Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7156 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beterbetter

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 130 times in 110 works
Consistency: 97.0% (130 of 134)
Reach if approved: ~141 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: beter
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 134 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (130 changes in 110 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 130)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… lovers of Christ. Having found in many called common people more knowledge (though not beterbetter utterance) than I expected, and more trust in Christ, and more desire to be …
With rule
… lovers of Christ. Having found in many called common people more knowledge (though not beterbetter utterance) than I expected, and more trust in Christ, and more desire to be …
Richard Baxter · A Defense of the Principles of Love · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… oftner befal men addicting themselves to that dangerous Ostentation of their Agility. And little beterbetter is their practice of swallowing Poysons: For though they fortify their Bodies against the …
With rule
… oftner befal men addicting themselves to that dangerous Ostentation of their Agility. And little beterbetter is their practice of swallowing Poysons: For though they fortify their Bodies against the …
John Conant · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions Volume 2 · p. 380 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man, ſaue the ſpirit of a man which is in him. Who can beterbetter know when a man is hungrie or thirſtie, or what he beſt relliſheth, then …
With rule
… a man, ſaue the ſpirit of a man which is in him. Who can beterbetter know when a man is hungrie or thirſtie, or what he beſt relliſheth, then …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… natoribus dogmatum Apoſtolicorum, bellare nunquam ceſſauit. So now in Rome the Iewes are counted beterbetter then Proteſtants: ſo that the Iewes haue tolleration when true Chriſtians are put to …
With rule
… natoribus dogmatum Apoſtolicorum, bellare nunquam ceſſauit. So now in Rome the Iewes are counted beterbetter then Proteſtants: ſo that the Iewes haue tolleration when true Chriſtians are put to …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of leſſe conſiderate youth are often commendably moderated, or recalled, by more mature and beterbetter adviſed age.
With rule
… of leſſe conſiderate youth are often commendably moderated, or recalled, by more mature and beterbetter adviſed age.
John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · Open in the reader
Printed
… meanes whereby this couenant was ratified, Perer. but the word larabbini, to many, is beterbetter vnderstood of the persons, with whom or for whom this couenant shall be ratified …
With rule
… meanes whereby this couenant was ratified, Perer. but the word larabbini, to many, is beterbetter vnderstood of the persons, with whom or for whom this couenant shall be ratified …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 354 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the amēdmēt of our liues, & also that all Chrystendome generally maye be the beterbetter and be edified. Therfore let vs hertelye make our prayer to god the father …
With rule
… to the amēdmēt of our liues, & also that all Chrystendome generally maye be the beterbetter and be edified. Therfore let vs hertelye make our prayer to god the father …
John Calvin · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
This is a foule fault in him that cannot occupie himſelfe in any beterbetter buſineſſe then traducing his neighbours, and it is as naught in the receiuer, when …
With rule
This is a foule fault in him that cannot occupie himſelfe in any beterbetter buſineſſe then traducing his neighbours, and it is as naught in the receiuer, when …
John Dod · A Bright Star which Leadeth Wise Men to our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.