Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7249 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

guilefullguileful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 142 times in 87 works
Consistency: 99.3% (142 of 143)
Reach if approved: ~150 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: guileful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 143 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (142 changes in 87 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 142)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… then our Lord tells us we have received our reward, this is hypocriticall, phariſaicall, guilefullguileful, a man ſerves ſinne in it, not God, nor man, though it may profit …
With rule
… then our Lord tells us we have received our reward, this is hypocriticall, phariſaicall, guilefullguileful, a man ſerves ſinne in it, not God, nor man, though it may profit …
William Whately · The Poor Mans Advocate · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
3 The third is fraud, shifting, subtilty, and guilefullguileful and deceitfull dealing in mens course for the things of this life. Thus Esau …
With rule
3 The third is fraud, shifting, subtilty, and guilefullguileful and deceitfull dealing in mens course for the things of this life. Thus Esau …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou didſt not deſire, mine heart haſt thou prepared▪ &c. And next, the moſt guilefullguileful people and diſſemblers, haue euer beene as forward with ſacrifices and outward obſeruations, as …
With rule
… thou didſt not deſire, mine heart haſt thou prepared▪ &c. And next, the moſt guilefullguileful people and diſſemblers, haue euer beene as forward with ſacrifices and outward obſeruations, as …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 322 · Open in the reader
Printed
My water Syrens with their guilefullguileful lures.
With rule
My water Syrens with their guilefullguileful lures.
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have found it hard and hazardous to thrive under the dammage of such a guilefullguileful liberatie. The other act was so necessary that, nothing in the power of Man …
With rule
… have found it hard and hazardous to thrive under the dammage of such a guilefullguileful liberatie. The other act was so necessary that, nothing in the power of Man …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then is it? truly the diſtraction growes from the Inſide, they were vpright, we guilefullguileful; they were at peace with God, we are vnreconciled; they were filled with the …
With rule
… then is it? truly the diſtraction growes from the Inſide, they were vpright, we guilefullguileful; they were at peace with God, we are vnreconciled; they were filled with the …
Robert Harris · The Blessedness of a Sound Spirit · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet have they many baits, and guilefullguileful spells
With rule
Yet have they many baits, and guilefullguileful spells
John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beginning or end, the first and the last, most simple and sincere, without any guilefullguileful corner or angle; most infinite, most perfect, and fit to containe all perfections of …
With rule
… beginning or end, the first and the last, most simple and sincere, without any guilefullguileful corner or angle; most infinite, most perfect, and fit to containe all perfections of …
Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 267 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 A17385

Printed
The miserie of GuilefullGuileful persons,
With rule
The miserie of GuilefullGuileful persons,
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · Open in the reader