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deanesdeans

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

Puritas changed it
371 times in 165 works
Consistency
91.6% (371 of 405)
Reach if approved
~426 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: deans
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
405 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (371 changes in 165 works, 91.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 371)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … sent and can not preache / are murderers / but also that all such learned Byshops / DeanesDeans / Parsons / and other Prelates / that are sent of God and his church / and yet …
    With rule
    … sent and can not preache / are murderers / but also that all such learned Byshops / DeanesDeans / Parsons / and other Prelates / that are sent of God and his church / and yet …

    William Turner · The Hunting of the Fox and the Wolf · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … which ſorte are the Doore-keepers, R…ders, Singers, Exorciſts, Acobythes, Subdeacons, Deacons, Archdeacons, DeanesDeans, Religious Monk…s, Brethren, and the reſt of that kinde. The Shippes, are thoſe …
    With rule
    … which ſorte are the Doore-keepers, R…ders, Singers, Exorciſts, Acobythes, Subdeacons, Deacons, Archdeacons, DeanesDeans, Religious Monk…s, Brethren, and the reſt of that kinde. The Shippes, are thoſe …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … howge heape of states and offices in the Popedome: as Patriarks, Archbishoppes, Bishops, Archdeacons, DeanesDeans, and other inferiour offices; as woulde make a man to wonder. Besides this, there …
    With rule
    … howge heape of states and offices in the Popedome: as Patriarks, Archbishoppes, Bishops, Archdeacons, DeanesDeans, and other inferiour offices; as woulde make a man to wonder. Besides this, there …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1208 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … And to the intent they might winne him easely, they had him to the DeanesDeans house of Christes Church in the sayd Uniuersitie, where he lacked no delicate fare …
    With rule
    … And to the intent they might winne him easely, they had him to the DeanesDeans house of Christes Church in the sayd Uniuersitie, where he lacked no delicate fare …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Schoolemaiſter to his children, where he ſo behaued himſelfe boldly in diſputing with Abbots, DeanesDeans & Archdeacons, &c. that he was faine to depart that coūtrie. Such was the grudge …
    With rule
    … Schoolemaiſter to his children, where he ſo behaued himſelfe boldly in diſputing with Abbots, DeanesDeans & Archdeacons, &c. that he was faine to depart that coūtrie. Such was the grudge …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his Testament, as aforesaid. Or whether the present ecclesiasticall Offices of Archbishops, Lordbishops, Suffragans, DeanesDeans, Prebendaries, Canons, Petticanons, Priests, Deacons, Archdeacons, Doctors of divinitie, Bachelers of divinity, Chapleins or …
    With rule
    … his Testament, as aforesaid. Or whether the present ecclesiasticall Offices of Archbishops, Lordbishops, Suffragans, DeanesDeans, Prebendaries, Canons, Petticanons, Priests, Deacons, Archdeacons, Doctors of divinitie, Bachelers of divinity, Chapleins or …

    Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thruſt out of the church at one time / but Archb. and Biſhops. As for DeanesDeans Archdeacons and Chancellors / I hope they wilbe ſo kind vnto my Lords grace / as …
    With rule
    … thruſt out of the church at one time / but Archb. and Biſhops. As for DeanesDeans Archdeacons and Chancellors / I hope they wilbe ſo kind vnto my Lords grace / as …

    Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … will be most vngratefull: This opinion their Auditors in both our Vniuersities; the Byshops, DeanesDeans, and other Diuines, who vpon the aduancement of our famous Queene Elizabeth to the …
    With rule
    … will be most vngratefull: This opinion their Auditors in both our Vniuersities; the Byshops, DeanesDeans, and other Diuines, who vpon the aduancement of our famous Queene Elizabeth to the …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 126 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (34)

18 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

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    … Tanquam ouis. So paſſing forward that night, ſhe was lodged at Windſore at the deanesdeans houſe. From thence ſhe was garded the next night to Maiſter Dormers houſe.
    With rule
    … Tanquam ouis. So paſſing forward that night, ſhe was lodged at Windſore at the deanesdeans houſe. From thence ſhe was garded the next night to Maiſter Dormers houſe.

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 273 · Open in the reader

Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle A02633

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    … ordynaryes were not regarded. The spirituall offycers / as Suffraganes / Archedeacons / chauncellers / doctours / commyssaryes / offycyals / deanesdeans / lawers / serybes / and sommeners were euery where despysed. The lawes and lybertees of holye …
    With rule
    … ordynaryes were not regarded. The spirituall offycers / as Suffraganes / Archedeacons / chauncellers / doctours / commyssaryes / offycyals / deanesdeans / lawers / serybes / and sommeners were euery where despysed. The lawes and lybertees of holye …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Certain Observations A05689

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    … They muſt obey every edict and precept that comes from them, or the rurall deanesdeans, poore ignorant ſotts, more unlawfull officers then themſelues.
    With rule
    … They muſt obey every edict and precept that comes from them, or the rurall deanesdeans, poore ignorant ſotts, more unlawfull officers then themſelues.

    Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 113 · Open in the reader

Read John Bridges A07038

  • Printed
    … the surer side / howsoeuer it goeth. But brethren / what then say you to M. deanesdeans reason? Your answere I know / may be of 3. sorts. First you may say that …
    With rule
    … the surer side / howsoeuer it goeth. But brethren / what then say you to M. deanesdeans reason? Your answere I know / may be of 3. sorts. First you may say that …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … thinke you? A man is a man though he go naked. Therefore by maste… deanesdeans reason / the Lorde hath ordained no couering for his nakednes. Again / a man is …
    With rule
    … thinke you? A man is a man though he go naked. Therefore by maste… deanesdeans reason / the Lorde hath ordained no couering for his nakednes. Again / a man is …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ordayne. For no sacrament containeth in it the perfection of religion: & therefore by M. deanesdeans …r oposition / the celebration therof / is not prescribed in ye …. A man might keep …
    With rule
    … ordayne. For no sacrament containeth in it the perfection of religion: & therefore by M. deanesdeans …r oposition / the celebration therof / is not prescribed in ye …. A man might keep …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

The Hunting of the Fox and the Wolf A14050

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    … neighbours / from them against their wil deceitfully / is a theefe / but all vnpreaching bishoppes / deanesdeans and parsons take away gods goodes & theyr neighbours / deceitfully against Gods will / and against …
    With rule
    … neighbours / from them against their wil deceitfully / is a theefe / but all vnpreaching bishoppes / deanesdeans and parsons take away gods goodes & theyr neighbours / deceitfully against Gods will / and against …

    William Turner · The Hunting of the Fox and the Wolf · Open in the reader

Reply Against Gilbert Brown A14926

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    … will needs be, & yet they are our great maiſters in Iſrael, as DeanesDeans, arch-deanesdeans, Biſhops, and arch-biſhops. Theſe works of theirs are little inferiour vnto that filthineſſe …
    With rule
    … will needs be, & yet they are our great maiſters in Iſrael, as DeanesDeans, arch-deanesdeans, Biſhops, and arch-biſhops. Theſe works of theirs are little inferiour vnto that filthineſſe …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 359 · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

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    … not be hindered frō God. Theyr work they deliuer to them whom they call deanesdeans. Those DeanesDeans despisyng all things with great carefulnesse make accompt therof to one whom …
    With rule
    … not be hindered frō God. Theyr work they deliuer to them whom they call deanesdeans. Those DeanesDeans despisyng all things with great carefulnesse make accompt therof to one whom …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England A17912

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    … the moderne moſt learned, and godly divines: And the like they ſpeak of Archdeacons, deanesdeans, prebanes, canons, and the whole Hierarchye: of which more hereafter.
    With rule
    … the moderne moſt learned, and godly divines: And the like they ſpeak of Archdeacons, deanesdeans, prebanes, canons, and the whole Hierarchye: of which more hereafter.

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 36 · Open in the reader

A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift A18078

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    … remedy be therfore prouided. And wher he ſayth it is not material / although theſe deanesdeans / vicedeanes / canons / peticanōs / prebēdaries. &c. come from the pope / it is as if he …
    With rule
    … remedy be therfore prouided. And wher he ſayth it is not material / although theſe deanesdeans / vicedeanes / canons / peticanōs / prebēdaries. &c. come from the pope / it is as if he …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 204 · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

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    … biſhops / and archbiſhops: may be eaſely vnderſtanded to be true in the Archdeacons / and deanesdeans by that dj. dxxxvj. diiij. Yt ys further ſhewed off the archbiſhop that h …
    With rule
    … biſhops / and archbiſhops: may be eaſely vnderſtanded to be true in the Archdeacons / and deanesdeans by that dj. dxxxvj. diiij. Yt ys further ſhewed off the archbiſhop that h …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Cyprians dxlvj. and Ieroms dlxviij. Likewiſe of the elder Archdeacons / with ours dij. And deanesdeans with ours diiij.
    With rule
    … Cyprians dxlvj. and Ieroms dlxviij. Likewiſe of the elder Archdeacons / with ours dij. And deanesdeans with ours diiij.

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … forbid▪ … preciſely 22. Luk. cccciiij / namely / that the biſhop / Archbiſhops / …nd (by the ſame reaſon) deanesdeans / ought not to be called lordes / hauing regard to the vſe of our contrey …
    With rule
    … forbid▪ … preciſely 22. Luk. cccciiij / namely / that the biſhop / Archbiſhops / …nd (by the ſame reaſon) deanesdeans / ought not to be called lordes / hauing regard to the vſe of our contrey …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath A20733

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    … proceeding to Church-wardens, to Deacons, to Presbyters, or Ministers, to archpresbyters, or rural deanesdeans, to archdeacōs, & so to Cathedral Churches, to DeanesDeans, to Prebendaries, to BB. prescribing the …
    With rule
    … proceeding to Church-wardens, to Deacons, to Presbyters, or Ministers, to archpresbyters, or rural deanesdeans, to archdeacōs, & so to Cathedral Churches, to DeanesDeans, to Prebendaries, to BB. prescribing the …

    George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 6 · Open in the reader

Counterpoison Considerations A26579

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    … the inferior Bishops; pety Pastors, or Pety popes? what offices … the Suffragans, Chancell…rs, deanesdeans, Archdeacons Commiss…s, …ffi…ials, D…ctors Proctors, and the residew of that army …
    With rule
    … the inferior Bishops; pety Pastors, or Pety popes? what offices … the Suffragans, Chancell…rs, deanesdeans, Archdeacons Commiss…s, …ffi…ials, D…ctors Proctors, and the residew of that army …

    Henry Ainsworth · Counterpoison Considerations · p. 109 · Open in the reader

Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 A29746

  • Printed
    … governed by two Archbishops and by tuelue other bishops? Have not those bishops their deanesdeans, their arch deacons, &c. And is not the 2d. article expresly against such a …
    With rule
    … governed by two Archbishops and by tuelue other bishops? Have not those bishops their deanesdeans, their arch deacons, &c. And is not the 2d. article expresly against such a …

    John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · p. 378 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    … spake for thē, for now they haue so much liuing, & especially bishops, archdeacons, and deanesdeans, that they neyther can nor wil teach Gods woord. If they had a 100. pounds …
    With rule
    … spake for thē, for now they haue so much liuing, & especially bishops, archdeacons, and deanesdeans, that they neyther can nor wil teach Gods woord. If they had a 100. pounds …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1980 · Open in the reader