Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50554 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dutchesseDuchess

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

Puritas changed it: 112 times in 49 works
Consistency: 97.3% (112 of 115)
Reach if approved: ~121 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: duchess
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 115 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (112 changes in 49 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 112)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Iohn Willocke, as one that had some Commission to the Queen Regent, from the DutchesseDuchess of Emden. But his principall purpose was to essay what God would worke by …
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… Iohn Willocke, as one that had some Commission to the Queen Regent, from the DutchesseDuchess of Emden. But his principall purpose was to essay what God would worke by …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… undissolved; thereupon some Popish Irish Commissioners comming over into England, and confederating with the DutchesseDuchess of Buckingham, Captaine Read (now a prisoner in the Tower, and taken in the …
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… undissolved; thereupon some Popish Irish Commissioners comming over into England, and confederating with the DutchesseDuchess of Buckingham, Captaine Read (now a prisoner in the Tower, and taken in the …
William Prynne · Romes Masterpiece · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lorraine ſtark naked, the Queen-Mother, the young Queen of Scots, and the old DutcheſſeDuchess of Guiſe naked alſo, hanging about the Cardinals neck, and their legges wrapped between …
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… Lorraine ſtark naked, the Queen-Mother, the young Queen of Scots, and the old DutcheſſeDuchess of Guiſe naked alſo, hanging about the Cardinals neck, and their legges wrapped between …
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alſo by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the ſaid Elizabeth, and her Mother Iaquet DutcheſſeDuchess of Bedford, as the common opinion of the people, and the publique voice, and …
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… alſo by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the ſaid Elizabeth, and her Mother Iaquet DutcheſſeDuchess of Bedford, as the common opinion of the people, and the publique voice, and …
William Prynne · King Richard III Revived · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
About the yere 1440. Eleanor Cobham, DutcheſſeDuchess of Gloceſter, and Roger Only, Prieſt, were condemned: the one to perpetuall Priſon, (which …
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About the yere 1440. Eleanor Cobham, DutcheſſeDuchess of Gloceſter, and Roger Only, Prieſt, were condemned: the one to perpetuall Priſon, (which …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 381 · Open in the reader
Printed
Which on her brow the Lady DutcheſſeDuchess ſet,
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Which on her brow the Lady DutcheſſeDuchess ſet,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this office, that it may be an honou… … …hee, delight to our moſt illuſtrious DutcheſſeDuchess, profit to this Vniverſity, and … ſafegard to Truth. To the glory of Gods name …
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… this office, that it may be an honou… … …hee, delight to our moſt illuſtrious DutcheſſeDuchess, profit to this Vniverſity, and … ſafegard to Truth. To the glory of Gods name …
Peter du Moulin Jr · Oration in the Praise of Divinity · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… she was there, she was brought to bed of a daughter, to which the DutchesseDuchess was Godmother: But the King of France hearing that his Aunt the DutchesseDuchess had …
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… she was there, she was brought to bed of a daughter, to which the DutchesseDuchess was Godmother: But the King of France hearing that his Aunt the DutchesseDuchess had …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 842 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 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.