Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50562 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

batchelourBachelor

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

Puritas changed it: 111 times in 72 works
Consistency: 94.8% (111 of 117)
Reach if approved: ~123 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bachelor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 117 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (111 changes in 72 works, 94.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 111)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
By SAMVEL WARD BatchelourBachelor of Diuinitie.
With rule
By SAMVEL WARD BatchelourBachelor of Diuinitie.
Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · Open in the reader
Printed
THE LAST CONFLICTS and DEATH OF Mr THOMAS PEACOCK, BatchelourBachelor of Divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford:
With rule
THE LAST CONFLICTS and DEATH OF Mr THOMAS PEACOCK, BatchelourBachelor of Divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford:
Robert Bolton · The Last Conflicts and Death of Thomas Peacock · Open in the reader
Printed
… Similitude) give Order to his Vice-Chancellor, to admit none to the Degree of BatchelourBachelor of Arts, but such as were able to Preach, or keep a Divinity Act …
With rule
… Similitude) give Order to his Vice-Chancellor, to admit none to the Degree of BatchelourBachelor of Arts, but such as were able to Preach, or keep a Divinity Act …
Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he were a Lay man, and not a Doctor of Law, but only a BatchelourBachelor of Law; for the Court then ſaid, That the Juriſdiction of the Biſhop and …
With rule
… he were a Lay man, and not a Doctor of Law, but only a BatchelourBachelor of Law; for the Court then ſaid, That the Juriſdiction of the Biſhop and …
John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
Another ſtrange deliverance he met with a little after; when he was newly BatchelourBachelor of Arts, going into the water alone to waſh himſelf, and not being able …
With rule
Another ſtrange deliverance he met with a little after; when he was newly BatchelourBachelor of Arts, going into the water alone to waſh himſelf, and not being able …
Richard Mayo · The Life and Death of Edmund Staunton · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to wiſh as Auguſtus the Emperour did, Oh that I had either lived a BatchelourBachelor, or died childeleſſe!
With rule
… to wiſh as Auguſtus the Emperour did, Oh that I had either lived a BatchelourBachelor, or died childeleſſe!
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſigners for Philoſophy do ſo much as begin to look into them. He Commenced BatchelourBachelor of Arts, at the Age of Sixteen, and in the Act entertained the Auditory …
With rule
… deſigners for Philoſophy do ſo much as begin to look into them. He Commenced BatchelourBachelor of Arts, at the Age of Sixteen, and in the Act entertained the Auditory …
Cotton Mather · Early Piety Exemplified · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to that end he begs leave of his father, to performe his Exerciſes for BatchelourBachelor of Arts, that by that meanes he might be manumitted by the Univerſity from …
With rule
… to that end he begs leave of his father, to performe his Exerciſes for BatchelourBachelor of Arts, that by that meanes he might be manumitted by the Univerſity from …
Thomas Case · The Vanity of Glorying in the Flesh · p. 72 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms A63066

Printed
… them three mattery impoſtumes, and ulcerous ſores, wiſhing, that either he had lived a batchelourBachelor, or died childleſſe: But rather like thoſe of Charles the great, who ſo pleaſed …
With rule
… them three mattery impoſtumes, and ulcerous ſores, wiſhing, that either he had lived a batchelourBachelor, or died childleſſe: But rather like thoſe of Charles the great, who ſo pleaſed …
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 3 · Open in the reader