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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7204 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dilligentlydiligently

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
141 times in 62 works
Consistency
100% (141 of 141)
Reach if approved
~148 places (estimated)
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Agrees: diligently
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
141 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (141 changes in 62 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 141)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … I may say) Herbingers, that men might the more carefully waite for, and more dilligentlydiligently addresse and prepare themselues against that time. The Tempests threaten before that they arise …
    With rule
    … I may say) Herbingers, that men might the more carefully waite for, and more dilligentlydiligently addresse and prepare themselues against that time. The Tempests threaten before that they arise …

    Thomas Draxe · An Alarm to the Last Judgment · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to the Governour or ſome other of the Counſell or Aſſiſtants, the fact is dilligentlydiligently to be inquired into, and being found to be true, reſtitution is to be …
    With rule
    … to the Governour or ſome other of the Counſell or Aſſiſtants, the fact is dilligentlydiligently to be inquired into, and being found to be true, reſtitution is to be …

    John Cotton · An Abstract or the Laws of New England · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Copy or two to Friends there; And my Apprehenſions ſuggeſting that a Letter, ſo dilligentlydiligently and accurately writ upon ſo ſlender an occaſion, might either have a further proſpect …
    With rule
    … Copy or two to Friends there; And my Apprehenſions ſuggeſting that a Letter, ſo dilligentlydiligently and accurately writ upon ſo ſlender an occaſion, might either have a further proſpect …

    James Stewart · Answer to a Letter by Mijn Heer Fagel · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to beleeve that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that dilligentlydiligently ſeek him; and that Chriſt died for our ſins, and that he was buryed …
    With rule
    … to beleeve that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that dilligentlydiligently ſeek him; and that Chriſt died for our ſins, and that he was buryed …

    William Jeffery · The Whole Faith of Man · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the oportunitie of time ſhall open, and very experience, to ſuche as will watche dilligentlydiligently. For if it were neceſſary, as ſome of the Doctours ſuppoſe, that this name …
    With rule
    … the oportunitie of time ſhall open, and very experience, to ſuche as will watche dilligentlydiligently. For if it were neceſſary, as ſome of the Doctours ſuppoſe, that this name …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 427 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … would be very glad of it. The name of him that shot was very dilligentlydiligently kepte secret. Some say it was Manreuet, whiche in the thirde ciuill warre traiterously …
    With rule
    … would be very glad of it. The name of him that shot was very dilligentlydiligently kepte secret. Some say it was Manreuet, whiche in the thirde ciuill warre traiterously …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XlII · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Theſe words containe in thē the reaſon why we ſhold ſo dilligentlydiligently obſerue the vpright man, The later end of that man ſhall be peace.
    With rule
    Theſe words containe in thē the reaſon why we ſhold ſo dilligentlydiligently obſerue the vpright man, The later end of that man ſhall be peace.

    Samuel Smith · Noahs Dove · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſpirite, that they might beare themſelues therin boldlie and conſtantlie. Then alſo they muſt dilligentlydiligently call to their remembrance all the exhortations which they haue heard before, and be …
    With rule
    … ſpirite, that they might beare themſelues therin boldlie and conſtantlie. Then alſo they muſt dilligentlydiligently call to their remembrance all the exhortations which they haue heard before, and be …

    John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · 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.