Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10722 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diocessDiocese

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

Puritas changed it: 1,807 times in 319 works
Consistency: 97.6% (1,807 of 1,850)
Reach if approved: ~1,947 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: diocese
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,853 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,807 changes in 319 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,807)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
16. When Biſhop Morley forbad me preaching in his DioceſsDiocese, I asked him leave but to preach to ſome ſmall Village among the ignorant …
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16. When Biſhop Morley forbad me preaching in his DioceſsDiocese, I asked him leave but to preach to ſome ſmall Village among the ignorant …
Richard Baxter · Penitent Confession and Vindication in Answer to a Book · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Dioceſane Church, is not to Aſſemble with it in publick Worſhip: For a DioceſsDiocese (in our ſenſe) cannot ſo aſſemble: but it is to own the Dioceſane Relation …
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… a Dioceſane Church, is not to Aſſemble with it in publick Worſhip: For a DioceſsDiocese (in our ſenſe) cannot ſo aſſemble: but it is to own the Dioceſane Relation …
Richard Baxter · A Second Admonition to Edward Bagshaw · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Churches and Paſtors. 3. Tho theſe ſubmit to Dioceſan ſuperiority, and be parts of a DioceſsDiocese, but true ſingle Churches, I do not therefore ſeparate from them. 4▪ A national Church …
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… Churches and Paſtors. 3. Tho theſe ſubmit to Dioceſan ſuperiority, and be parts of a DioceſsDiocese, but true ſingle Churches, I do not therefore ſeparate from them. 4▪ A national Church …
Richard Baxter · Whether Parish Congregations be True Christian Churches · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place; They alwayes pitching in the first place upon some outted Ministers from that DiocessDiocese, wherein the Paroches, to which they are to be confined, dolye: And allowing none …
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… place; They alwayes pitching in the first place upon some outted Ministers from that DiocessDiocese, wherein the Paroches, to which they are to be confined, dolye: And allowing none …
John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 37 · Open in the reader
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… to be a perpetuall Curate the gloſſ ſheweth us, that a Bishop in his DioceſſDiocese, a Parſon and Vicar in his Parish, and every other Perſon intituled, to any …
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… to be a perpetuall Curate the gloſſ ſheweth us, that a Bishop in his DioceſſDiocese, a Parſon and Vicar in his Parish, and every other Perſon intituled, to any …
William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… desir'd his Lordship, that it might not be expected from him, being of another DiocessDiocese, to concern himself in the Discourse, but only as a Hearer: Nay Mr. Henry …
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… desir'd his Lordship, that it might not be expected from him, being of another DiocessDiocese, to concern himself in the Discourse, but only as a Hearer: Nay Mr. Henry …
Matthew Henry · Life and Death of Philip Henry · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
LVII. 7. He that removeth into another DiocessDiocese or Parish for his worldly interest, separateth without fault from the Church he was …
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LVII. 7. He that removeth into another DiocessDiocese or Parish for his worldly interest, separateth without fault from the Church he was …
Richard Baxter · Catholic Communion Defended Against Both Extremes · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cauſeth Separations and Diviſions in the Church; it degradeth all the Presbyters in the DioceſsDiocese, and deſtroys and nulls their Office; it is the product of proud Ambition and …
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… cauſeth Separations and Diviſions in the Church; it degradeth all the Presbyters in the DioceſsDiocese, and deſtroys and nulls their Office; it is the product of proud Ambition and …
Richard Baxter · Against Communicating with the Parish Assemblies · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (43)

22 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 are listed here. 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The History of the Indulgence A29750

Printed
… that none be hereafter permitted to preach in publick or in families within any diocessDiocese;—without the licence of the Ordinary of the DiocessDiocese. So that this licence and …
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… that none be hereafter permitted to preach in publick or in families within any diocessDiocese;—without the licence of the Ordinary of the DiocessDiocese. So that this licence and …
John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 28 · Open in the reader

The Remains of John Corbet A34542

Printed
… yet they do not ſound like the fixing of them each in their proper dioceſsDiocese.
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… yet they do not ſound like the fixing of them each in their proper dioceſsDiocese.
John Corbet · The Remains of John Corbet · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… town that was near, he did not make it a part of his own dioceſsDiocese, but ordained Alexander the Collier, a right worthy perſon, to be their biſhop. And …
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… town that was near, he did not make it a part of his own dioceſsDiocese, but ordained Alexander the Collier, a right worthy perſon, to be their biſhop. And …
John Corbet · The Remains of John Corbet · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſingle Congregation or Society, of which the biſhop took the perſonal overſight, to a dioceſsDiocese conſiſting of many, yea commonly of many hundred ſtared congregations, having each of them …
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… ſingle Congregation or Society, of which the biſhop took the perſonal overſight, to a dioceſsDiocese conſiſting of many, yea commonly of many hundred ſtared congregations, having each of them …
John Corbet · The Remains of John Corbet · p. 134 · Open in the reader

