Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7149 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

balambalaam

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 115 times in 59 works
Consistency: 95.8% (115 of 120)
Reach if approved: ~126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 120 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (115 changes in 59 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
When BalamBalaam miſaffected was
With rule
When BalamBalaam miſaffected was
George Wither · A Memorandum to London · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but a Tradition: And whether the Inventers and upholders declare not themſelves worſe then BalamBalaam, Numb. 22.18, who being ſent for by Balack to curſe the people of God, and …
With rule
… but a Tradition: And whether the Inventers and upholders declare not themſelves worſe then BalamBalaam, Numb. 22.18, who being ſent for by Balack to curſe the people of God, and …
Edward Barber · Queries Propounded to the Churches of Christ · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were a true Church. In the Church in Pergamos, ſome held the doctrine of BalamBalaam and of the Nicholaitans, teaching to eate things ſacrificed to Idols, and to commit …
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… were a true Church. In the Church in Pergamos, ſome held the doctrine of BalamBalaam and of the Nicholaitans, teaching to eate things ſacrificed to Idols, and to commit …
Sampson Townsend · Truth Vindicated from Unjust Accusations of the Independent Society · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iudas preached Christ, yet sold him through couetousnesse, and was a child of perdition. BalamBalaam said, All what the Lord shall command, that will I speake, yet was a …
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… Iudas preached Christ, yet sold him through couetousnesse, and was a child of perdition. BalamBalaam said, All what the Lord shall command, that will I speake, yet was a …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for want of zeale, in suffering among them such as maintained the doctrine of BalamBalaam. Thirdly, hee setteth downe a reason or confirmation thereof in the end of the …
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… for want of zeale, in suffering among them such as maintained the doctrine of BalamBalaam. Thirdly, hee setteth downe a reason or confirmation thereof in the end of the …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proceeded from a wicked and a graceleſſe heart: but it was not conſtant in BalamBalaam, but as a ſudden flaſhing of a lightning quickly vaniſhing away. What ſhall wee …
With rule
… proceeded from a wicked and a graceleſſe heart: but it was not conſtant in BalamBalaam, but as a ſudden flaſhing of a lightning quickly vaniſhing away. What ſhall wee …
Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the madmen, and haue wearied our selues in the wayes of vnrighteousnesse. And with BalamBalaam: Oh that we might dye the death of the righteous, and that our last …
With rule
… the madmen, and haue wearied our selues in the wayes of vnrighteousnesse. And with BalamBalaam: Oh that we might dye the death of the righteous, and that our last …
William Burton · Ten Sermons Upon Matthew 6:1-4 · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… immediately proceeds to open it, and lets out Error, Falſehood, Blaſphemy, the Doctrine of BalamBalaam, Nicolaitaniſm, Antichriſtianiſm, ſpiritual Pride and Tyranny, like the Smoke or perpetual Vapour of the …
With rule
… immediately proceeds to open it, and lets out Error, Falſehood, Blaſphemy, the Doctrine of BalamBalaam, Nicolaitaniſm, Antichriſtianiſm, ſpiritual Pride and Tyranny, like the Smoke or perpetual Vapour of the …
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 125 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

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

The Garden of Zion B01751

Printed
He ſent for BALAMBALAAM whoſe ſcience was deep:
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He ſent for BALAMBALAAM whoſe ſcience was deep:
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
The morrow after BALAMBALAAM came quicklie
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The morrow after BALAMBALAAM came quicklie
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 83 · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

Printed
… honoure / promocion / dignite and money by hepe of our mitred monsters. Take ensample of balambalaam the false prophete which gaue councel ād sought meanes / thorow like blind couetousnesse / to …
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… honoure / promocion / dignite and money by hepe of our mitred monsters. Take ensample of balambalaam the false prophete which gaue councel ād sought meanes / thorow like blind couetousnesse / to …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader