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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7327 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pragmaticallpragmatical

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
113 times in 79 works
Consistency
89.6% (113 of 126)
Reach if approved
~132 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pragmatical
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
126 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (113 changes in 79 works, 89.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 113)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in the Prince and State for being cautious, but in the Romanists for being pragmaticallpragmatical in dangerous attēpts. I will ioine to these the testimony of M. Watson who …
    With rule
    … in the Prince and State for being cautious, but in the Romanists for being pragmaticallpragmatical in dangerous attēpts. I will ioine to these the testimony of M. Watson who …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 221 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſaying, The Houſe of Commons in Parliament was an unjuſt Court, hypocrites, ſchiſmaticall, and pragmaticallpragmatical fellows, a company of factious fellows, no Parliament, that their proceeding againſt the Earl …
    With rule
    … ſaying, The Houſe of Commons in Parliament was an unjuſt Court, hypocrites, ſchiſmaticall, and pragmaticallpragmatical fellows, a company of factious fellows, no Parliament, that their proceeding againſt the Earl …

    John Canne · The Snare is Broken · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Bishop being very pragmaticallpragmatical and wilfull in his courses, could not well brooke pragmaticallpragmatical, peremptory Iesuits, who in Popish Kingdomes are in perpetuall enmity with all other orders …
    With rule
    … the Bishop being very pragmaticallpragmatical and wilfull in his courses, could not well brooke pragmaticallpragmatical, peremptory Iesuits, who in Popish Kingdomes are in perpetuall enmity with all other orders …

    William Prynne · Romes Masterpiece · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the late Pope labouring to foreſtall him in his iuſt throne, and the abſurd pragmaticallpragmatical impudency of the preſent, in that groſſe prohibition of a fauourable & naturall oath, for …
    With rule
    … the late Pope labouring to foreſtall him in his iuſt throne, and the abſurd pragmaticallpragmatical impudency of the preſent, in that groſſe prohibition of a fauourable & naturall oath, for …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 452 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … when they meet with vain men; and errors are more ſtirring and active in pragmaticallpragmatical buſie men, then in meek modeſt men; and therefore the advice of St. Jude …
    With rule
    … when they meet with vain men; and errors are more ſtirring and active in pragmaticallpragmatical buſie men, then in meek modeſt men; and therefore the advice of St. Jude …

    Francis Cheynell · A Plot for the Good of Posterity · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … thought never to have made publique. Whiles I was examined before the Committee, that pragmaticallpragmatical fellow Captain Biſhop (who, I ſuppoſe wrote this lying Book) did put in 6 or …
    With rule
    … thought never to have made publique. Whiles I was examined before the Committee, that pragmaticallpragmatical fellow Captain Biſhop (who, I ſuppoſe wrote this lying Book) did put in 6 or …

    Christopher Love · Vindication · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … which fact of his when he was blamed and censured by one Demetrius; (a pragmaticallpragmatical Clergie man as it seemes:) as being an vnheard of practise and praesident; that …
    With rule
    … which fact of his when he was blamed and censured by one Demetrius; (a pragmaticallpragmatical Clergie man as it seemes:) as being an vnheard of practise and praesident; that …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … bee ashamed to learne some things of our very enemies: If they be so pragmaticallpragmatical for evill, why should not wee be as active for good? I am sure …
    With rule
    … bee ashamed to learne some things of our very enemies: If they be so pragmaticallpragmatical for evill, why should not wee be as active for good? I am sure …

    Richard Sibbes · The Saints Safety in Evil Times · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Discourse of the Ecclesiastical State of this Kingdom A20775

  • Printed
    … them, becauſe I finde they were for the greateſt part written by the moſt PragmaticallPragmatical Popes, who buſied and beſtirred themſelves moſt in ſetting up orders, and new freſh …
    With rule
    … them, becauſe I finde they were for the greateſt part written by the moſt PragmaticallPragmatical Popes, who buſied and beſtirred themſelves moſt in ſetting up orders, and new freſh …

    Calybute Downing · A Discourse of the Ecclesiastical State of this Kingdom · p. 6 · Open in the reader

The Schismatic Sifted A95897

  • Printed
    … half-ayeer ſince) at Weſtminſter-hall, was there encountred by Maſter Peters, that moſt PragmaticallPragmatical Quicquid in Buccam, &c. of whom I will only ſay this by the way …
    With rule
    … half-ayeer ſince) at Weſtminſter-hall, was there encountred by Maſter Peters, that moſt PragmaticallPragmatical Quicquid in Buccam, &c. of whom I will only ſay this by the way …

    John Vicars · The Schismatic Sifted · p. 9 · Open in the reader