Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6404 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ballancedbalanced

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 244 times in 184 works
Consistency: 96.8% (244 of 252)
Reach if approved: ~265 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: balanced
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 252 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (244 changes in 184 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 244)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… neither lifted up with the one, nor depreſſed with the other; but alwayes even ballancedbalanced with his love. And becauſe the bitter cup of trembling cannot paſſe, but firſt …
With rule
… neither lifted up with the one, nor depreſſed with the other; but alwayes even ballancedbalanced with his love. And becauſe the bitter cup of trembling cannot paſſe, but firſt …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 691 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vent and ſet them a broach, though neuer ſo froathie, and in truth being ballancedbalanced in the ſcoale of a iudicious Reader, found altogether lighter then vanitie it ſelfe …
With rule
… vent and ſet them a broach, though neuer ſo froathie, and in truth being ballancedbalanced in the ſcoale of a iudicious Reader, found altogether lighter then vanitie it ſelfe …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… without it; all the ſafety it hath is from within. If it be well ballancedbalanced it may eſcape. So is it with the ſhippe of mans conſcience. When GODS …
With rule
… without it; all the ſafety it hath is from within. If it be well ballancedbalanced it may eſcape. So is it with the ſhippe of mans conſcience. When GODS …
Francis Taylor · Self-Satisfaction · Open in the reader
Printed
… I owe to my neighbours, when as they are in my partiall affection ouer-ballancedbalanced with ſome worldly profit, pleaſure or preferment. O that my head were a fountaine …
With rule
… I owe to my neighbours, when as they are in my partiall affection ouer-ballancedbalanced with ſome worldly profit, pleaſure or preferment. O that my head were a fountaine …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 891 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and alſo in caſes meerly doubtful to them in point of Doctrine, to be ballancedbalanced by their judgements rather then by the Judgement of ſingle Paſtors, and more then …
With rule
… and alſo in caſes meerly doubtful to them in point of Doctrine, to be ballancedbalanced by their judgements rather then by the Judgement of ſingle Paſtors, and more then …
Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 445 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Democracie and popular government in the Church: they profeſſe a midway of government, well ballancedbalanced with a prudent mixture of the Officers power with the peoples, giving a part …
With rule
… Democracie and popular government in the Church: they profeſſe a midway of government, well ballancedbalanced with a prudent mixture of the Officers power with the peoples, giving a part …
Robert Baillie · A Dissuasive from the Errors of the time · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were justly become a terrour to all Governments, and could now be withstood, or ballancedbalanced by no other means than by a General League in Religion; constantly, and truly …
With rule
… were justly become a terrour to all Governments, and could now be withstood, or ballancedbalanced by no other means than by a General League in Religion; constantly, and truly …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the poſſeſſion of, by His Goſpel. Now ſee how prudently the holy Apoſtle hath ballancedbalanced his expreſſions of it! He calleth it a reward, or guerdon, that is, a …
With rule
… the poſſeſſion of, by His Goſpel. Now ſee how prudently the holy Apoſtle hath ballancedbalanced his expreſſions of it! He calleth it a reward, or guerdon, that is, a …
Jean Daille · Forty-nine Sermons upon Colossians · p. 130 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons A33330

Printed
… Lands: And being farther pressed, he said, The Bloody Wars of Germany cannot be BallancedBalanced with the Wars of these Three Kingdoms. What say you Sir? said one of …
With rule
… Lands: And being farther pressed, he said, The Bloody Wars of Germany cannot be BallancedBalanced with the Wars of these Three Kingdoms. What say you Sir? said one of …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 210 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France A56905

Printed
… ſeveral humors and different Opinions riſen up in the Aſſembly of Saumur may be BallancedBalanced, Allayed, and Compoſed, Declaring that the General deſire of the ſaid Churches is to …
With rule
… ſeveral humors and different Opinions riſen up in the Aſſembly of Saumur may be BallancedBalanced, Allayed, and Compoſed, Declaring that the General deſire of the ſaid Churches is to …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 368 · Open in the reader