Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10688 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

christmasseChristmas

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

Puritas changed it: 118 times in 59 works
Consistency: 99.1% (118 of 119)
Reach if approved: ~125 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: christmas
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 119 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (118 changes in 59 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 118)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not the day on which we solemnize Christs birth, be properly and fitly cald ChristmasseChristmas day; it being a day full of Offerings, full of sacrifices unto Christ? On …
With rule
… not the day on which we solemnize Christs birth, be properly and fitly cald ChristmasseChristmas day; it being a day full of Offerings, full of sacrifices unto Christ? On …
Edward Fisher · The Feat of Feasts · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is meate for the Diuell, according to the Italian Prouerbe: The Diuell makes his ChristmasseChristmas pie of lewd Tongues. It is his daintiest dish, and he makes much of …
With rule
… is meate for the Diuell, according to the Italian Prouerbe: The Diuell makes his ChristmasseChristmas pie of lewd Tongues. It is his daintiest dish, and he makes much of …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
Ye know that at ChristmasseChristmas last paste, I made you a Bancket, wher in I proponed & set before you …
With rule
Ye know that at ChristmasseChristmas last paste, I made you a Bancket, wher in I proponed & set before you …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… like. And this he obserueth alway in the principall feasts of the Christians, as ChristmasseChristmas and Easter. The like he did in the chiefe feasts of the Saracens, Iewes …
With rule
… like. And this he obserueth alway in the principall feasts of the Christians, as ChristmasseChristmas and Easter. The like he did in the chiefe feasts of the Saracens, Iewes …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 352 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of discipline penned anno. 1560. the observation of holy dayes to Sancts, the feast of ChristmasseChristmas, Circumcision, Epiphanie, Purification, and other fond feasts of our Ladie are ranked amongst the …
With rule
… of discipline penned anno. 1560. the observation of holy dayes to Sancts, the feast of ChristmasseChristmas, Circumcision, Epiphanie, Purification, and other fond feasts of our Ladie are ranked amongst the …
David Calderwood · Perth Assembly · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
Preached at Saint Pauls upon ChristmasseChristmas day, 1621.
With rule
Preached at Saint Pauls upon ChristmasseChristmas day, 1621.
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 320 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be borne, whiche was seuen hundreth yeares after Christ. As for Masse on ChristmasseChristmas day, I answere the same, the Masse was not all made within 600. years, if …
With rule
… to be borne, whiche was seuen hundreth yeares after Christ. As for Masse on ChristmasseChristmas day, I answere the same, the Masse was not all made within 600. years, if …
William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 785 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yeere; Or whatever be meant by it, whether the day of the Lords nativitie, ChriſtmaſſeChristmas day, as it is called; or of His reſurrection, Eaſter-day, or any other …
With rule
… yeere; Or whatever be meant by it, whether the day of the Lords nativitie, ChriſtmaſſeChristmas day, as it is called; or of His reſurrection, Eaſter-day, or any other …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 339 · 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.