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catholicksCatholics

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

Puritas changed it
1,928 times in 520 works
Consistency
97.9% (1,928 of 1,969)
Reach if approved
~2,069 places (estimated)
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Agrees: catholics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,969 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,928 changes in 520 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,928)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    Mystically heretick scourge CatholicksCatholics with their venomous tongues, & by labouring to thrust them out of their holds built …
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    Mystically heretick scourge CatholicksCatholics with their venomous tongues, & by labouring to thrust them out of their holds built …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels · Open in the reader

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    … the Saints much offended. To theſe are combined in the ſame yoke thoſe impropriate CatholicksCatholics, which depending on the Biſhop of Rome, haue with his impiety, not only ſwallowed …
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    … the Saints much offended. To theſe are combined in the ſame yoke thoſe impropriate CatholicksCatholics, which depending on the Biſhop of Rome, haue with his impiety, not only ſwallowed …

    John Carpenter · The Plain Mans Spiritual Plow · p. 217 · Open in the reader

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    … a book, fit to bee (as he calls it, & they esteem it) in euery CatholicksCatholics hād, deliuereth this for sound and dogmatical doctrine. A Priest… if he commit fornication …
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    … a book, fit to bee (as he calls it, & they esteem it) in euery CatholicksCatholics hād, deliuereth this for sound and dogmatical doctrine. A Priest… if he commit fornication …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 144 · Open in the reader

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    … how-so-ever the Converters of others, by an improper Speach, may be called CatholicksCatholics; as anie particular Church, holding Trueth, is called a Catholicke Church; or anie faithfull …
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    … how-so-ever the Converters of others, by an improper Speach, may be called CatholicksCatholics; as anie particular Church, holding Trueth, is called a Catholicke Church; or anie faithfull …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 48 · Open in the reader

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    … hard vsages offered by her Maiestie and the Protestants, against the Pope and Popish CatholicksCatholics, that it must needs be, that not malignitie of the Pope and his adherents …
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    … hard vsages offered by her Maiestie and the Protestants, against the Pope and Popish CatholicksCatholics, that it must needs be, that not malignitie of the Pope and his adherents …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 99 · Open in the reader

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    … could the Scribes and Phariſes boaſt of their Originall, Ioh. 8. 33. 13. Or, that they are CatholicksCatholics, and the world ſpred ouer with them? And could not the Iewiſh Church ſay …
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    … could the Scribes and Phariſes boaſt of their Originall, Ioh. 8. 33. 13. Or, that they are CatholicksCatholics, and the world ſpred ouer with them? And could not the Iewiſh Church ſay …

    Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 92 · Open in the reader

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    … expyred at the publication of the Trent Councell. That it was onely till the CatholicksCatholics had expede their businesse (that is their plotting against vs) & postea hoc vnum bellum …
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    … expyred at the publication of the Trent Councell. That it was onely till the CatholicksCatholics had expede their businesse (that is their plotting against vs) & postea hoc vnum bellum …

    William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 166 · Open in the reader

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    … ſelfe in a contradiction, not only to the trueth, but alſo to your own CatholicksCatholics. Either therefore wonder at your owne Catholickes, who hes ſpoken as much and more …
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    … ſelfe in a contradiction, not only to the trueth, but alſo to your own CatholicksCatholics. Either therefore wonder at your owne Catholickes, who hes ſpoken as much and more …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 159 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (41)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Foot out of the Snare A01576

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    THE CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS CROVVNE.
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    THE CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS CROVVNE.

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 98 · Open in the reader

Answer to John De Albines A12701

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    … a great man of your ſide, in his 5 Chapter of his defence of Engliſh catholicksCatholics, reckōs vp in a great brauery and bragge, ſundry Kings and Emperours by force …
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    … a great man of your ſide, in his 5 Chapter of his defence of Engliſh catholicksCatholics, reckōs vp in a great brauery and bragge, ſundry Kings and Emperours by force …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 140 · Open in the reader

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    … man and his fellowes doe now? Or what would he ſay to thoſe anciēt catholicksCatholics after Liberius time, that when Arrianiſme had in great part ouer run the world …
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    … man and his fellowes doe now? Or what would he ſay to thoſe anciēt catholicksCatholics after Liberius time, that when Arrianiſme had in great part ouer run the world …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 417 · Open in the reader

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    … world, and the Arrians for many yeeres togither bragged thēſelues to be the onely … catholicksCatholics, diſgracing thē that were ſo indeed with the name of Omouſians, that yet, (though …
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    … world, and the Arrians for many yeeres togither bragged thēſelues to be the onely … catholicksCatholics, diſgracing thē that were ſo indeed with the name of Omouſians, that yet, (though …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 417 · Open in the reader

