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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51094 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

almeshouseAlmshouse

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

Puritas changed it
22 times in 17 works
Consistency
95.6% (22 of 23)
Reach if approved
~24 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: almshouse
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
23 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (22 changes in 17 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 22)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of the Judges of the Sheriffs Court in London, who built and endowed an AlmeshouseAlmshouse for twelve poor men at Stoken-heath, and another at Shorditch for as many …
    With rule
    … of the Judges of the Sheriffs Court in London, who built and endowed an AlmeshouseAlmshouse for twelve poor men at Stoken-heath, and another at Shorditch for as many …

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … an uſe, or ſuch a ſumme of money to Build a School or an AlmeſhouſeAlmshouse, ſo that it ſhall not be in his power to recall it. By the …
    With rule
    … an uſe, or ſuch a ſumme of money to Build a School or an AlmeſhouſeAlmshouse, ſo that it ſhall not be in his power to recall it. By the …

    William Jenkyn · The Burning Yet Unconsumed Bush · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … much as his father did, at last he sues for a Room in an AlmeshouseAlmshouse, that his father built; else when he feels want (for till then he never …
    With rule
    … much as his father did, at last he sues for a Room in an AlmeshouseAlmshouse, that his father built; else when he feels want (for till then he never …

    Richard Younge · A Christian Library · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … being very rainy and fowl weather; and in that posture they came to the AlmeshouseAlmshouse within the liberties (but in the suburbs) of Bristoll, and then one of the …
    With rule
    … being very rainy and fowl weather; and in that posture they came to the AlmeshouseAlmshouse within the liberties (but in the suburbs) of Bristoll, and then one of the …

    Ralph Farmer · Satan Enthroned in His Chair · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … much as his father did, at laſt he ſues for a Room in an AlmeſhouſeAlmshouse, that his father built; elſe when he feels want (for till then he never …
    With rule
    … much as his father did, at laſt he ſues for a Room in an AlmeſhouſeAlmshouse, that his father built; elſe when he feels want (for till then he never …

    Richard Younge · A Precious Mithridate for the Soul · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of expiation, to giue three or foure the yeerely pension of Twentie markes: an AlmeshouseAlmshouse is not so big as a village, nor thy superfluitie whereout thou giuest, like …
    With rule
    … of expiation, to giue three or foure the yeerely pension of Twentie markes: an AlmeshouseAlmshouse is not so big as a village, nor thy superfluitie whereout thou giuest, like …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … as her house was a Court, in the conuersation of the best, and an AlmeshouseAlmshouse, in feeding the poore, so was it also an Hospitall, in ministring releefe to …
    With rule
    … as her house was a Court, in the conuersation of the best, and an AlmeshouseAlmshouse, in feeding the poore, so was it also an Hospitall, in ministring releefe to …

    John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in Oxfordshire, and builded new the Parish Church of Ewelme, and an Hospitall or AlmeshouseAlmshouse for two Priests, and thirteene poore men, to which he gave three Manours, Ramruge …
    With rule
    … in Oxfordshire, and builded new the Parish Church of Ewelme, and an Hospitall or AlmeshouseAlmshouse for two Priests, and thirteene poore men, to which he gave three Manours, Ramruge …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 89 · 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.