Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50371 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mistrissMistress

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

Puritas changed it: 192 times in 111 works
Consistency: 91.8% (192 of 209)
Reach if approved: ~220 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mistress
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 209 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (192 changes in 111 works, 91.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 192)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… good, but a very bad uſe of it, and accordingly it proved: His Blackmoor MiſtriſsMistress firſt loved him for his Beauty, then luſted after him in Amorous Embracements, to …
With rule
… good, but a very bad uſe of it, and accordingly it proved: His Blackmoor MiſtriſsMistress firſt loved him for his Beauty, then luſted after him in Amorous Embracements, to …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 378 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Religion, there is a good uſe of them: but if it be made the MiſtriſsMistress and Lord of Faith and Religion, the Standard for trial of Truths to be …
With rule
… Religion, there is a good uſe of them: but if it be made the MiſtriſsMistress and Lord of Faith and Religion, the Standard for trial of Truths to be …
William Alleine · Discourses of William Alleine · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Juſtice Gilford, a violent Papiſt in Queen Marie's dayes, going up the ſtairs to MiſtriſsMistress Roberts her Chamber, to compel her, will ſhe or will ſhe not, to go …
With rule
… Juſtice Gilford, a violent Papiſt in Queen Marie's dayes, going up the ſtairs to MiſtriſsMistress Roberts her Chamber, to compel her, will ſhe or will ſhe not, to go …
Thomas Brooks · A Word in Season to this Present Generation · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Merchants, who carried him into Egypt, ver. 28. There he was persecuted by his whorish MistrissMistress, Gen. 39.17, 18. Cast into prison, where his feet were hurt with fetters, and he was …
With rule
… Merchants, who carried him into Egypt, ver. 28. There he was persecuted by his whorish MistrissMistress, Gen. 39.17, 18. Cast into prison, where his feet were hurt with fetters, and he was …
Samuel Clarke · A General Martyrology · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his bow to ſhoot at a mark) viz. His Brethren that ſold him, his MiſtriſsMistress that accuſed him, his Maſter that impriſon'd him, and poſſibly ſome of the Courtiers …
With rule
… his bow to ſhoot at a mark) viz. His Brethren that ſold him, his MiſtriſsMistress that accuſed him, his Maſter that impriſon'd him, and poſſibly ſome of the Courtiers …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtrong man, how can I do this wickedneſs? &c. all the temptations of his MiſtriſsMistress could not allure him; what was the cauſe of this? he would not hearken …
With rule
… ſtrong man, how can I do this wickedneſs? &c. all the temptations of his MiſtriſsMistress could not allure him; what was the cauſe of this? he would not hearken …
William Fenner · Remains · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and moſt were convinced what perjur'd Miſcreants they were: Campion Swore that he ſaw MiſtriſsMistress Baſtard, Mr. Baſtards Wife, at the ſame Conventicle, whereas it can be prov'd ſhe …
With rule
… and moſt were convinced what perjur'd Miſcreants they were: Campion Swore that he ſaw MiſtriſsMistress Baſtard, Mr. Baſtards Wife, at the ſame Conventicle, whereas it can be prov'd ſhe …
John Hickes · Sufferings and Oppressions of Many Christians in Devon · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Boston, she found her self to have conceived; but living with a favourable MistrissMistress, who would not allow any Suspicion or Suggestion of her Dishonesty, and thinking her …
With rule
… in Boston, she found her self to have conceived; but living with a favourable MistrissMistress, who would not allow any Suspicion or Suggestion of her Dishonesty, and thinking her …
Cotton Mather · Speedy Repentance Urged · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 are listed here. 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Life and Death of Edmund Staunton A50468

Printed
… to pleaſe, or more fearful to offend a husband, a wife, a maſter or miſtriſsMistress, a land-lord, or great man that rules over us, than we are careful …
With rule
… to pleaſe, or more fearful to offend a husband, a wife, a maſter or miſtriſsMistress, a land-lord, or great man that rules over us, than we are careful …
Richard Mayo · The Life and Death of Edmund Staunton · p. 135 · Open in the reader

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God B09906

Printed
… knitting work and two quarts of parched meal: Being very faint I asked my miſtriſsMistress to give me one ſpoonfull of the meal, but ſhe would not give me …
With rule
… knitting work and two quarts of parched meal: Being very faint I asked my miſtriſsMistress to give me one ſpoonfull of the meal, but ſhe would not give me …
Mary Rowlandson · The Sovereignty and Goodness of God · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I was at this time knitting a pair of white cotton ſtockins for my miſtriſsMistress: and had not yet wrought upon a Sabbath day; when the Sabbath came they …
With rule
… I was at this time knitting a pair of white cotton ſtockins for my miſtriſsMistress: and had not yet wrought upon a Sabbath day; when the Sabbath came they …
Mary Rowlandson · The Sovereignty and Goodness of God · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Peaſe: J boyled my Peaſe and Bear together, and invited my maſter and miſtriſsMistress to dinner, but the proud Goſſip, be cauſe J ſerved them both in one …
With rule
… of Peaſe: J boyled my Peaſe and Bear together, and invited my maſter and miſtriſsMistress to dinner, but the proud Goſſip, be cauſe J ſerved them both in one …
Mary Rowlandson · The Sovereignty and Goodness of God · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoon turned: for when we had gone a little way, on a ſudden my miſtriſsMistress gives out, ſhe would go no further, but turn back again, and ſaid. I …
With rule
… ſoon turned: for when we had gone a little way, on a ſudden my miſtriſsMistress gives out, ſhe would go no further, but turn back again, and ſaid. I …
Mary Rowlandson · The Sovereignty and Goodness of God · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them fit for him. I ſhewed my ſelf willing, and bid him ask my miſtriſsMistress if I might go along with him a little way; ſhe ſaid yes, J …
With rule
… them fit for him. I ſhewed my ſelf willing, and bid him ask my miſtriſsMistress if I might go along with him a little way; ſhe ſaid yes, J …
Mary Rowlandson · The Sovereignty and Goodness of God · p. 36 · Open in the reader

The Happiness of a People in the Wisdom of their Rulers N00155

Printed
… imitate him in garbe or in gate, or for the handmaid to emulate her mistrissMistress. Will not this occasion the base to behave themselves proudly against the Honourable, a …
With rule
… imitate him in garbe or in gate, or for the handmaid to emulate her mistrissMistress. Will not this occasion the base to behave themselves proudly against the Honourable, a …
William Hubbard · The Happiness of a People in the Wisdom of their Rulers · p. 56 · Open in the reader