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deanedean

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

Puritas changed it
967 times in 230 works
Consistency
99.3% (967 of 973)
Reach if approved
~1,022 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: dean
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
973 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (967 changes in 230 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 967)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    TO THE REVErend and learned, Doctor DONNE, DeaneDean of St. Pauls, together with the Prebend-Residentiaries of the same Church, my very …
    With rule
    TO THE REVErend and learned, Doctor DONNE, DeaneDean of St. Pauls, together with the Prebend-Residentiaries of the same Church, my very …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … tyme of his comming, and is clearlie teſtifyed by their Petrarch, a Romane Arch-deanedean, and Channon, who lived anno 1350. and who thus teſtifyeth of Rome in his tyme …
    With rule
    … tyme of his comming, and is clearlie teſtifyed by their Petrarch, a Romane Arch-deanedean, and Channon, who lived anno 1350. and who thus teſtifyeth of Rome in his tyme …

    William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 199 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of our Church, & practiſe of the Prelats: as appeareth by that teſtimony of the DeaneDean of the Chappell, which he gaue therof, ſaying, That his Maieſtie did that day …
    With rule
    … of our Church, & practiſe of the Prelats: as appeareth by that teſtimony of the DeaneDean of the Chappell, which he gaue therof, ſaying, That his Maieſtie did that day …

    Henry Jacob · A Christian and Modest Offer · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … fuller ſatisfaction in this point, I referre the Reader to the reuerent and iudicious DeaneDean of Wincheſter, Doctor Morton, with others, who haue largely and learnedly diſcouered this matter …
    With rule
    … fuller ſatisfaction in this point, I referre the Reader to the reuerent and iudicious DeaneDean of Wincheſter, Doctor Morton, with others, who haue largely and learnedly diſcouered this matter …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 540 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … church, and one of his chapleyns be he Archbyſhop, or Byſſhop, Suffrigā or Archdeacon, DeaneDean, Perſone, or pore Cucate. We haue a ſaying in our mother tong. Thou ſhalt …
    With rule
    … church, and one of his chapleyns be he Archbyſhop, or Byſſhop, Suffrigā or Archdeacon, DeaneDean, Perſone, or pore Cucate. We haue a ſaying in our mother tong. Thou ſhalt …

    Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. lxxxxvi · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Perſecutions, comming to the crowne; (as the learned and reverend Father, M. Doctor Abbots DeaneDean of VVincheſter noteth, in his Auſwere vnto Reaſ. VI. of D. Hill, in the …
    With rule
    … Perſecutions, comming to the crowne; (as the learned and reverend Father, M. Doctor Abbots DeaneDean of VVincheſter noteth, in his Auſwere vnto Reaſ. VI. of D. Hill, in the …

    Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … holy warre against the iudgements of God. A right reuerend Father and a reuerend DeaneDean diuiding the day, and the works of the day, both prayer and preaching, giue …
    With rule
    … holy warre against the iudgements of God. A right reuerend Father and a reuerend DeaneDean diuiding the day, and the works of the day, both prayer and preaching, giue …

    Francis Rous · The Only Remedy · p. 184 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … In the almory a yeoman, and a groom. In his chappel he had a DeaneDean a great diuine, a Subdeane, a Repeater of the quire: a Gospeller, a Pistler …
    With rule
    … In the almory a yeoman, and a groom. In his chappel he had a DeaneDean a great diuine, a Subdeane, a Repeater of the quire: a Gospeller, a Pistler …

    Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

5 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.

Eighty Sermons A20637

  • Printed
    … SERMONS PREACHED BY THAT LEARNED AND REVEREND DIVINE IOHN DONNE DR IN DIVINITIE LATE DEANEDEAN OF YE CATHEDRALL CHVRCH OF ST PAVLES LONDON.
    With rule
    … SERMONS PREACHED BY THAT LEARNED AND REVEREND DIVINE IOHN DONNE DR IN DIVINITIE LATE DEANEDEAN OF YE CATHEDRALL CHVRCH OF ST PAVLES LONDON.

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Dr DONNE, LATE DEANEDEAN OF St PAULS LONDON.
    With rule
    THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Dr DONNE, LATE DEANEDEAN OF St PAULS LONDON.

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · Open in the reader

The Appeal of Injured Innocence A40651

  • Printed
    … not long since laid to my charge, viz. my calling of Thomas Bentham [the DEANEDEAN, saith he, of Magdalens Oxford,] the CENSOR thereof. Whereas I exactly followed the words …
    With rule
    … not long since laid to my charge, viz. my calling of Thomas Bentham [the DEANEDEAN, saith he, of Magdalens Oxford,] the CENSOR thereof. Whereas I exactly followed the words …

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

  • Printed
    … then Biſhop of GLOCESTER oppoſed it with much earneſtneſſe; and ſeriouſly proteſted to the DEANEDEAN and the Prebends, that if the Communion Table were removed, or any ſuch Innovations …
    With rule
    … then Biſhop of GLOCESTER oppoſed it with much earneſtneſſe; and ſeriouſly proteſted to the DEANEDEAN and the Prebends, that if the Communion Table were removed, or any ſuch Innovations …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    TO THE WORSHIPFVLL AND REVEREND, Mr. Dr. HALL, DEANEDEAN OF WORCESTER, my worthie and much reſpected Friend, all happineſſe, with my loue in …
    With rule
    TO THE WORSHIPFVLL AND REVEREND, Mr. Dr. HALL, DEANEDEAN OF WORCESTER, my worthie and much reſpected Friend, all happineſſe, with my loue in …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 533 · Open in the reader