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batchelorBachelor

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

Puritas changed it
160 times in 90 works
Consistency
96.3% (160 of 166)
Reach if approved
~174 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bachelor
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
166 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (160 changes in 90 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 160)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Jury to the foreman, or a Master of Arts in a Colledge to a BatchelorBachelor in Divinity, or then the Mayor of Bristoll is to the Mayor of York.
    With rule
    … Jury to the foreman, or a Master of Arts in a Colledge to a BatchelorBachelor in Divinity, or then the Mayor of Bristoll is to the Mayor of York.

    Richard Baxter · The Successive Visibility of the Church · p. 251 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and abroad beyond the Seas,) should find out the truth; or Mr Lockyer, Mr BatchelorBachelor, Mr Carter, with a company of weake, ignorant men and women, youths and maids …
    With rule
    … and abroad beyond the Seas,) should find out the truth; or Mr Lockyer, Mr BatchelorBachelor, Mr Carter, with a company of weake, ignorant men and women, youths and maids …

    Thomas Edwards · Full Answer to Apologetical Narration · p. 249 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    33. From henceforth he was a Licemiate, as the Tranſmarines call it, as we a BatchelorBachelor in Divinity: A Relation to beautifie his Profeſſion, or rather a mere Scabbard to …
    With rule
    33. From henceforth he was a Licemiate, as the Tranſmarines call it, as we a BatchelorBachelor in Divinity: A Relation to beautifie his Profeſſion, or rather a mere Scabbard to …

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … after a Month's ſtay, home he returns a Married-man, that went out a BatchelorBachelor; his Wife being Mary the Eldeſt Daughter of Mr. Richard Powell, then a Juſtice …
    With rule
    … after a Month's ſtay, home he returns a Married-man, that went out a BatchelorBachelor; his Wife being Mary the Eldeſt Daughter of Mr. Richard Powell, then a Juſtice …

    John Milton · Letters of State · p. xxi · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … shall. But your selfe may hold on both sides M. Stapleton, being both a BatchelorBachelor in the one, and a student in the other. But as for your Popish …
    With rule
    … shall. But your selfe may hold on both sides M. Stapleton, being both a BatchelorBachelor in the one, and a student in the other. But as for your Popish …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 447 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that this busie employment being ended, he preach'd his Sermon for his degree of BatchelorBachelor in Divinity, in as eligant Latin, and as remarkable for the method and matter …
    With rule
    … that this busie employment being ended, he preach'd his Sermon for his degree of BatchelorBachelor in Divinity, in as eligant Latin, and as remarkable for the method and matter …

    Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Examination of others, who diſcouered the Prieſts impious dealings, was taken before William Leigh, BatchelorBachelor in Diuinity, and Edward Chiſnall Eſquire, two of his Maieſties Iuſtices of peace in …
    With rule
    … Examination of others, who diſcouered the Prieſts impious dealings, was taken before William Leigh, BatchelorBachelor in Diuinity, and Edward Chiſnall Eſquire, two of his Maieſties Iuſtices of peace in …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … THE MOST PART IN THE LECTVRE AT Kettering in North-hamptonshire. By Robert Bolton BatchelorBachelor in Divinity and Preacher of Gods Word at Broughton in the same Countie.
    With rule
    … THE MOST PART IN THE LECTVRE AT Kettering in North-hamptonshire. By Robert Bolton BatchelorBachelor in Divinity and Preacher of Gods Word at Broughton in the same Countie.

    Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines A33301

  • Printed
    Anno Christi 1607, when he was twenty seven years old he commenced batchelorBachelor of Divinity, and immediately after be was chosen Professor of Divinity in the University …
    With rule
    Anno Christi 1607, when he was twenty seven years old he commenced batchelorBachelor of Divinity, and immediately after be was chosen Professor of Divinity in the University …

    Samuel Clarke · A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines · p. 204 · Open in the reader

The Protestant School A64677

  • Printed
    bat-che-lor batchelorBachelor
    With rule
    bat-che-lor batchelorBachelor

    James Ussher · The Protestant School · p. 46 · Open in the reader