Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7184 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

compascompass

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 127 times in 75 works
Consistency: 96.9% (127 of 131)
Reach if approved: ~138 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: compass
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 131 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (127 changes in 75 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 127)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
5 He hath builded against me, and compascompass… me with gall and travell.
With rule
5 He hath builded against me, and compascompass… me with gall and travell.
Zacharie Boyd · The Songs of the Old and New Testament in Meter · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Assize-Sermon. Some circumstances having also brought the matter within so narrow a compascompass, that the straits of time made it necessary to press the request with more …
With rule
… the Assize-Sermon. Some circumstances having also brought the matter within so narrow a compascompass, that the straits of time made it necessary to press the request with more …
John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Richard Fairclough · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt rebuked the Scribes & Phariſeys, ſaying: Wo vnto you Scribes and Phariſeis, bycauſe you compascompass about ſea & land, to make one proſelite: & then ye make hym the child of …
With rule
… Chriſt rebuked the Scribes & Phariſeys, ſaying: Wo vnto you Scribes and Phariſeis, bycauſe you compascompass about ſea & land, to make one proſelite: & then ye make hym the child of …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
The angels cleare shall compascompass him about,
With rule
The angels cleare shall compascompass him about,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… booke of life, for he doth not compasse heauen, but earth, though he would compascompass both, the deuil himselfe doth tel vs here, that he compasseth, & he telleth vs …
With rule
… booke of life, for he doth not compasse heauen, but earth, though he would compascompass both, the deuil himselfe doth tel vs here, that he compasseth, & he telleth vs …
Henry Smith · Satans Compassing the Earth · Open in the reader
Printed
… as there was then of Circumcision; which was to be done within a certaine compascompass of dayes. Thirdly, you may as well proue by this example, that a woman …
With rule
… as there was then of Circumcision; which was to be done within a certaine compascompass of dayes. Thirdly, you may as well proue by this example, that a woman …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 433 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on the one side, and now on the other, yit notwithstanding he keepeth his compascompass continually, and neuer fogetteth how farre he ought to go on the one side …
With rule
… on the one side, and now on the other, yit notwithstanding he keepeth his compascompass continually, and neuer fogetteth how farre he ought to go on the one side …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can not reache so farre as our faithe doothe, yet so farre as the compascompass of our senses doeth vsually reache, our faith is not contrary to the same …
With rule
… can not reache so farre as our faithe doothe, yet so farre as the compascompass of our senses doeth vsually reache, our faith is not contrary to the same …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · p. 22 · 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.