Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7372 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stirrsstirs

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 150 times in 111 works
Consistency: 98.6% (150 of 152)
Reach if approved: ~160 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stirs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 152 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (150 changes in 111 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 150)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the stream run one way, yet the winde blowes contrary, it moves, and stirrsstirs, and strives, and disquiets it: when losses and crosses come, they break the frame …
With rule
… of the stream run one way, yet the winde blowes contrary, it moves, and stirrsstirs, and strives, and disquiets it: when losses and crosses come, they break the frame …
John Preston · Riches of Mercy to Men in Misery · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themselves with them. And likewise, God breeds in them a familiaritie with himselfe, and stirrsstirs them to build in him as on a rocke, to be safe in him.
With rule
… themselves with them. And likewise, God breeds in them a familiaritie with himselfe, and stirrsstirs them to build in him as on a rocke, to be safe in him.
Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that comfort again incourageth us to go on in the like; and besides it stirrsstirs us up to thankfulness to God, by whose grace alone we were enabled to …
With rule
… that comfort again incourageth us to go on in the like; and besides it stirrsstirs us up to thankfulness to God, by whose grace alone we were enabled to …
Richard Allestree · The Practice of Christian Graces · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. Ut Ecclesiae habeat. When they are infused, Charity stirrsstirs them up, and improves them to the use, and advantage of the Church of …
With rule
2. Ut Ecclesiae habeat. When they are infused, Charity stirrsstirs them up, and improves them to the use, and advantage of the Church of …
Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 399 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ever caſts up mire and dirt when he is moved, corruption moves, every ſtirring ſtirrsstirs up the pudle of his heart. As he is a ſea for largeneſſe, ſo …
With rule
… ever caſts up mire and dirt when he is moved, corruption moves, every ſtirring ſtirrsstirs up the pudle of his heart. As he is a ſea for largeneſſe, ſo …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 629 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that ran into their closets to seek the Lord; the city was full of stirrsstirs, but not of prayers; alas, Fear made them cry to the mountains, rather than …
With rule
… that ran into their closets to seek the Lord; the city was full of stirrsstirs, but not of prayers; alas, Fear made them cry to the mountains, rather than …
John Flavel · Two Treatises · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… So it is here, when a … mind is plotting how to act, his heart stirrsstirs, and … corruption boyling and bubling in his bosom, that the allarum is given, the …
With rule
… So it is here, when a … mind is plotting how to act, his heart stirrsstirs, and … corruption boyling and bubling in his bosom, that the allarum is given, the …
Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · p. 693 · Open in the reader
Printed
… threats and cruelty, then flattery, to make them forsake the Law, 2 Macc. 7. All these stirrsstirs grew from the Greeks attempting to make them leave their Laws, 1 Macc. 6. 59. Then Epiphanes …
With rule
… threats and cruelty, then flattery, to make them forsake the Law, 2 Macc. 7. All these stirrsstirs grew from the Greeks attempting to make them leave their Laws, 1 Macc. 6. 59. Then Epiphanes …
Joseph Mede · Works · p. 741 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… over Germany, under thoſe good Emperors, Ferdinand, Maximilian, Rodulphus, and Matthias, until 1619. the Jeſuits StirrsStirs up Ferdinand the 2d. to change the Churches long Peace into a Violent Perſecution …
With rule
… over Germany, under thoſe good Emperors, Ferdinand, Maximilian, Rodulphus, and Matthias, until 1619. the Jeſuits StirrsStirs up Ferdinand the 2d. to change the Churches long Peace into a Violent Perſecution …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 466 · Open in the reader