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ilandIsland

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

Puritas changed it
1,006 times in 349 works
Consistency
98.4% (1,006 of 1,022)
Reach if approved
~1,074 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: island
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,022 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,006 changes in 349 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,006)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … feudataries to the church of Rome, by league he promiſed to pay for either IlandIsland an hundred markes in gold yeerely. Antonie of Florence ſaith *, Iohn king of England …
    With rule
    … feudataries to the church of Rome, by league he promiſed to pay for either IlandIsland an hundred markes in gold yeerely. Antonie of Florence ſaith *, Iohn king of England …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … worth the noting. When the Goſpel of God in the Northern parts of this IlandIsland began to be ſet on foot, the devill beſtirred him exceedingly in the enemies …
    With rule
    … worth the noting. When the Goſpel of God in the Northern parts of this IlandIsland began to be ſet on foot, the devill beſtirred him exceedingly in the enemies …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    On Circes IlandIsland fell (who knowes not Circe
    With rule
    On Circes IlandIsland fell (who knowes not Circe

    John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    2 An IlandIsland, a land compassed about with waters.
    With rule
    2 An IlandIsland, a land compassed about with waters.

    William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Conſider I beſeech you, what, a diſmall fogge of Popery doth yet darken this IlandIsland, Popery which few thinkes of, I meane that blind abſurd implicite faith of beleeuing …
    With rule
    … Conſider I beſeech you, what, a diſmall fogge of Popery doth yet darken this IlandIsland, Popery which few thinkes of, I meane that blind abſurd implicite faith of beleeuing …

    William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … late it was, the miserable vexation of manie churches, & of these in this our IlandIsland in speciall, for constant withstanding: and at last, this yoake of bondage not willingly …
    With rule
    … late it was, the miserable vexation of manie churches, & of these in this our IlandIsland in speciall, for constant withstanding: and at last, this yoake of bondage not willingly …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … impossible? yet did NOA beleeue it vpon Gods bare word, not concerning some one IlandIsland, a little patch of the world, no more to the maine Continent, than a …
    With rule
    … impossible? yet did NOA beleeue it vpon Gods bare word, not concerning some one IlandIsland, a little patch of the world, no more to the maine Continent, than a …

    Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … like Noah in the Arke, or like Ilanders, who from no point of their IlandIsland can see any thing but waters: so looke any where in this life, there …
    With rule
    … like Noah in the Arke, or like Ilanders, who from no point of their IlandIsland can see any thing but waters: so looke any where in this life, there …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (16)

14 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him A04923

  • Printed
    … that the Ghospellers should not with so strong walles be defensed, lest this one ilandIsland should becōme a safe sanctuarie, as it began to be, to all the persecuted …
    With rule
    … that the Ghospellers should not with so strong walles be defensed, lest this one ilandIsland should becōme a safe sanctuarie, as it began to be, to all the persecuted …

    John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 64 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    Banda, an ilandIsland. 436
    With rule
    Banda, an ilandIsland. 436

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

Warning to Take Heed of Fowlers Psalter A11432

  • Printed
    … it. One other purgatory their holy Sainct Odilo did finde for them in the ilandIsland of Sicily in ye fiery hil Aetna. And of this inuention by the good …
    With rule
    … it. One other purgatory their holy Sainct Odilo did finde for them in the ilandIsland of Sicily in ye fiery hil Aetna. And of this inuention by the good …

    Thomas Sampson · Warning to Take Heed of Fowlers Psalter · p. 18 · Open in the reader

The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English A15622

  • Printed
    This ilandIsland (now Malta) is the seate of the knights of the Rhodes. The inhabitants wherof …
    With rule
    This ilandIsland (now Malta) is the seate of the knights of the Rhodes. The inhabitants wherof …

    Clergy George Wither · The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … whom both the cheefe church (being the bishops seate) is dedicated, and the whole ilandIsland (as they count it) is consecrated. Where the people shew yet to strangers, his …
    With rule
    … whom both the cheefe church (being the bishops seate) is dedicated, and the whole ilandIsland (as they count it) is consecrated. Where the people shew yet to strangers, his …

    Clergy George Wither · The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English · p. 153 · Open in the reader

Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked A16795

  • Printed
    … one of the three chiefe parts of Iapan. Ormuz we know to be an ilandIsland and city, neere the entrance into the gulfe of Persia. Ternate is one of …
    With rule
    … one of the three chiefe parts of Iapan. Ormuz we know to be an ilandIsland and city, neere the entrance into the gulfe of Persia. Ternate is one of …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 207 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons A36296

  • Printed
    … daughter, the Lady Mary, to the eldest sonne of the L. Herbert of Castle-ilandIsland, Novemb. 19. 1627.
    With rule
    … daughter, the Lady Mary, to the eldest sonne of the L. Herbert of Castle-ilandIsland, Novemb. 19. 1627.

    John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Holy State A40674

  • Printed
    IS one who by his trading claspeth the ilandIsland to the continent, and one countrey to another. An excellent gardiner, who makes England …
    With rule
    IS one who by his trading claspeth the ilandIsland to the continent, and one countrey to another. An excellent gardiner, who makes England …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … landed him at Guatulco in New Spain. Hence they took their course to the ilandIsland of Brava, and hereabouts they met with those tempestuous winds, whose onely praise is …
    With rule
    … landed him at Guatulco in New Spain. Hence they took their course to the ilandIsland of Brava, and hereabouts they met with those tempestuous winds, whose onely praise is …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 135 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … euer any loſſe could command lamentation; then this of ours, yea of this whole ILANDISLAND, yea of the whole Church of God, yea of the whole world, iuſtly cals …
    With rule
    … euer any loſſe could command lamentation; then this of ours, yea of this whole ILANDISLAND, yea of the whole Church of God, yea of the whole world, iuſtly cals …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 462 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … could either parallel or ſecond Iſrael in the fauours of God, this poore little ILANDISLAND of ours is it. The cloud of his protection hath couered vs. The bloud …
    With rule
    … could either parallel or ſecond Iſrael in the fauours of God, this poore little ILANDISLAND of ours is it. The cloud of his protection hath couered vs. The bloud …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 478 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … world, he turned to the moſt happie day, that euer ſhone forth to this ILANDISLAND. That now wee may iuſtly inſult with thoſe Chriſtians of Antioch (foreign.) Where are your …
    With rule
    … world, he turned to the moſt happie day, that euer ſhone forth to this ILANDISLAND. That now wee may iuſtly inſult with thoſe Chriſtians of Antioch (foreign.) Where are your …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 479 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … reſt of the world haue beene whirled about in theſe wofull tumults: onely this ILANDISLAND hath like the center ſtood vnmoueable. Onely this ISLE hath beene like Nilus, which …
    With rule
    … reſt of the world haue beene whirled about in theſe wofull tumults: onely this ILANDISLAND hath like the center ſtood vnmoueable. Onely this ISLE hath beene like Nilus, which …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 481 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is an ouer-rigorous conſtruction of the workes of God, that in moting our ILANDISLAND with the Ocean he meant to ſhut vs vp from other Regions; For God …
    With rule
    … is an ouer-rigorous conſtruction of the workes of God, that in moting our ILANDISLAND with the Ocean he meant to ſhut vs vp from other Regions; For God …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 669 · Open in the reader