Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2152 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

metropolitanemetropolitan

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 547 times in 171 works
Consistency: 99.8% (547 of 548)
Reach if approved: ~576 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: metropolitan
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 548 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (547 changes in 171 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 547)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the worlde, aroſe the gret Latin or Romane Empire, whoſe chiefe ſeat and MetropolitaneMetropolitan citie Rome, is ſet vp on their ſeuen hils Palatinus, Coelius, Ianiculus (otherwiſe called …
With rule
… of the worlde, aroſe the gret Latin or Romane Empire, whoſe chiefe ſeat and MetropolitaneMetropolitan citie Rome, is ſet vp on their ſeuen hils Palatinus, Coelius, Ianiculus (otherwiſe called …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vp, and so proceede till shee bee all out. And yet will not the MetropolitaneMetropolitan suffer any drinke but water or mares milke, hauing officers to make search and …
With rule
… vp, and so proceede till shee bee all out. And yet will not the MetropolitaneMetropolitan suffer any drinke but water or mares milke, hauing officers to make search and …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 356 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deformities / I would our church wer free / and that ther wer nothinge in our metropolitanemetropolitan and other mother and cathedrall churches / that did imitate the ſuperfluity off needles partes …
With rule
… deformities / I would our church wer free / and that ther wer nothinge in our metropolitanemetropolitan and other mother and cathedrall churches / that did imitate the ſuperfluity off needles partes …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
TO THE MOST-REVEREND FAther in God, IOHN Archbishop of Canterburie, Primate and MetropolitaneMetropolitan of England, GEORGE WITHER wisheth abundant increase of all heauenly and spirituall blessings.
With rule
TO THE MOST-REVEREND FAther in God, IOHN Archbishop of Canterburie, Primate and MetropolitaneMetropolitan of England, GEORGE WITHER wisheth abundant increase of all heauenly and spirituall blessings.
Clergy George Wither · The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the aſſemblie of the biſhops of the whole prouince, and eſpeciallie of the MetropolitaneMetropolitan. This counſel is ſaid to be celebrated in the yeare of the Lord 400.
With rule
… by the aſſemblie of the biſhops of the whole prouince, and eſpeciallie of the MetropolitaneMetropolitan. This counſel is ſaid to be celebrated in the yeare of the Lord 400.
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 893 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vſe by little and little, that thoſe which were choſen went together to the MetropolitaneMetropolitan to require orders: and not long after came in a farre worſe cuſtome, that …
With rule
… vſe by little and little, that thoſe which were choſen went together to the MetropolitaneMetropolitan to require orders: and not long after came in a farre worſe cuſtome, that …
John Calvin · Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alone, onely high Prieſt and cheife Biſhop: and there is no King, no Primate, MetropolitaneMetropolitan, ArchBiſhop, lord ſpirituall, but Chriſt onely, nor may be, either in name or power …
With rule
… alone, onely high Prieſt and cheife Biſhop: and there is no King, no Primate, MetropolitaneMetropolitan, ArchBiſhop, lord ſpirituall, but Chriſt onely, nor may be, either in name or power …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conueyance, the city of Capua gat the right arme of Stephen, and builded their MetropolitaneMetropolitan Church in honour thereof: but when they were come to Rome, they would haue …
With rule
… conueyance, the city of Capua gat the right arme of Stephen, and builded their MetropolitaneMetropolitan Church in honour thereof: but when they were come to Rome, they would haue …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 434 · 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.