Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11612 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

battailebattle

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

Puritas changed it: 1,148 times in 398 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,148 of 1,150)
Reach if approved: ~1,208 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: battle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,150 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,148 changes in 398 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,148)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ouercome. Is not heere a moſt ſingular comfort and conſolation vnto vs in this battailebattle? Let the Diuell be neuer ſo mightie, neuer ſo ſubtill, fierce and raging, we …
With rule
… ouercome. Is not heere a moſt ſingular comfort and conſolation vnto vs in this battailebattle? Let the Diuell be neuer ſo mightie, neuer ſo ſubtill, fierce and raging, we …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beſtirre his ſtumps, and either ruſheth violently forward, as the Horſe ruſheth into the battailebattle; or elſe he proceedeth warily, wiſely, fundamentally, as they that ſpend all in ſearching …
With rule
… beſtirre his ſtumps, and either ruſheth violently forward, as the Horſe ruſheth into the battailebattle; or elſe he proceedeth warily, wiſely, fundamentally, as they that ſpend all in ſearching …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the caue, for what followed? Shortly after God cut off Saul in the battailebattle by the hand of the Philistims.
With rule
… in the caue, for what followed? Shortly after God cut off Saul in the battailebattle by the hand of the Philistims.
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he hath alreadie receiued, yet is hee as readie to bid the Lordes ſeruants battailebattle againe. Let vs looke euery day for theſe practiſes of the diuell, for thus …
With rule
… he hath alreadie receiued, yet is hee as readie to bid the Lordes ſeruants battailebattle againe. Let vs looke euery day for theſe practiſes of the diuell, for thus …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I do, that am assured that all thys is abhomination? Here Christ is in battailebattle. Shal I do as the multitude, or as Christeo enemies do? What … giue I …
With rule
… I do, that am assured that all thys is abhomination? Here Christ is in battailebattle. Shal I do as the multitude, or as Christeo enemies do? What … giue I …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… troubleſome and greeuous then others afore hath been. For is not that conflict and BattaileBattle more then twiſe lamētable, wherin our Enemies and aduerſaries againſt whom wee fight, carie …
With rule
… troubleſome and greeuous then others afore hath been. For is not that conflict and BattaileBattle more then twiſe lamētable, wherin our Enemies and aduerſaries againſt whom wee fight, carie …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… our merites ſake In this poynt conſyſteth the whole end of thys conflyct and battailebattle. The mind beynge in greate feare of the wrathe of God doethe nat ſeke …
With rule
… our merites ſake In this poynt conſyſteth the whole end of thys conflyct and battailebattle. The mind beynge in greate feare of the wrathe of God doethe nat ſeke …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… of fiue Cardinals together, after long torments; the ſlaughter of fiftie thouſand, ſlaine in battailebattle on both ſides: with a number of other cruelties, practiſed among them, which Theodorick …
With rule
… of fiue Cardinals together, after long torments; the ſlaughter of fiftie thouſand, ſlaine in battailebattle on both ſides: with a number of other cruelties, practiſed among them, which Theodorick …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 277 · 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.

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
… other, through ignorance and mistakes, and trying their Titles in the open field BY BATTAILEBATTLE, in stead of Law; by the Sword of the Souldier, not of the Spirit …
With rule
… other, through ignorance and mistakes, and trying their Titles in the open field BY BATTAILEBATTLE, in stead of Law; by the Sword of the Souldier, not of the Spirit …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · Open in the reader