Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6585 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beliallbelial

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 252 times in 185 works
Consistency: 98.4% (252 of 256)
Reach if approved: ~269 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: belial
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 256 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (252 changes in 185 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 252)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… God of some: Pouertie, sicknesse, age, are all the Deuils they tremble at, and BeliallBelial, Melchom, Mammon, Pleasures, Honours, Riches, all the Gods they worshippe: These three vsurping Kings …
With rule
… God of some: Pouertie, sicknesse, age, are all the Deuils they tremble at, and BeliallBelial, Melchom, Mammon, Pleasures, Honours, Riches, all the Gods they worshippe: These three vsurping Kings …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is Interrogatiue, the ſenſe Negatiue. Righteouſneſſe and Vnrighteouſneſſe, Light and Darkneſſe, Chriſt and BeliallBelial, the Beleeuer and the Infidel; theſe can haue no ſocietie, no communion, no concord …
With rule
… which is Interrogatiue, the ſenſe Negatiue. Righteouſneſſe and Vnrighteouſneſſe, Light and Darkneſſe, Chriſt and BeliallBelial, the Beleeuer and the Infidel; theſe can haue no ſocietie, no communion, no concord …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cor. 6. For what mariage maye rightuouſneſſe make with vnrightuouſneſſe? light with darkneſſe, Chriſt with BeliallBelial, the vnfayned children with the faythleſſe Infidell? For here beſide the daunger of diſcorde …
With rule
… Cor. 6. For what mariage maye rightuouſneſſe make with vnrightuouſneſſe? light with darkneſſe, Chriſt with BeliallBelial, the vnfayned children with the faythleſſe Infidell? For here beſide the daunger of diſcorde …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… the faith, lyfe, and manners of Antony, as darknesse is contrarye to lyghte▪ and BeliallBelial to Christe. For where as Antonye sledde into wildernesse, that he mighte serue God …
With rule
… the faith, lyfe, and manners of Antony, as darknesse is contrarye to lyghte▪ and BeliallBelial to Christe. For where as Antonye sledde into wildernesse, that he mighte serue God …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and not admit them ſo long as they remaine faithles. for as god and BeliallBelial haue no participation, ſo the faithfull and vnfaithfull may not haue parte together nor …
With rule
… and not admit them ſo long as they remaine faithles. for as god and BeliallBelial haue no participation, ſo the faithfull and vnfaithfull may not haue parte together nor …
Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
I do answer, that if light and darknes, beleevers and vnbeleevers, Christ and BeliallBelial, must haue no fellowship together, then must the beleevers, and they that are in …
With rule
I do answer, that if light and darknes, beleevers and vnbeleevers, Christ and BeliallBelial, must haue no fellowship together, then must the beleevers, and they that are in …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no fellowſhip with vnrighteouſneſſe or light with darkneſſe: ſo Chriſt hath no concord with BeliallBelial, or the vnbeleeuer, part with the beleeuer, 2. Cor. 6.14.15. And we finde by lamentable experience …
With rule
… no fellowſhip with vnrighteouſneſſe or light with darkneſſe: ſo Chriſt hath no concord with BeliallBelial, or the vnbeleeuer, part with the beleeuer, 2. Cor. 6.14.15. And we finde by lamentable experience …
Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnrighteousnes? Or what companie hathe light with darcknes? Or what concorde hath christe withe BeliallBelial? Either what parte hath he that beleauith / with an Infidell? Or how agreith the …
With rule
… vnrighteousnes? Or what companie hathe light with darcknes? Or what concorde hath christe withe BeliallBelial? Either what parte hath he that beleauith / with an Infidell? Or how agreith the …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.