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RetractedOrthographicPuritanRule #20

yeareyear

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Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026Approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026Retracted by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026

Retracted: it no longer applies anywhere.A rule's match is fixed once proposed; to try again, propose a new rule.

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About 21,414 places across the Puritan corpus, estimated: 628 in a random sample of 150 of 7,722 works.

Drawn Oct 19, 2026, 10:43 PM against rule-set version 36 · 1 sample drawn · no exact count yet (the overnight batch count is not built). Shown in original spelling.

  1. …yeares in a twelve-moneth, are presently fourescore, yea, within a yeareyear or two after, climbe up to an hundred: So it is in relating the…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 261 · Open in the reader

    Excepted here
  2. For he will haue a yeareyear of Iubile for your ſeruant as well as there was for you, thou ſhalt…

    Thomas Carter · Christian Commonwealth · p. 225 · Open in the reader

  3. The yeareyear then was not full ſo long

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

  4. …would be thought Heaven: besides, if Christ-tide lasted all the yeareyear, what would become of Lent? If every day were Good-friday, the world…

    Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  5. …which Num… hath added with Ianuary, to the yeareyear of Romulus which was not but ten monethes, & kéepeth yet the name.…

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

  6. …of the world, how long it hath continued vnto this instant 1600. yeareyear of Christ: And there with to discover the erroneous reckoning of the…

    Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  7. …with themſelves, Wee will goe to ſuch a City, and continue there a yeareyear, and get gaine. And the promiſe of this, and the thoughts of it…

    Thomas Goodwin · The Vanity of Thoughts Discovered · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  8. …and as his Chriſtian Church early preſented him a Type of the whole yeareyear in a Lent, and after impoſed the obligation of canonique houres,…

    John Donne · Poems · p. 353 · Open in the reader

  9. …no doubt this Haymericus was the same with Almericus, who about the yeareyear 1160 first instituted the order of Carmelites. Indeed formerly they…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  10. …his promise and his voyage into Palestine from moneth to moneth, and yeareyear to yeare, wisely gaining time by losing it.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  11. …of Mentz, and the Councell held at Rome by Pope Zacharie in the yeareyear DCCXLV. condemned as a bringer in of Iudaisme amongst Christians.…

    James Ussher · The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  12. Next yeareyear the King returned home, having been eighteen moneths a prisoner,…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  13. …crap not in, while after Gregorie the great, who liued in the 600. yeareyear after Chriſt ſuppoſe a great part of theſe abuſes is aſcriued to him.

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 256 · Open in the reader

  14. …ſhe was condemned as a witch by the inquiſitors of Spaine about the yeareyear of God 1540. The other of a Dominican Nun Priores de la Anunciada of…

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 348 · Open in the reader

  15. …all the dayes of King Henry the eighth: but in the third yeareyear of King Edward the sixth, with the bell-towre (a piece of curious…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 240 · Open in the reader

  16. …booke that he made of the Legend of Saincts, and feaſtes of all the yeareyear, that the auncients haue ordeyned the feaſt of Sainct Peters chaire…

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  17. …congregated at Nicaea in the more pure and primitive times, In the yeareyear of our Lord 325. or thereabouts condemning usury, from those words…

    Robert Bolton · Discourse Concerning Usury · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  18. …in the close. He died not long after, on the 22 of August, in the 13 yeareyear of his reigne; and was buried with his predecessours in the temple…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  19. …have begun not onely to doe, but alſo … to be willing a yeareyear agoe, 2 Cor. 8. 10. as he ſayes of his preaching, if I did it…

    William Fenner · Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 324 · Open in the reader

  20. In the Catalogue of the Authors at the end; referre Tatianus to they yeareyear 170. at the yeare 290. put Pamphilus, for Pamphylus. at the yeare…

    James Ussher · The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British · Open in the reader

  21. Or crop of the yeareyear: ſo the ſame metaphor is vſed. Pſal. 65.12.

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 233 · Open in the reader

  22. In what yeareyear this Councel of the White field was held, is not certainely knowne:…

    James Ussher · The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  23. …Biſhop of the Kirk of Mileuitan a learned man who liued about the yeareyear of God 369. ſayes, writting againſt the Donatiſtes who claimed to…

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  24. …multiplied ſteps, and beene walking on for this twenty or thirty yeareyear, and whither hath thy courſe tended, ſurely to perdition and…

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  25. …my maintenance was likely to be withdrawn at the end of the yeareyear. Hereupon one of the Aſſembly my loving friend, underſtanding that…

    John Tombes · An Apology for Two Treatises Concerning Infant Baptism · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  26. Is elder by a yeareyear, now, then it was

    John Donne · Poems · p. 213 · Open in the reader

  27. …beaten by him, for it is not righteouſneſſe, to be righteous once a yeareyear, at Eaſter, nor once a week, upon Sunday. An Anniverſary…

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 614 · Open in the reader

  28. …it amonge the Iſraelites, but of an other ſort. For God ordeined the yeareyear of the great Iubile, from fiftie yeares to fiftie yeares, for to…

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 283 · Open in the reader

  29. There were appoynted .iiii. ſeſſions in one yeareyear moe then were wonte to be. And for what other purpoſe (to ſpeake of)…

    Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the 13 Articles · Open in the reader

  30. …and State, that they might come to repaires. For it was the twelfth yeareyear before hee could pull downe Baal, and the eighteenth before he could…

    Thomas Ford · Reformation Sure and Steadfast · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  31. …We know the frantick man, though hee be sober eleaven moneths of the yeareyear, yet if hee rage one, hee cannot avoid the imputation of madnesse.

    Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  32. …the occaſion of doing ſo, from the Gentiles; At this time of the yeareyear, about the beginning of February, they celebrated the feaſt of…

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  33. …you: your profeſsion bindes you: your ſoueraigne authoritie, as yeareyear a King in Iſrael bindes you. For, as the wiſeſt king that euer was…

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · Open in the reader

  34. …his people. But what hopes of Deliverance? one rumour comes one yeareyear, and another yeare comes another rumour, and in the land is…

    Gaulter Postlethwaite · A Voice from Heaven · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  35. …of the Masters of the Templars, from the death of Gerard till the yeareyear 1215, whose names we cannot find. 3 13 16 3 3 M. 7. 9 4 5 14 HENRY…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · Open in the reader

  36. …the Christians in Jerusalem kept a constant solemnity, and once a yeareyear triumphantly marched with palms in their hands into the citie, to…

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  37. …about him, then all the reſt. In which reſpect, at this time of the yeareyear, and in theſe dayes, when the Church commemorates the Converſion of…

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 487 · Open in the reader

  38. …are of opinion that this day euery byrd doth chuse her mate for that yeareyear.

    George Wither · Nuptial Poems · Open in the reader

  39. What faſhioned hats, or ruffes, or ſuits next yeareyear

    John Donne · Poems · p. 327 · Open in the reader

  40. …of seaven Sabbathes of yeares, will be vnto thee nine and fourtie yeareyear. Then thou shalt cause to blowe the Trumpet of the Iubilee, in the…

    Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 22 · Open in the reader

Exceptions

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  • Not here

    …a twelve-moneth, are presently fourescore, yea, within a yeare or two after, climbe up to an hundred: So it is in…

    “QA flow: proving a spot exception from the reader”

    The History of the Holy War · p. 261 · By QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026 · Open in the reader

Timeline

The rule-set log: append-only
  1. Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 10:43 PMversion 37
  2. Approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 10:43 PMversion 38
  3. Exception added by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 10:43 PM · The History of the Holy War, p. 261version 39
  4. Retracted by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 10:43 PMversion 40

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