Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11419 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

battelbattle

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 5,326 times in 1,266 works
Consistency: 99.9% (5,326 of 5,328)
Reach if approved: ~5,605 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: battle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,334 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,326 changes in 1,266 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,326)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in their companie. And finally, if thou findes hope with patience, and a continuall battelbattle against sinne, and the intysements of the warld: then may thou be certaine, that …
With rule
… in their companie. And finally, if thou findes hope with patience, and a continuall battelbattle against sinne, and the intysements of the warld: then may thou be certaine, that …
James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… world lyeth in wickedneſſe We need not go forth of our ſelfs to haue battelbattle with God and his iuſtice becauſe y^e wiſedome of the fleſh is enimie againſt …
With rule
… world lyeth in wickedneſſe We need not go forth of our ſelfs to haue battelbattle with God and his iuſtice becauſe y^e wiſedome of the fleſh is enimie againſt …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſauoure of wemen. Some muſt haue duplicate page duplicate page Saturne for wyſdome, Iupiter for honoures, Mars for battelbattle, whiche ar the verye Deuelyſhe deluſyons wherewyth the Deuyll blyneded the Babylonyans Egiptians and …
With rule
… ſauoure of wemen. Some muſt haue duplicate page duplicate page Saturne for wyſdome, Iupiter for honoures, Mars for battelbattle, whiche ar the verye Deuelyſhe deluſyons wherewyth the Deuyll blyneded the Babylonyans Egiptians and …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… of gold upon your apparell; how are the mighty fallen in the midſt of battelbattle? So in this caſe; O Town, O People, O Congregation, weepe over theſe men …
With rule
… of gold upon your apparell; how are the mighty fallen in the midſt of battelbattle? So in this caſe; O Town, O People, O Congregation, weepe over theſe men …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ioab was purpoſed by a meſſenger to informe Dauid of the ſucceſſe of the battelbattle: hereupon one Ahimaaz offered himſelfe to be the carier of tidings: Ioab put him …
With rule
… Ioab was purpoſed by a meſſenger to informe Dauid of the ſucceſſe of the battelbattle: hereupon one Ahimaaz offered himſelfe to be the carier of tidings: Ioab put him …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… permitted to trouble yow: partly for that he wold haue yow exercised in the battelbattle, before the great danger approched, least (perchance) that ye might haue bene ouerthrowen, if …
With rule
… permitted to trouble yow: partly for that he wold haue yow exercised in the battelbattle, before the great danger approched, least (perchance) that ye might haue bene ouerthrowen, if …
John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader
Printed
… myrth is as neceſſary for youth as meate and drinke. For the body doth battelbattle through mirth of minde. And we muſt not beginne with the education of the …
With rule
… myrth is as neceſſary for youth as meate and drinke. For the body doth battelbattle through mirth of minde. And we muſt not beginne with the education of the …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the hea thē & the Romaines, shortly after he was ouercome and slaine in battelbattle.
With rule
… with the hea thē & the Romaines, shortly after he was ouercome and slaine in battelbattle.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Appeal of Injured Innocence A40651

Printed
BATTELBATTLE ABBEY founded by King Will. the Conquerour, b. 3. ¶. 1. the large Priviledges thereof, ibidem, and ¶. 15.
With rule
BATTELBATTLE ABBEY founded by King Will. the Conquerour, b. 3. ¶. 1. the large Priviledges thereof, ibidem, and ¶. 15.
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… MEN, which TREAD DOWNE their enemies in the MIRE of the ſtreets, in the BATTELBATTLE; and they ſhall FIGHT, becauſe the Lord is with them, and the RIDERS ON …
With rule
… MEN, which TREAD DOWNE their enemies in the MIRE of the ſtreets, in the BATTELBATTLE; and they ſhall FIGHT, becauſe the Lord is with them, and the RIDERS ON …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 343 · Open in the reader