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ioaneJoan

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

Puritas changed it
383 times in 62 works
Consistency
97.7% (383 of 392)
Reach if approved
~413 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: joan
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
393 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (383 changes in 62 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 383)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … wil extend to 40000 ducats by year. And all theſe, beſide the ſhee Pope called IoaneJoan, who was firſt called Gilberta an Engliſh woman borne in the town of Lyn …
    With rule
    … wil extend to 40000 ducats by year. And all theſe, beſide the ſhee Pope called IoaneJoan, who was firſt called Gilberta an Engliſh woman borne in the town of Lyn …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … vnerring ſpirit. Such vertue hath that chaire had, euer ſince the dayes of Pope IoaneJoan.
    With rule
    … vnerring ſpirit. Such vertue hath that chaire had, euer ſince the dayes of Pope IoaneJoan.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 163 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Obiect. 2. Whereas it is said, that this Pope IoaneJoan was first student at Athens, and afterward professed at Rome, Harding denieth, that at …
    With rule
    Obiect. 2. Whereas it is said, that this Pope IoaneJoan was first student at Athens, and afterward professed at Rome, Harding denieth, that at …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 188 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … diſtorted, one lippe towardes one …are, another towards another: depoſed by VVilliam Aldred arti. 5. IoaneJoan Pye arti. 6. Richard Mee artic. 13.
    With rule
    … diſtorted, one lippe towardes one …are, another towards another: depoſed by VVilliam Aldred arti. 5. IoaneJoan Pye arti. 6. Richard Mee artic. 13.

    John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    § 13. Leo dying, (if there was no Iohn or IoaneJoan between) a Schism was made; the People most chusing Benedict, and the Agents of …
    With rule
    § 13. Leo dying, (if there was no Iohn or IoaneJoan between) a Schism was made; the People most chusing Benedict, and the Agents of …

    Richard Baxter · Church History of the Government of Bishops and Their Councils · p. 266 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … was beheld by some as an Embrio Nunnery …uspecting that there was a Pope IoaneJoan therein, which causeless Cavill afterwards confuted it selfe, when all the younger of those …
    With rule
    … was beheld by some as an Embrio Nunnery …uspecting that there was a Pope IoaneJoan therein, which causeless Cavill afterwards confuted it selfe, when all the younger of those …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    I will note ſome particulars, wherein thoſe of his way ſhake hands with Pope IoaneJoan, and the man of ſin, and leave the Reader to judge who may be …
    With rule
    I will note ſome particulars, wherein thoſe of his way ſhake hands with Pope IoaneJoan, and the man of ſin, and leave the Reader to judge who may be …

    Praise-God Barebone · Defense of the Lawfulness of Baptizing Infants · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of Rome, most of them Clergie Men, & some of them Sayncts) report, howe pope IoaneJoan, a vitious Whoore, possessed the papall Sea so long, and died publicklie in birth …
    With rule
    … of Rome, most of them Clergie Men, & some of them Sayncts) report, howe pope IoaneJoan, a vitious Whoore, possessed the papall Sea so long, and died publicklie in birth …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 245 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

3 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.

Pope Joan A19243

  • Printed
    Manifeſtly prouing, that a woman called IOANEJOAN was Pope of Rome: againſt the ſurmiſes and obiections made to the contrarie, by …
    With rule
    Manifeſtly prouing, that a woman called IOANEJOAN was Pope of Rome: againſt the ſurmiſes and obiections made to the contrarie, by …

    Alexander Cooke · Pope Joan · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    POPE IOANEJOAN. A DIALOGVE BETWEENE A PROTESTANT AND a Papiſt, manifeſtly prouing, that a woman called …
    With rule
    POPE IOANEJOAN. A DIALOGVE BETWEENE A PROTESTANT AND a Papiſt, manifeſtly prouing, that a woman called …

    Alexander Cooke · Pope Joan · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … Church robbers, IVLIVS into Swaggerers, BENEDICT, GREGORY, SILVESTER, into Symoniſts; PASCALIS into Periurers; Pope IOANEJOAN of Mentz into women, Martin and that other SILVESTER into Magicians, the two Iohns …
    With rule
    … Church robbers, IVLIVS into Swaggerers, BENEDICT, GREGORY, SILVESTER, into Symoniſts; PASCALIS into Periurers; Pope IOANEJOAN of Mentz into women, Martin and that other SILVESTER into Magicians, the two Iohns …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 641 · Open in the reader