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abbatAbbot

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

Puritas changed it
178 times in 78 works
Consistency
93.6% (178 of 190)
Reach if approved
~200 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abbot
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
190 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (178 changes in 78 works, 93.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 178)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … writ againſt Pope Iohn 22. Why Nicolaus de Tudiſco, beſt knowne by the name of AbbatAbbot Panormitan, writ a booke pro Concilio Baſilienſi, in defence of the Councell at Baſil …
    With rule
    … writ againſt Pope Iohn 22. Why Nicolaus de Tudiſco, beſt knowne by the name of AbbatAbbot Panormitan, writ a booke pro Concilio Baſilienſi, in defence of the Councell at Baſil …

    Alexander Cooke · Yet More Work for a Mass-Priest · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of them there were in the whole, we may gueſs by a part. Peter AbbatAbbot of Cluny declares, that in a Church hymn in praiſe of Saint Benet, though …
    With rule
    … of them there were in the whole, we may gueſs by a part. Peter AbbatAbbot of Cluny declares, that in a Church hymn in praiſe of Saint Benet, though …

    David Clarkson · The Practical Divinity of the Papists Discovered to be Destructive · p. 253 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … When Hildebrand began to restrain the clergie by a law from marrying, Nicetas the AbbatAbbot, and the bishops of Italy, France, and Germany, who withstood him, they (holding no …
    With rule
    … When Hildebrand began to restrain the clergie by a law from marrying, Nicetas the AbbatAbbot, and the bishops of Italy, France, and Germany, who withstood him, they (holding no …

    Daniel Featley · Romes Ruin(1) · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    George AbbatAbbot Archbishop of Canterbury was of this Colledge.
    With rule
    George AbbatAbbot Archbishop of Canterbury was of this Colledge.

    Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … deny it. Their Testimonies are at large produced by Petrus Aurelius, or the famous AbbatAbbot of S. Cyran. And even he grants it to be Heresie since the Council …
    With rule
    … deny it. Their Testimonies are at large produced by Petrus Aurelius, or the famous AbbatAbbot of S. Cyran. And even he grants it to be Heresie since the Council …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Council of Trent Examined and Disproved · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … fat as a Monke, and as crafty as a Friar, the Table of an AbbatAbbot, more vnlearned then a Monke, Vinum Theologale for the moſt excellent Wine? In Germany …
    With rule
    … fat as a Monke, and as crafty as a Friar, the Table of an AbbatAbbot, more vnlearned then a Monke, Vinum Theologale for the moſt excellent Wine? In Germany …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 417 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … he hath procured the remedie of saluation by his death and resurrection. Ioachim the AbbatAbbot: The word All, which for the most part is vniuersall, doth not alwaies signifie …
    With rule
    … he hath procured the remedie of saluation by his death and resurrection. Ioachim the AbbatAbbot: The word All, which for the most part is vniuersall, doth not alwaies signifie …

    William Perkins · Predestination · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hope of mercie) for ever and ever. and that advise of Pinuphius the Aegyptian AbbatAbbot (which I finde also inserted amongst the Canons collected for the use of the …
    With rule
    … hope of mercie) for ever and ever. and that advise of Pinuphius the Aegyptian AbbatAbbot (which I finde also inserted amongst the Canons collected for the use of the …

    James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 85 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Brutish Thunderbolt A03718

  • Printed
    … memoriall whereof is extant in the chronicles of Hirſaug. in the life of the abbatAbbot Hartuing, & in Radeuic. * And when as the ſame day the emperor Friderike had reaſoned …
    With rule
    … memoriall whereof is extant in the chronicles of Hirſaug. in the life of the abbatAbbot Hartuing, & in Radeuic. * And when as the ſame day the emperor Friderike had reaſoned …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 137 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of the popes, it is woorth the paines to heare the iudgement of Barnard abbatAbbot of Clareuall, written to Eugenius the pope, in his ſecond booke of conſideration. Learne …
    With rule
    … of the popes, it is woorth the paines to heare the iudgement of Barnard abbatAbbot of Clareuall, written to Eugenius the pope, in his ſecond booke of conſideration. Learne …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 192 · Open in the reader

Against Popery A13025

  • Printed
    … this danger? wilt thou returne in ſafetie to th… countrey? To whome when the abbatAbbot had anſwered with teares, that that was his deſire, then he that had ſo …
    With rule
    … this danger? wilt thou returne in ſafetie to th… countrey? To whome when the abbatAbbot had anſwered with teares, that that was his deſire, then he that had ſo …

    Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · p. 251 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

  • Printed
    … out of the cleargie, who beeing a monke, would take the degrée of an abbatAbbot, for aſmuche as the one dignitie would hinder the other.
    With rule
    … out of the cleargie, who beeing a monke, would take the degrée of an abbatAbbot, for aſmuche as the one dignitie would hinder the other.

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 882 · Open in the reader

A Survey of the Popes Supremacy A17259

  • Printed
    … ſuch as would buy their letters. So did Innocent the fourth write to the abbatAbbot of S. Albans, for a kinſman of his, for a benefice in Lincolne dioceſſe …
    With rule
    … ſuch as would buy their letters. So did Innocent the fourth write to the abbatAbbot of S. Albans, for a kinſman of his, for a benefice in Lincolne dioceſſe …

    Francis Bunny · A Survey of the Popes Supremacy · p. 193 · Open in the reader

The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History A33335

  • Printed
    ABbatAbbot pag. 901
    With rule
    ABbatAbbot pag. 901

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    R. ABBATABBOT
    With rule
    R. ABBATABBOT

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 897 · Open in the reader

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

  • Printed
    ROBERT ABBATABBOT
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    ROBERT ABBATABBOT

    Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 538 · Open in the reader

History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 A54576

  • Printed
    … amongſt the moſt part of them: ſo that Bernard crieth in Apolog. ad Guil. abbatAbbot. O how far different are we from the Monks in the daies of Antonius …
    With rule
    … amongſt the moſt part of them: ſo that Bernard crieth in Apolog. ad Guil. abbatAbbot. O how far different are we from the Monks in the daies of Antonius …

    Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 47 · Open in the reader