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    … for ſhame for all this, count either Chriſt and his Apoſtles, or theſe ancient catholicksCatholics; antichriſtian heretickes or ſchiſmatiques. And our drawing of mē by our doctrine now, in …
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    … for ſhame for all this, count either Chriſt and his Apoſtles, or theſe ancient catholicksCatholics; antichriſtian heretickes or ſchiſmatiques. And our drawing of mē by our doctrine now, in …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 417 · Open in the reader

Reply Against Gilbert Brown A14926

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    … your ſtyles, but by your fruites ye muſt be tryed. For if ye bee catholicksCatholics &c, ye will teach the doctrine of that good paſtour, and chiefe ſheepheard the …
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    … your ſtyles, but by your fruites ye muſt be tryed. For if ye bee catholicksCatholics &c, ye will teach the doctrine of that good paſtour, and chiefe ſheepheard the …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 2 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet A15733

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    … the Gui…es in Flaunders, d…eſt their religion almoſt as much, as the catholicksCatholics; neither …ill they ioyne iſſue with them in diuers eſſentiall points. And therefore the …
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    … the Gui…es in Flaunders, d…eſt their religion almoſt as much, as the catholicksCatholics; neither …ill they ioyne iſſue with them in diuers eſſentiall points. And therefore the …

    Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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    … ſuch ſort, as they which would not heare her, would not heare him. The catholicksCatholics therefore beleeuing certainly, that the Church cannot erre, that the generall Councils cannot deliuer …
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    … ſuch ſort, as they which would not heare her, would not heare him. The catholicksCatholics therefore beleeuing certainly, that the Church cannot erre, that the generall Councils cannot deliuer …

    Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 53 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 A19588

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    … call'd before authoritie for it, and cenſured, and ſilenced for ſlandering & rayling on the catholicksCatholics and that I was ſtricken by Gods hand, with a ſtrange hoarceneſſe after I …
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    … call'd before authoritie for it, and cenſured, and ſilenced for ſlandering & rayling on the catholicksCatholics and that I was ſtricken by Gods hand, with a ſtrange hoarceneſſe after I …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · Open in the reader

A Supplement to Knowledge and Practice A34877

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    … great Maſters in the Church of Rome have appropriated to themſelves the name of catholicksCatholics, accounting all men Hereticks that differ from them, and do not hold communion with …
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    … great Maſters in the Church of Rome have appropriated to themſelves the name of catholicksCatholics, accounting all men Hereticks that differ from them, and do not hold communion with …

    Samuel Cradock · A Supplement to Knowledge and Practice · p. 169 · Open in the reader

The Protestant Resolved A39265

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    … men; and therefore I dare not think, that all they who are called ROMAN CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, have throughly learn'd this Doctrine. There seems to me to be so much of …
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    … men; and therefore I dare not think, that all they who are called ROMAN CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, have throughly learn'd this Doctrine. There seems to me to be so much of …

    Clement Ellis · The Protestant Resolved · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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    I have heard again much talk of Universal Tradition among ROMAM CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS; but if they alledg this for their Church's Authority, they give us only the …
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    I have heard again much talk of Universal Tradition among ROMAM CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS; but if they alledg this for their Church's Authority, they give us only the …

    Clement Ellis · The Protestant Resolved · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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    … inoffensively as I can to all others. I see many Wise men among ROMAN-CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, and I dare not say the contrary, but that they are of another Religion …
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    … inoffensively as I can to all others. I see many Wise men among ROMAN-CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, and I dare not say the contrary, but that they are of another Religion …

    Clement Ellis · The Protestant Resolved · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Antichrist Pointed and Painted Out in His True Colors A42310

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    … not taken hitherto by anie. That is, to evidence by the witnessing of Roman catholicksCatholics themselves, who lived and died in the Communion of that Church. That the Pope …
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    … not taken hitherto by anie. That is, to evidence by the witnessing of Roman catholicksCatholics themselves, who lived and died in the Communion of that Church. That the Pope …

    William Guild · Antichrist Pointed and Painted Out in His True Colors · p. 8 · Open in the reader

The Old Roman Catholic A42315

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    … is the true Church, (sayeth Ierom,) where true fayth is, and they are good catholicksCatholics only, (sayeth Augustin,) who follow the right fayth.
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    … is the true Church, (sayeth Ierom,) where true fayth is, and they are good catholicksCatholics only, (sayeth Augustin,) who follow the right fayth.

