in 225 works, 70.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 342)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were of. Their great and Maſſy croſſes of ſiluer & gold, their Idols of fineſt mettalsmetals, & moſt exquiſite workmanſhip, the rather to deceiue the people, as if they had been …
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… were of. Their great and Maſſy croſſes of ſiluer & gold, their Idols of fineſt mettalsmetals, & moſt exquiſite workmanſhip, the rather to deceiue the people, as if they had been …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
NOw whereas three kinde of mettalsmetals are here named among the things to be offered, gold, silver, and brasse: 1. It …
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NOw whereas three kinde of mettalsmetals are here named among the things to be offered, gold, silver, and brasse: 1. It …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 480 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Alcumist they say can turne lead into gold, or out of Lead or other mettalsmetals extract Golde, which many haue practised to their vtter vndoing. The Pope is the …
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… Alcumist they say can turne lead into gold, or out of Lead or other mettalsmetals extract Golde, which many haue practised to their vtter vndoing. The Pope is the …
William Burton · The Christians Heavenly Treasure · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ranke Whore-master with his mistresse Pecunia, and liues vpon the lechery of mettalsmetals. He doth that office for the Diuell on earth, that his spirits doe in …
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… a ranke Whore-master with his mistresse Pecunia, and liues vpon the lechery of mettalsmetals. He doth that office for the Diuell on earth, that his spirits doe in …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that earthly things are moſt earth, eſpecially, the more particular or ſimpler creatures, as mettalsmetals, ſtones, trees, &c. Yet water, ayre, and fire alſo, with which the element of …
With rule
… that earthly things are moſt earth, eſpecially, the more particular or ſimpler creatures, as mettalsmetals, ſtones, trees, &c. Yet water, ayre, and fire alſo, with which the element of …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whence commeth it that so many men make themselues bondflaues to Gold and other mettalsmetals? and that so many men doe leade the life of Plants and brute beastes …
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… whence commeth it that so many men make themselues bondflaues to Gold and other mettalsmetals? and that so many men doe leade the life of Plants and brute beastes …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 292 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could weare better. Their maſſie croſſes of ſilver and golde, their Idols of fineſt mettalsmetals; their ordinary charges of wax incenſe &c. the plate & iewels of Abbeiest. Priories, and …
With rule
… could weare better. Their maſſie croſſes of ſilver and golde, their Idols of fineſt mettalsmetals; their ordinary charges of wax incenſe &c. the plate & iewels of Abbeiest. Priories, and …
Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
We haue a waight of al kinde of mettalsmetals, a touchſtone for gold, a meaſure for grame, and we will not take one …
With rule
We haue a waight of al kinde of mettalsmetals, a touchſtone for gold, a meaſure for grame, and we will not take one …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 931 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (140)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 115 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Three Treatises A10659

Printed
… the fruit of wisedome is better then Gold. For though Gold be of all MettalsMetals the most solid, and therefore least subject to decay, yet it is not immortall …
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… the fruit of wisedome is better then Gold. For though Gold be of all MettalsMetals the most solid, and therefore least subject to decay, yet it is not immortall …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 36 · Open in the reader

The Wonders of the Lodestone A14727

Printed
THe Chymists doe make equall in number, and assigne those seaven MettalsMetals that are in the bowels of the earth, to so many Planets that are …
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THe Chymists doe make equall in number, and assigne those seaven MettalsMetals that are in the bowels of the earth, to so many Planets that are …
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · Open in the reader
Printed
… estimation are they held? For they have their Splendour as the rest of the MettalsMetals, whereby they may allure the eyes of beholders and bewitch their minds. Iron, in …
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… estimation are they held? For they have their Splendour as the rest of the MettalsMetals, whereby they may allure the eyes of beholders and bewitch their minds. Iron, in …
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which notwithstanding, the Load-sto…e altogether despising and counting as nothing, the other MettalsMetals which are so bright and excellent in their owne nature, hath made choise of …
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… which notwithstanding, the Load-sto…e altogether despising and counting as nothing, the other MettalsMetals which are so bright and excellent in their owne nature, hath made choise of …
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 80 · Open in the reader

