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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7278 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

litteralliteral

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
303 times in 136 works
Consistency
74.6% (303 of 406)
Reach if approved
~427 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: literal
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
406 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (303 changes in 136 works, 74.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 303)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … beginning of the Gospell. All such Truths lie above ground, plainly visible, in the litteralliteral sence. The Prophe ticall and difficult part comes in the close; But though the …
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    … beginning of the Gospell. All such Truths lie above ground, plainly visible, in the litteralliteral sence. The Prophe ticall and difficult part comes in the close; But though the …

    Thomas Fuller · Good Thoughts in Worse Times · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … we alleage this to inſtance how A Lapide falls from his ſpiritual to a litteralliteral ſence. Mr. Calvin whiles mighty much for a ſpiritual ſence of this propheſie, hath …
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    … we alleage this to inſtance how A Lapide falls from his ſpiritual to a litteralliteral ſence. Mr. Calvin whiles mighty much for a ſpiritual ſence of this propheſie, hath …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 355 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of ſuch Engliſh Words, viz. Without ſtraining or ſtretching of the words beyond the litteralliteral ſenſe of them, without any equivocation or mental evaſion, or ſecret reſervation whatſoever, viz …
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    … of ſuch Engliſh Words, viz. Without ſtraining or ſtretching of the words beyond the litteralliteral ſenſe of them, without any equivocation or mental evaſion, or ſecret reſervation whatſoever, viz …

    James Jones · Nonconformity Not Inconsistent with Loyalty · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … was rebuilt by Zerubbabel, &c. therefore ſome Learned Men look too much at the litteralliteral Senſe of this exceeding large Viſion; ſaying, it was given to the Prophet at …
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    … was rebuilt by Zerubbabel, &c. therefore ſome Learned Men look too much at the litteralliteral Senſe of this exceeding large Viſion; ſaying, it was given to the Prophet at …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 753 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Sacraments to be applyed to the Supper? But they wil haue the simple & the litteralliteral sense. Then why doth not the same rule hold in all the Sacraments? Certeinely …
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    … Sacraments to be applyed to the Supper? But they wil haue the simple & the litteralliteral sense. Then why doth not the same rule hold in all the Sacraments? Certeinely …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 690 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … blot out the two firſt lines (repeated) p. 181. l. 16. for occaſions, r. accuſations. leſs litteralliteral errours are paſt by.
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    … blot out the two firſt lines (repeated) p. 181. l. 16. for occaſions, r. accuſations. leſs litteralliteral errours are paſt by.

    Richard Baxter · A Second Admonition to Edward Bagshaw · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in it, which is of Junius that learned man, he thinks that the very litteralliteral ſenſe of the place is rather a Propheſie of Chriſts going into Egypt and …
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    … in it, which is of Junius that learned man, he thinks that the very litteralliteral ſenſe of the place is rather a Propheſie of Chriſts going into Egypt and …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to incline to the opinion of the Learned of these days, whose interpretation of litteralliteral sence and skill of the Tongues do appear; which took that for no Usury …
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    … to incline to the opinion of the Learned of these days, whose interpretation of litteralliteral sence and skill of the Tongues do appear; which took that for no Usury …

    Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (103)

57 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 are listed here. 46 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Good Hope Through Grace A27608

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    … Executed, ſo fully here deſcrib'd: That it is Rome, There are two undeniable, even LitteralLiteral Affirmations; that even the Popiſh Expoſitors, who have ſo great Reaſon to ward off …
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    … Executed, ſo fully here deſcrib'd: That it is Rome, There are two undeniable, even LitteralLiteral Affirmations; that even the Popiſh Expoſitors, who have ſo great Reaſon to ward off …

    Thomas Beverley · The Good Hope Through Grace · p. 8 · Open in the reader

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 A27613

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    … had the Fatal and Deſtructive ſtroke, wherein all fail'd and fell. So as in LitteralLiteral Bobylon, the Glory began in Gold, ſo in myſtical Babylon the Feet and Toes …
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    … had the Fatal and Deſtructive ſtroke, wherein all fail'd and fell. So as in LitteralLiteral Bobylon, the Glory began in Gold, ſo in myſtical Babylon the Feet and Toes …

    Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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    … of Prophetick Hiſtory in the firſt univerſal Monarch; the Golden Head of the primitive, LitteralLiteral Babylon; Nebuchadnezzar in conceipt of that mighty Image, He had ſeen in a Dream …
    With rule
    … of Prophetick Hiſtory in the firſt univerſal Monarch; the Golden Head of the primitive, LitteralLiteral Babylon; Nebuchadnezzar in conceipt of that mighty Image, He had ſeen in a Dream …

    Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 48 · Open in the reader

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    … Ten Tribes, Jeruſalem, as Sodom of Old, and Egypt alſo lay in Ruins under LitteralLiteral Babylon, that Rome or Myſtical Babylon bearing the names of all theſe, Spiritual Sodom …
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    … Ten Tribes, Jeruſalem, as Sodom of Old, and Egypt alſo lay in Ruins under LitteralLiteral Babylon, that Rome or Myſtical Babylon bearing the names of all theſe, Spiritual Sodom …

    Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to 1335. in preparation for the New Jeruſalem; and the parallel is very beautiful of LitteralLiteral Babylon Falling, and the LitteralLiteral Jeruſalem Riſing at the beginning of the 2300. Even▪ Morn …
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    … to 1335. in preparation for the New Jeruſalem; and the parallel is very beautiful of LitteralLiteral Babylon Falling, and the LitteralLiteral Jeruſalem Riſing at the beginning of the 2300. Even▪ Morn …

    Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · Open in the reader

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    … New Jeruſalem; and the parallel is very beautiful of LitteralLiteral Babylon Falling, and the LitteralLiteral Jeruſalem Riſing at the beginning of the 2300. Even▪ Morn: and Myſtical Babylon Falling, and …
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    … New Jeruſalem; and the parallel is very beautiful of LitteralLiteral Babylon Falling, and the LitteralLiteral Jeruſalem Riſing at the beginning of the 2300. Even▪ Morn: and Myſtical Babylon Falling, and …

    Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · Open in the reader

The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace A27637

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    … that God forbids to put before the Blind in Leviticus, paſſes out of the LitteralLiteral Senſe there, into the Moral Senſe in the Prophet Ezekiel, for the ſtumbling Block …
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    … that God forbids to put before the Blind in Leviticus, paſſes out of the LitteralLiteral Senſe there, into the Moral Senſe in the Prophet Ezekiel, for the ſtumbling Block …

    Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 5 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 A30575

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    … Inheritors of the Land of Canaan one way or other, take it in the LitteralLiteral, or in the Typical Senſe.
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    … Inheritors of the Land of Canaan one way or other, take it in the LitteralLiteral, or in the Typical Senſe.

    Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 · p. 264 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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    As for their LitteralLiteral Tinn, so plentiful herein, I wish some Artifice might be found out (hitherto unknown …
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    As for their LitteralLiteral Tinn, so plentiful herein, I wish some Artifice might be found out (hitherto unknown …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 246 · Open in the reader

A Century of Sermons A43515

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    … with that which the woman ſaid it muſt be conſidered two ways, in a LitteralLiteral ſenſe, ſuch as fleſh and bloud revealed to her: And in a Prophetical ſenſe …
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    … with that which the woman ſaid it muſt be conſidered two ways, in a LitteralLiteral ſenſe, ſuch as fleſh and bloud revealed to her: And in a Prophetical ſenſe …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 80 · Open in the reader

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    And thus far in the LitteralLiteral ſenſe, as far as fleſh and bloud could reveal unto her: But if ſhe …
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    And thus far in the LitteralLiteral ſenſe, as far as fleſh and bloud could reveal unto her: But if ſhe …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 81 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Psalm 119 A51842

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    Answ. 1. Christianity must not be judged by the rabble of Nominal, LitteralLiteral Christians; no more than we will judge of the cleanness of a Street, by …
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    Answ. 1. Christianity must not be judged by the rabble of Nominal, LitteralLiteral Christians; no more than we will judge of the cleanness of a Street, by …

    Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 1069 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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    … great ground of their manifold miſtakes, ſo that but ſparingly touching upon the true LitteralLiteral Sen…e, they run out ſo largely and laviſhly into Allegorical, Analogical, and Tropological …
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    … great ground of their manifold miſtakes, ſo that but ſparingly touching upon the true LitteralLiteral Sen…e, they run out ſo largely and laviſhly into Allegorical, Analogical, and Tropological …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 754 · Open in the reader

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    … by running into it (ſuch as never was, nor could be ſeen in the LitteralLiteral Temple) muſt be meant the Gifts of the Spirit, &c. and the Trees growing …
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    … by running into it (ſuch as never was, nor could be ſeen in the LitteralLiteral Temple) muſt be meant the Gifts of the Spirit, &c. and the Trees growing …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 755 · Open in the reader

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    … to Briars and Thorns (under which the Old Serpent lyeth lurking) Heb. 6.8. As the LitteralLiteral Sluggard's Field is over-run with filthy Weeds, ſo is the Spiritual Sluggard's Soul …
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    … to Briars and Thorns (under which the Old Serpent lyeth lurking) Heb. 6.8. As the LitteralLiteral Sluggard's Field is over-run with filthy Weeds, ſo is the Spiritual Sluggard's Soul …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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    The Third, The LitteralLiteral Soil brings one only Crop in the year, but the Myſtical every Month, Rev …
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    The Third, The LitteralLiteral Soil brings one only Crop in the year, but the Myſtical every Month, Rev …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 65 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A62085

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    … and things, God calls his own, are transcendently superiour to Man's own, as the LitteralLiteral Heavens are above the Earth. The duplication of this Hebrew superlative, the double Out …
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    … and things, God calls his own, are transcendently superiour to Man's own, as the LitteralLiteral Heavens are above the Earth. The duplication of this Hebrew superlative, the double Out …

    George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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    The weight of these words lies not in the LitteralLiteral Sense. For, no miseries or oppressions, incident to bodily Life, in this world, are …
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    The weight of these words lies not in the LitteralLiteral Sense. For, no miseries or oppressions, incident to bodily Life, in this world, are …

    George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 120 · Open in the reader

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    … Death. So, will this Covetous worldling, doting wholly upon Vain, False, Deceitful, Worldly Riches, LitteralLiteral or Mystical (and, as wholly Neglecting, Hating, and Rejecting the true) find no Heir …
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    … Death. So, will this Covetous worldling, doting wholly upon Vain, False, Deceitful, Worldly Riches, LitteralLiteral or Mystical (and, as wholly Neglecting, Hating, and Rejecting the true) find no Heir …

    George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 145 · Open in the reader

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    … Union of Mind with God) in the final Slaughter of) all such Mystical and LitteralLiteral Kings and People of the Earth, as are found in unchangable Enmity to God …
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    … Union of Mind with God) in the final Slaughter of) all such Mystical and LitteralLiteral Kings and People of the Earth, as are found in unchangable Enmity to God …

    George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 180 · Open in the reader

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    … full death of nature) absolutely incurable, and mortal; as the case was with the LitteralLiteral Leprosy on Uzzia's Body, to his dying day; though said, for a season, to …
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    … full death of nature) absolutely incurable, and mortal; as the case was with the LitteralLiteral Leprosy on Uzzia's Body, to his dying day; though said, for a season, to …

    George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 205 · Open in the reader