    William Guild · The Old Roman Catholic · p. 35 · Open in the reader

A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet A45154

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    … Proteſtant, is groſly abſurd; for it expoſeth him to the triumph of the Roman-catholicksCatholics, it being impoſſible that the Papiſts, notwithſtanding their Schiſmatical Impoſitions, ſhould be eſteemed Schiſmatical …
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    … Proteſtant, is groſly abſurd; for it expoſeth him to the triumph of the Roman-catholicksCatholics, it being impoſſible that the Papiſts, notwithſtanding their Schiſmatical Impoſitions, ſhould be eſteemed Schiſmatical …

    John Humfrey · A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet · p. 24 · Open in the reader

History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 A54576

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    … plead. 14. Neither is every catholick tied to anſwer according to his mind, unto privat catholicksCatholics, but he may equivocat, and deceive his demanders: 15. This equivocation is a profitable Art …
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    … plead. 14. Neither is every catholick tied to anſwer according to his mind, unto privat catholicksCatholics, but he may equivocat, and deceive his demanders: 15. This equivocation is a profitable Art …

    Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 323 · Open in the reader

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    … themſelves ſimply unto none: a shameleſs denying of the things that are done by catholicksCatholics, eſpecially by the clergy, though theſe things are known certainly: a contumelious way of …
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    … themſelves ſimply unto none: a shameleſs denying of the things that are done by catholicksCatholics, eſpecially by the clergy, though theſe things are known certainly: a contumelious way of …

    Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 323 · Open in the reader

Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 A56162

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    … ALL WITHOVT ORDER; ſo that they are not worthy to be called religious, eccleſiaſticks, catholicksCatholics, nor temporal mechannical Chriſtians; but rather Machiavillians, Atheiſts, Apoſtates; their courſe of life ſhewing …
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    … ALL WITHOVT ORDER; ſo that they are not worthy to be called religious, eccleſiaſticks, catholicksCatholics, nor temporal mechannical Chriſtians; but rather Machiavillians, Atheiſts, Apoſtates; their courſe of life ſhewing …

    William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · Open in the reader

Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light A56171

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    … the number of 7000. that were in privat pay, AND IN READINES TO AYD THE CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, AND TO OUT THE PROTESTANTS THROATS THAT SHOULD RESIST THEM; and that he was …
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    … the number of 7000. that were in privat pay, AND IN READINES TO AYD THE CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, AND TO OUT THE PROTESTANTS THROATS THAT SHOULD RESIST THEM; and that he was …

    William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 305 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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    … Oecolampadians and we the Catholickes be out of the way. But if we the catholicksCatholics haue the truth, as we haue in deede, then the Lutherians and you the …
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    … Oecolampadians and we the Catholickes be out of the way. But if we the catholicksCatholics haue the truth, as we haue in deede, then the Lutherians and you the …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2054 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet Called the Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel A70152

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    … the contrary, as likewiſe Pope Sextus 4. and Pius 5. they are not to be accounted catholicksCatholics that eſteemes this an errour, and conſequently all the ancient fathers, are not to …
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    … the contrary, as likewiſe Pope Sextus 4. and Pius 5. they are not to be accounted catholicksCatholics that eſteemes this an errour, and conſequently all the ancient fathers, are not to …

    William Guild · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet Called the Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel · p. 32 · Open in the reader

Disputations Concerning Matters of Religion A88101

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    … l. 29. r. diſcovered. p. 6. r. l. 20. r. Trapp. l. 18. r. Butler. p. 7. l. 1. r. catholicksCatholics. p. 8. l. 19. r. may. p. 10. l. 11. r. Venice. p. 15. marg. r. quod. p. 16. l …
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    … l. 29. r. diſcovered. p. 6. r. l. 20. r. Trapp. l. 18. r. Butler. p. 7. l. 1. r. catholicksCatholics. p. 8. l. 19. r. may. p. 10. l. 11. r. Venice. p. 15. marg. r. quod. p. 16. l …

    John Ley · Disputations Concerning Matters of Religion · Open in the reader

Romanism Discussed A94737

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    TO THE Engliſh Romaniſts, Who term themſelves CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, Specially to thoſe of the Counties of Hereford and Worceſter.
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    TO THE Engliſh Romaniſts, Who term themſelves CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS, Specially to thoſe of the Counties of Hereford and Worceſter.

    John Tombes · Romanism Discussed · Open in the reader

Babylons Beauty A95878

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    Babylons Beautie: OR THE ROMISH-CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS SWEET-HEART.
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    Babylons Beautie: OR THE ROMISH-CATHOLICKSCATHOLICS SWEET-HEART.

    John Vicars · Babylons Beauty · Open in the reader