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earledomeEarldom

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

Puritas changed it
51 times in 20 works
Consistency
98.0% (51 of 52)
Reach if approved
~55 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: earldom
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
52 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (51 changes in 20 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 51)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … unbelievers, which were not of their faith & faction. In Alſtad, a Town in the EarledomeEarldom of Manifield, one of the 4. Eſtates in upper Saxonie, Thomas Mancer enrolls the names …
    With rule
    … unbelievers, which were not of their faith & faction. In Alſtad, a Town in the EarledomeEarldom of Manifield, one of the 4. Eſtates in upper Saxonie, Thomas Mancer enrolls the names …

    John Norton · The Heart of New England Rent · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to a C. marks for a Baronie; and to an C. pounds for an EarledomeEarldom.
    With rule
    … to a C. marks for a Baronie; and to an C. pounds for an EarledomeEarldom.

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … was brought vp vnder his hand, who that ſame yeere he entred to his EarledomeEarldom, chooſed me to his Church of Dalkeith, where I haue ſerued theſe thirtie fiue …
    With rule
    … was brought vp vnder his hand, who that ſame yeere he entred to his EarledomeEarldom, chooſed me to his Church of Dalkeith, where I haue ſerued theſe thirtie fiue …

    Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … EarledomeEarldom to the diſpoſing of the Queene, according her beſt liking, which honor and EarledomeEarldom the ſaid Queene of Scots did beſtow vpon Archbald late Earle of Angus, all …
    With rule
    … EarledomeEarldom to the diſpoſing of the Queene, according her beſt liking, which honor and EarledomeEarldom the ſaid Queene of Scots did beſtow vpon Archbald late Earle of Angus, all …

    Peter Wentworth · A Pithy Exhortation to Her Majesty · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … all thinges shalbe our owne, and we shalbee thine. A happie lordship, a happie EarledomeEarldom, a hap pie man, whose honour teacheth him thus to know the Lord, who …
    With rule
    … all thinges shalbe our owne, and we shalbee thine. A happie lordship, a happie EarledomeEarldom, a hap pie man, whose honour teacheth him thus to know the Lord, who …

    Edward Dering · Twenty-Seven Lectures Upon Hebrews · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the most part have several titles and Governours, as the Dukedome of Brabant, the EarledomeEarldom of Flanders, &c. Of which the inheritance at several times, did fall on Daughters …
    With rule
    … the most part have several titles and Governours, as the Dukedome of Brabant, the EarledomeEarldom of Flanders, &c. Of which the inheritance at several times, did fall on Daughters …

    Archbishop George Abbot · A Brief Description of the Whole World · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … him not so favourable as hee expected, and thinking that he grudged him his EarledomeEarldom, resigned the same into his hands. For the redemption of which he afterward offered …
    With rule
    … him not so favourable as hee expected, and thinking that he grudged him his EarledomeEarldom, resigned the same into his hands. For the redemption of which he afterward offered …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 298 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … brother Swanus, aswell heire to his fathers insolent and aspiring spirit, as to his EarledomeEarldom and Lands: in the twentieth yeare of the raigne of the before-named Edward …
    With rule
    … brother Swanus, aswell heire to his fathers insolent and aspiring spirit, as to his EarledomeEarldom and Lands: in the twentieth yeare of the raigne of the before-named Edward …

    Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 11 · 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.