Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7417 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wizzardswizards

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 148 times in 68 works
Consistency: 100% (148 of 148)
Reach if approved: ~156 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wizards
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 148 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (148 changes in 68 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 148)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not plainly, aloud, and roundly, as the Lords Prophets denounced Gods minde. Isa. 8. 19. Unto WizzardsWizards which peep and mutter. It is a Metaphor or speech borrowed from Chickens, now …
With rule
… not plainly, aloud, and roundly, as the Lords Prophets denounced Gods minde. Isa. 8. 19. Unto WizzardsWizards which peep and mutter. It is a Metaphor or speech borrowed from Chickens, now …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 474 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Impoſtors only, or but coū feit Witches (as Juglers, Gypſies, fortune-tellers, Figure-caſters, WizzardsWizards, Conjurers, Calculaters of Nativities, with falſe prophets and Prognoſticators, that preſume to preſage what …
With rule
… Impoſtors only, or but coū feit Witches (as Juglers, Gypſies, fortune-tellers, Figure-caſters, WizzardsWizards, Conjurers, Calculaters of Nativities, with falſe prophets and Prognoſticators, that preſume to preſage what …
John Gaule · Select Cases Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcrafts · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wise to seeke forth to inchanters, and sorcerers, which indeede are but witches and wizzardswizards, though they are commonly called cunning or wise men and women. It were better …
With rule
… wise to seeke forth to inchanters, and sorcerers, which indeede are but witches and wizzardswizards, though they are commonly called cunning or wise men and women. It were better …
William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… used inchantments, and used witch-craft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizzardswizards. Hee wrought much evill in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to …
With rule
… used inchantments, and used witch-craft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizzardswizards. Hee wrought much evill in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 337 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the field and life of Naboth . Thus Saul, who had deſtroyed all witches and wizzardswizards he could light upon, when he ſaw that God anſwered him not, repaires to …
With rule
… the field and life of Naboth . Thus Saul, who had deſtroyed all witches and wizzardswizards he could light upon, when he ſaw that God anſwered him not, repaires to …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… live that day; he was jocund and ſecure about afternoon, and frumpingly told his WizzardsWizards, the day was far-ſpent and he felt no ſign of death; O but …
With rule
… live that day; he was jocund and ſecure about afternoon, and frumpingly told his WizzardsWizards, the day was far-ſpent and he felt no ſign of death; O but …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 818 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and themselves in thir own doings made traitors to boot: The Divines also, thir wizzardswizards, can be so braz'n as to cry Hosanna to this his book, which cries …
With rule
… and themselves in thir own doings made traitors to boot: The Divines also, thir wizzardswizards, can be so braz'n as to cry Hosanna to this his book, which cries …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · Open in the reader
Printed
… where the Prophet ſets down a Concatenation of Cauſes concerning Divine providence, which the WizzardsWizards of this World, either denye or deride; Laſtly Moſes (when He bleſſeth Iſrael as …
With rule
… where the Prophet ſets down a Concatenation of Cauſes concerning Divine providence, which the WizzardsWizards of this World, either denye or deride; Laſtly Moſes (when He bleſſeth Iſrael as …
Christopher Ness · A Strange and Wonderful Trinity · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.