Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7310 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

overcommingovercoming

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 209 times in 142 works
Consistency: 99.0% (209 of 211)
Reach if approved: ~222 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overcoming
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 211 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (209 changes in 142 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 209)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and their intralls, and divers other waies; this is the skill of Faith in overcommingovercoming the world, to make uſe of thoſe things of the world that heretofore have …
With rule
… and their intralls, and divers other waies; this is the skill of Faith in overcommingovercoming the world, to make uſe of thoſe things of the world that heretofore have …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Moses Self-Denial · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my matter, my substance, is but earth: But then a North, a power of overcommingovercoming that low and miserable state, In Imagine; That though in my matter, the earth …
With rule
… my matter, my substance, is but earth: But then a North, a power of overcommingovercoming that low and miserable state, In Imagine; That though in my matter, the earth …
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paynefull worke in putting forth the strength of the armes, legges, &c. for the overcommingovercoming of some difficulties, the body is exercised, the sinewes and other organicall parts much …
With rule
… paynefull worke in putting forth the strength of the armes, legges, &c. for the overcommingovercoming of some difficulties, the body is exercised, the sinewes and other organicall parts much …
Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… walketh with great feebleneſſe and faintneſſe: but going on in exerciſe and diet, nature overcommingovercoming the remainders of ſicke matter which were left, he goeth ſtrongly, and feeleth not …
With rule
… walketh with great feebleneſſe and faintneſſe: but going on in exerciſe and diet, nature overcommingovercoming the remainders of ſicke matter which were left, he goeth ſtrongly, and feeleth not …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but ſpecially his cariage and behaviour in managing our combat, and his act of overcommingovercoming. Chriſt our Champion hath overcome all our enemies in his death upon the Croſſe …
With rule
… but ſpecially his cariage and behaviour in managing our combat, and his act of overcommingovercoming. Chriſt our Champion hath overcome all our enemies in his death upon the Croſſe …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. The Puniſhment of ſinne he tooke away likewiſe by ſuffering and overcommingovercoming that which we muſt have ſuffered, but could not overcome, even the full viols …
With rule
2. The Puniſhment of ſinne he tooke away likewiſe by ſuffering and overcommingovercoming that which we muſt have ſuffered, but could not overcome, even the full viols …
John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… condition. Members, as ſome are on earth, others in heauen. Condition, as our fighting overcommingovercoming. In this world our application is but inchoatiue, in the world to come it …
With rule
… condition. Members, as ſome are on earth, others in heauen. Condition, as our fighting overcommingovercoming. In this world our application is but inchoatiue, in the world to come it …
John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. For overcommingovercoming the evils of their lives. 53
With rule
2. For overcommingovercoming the evils of their lives. 53
Timothy Armitage · The Son of God Walking in the Fire with the Servants of God · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.