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emperourEmperor

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
18,580 times in 2,070 works
Consistency
99.9% (18,580 of 18,584)
Reach if approved
~19,529 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: emperor
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
18,586 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (18,580 changes in 2,070 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 18,580)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to gouerne were nothing else but to commaund, whereas cleane contrariwise, (as that noble EmperourEmperor Theodosius saide) to gouerne, is to take charge of the health, wealth, and prosperitie …
    With rule
    … to gouerne were nothing else but to commaund, whereas cleane contrariwise, (as that noble EmperourEmperor Theodosius saide) to gouerne, is to take charge of the health, wealth, and prosperitie …

    William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … for the reliefe of the poore. As appeareth in his second Apollogie vnto the EmperourEmperor for the Christians, where he describeth the whole order of their meeting and what …
    With rule
    … for the reliefe of the poore. As appeareth in his second Apollogie vnto the EmperourEmperor for the Christians, where he describeth the whole order of their meeting and what …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 258 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of the brethren; when the ſtorme was ouer, & there was a ſodaine calme, the EmperourEmperor Conſtantine being become Chriſtian, ſuch ioy in all Chriſtian lands, Chriſtianitie magnified with ſuch …
    With rule
    … of the brethren; when the ſtorme was ouer, & there was a ſodaine calme, the EmperourEmperor Conſtantine being become Chriſtian, ſuch ioy in all Chriſtian lands, Chriſtianitie magnified with ſuch …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … for matters of religion and piety. Conſtantine the Great, who was the firſt Chriſtian EmperourEmperor, being eſtabliſhed in his royall government, made lawes for the peace of Chriſtians, and …
    With rule
    … for matters of religion and piety. Conſtantine the Great, who was the firſt Chriſtian EmperourEmperor, being eſtabliſhed in his royall government, made lawes for the peace of Chriſtians, and …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to pay tribute: and now manie Yeares agoe, the Empire hath alſo wanted an EmperourEmperor.
    With rule
    … to pay tribute: and now manie Yeares agoe, the Empire hath alſo wanted an EmperourEmperor.

    William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … bee thoſe fruits? It was a ſmart Inuention of him, that hauing placed the EmperourEmperor, and the Pope, reconciled, in their Maieſtick Thrones, he brought the States of the …
    With rule
    … bee thoſe fruits? It was a ſmart Inuention of him, that hauing placed the EmperourEmperor, and the Pope, reconciled, in their Maieſtick Thrones, he brought the States of the …

    Thomas Adams · The Barren Tree · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … great parte of the citie was ſette on fire and conſumed. And Phillip the EmperourEmperor was ſlayne at Varona, and his ſonne at Rome, as it is reported by …
    With rule
    … great parte of the citie was ſette on fire and conſumed. And Phillip the EmperourEmperor was ſlayne at Varona, and his ſonne at Rome, as it is reported by …

    Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … enough. It may be said of him, as it was of Bonosus, whom the EmperourEmperor Aurelian set to drinke with the German Embassador; not a man, but a rundlet …
    With rule
    … enough. It may be said of him, as it was of Bonosus, whom the EmperourEmperor Aurelian set to drinke with the German Embassador; not a man, but a rundlet …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 27 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 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.

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

  • Printed
    … this JUSTIN gave in his Apology for Chriſtian Religion, in writing to ANTONIUS the EMPEROUREMPEROR. To allow him a ſufficiency of judgement and time to bee a famous Philoſopher …
    With rule
    … this JUSTIN gave in his Apology for Chriſtian Religion, in writing to ANTONIUS the EMPEROUREMPEROR. To allow him a ſufficiency of judgement and time to bee a famous Philoſopher …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the FIRST SEA, &c. For the JUDGE ſhall not be judged, either of the EMPEROUREMPEROR, or of ALL THE CLERGY, or of the KINGS, or of the PEOPLE. Again …
    With rule
    … the FIRST SEA, &c. For the JUDGE ſhall not be judged, either of the EMPEROUREMPEROR, or of ALL THE CLERGY, or of the KINGS, or of the PEOPLE. Again …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 553 · Open in the reader

Chronological History of Popes Intolerable Usurpations A91186

  • Printed
    … borrows her ſplendor and light of the Sun; SO IS THE POPE THEN THE EMPEROUREMPEROR; ſeeing his Authority depends on the Pope, and is derived from him: Our own …
    With rule
    … borrows her ſplendor and light of the Sun; SO IS THE POPE THEN THE EMPEROUREMPEROR; ſeeing his Authority depends on the Pope, and is derived from him: Our own …

    William Prynne · Chronological History of Popes Intolerable Usurpations · p. 21 · Open in the reader