Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7155 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

behovethbehooveth

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 444 times in 236 works
Consistency: 100% (444 of 444)
Reach if approved: ~467 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: behooveth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 444 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (444 changes in 236 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 444)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… quotidiano objequio, perpetuoq▪ Religionie ritu: & Theophilact: his Abridger hath foreign. I… daily worſhip. For it behovethbehooveth the Biſhop or Min…ſter being a publique interceſſor to God for all manner …
With rule
… quotidiano objequio, perpetuoq▪ Religionie ritu: & Theophilact: his Abridger hath foreign. I… daily worſhip. For it behovethbehooveth the Biſhop or Min…ſter being a publique interceſſor to God for all manner …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blessing of God who grāteth such noursing Fathers & Mothers to his Church. And it behovethbehooveth al to be careful to walk worthie so great a mercy of God, in …
With rule
… blessing of God who grāteth such noursing Fathers & Mothers to his Church. And it behovethbehooveth al to be careful to walk worthie so great a mercy of God, in …
Henry Ainsworth · The Confession of Faith of English People in Exile · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
It behovethbehooveth all wise men to separate from this society betimes; were it not a dreadfull …
With rule
It behovethbehooveth all wise men to separate from this society betimes; were it not a dreadfull …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 354 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men as are ordained to salvation, may be plucked out of the fire, it behovethbehooveth vs who are the Ministers of the Gospell to be diligent in preaching the …
With rule
… men as are ordained to salvation, may be plucked out of the fire, it behovethbehooveth vs who are the Ministers of the Gospell to be diligent in preaching the …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not acceptable unto God, and like lukewarm water to the stomach. Wherefore it behovethbehooveth us to labour that we may have a true sense of our wants: Which …
With rule
… is not acceptable unto God, and like lukewarm water to the stomach. Wherefore it behovethbehooveth us to labour that we may have a true sense of our wants: Which …
George Downame · A Godly and Learned Treatise of Prayer · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this point attained to an [undoubted certainty] which their wiſer ſeniors cannot attain, it behovethbehooveth them to convince us of the truth of their Inſpiration or ſpecial endowments, either …
With rule
… this point attained to an [undoubted certainty] which their wiſer ſeniors cannot attain, it behovethbehooveth them to convince us of the truth of their Inſpiration or ſpecial endowments, either …
Richard Baxter · The Nonconformists Plea for Peace · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ought more to expose himself than other Christians are called to do. Yet it behovethbehooveth him also to beware, because that Christ has said to him, Behold, I send …
With rule
… ought more to expose himself than other Christians are called to do. Yet it behovethbehooveth him also to beware, because that Christ has said to him, Behold, I send …
John Bunyan · Seasonable Counsel · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
It behovethbehooveth him to bear the Puniſhment and Wrath of God, not for his own Perſon …
With rule
It behovethbehooveth him to bear the Puniſhment and Wrath of God, not for his own Perſon …
Isaac Chauncy · Neonomianism Unmasked · p. 102 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.