A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World A33311

Printed
… Corn, Sugar, Honey, Wool, Cotton, Turpentine, Allum, and Verdegreece: As also all sorts of MettalsMetals, Salt, Grograms, and other Commodities; whence it was called Macaria; or the blessed Island …
With rule
… Corn, Sugar, Honey, Wool, Cotton, Turpentine, Allum, and Verdegreece: As also all sorts of MettalsMetals, Salt, Grograms, and other Commodities; whence it was called Macaria; or the blessed Island …
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… East with the Mediterranean Sea. It yeilds all sorts of Wines, Sugar, Fruits, Oils, MettalsMetals, Lamb-skins, Wool, Cork, Rosen, Steel, &c. The Inhabitants are not many, nor have …
With rule
… East with the Mediterranean Sea. It yeilds all sorts of Wines, Sugar, Fruits, Oils, MettalsMetals, Lamb-skins, Wool, Cork, Rosen, Steel, &c. The Inhabitants are not many, nor have …
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one thousand four hundred sixty and eight miles: It abounds with Mines of divers MettalsMetals, and the choisest Wines: The chiefest Provinces in it are, 1. Terra di Lavoro, formerly …
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… one thousand four hundred sixty and eight miles: It abounds with Mines of divers MettalsMetals, and the choisest Wines: The chiefest Provinces in it are, 1. Terra di Lavoro, formerly …
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 121 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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… can satisfie themselves that have seen his Book. He was also skilful in all MettalsMetals and Minerals and his pretty curiosities made him acceptable to the Nobility of England …
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… can satisfie themselves that have seen his Book. He was also skilful in all MettalsMetals and Minerals and his pretty curiosities made him acceptable to the Nobility of England …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 39 · Open in the reader
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… of Physick for the English Gentry, as also several Treatises of Plants, Fishes, Stones, MettalsMetals, &c. He went afterwards into Germany, where he lived in great Credit and Practise …
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… of Physick for the English Gentry, as also several Treatises of Plants, Fishes, Stones, MettalsMetals, &c. He went afterwards into Germany, where he lived in great Credit and Practise …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 306 · Open in the reader

A Century of Sermons A43515

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… all of different ſpecies, can coagulate into one Roe. Satan can melt his Heterogeneal MettalsMetals, and make them all run into one Furnace. Every language that underſtands not the …
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… all of different ſpecies, can coagulate into one Roe. Satan can melt his Heterogeneal MettalsMetals, and make them all run into one Furnace. Every language that underſtands not the …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 828 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

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… little higher, and bids us for that to compare, Dan. 2.35. where all the foure MettalsMetals are utterly broken to peeces, and the little ſtone cut out of the mountaine …
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… little higher, and bids us for that to compare, Dan. 2.35. where all the foure MettalsMetals are utterly broken to peeces, and the little ſtone cut out of the mountaine …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 178 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God to Nebuchadnezzar in a dream of a great Image (ver. 31. &c.) of foure MettalsMetals in the foure parts thereof; the Head being of gold, the Breſt and Armes …
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… God to Nebuchadnezzar in a dream of a great Image (ver. 31. &c.) of foure MettalsMetals in the foure parts thereof; the Head being of gold, the Breſt and Armes …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 239 · Open in the reader
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… things, how glorious ſoever, why ſhould it not rather ſtrike at the more glorious MettalsMetals? Is there any ſence, that Chriſt ſhould declaime againſt the baſe things of the …
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… things, how glorious ſoever, why ſhould it not rather ſtrike at the more glorious MettalsMetals? Is there any ſence, that Chriſt ſhould declaime againſt the baſe things of the …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 242 · Open in the reader

Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 A47642

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… the matter of them, the Spiritual mind hath that Alchimy indeed of turning base MettalsMetals into Gold, Earthly employments into Heavenly. The handy work of an Artisan or Servant …
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… the matter of them, the Spiritual mind hath that Alchimy indeed of turning base MettalsMetals into Gold, Earthly employments into Heavenly. The handy work of an Artisan or Servant …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 · p. 419 · Open in the reader

The Joy of Faith A49957

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… that moſt lovely of all colours; ſet in gold, the moſt precious of all MettalsMetals. It's better to ſit alone in ſweet contenting ſilence on the top of an …
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… that moſt lovely of all colours; ſet in gold, the moſt precious of all MettalsMetals. It's better to ſit alone in ſweet contenting ſilence on the top of an …
Samuel Lee · The Joy of Faith · p. 241 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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… in it, verſe 17, 18. excepting (1.) Perſons as Rahab and her kindred, verſe 17. and (2.) Things, as MettalsMetals, and what were made thereof, verſe 19.
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… in it, verſe 17, 18. excepting (1.) Perſons as Rahab and her kindred, verſe 17. and (2.) Things, as MettalsMetals, and what were made thereof, verſe 19.
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Human Industry A55564

