Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6698 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

naballnabal

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 125 times in 91 works
Consistency: 99.2% (125 of 126)
Reach if approved: ~132 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 126 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (125 changes in 91 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 125)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… doing it cheerefully, not stay till it be wrung from him, as from churlish NaballNabal. Thus doe not they that spend at Alehouse, vpon Whores, or sports, Beare baites …
With rule
… doing it cheerefully, not stay till it be wrung from him, as from churlish NaballNabal. Thus doe not they that spend at Alehouse, vpon Whores, or sports, Beare baites …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Davids former Battels, where as Abigails Speech is rather a correction of what NaballNabal ſayd. Many Subjects are now fallen from their King, which words that Abigail might …
With rule
… to Davids former Battels, where as Abigails Speech is rather a correction of what NaballNabal ſayd. Many Subjects are now fallen from their King, which words that Abigail might …
William Bridge · The Truth of the Times Vindicated · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iob miſliking his life, curſeth his birth, conception, &c, 3 Iob. 3, thus in deteſtation of NaballNabal and Ahab is ſaid, that there ſhall not be left a dog, &c.
With rule
… Iob miſliking his life, curſeth his birth, conception, &c, 3 Iob. 3, thus in deteſtation of NaballNabal and Ahab is ſaid, that there ſhall not be left a dog, &c.
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lye vnder their burthen: thus many lye on their death beds, without remorſe, like NaballNabal, whoſe heart dyed within him, and he was like a ſtone.
With rule
… lye vnder their burthen: thus many lye on their death beds, without remorſe, like NaballNabal, whoſe heart dyed within him, and he was like a ſtone.
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
The couetousnes of NaballNabal & his churlishnes shewed vnto Dauid, had almoste caused that NaballNabal and all that euer hee had, had bene vtterly destroyed, if Abigail his wife …
With rule
The couetousnes of NaballNabal & his churlishnes shewed vnto Dauid, had almoste caused that NaballNabal and all that euer hee had, had bene vtterly destroyed, if Abigail his wife …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… they curſe, and rage, and diſpaire, or at the beſt they are like to NaballNabal, their hearts are dead as a ſtone within them, there is no ſpirituall life …
With rule
… they curſe, and rage, and diſpaire, or at the beſt they are like to NaballNabal, their hearts are dead as a ſtone within them, there is no ſpirituall life …
John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall I give my bread and wine to one I know not? ſaith churliſh NaballNabal. We can bee content to give and do any thing to win the world …
With rule
… ſhall I give my bread and wine to one I know not? ſaith churliſh NaballNabal. We can bee content to give and do any thing to win the world …
Henry Smith · Jonah the Messenger of Ninevehs Repentance · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
But if once Death begin to looke vs in the face, how doth NaballNabal dye like a stone? How doe Achitophel and Iudas dye the death of cowardly …
With rule
But if once Death begin to looke vs in the face, how doth NaballNabal dye like a stone? How doe Achitophel and Iudas dye the death of cowardly …
Samuel Ward · Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.