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

Printed
… viz.) A diocesian Prelat having sole power of ordination and jurisdiction over a wholl diocessDiocese, with a negative voice and a sole decisive suffrage in the Church Judicatories thereof …
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… viz.) A diocesian Prelat having sole power of ordination and jurisdiction over a wholl diocessDiocese, with a negative voice and a sole decisive suffrage in the Church Judicatories thereof …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… order in a dependance upon him, he only is the proper Pastor of the diocessDiocese (as shall be afterward cleared) Presbiters are but his substitutes and helpers. They are …
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… order in a dependance upon him, he only is the proper Pastor of the diocessDiocese (as shall be afterward cleared) Presbiters are but his substitutes and helpers. They are …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… office, denoted by this term [Bishop of Edinburgh] &c. He admitts non in the diocessDiocese, it being the characteristick of his Superioritie over Presbyters) & withall, it including the wholl …
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… office, denoted by this term [Bishop of Edinburgh] &c. He admitts non in the diocessDiocese, it being the characteristick of his Superioritie over Presbyters) & withall, it including the wholl …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is [altum silentium] of him in the Epistles to the Ephesians, his own supposed diocessDiocese. 10. That Paul laid hands upon the disciples who were ordained in that church after …
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… is [altum silentium] of him in the Epistles to the Ephesians, his own supposed diocessDiocese. 10. That Paul laid hands upon the disciples who were ordained in that church after …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Caesarea, yet was all the Episcopall See of Gregory Nazianzen. In Chrysostoms time, the diocessDiocese contained but one citie. Homil. 3. (in acta) nonne terr arum orbis imperium tenet imperator …
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… Caesarea, yet was all the Episcopall See of Gregory Nazianzen. In Chrysostoms time, the diocessDiocese contained but one citie. Homil. 3. (in acta) nonne terr arum orbis imperium tenet imperator …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 237 · Open in the reader

Review of the Seditious Pamphlet by Dr Bramble A77478

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… without any Preſbytery; a Biſhop exerciſing no juriſdiction himſelf in any part of his dioceſsDiocese, but devolving the exciſe of that power wholy upon his Officials and Commiſſaries: a …
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… without any Preſbytery; a Biſhop exerciſing no juriſdiction himſelf in any part of his dioceſsDiocese, but devolving the exciſe of that power wholy upon his Officials and Commiſſaries: a …
Robert Baillie · Review of the Seditious Pamphlet by Dr Bramble · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Preſbyters, who chance to be neer; a Biſhop the only paſtor of the whole dioceſsDiocese, and yet not bound to feed any flock, either by Word, or Sacrament, or …
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… Preſbyters, who chance to be neer; a Biſhop the only paſtor of the whole dioceſsDiocese, and yet not bound to feed any flock, either by Word, or Sacrament, or …
Robert Baillie · Review of the Seditious Pamphlet by Dr Bramble · p. 39 · Open in the reader

Apology in Behalf of Mr Whitefield N04507

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… very ſame Subſcription, in Caſe of a licenſed Miniſter's coming to RESIDE IN ANY DIOCESSDIOCESE, ſays, He ſhall not be permitted, THERE to preach,— unleſs he firſt conſent and …
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… very ſame Subſcription, in Caſe of a licenſed Miniſter's coming to RESIDE IN ANY DIOCESSDIOCESE, ſays, He ſhall not be permitted, THERE to preach,— unleſs he firſt conſent and …
Thomas Foxcroft · Apology in Behalf of Mr Whitefield · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the three Articles before mentioned, in the Preſence of the BISHOP of the DIOCESSDIOCESE wherein he is to preach—Now from the Tenor of this Canon it's evident …
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… to the three Articles before mentioned, in the Preſence of the BISHOP of the DIOCESSDIOCESE wherein he is to preach—Now from the Tenor of this Canon it's evident …
Thomas Foxcroft · Apology in Behalf of Mr Whitefield · p. 17 · Open in the reader
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… obligatory to him, by Virtue of his Subſcription, while he is RESIDING in ſome DIOCESSDIOCESE, and offering himſelf THERE to preach.—Conſequently the Subſcriber, tho' here in New-England …
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… obligatory to him, by Virtue of his Subſcription, while he is RESIDING in ſome DIOCESSDIOCESE, and offering himſelf THERE to preach.—Conſequently the Subſcriber, tho' here in New-England …
Thomas Foxcroft · Apology in Behalf of Mr Whitefield · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Conformity, to have their Licence taken from them.—For if New-England be no DIOCESSDIOCESE, nor Part of a DIOCESSDIOCESE; if New-England have no Prelate appointed over it …
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… Conformity, to have their Licence taken from them.—For if New-England be no DIOCESSDIOCESE, nor Part of a DIOCESSDIOCESE; if New-England have no Prelate appointed over it …
Thomas Foxcroft · Apology in Behalf of Mr Whitefield · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… taken from them.—For if New-England be no DIOCESSDIOCESE, nor Part of a DIOCESSDIOCESE; if New-England have no Prelate appointed over it by publick Authority, and reſiding …
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… taken from them.—For if New-England be no DIOCESSDIOCESE, nor Part of a DIOCESSDIOCESE; if New-England have no Prelate appointed over it by publick Authority, and reſiding …
Thomas Foxcroft · Apology in Behalf of Mr Whitefield · p. 17 · Open in the reader