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… know (saith he) the secrets of Nature, and can work wonders by your Art, MettalsMetals do bellow and make a noise: Diomedes cast in brass, sounds his Trumpet louder …
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… know (saith he) the secrets of Nature, and can work wonders by your Art, MettalsMetals do bellow and make a noise: Diomedes cast in brass, sounds his Trumpet louder …
Thomas Powell · Human Industry · p. 27 · Open in the reader

The Trial and Triumph of Faith A57982

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… in a mystery under a vail, sweating under earth to bring forth for us MettalsMetals, Trees, Herbs, Flowers, corn for our service, but we see no harvest at that …
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… in a mystery under a vail, sweating under earth to bring forth for us MettalsMetals, Trees, Herbs, Flowers, corn for our service, but we see no harvest at that …
Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · p. 389 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Marriage Song A63268

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… moſt beautifull things on Earth) all the reſplendency of the very quinteſſence of Gemms, MettalsMetals, Pearls, precious ſtones, are not comparable to the beauty of this Pallace. The Grand …
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… moſt beautifull things on Earth) all the reſplendency of the very quinteſſence of Gemms, MettalsMetals, Pearls, precious ſtones, are not comparable to the beauty of this Pallace. The Grand …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · p. 232 · Open in the reader

The Practical Sabbatarian A65408

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… this to make the fourth Commandement like Nebuchadnezzars Image, partly Gold and Silver, durable MettalsMetals, and partly Clay and mouldring earth? Doctor Bound poſitively aſſerts; The fourth Commandement can …
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… this to make the fourth Commandement like Nebuchadnezzars Image, partly Gold and Silver, durable MettalsMetals, and partly Clay and mouldring earth? Doctor Bound poſitively aſſerts; The fourth Commandement can …
John Wells · The Practical Sabbatarian · p. 546 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

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… diſpoſing and placing the Creatures ſo, that without mans labour, they are unſerviceable: as MettalsMetals, Stones, and other Mineralls; yea, oftentimes Soil for manurance of grounds, are placed below …
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… diſpoſing and placing the Creatures ſo, that without mans labour, they are unſerviceable: as MettalsMetals, Stones, and other Mineralls; yea, oftentimes Soil for manurance of grounds, are placed below …
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 55 · Open in the reader
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… Rain, and Influence of the heavens that cheriſh it; the Timber, the Stones, the MettalsMetals, the Wool, the Flax, and the like. 2. The Abilities by which they have ſtrength …
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… Rain, and Influence of the heavens that cheriſh it; the Timber, the Stones, the MettalsMetals, the Wool, the Flax, and the like. 2. The Abilities by which they have ſtrength …
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Gospel Marrow A77501

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… the Spirit. Even as the Refiners fire being blown up now it melts the MettalsMetals, and ſeparates betwixt the droſſe and it; even thus doth the Lord Chriſt melt …
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… the Spirit. Even as the Refiners fire being blown up now it melts the MettalsMetals, and ſeparates betwixt the droſſe and it; even thus doth the Lord Chriſt melt …
John Brinsley · Gospel Marrow · p. 175 · Open in the reader

Faith in Five Fundamental Principles A85327

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… of other mettalsmetals; then ſurely the great and wiſe Creator of man, Seeds and MettalsMetals, and all things elſe, is able to diſtinguiſh the duſt of men from the …
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… of other mettalsmetals; then ſurely the great and wiſe Creator of man, Seeds and MettalsMetals, and all things elſe, is able to diſtinguiſh the duſt of men from the …
Edward Fisher · Faith in Five Fundamental Principles · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 A85668

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… any mettal. Kirk. ſaith its, Sordes quae de mettallis igni retrocedit quam ſcoriam appellamus. MettalsMetals have ſome thing of an heterogeneall nature to themſelves, which being ſeparated by fire …
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… any mettal. Kirk. ſaith its, Sordes quae de mettallis igni retrocedit quam ſcoriam appellamus. MettalsMetals have ſome thing of an heterogeneall nature to themſelves, which being ſeparated by fire …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · p. 235 · Open in the reader