Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50385 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iordaneJordan

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

Puritas changed it: 170 times in 70 works
Consistency: 98.2% (170 of 173)
Reach if approved: ~182 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: jordan
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 173 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (170 changes in 70 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 170)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… yer, That by the Baptiſme of his welbeloued ſonne God did ſanctifie the flood IordaneJordan and all other waters, to the myſticall waſhing away of ſinne. And that, Impoſition …
With rule
… yer, That by the Baptiſme of his welbeloued ſonne God did ſanctifie the flood IordaneJordan and all other waters, to the myſticall waſhing away of ſinne. And that, Impoſition …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the land: they the other ix trybes & a halfe whose lotts vvere fallen vvithin IordaneJordan, assembled themselues, and, had not theyr rulers and princes that went Ambassadors ouer to …
With rule
… the land: they the other ix trybes & a halfe whose lotts vvere fallen vvithin IordaneJordan, assembled themselues, and, had not theyr rulers and princes that went Ambassadors ouer to …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… A contrite hart is a sacrifice to God. Confession, Math. 3. They were baptized in IordaneJordan confessing their sinnes. Satisfaction▪ Math. 11.21. They would haue repented long agoe in sackecloth and …
With rule
… A contrite hart is a sacrifice to God. Confession, Math. 3. They were baptized in IordaneJordan confessing their sinnes. Satisfaction▪ Math. 11.21. They would haue repented long agoe in sackecloth and …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 505 · Open in the reader
Printed
… left. So when Lot beheld the Countrey, he perceiued that all the playne of IordaneJordan was watered euery where: for it was (before the deſtruction of Sodom and Gomorrhe …
With rule
… left. So when Lot beheld the Countrey, he perceiued that all the playne of IordaneJordan was watered euery where: for it was (before the deſtruction of Sodom and Gomorrhe …
John Carpenter · Remember Lots Wife · Open in the reader
Printed
… above two miles on the Sabboth; grounded upon an act of Ioſhua paſſing over IordaneJordan, when hee kept the people at diſtance from the Arke of the Covenant, being …
With rule
… above two miles on the Sabboth; grounded upon an act of Ioſhua paſſing over IordaneJordan, when hee kept the people at diſtance from the Arke of the Covenant, being …
Peter du Moulin Jr · A Learned Treatise of Traditions · p. 247 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of sacramentes with bare signes and tokens of remembrance, as the twelue stones in IordaneJordan, &c. And yet more lewdly, with the superstitious bread vsed to be giuen to …
With rule
… of sacramentes with bare signes and tokens of remembrance, as the twelue stones in IordaneJordan, &c. And yet more lewdly, with the superstitious bread vsed to be giuen to …
William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had erected vp an Altar in their portiō, which God had geuen them beyonde IordaneJordan, thinking that they had ſo done, to haue ſacrificed theron, and ſo to haue …
With rule
… had erected vp an Altar in their portiō, which God had geuen them beyonde IordaneJordan, thinking that they had ſo done, to haue ſacrificed theron, and ſo to haue …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
Written by M^r. Paul Bayne, Miniſter of Gods Word, to M^r. Nicholas IordaneJordan his Brother.
With rule
Written by M^r. Paul Bayne, Miniſter of Gods Word, to M^r. Nicholas IordaneJordan his Brother.
Paul Baynes · Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life A05962

Printed
To the RIGHT Worſhipfull, M^r. NICHOLAS IORDANEJORDAN Eſquire, and one of his Majeſties Iuſtices of the Peace and Quorum, in the …
With rule
To the RIGHT Worſhipfull, M^r. NICHOLAS IORDANEJORDAN Eſquire, and one of his Majeſties Iuſtices of the Peace and Quorum, in the …
Paul Baynes · Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life · Open in the reader