Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10792 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nunneNun

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

Puritas changed it: 151 times in 74 works
Consistency: 95.5% (151 of 158)
Reach if approved: ~166 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nun
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 158 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (151 changes in 74 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 151)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that Francis Butillus nephewe to this Pope Vrban, did rauishe a virgin being a NunneNun in Naples keeping her perforce certaine dayes in his lodging: but what marueile is …
With rule
… that Francis Butillus nephewe to this Pope Vrban, did rauishe a virgin being a NunneNun in Naples keeping her perforce certaine dayes in his lodging: but what marueile is …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a noble Empresse, nor of a deuoute vowe…e, nor yet of an holy NunneNun but of a pore mayd in a pore stable, and porely wrapped in pore …
With rule
… a noble Empresse, nor of a deuoute vowe…e, nor yet of an holy NunneNun but of a pore mayd in a pore stable, and porely wrapped in pore …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… sake the Christian: neither if the husbād become a Monke or the wife a NunneNun; neither if the Pope see cause to dispence with either of them. And will …
With rule
… sake the Christian: neither if the husbād become a Monke or the wife a NunneNun; neither if the Pope see cause to dispence with either of them. And will …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Is not that white rochett that the Bisshopes and chanons were so lyke a NunneNun and so effeminatly / a false signe? What other thinges are their sandals / gloves / myters …
With rule
… Is not that white rochett that the Bisshopes and chanons were so lyke a NunneNun and so effeminatly / a false signe? What other thinges are their sandals / gloves / myters …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader
Printed
And euerie NunneNun ane man,
With rule
And euerie NunneNun ane man,
John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for entring Religion (that is, in your language, from being a Monke or a NunneNun) it to ſinne againſt the firſt commandement. That to ſet lights by, and not …
With rule
… for entring Religion (that is, in your language, from being a Monke or a NunneNun) it to ſinne againſt the firſt commandement. That to ſet lights by, and not …
Alexander Cooke · Work More Work and a Little More Work for a Mass-Priest · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Revelation made unto ſome Catholick perſons. By which Catholick perſons hee meaneth a NunneNun of Leodium called Eva, whom he had knowne when he was Arch-Deacon of …
With rule
… a Revelation made unto ſome Catholick perſons. By which Catholick perſons hee meaneth a NunneNun of Leodium called Eva, whom he had knowne when he was Arch-Deacon of …
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Anatomy of the Mass · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
336 Pet. Jo. NunneNun…ius de Studio Philosophico L. B. 1621
With rule
336 Pet. Jo. NunneNun…ius de Studio Philosophico L. B. 1621
John Tillotson · Catalog of Tillotsons Library · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

Printed
… a woman who was the relict of a presbyter or a deacon, or a nunneNun, or his spirituall sister, or his brothers wife, or his neece, or his mother …
With rule
… a woman who was the relict of a presbyter or a deacon, or a nunneNun, or his spirituall sister, or his brothers wife, or his neece, or his mother …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 130 · Open in the reader