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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50794 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bachelourBachelor

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

Puritas changed it
63 times in 41 works
Consistency
98.4% (63 of 64)
Reach if approved
~67 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bachelor
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
64 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (63 changes in 41 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 63)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    By Robert Bolton BachelourBachelor in Divinity, late Minister of Broughton in Northampton-shire, and sometimes Fellow of Brasen …
    With rule
    By Robert Bolton BachelourBachelor in Divinity, late Minister of Broughton in Northampton-shire, and sometimes Fellow of Brasen …

    Robert Bolton · Two Sermons Preached at Northampton · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    By THOMAS DRAXE BachelourBachelor of Diuinity.
    With rule
    By THOMAS DRAXE BachelourBachelor of Diuinity.

    Thomas Draxe · The Earnest of our Inheritance · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Deliuered in ſundrie Sermons by Edward Elton, BachelourBachelor in Diuinitie, and Preacher of Gods word at Saint Mary Magdalens Barmondſey neare London.
    With rule
    Deliuered in ſundrie Sermons by Edward Elton, BachelourBachelor in Diuinitie, and Preacher of Gods word at Saint Mary Magdalens Barmondſey neare London.

    Edward Elton · The Triumph of a True Christian Described · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of certain Articles in Religion, denied by Mr Jewel, set forth by Thomas Dorman BachelourBachelor of Divinity.
    With rule
    … of certain Articles in Religion, denied by Mr Jewel, set forth by Thomas Dorman BachelourBachelor of Divinity.

    Edward Leigh · Treatise of Religion and Learning · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    By JOHN SHERMAN BachelourBachelor in Divinity, and Fellow of the ſame Colledge.
    With rule
    By JOHN SHERMAN BachelourBachelor in Divinity, and Fellow of the ſame Colledge.

    John Sherman · A Greek in the Temple · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    A fourth I ſhall mention is (about 22 years agoe) an ancient BachelourBachelor of Divinity, who defended the Orthodox Doc…ne againſt the Arminian Faction: His Text …
    With rule
    A fourth I ſhall mention is (about 22 years agoe) an ancient BachelourBachelor of Divinity, who defended the Orthodox Doc…ne againſt the Arminian Faction: His Text …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    By IOHN MAYER, BachelourBachelor of Diuinitie.
    With rule
    By IOHN MAYER, BachelourBachelor of Diuinitie.

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    The one November 21. the other Aprill 15. 1627. BY ROBERT SAVNDERSON, BachelourBachelor in Divinitie, and sometimes Fellow of LINCOLNE-Colledge in Oxford.
    With rule
    The one November 21. the other Aprill 15. 1627. BY ROBERT SAVNDERSON, BachelourBachelor in Divinitie, and sometimes Fellow of LINCOLNE-Colledge in Oxford.

    Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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