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fraūceFrance

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

Puritas changed it
79 times in 28 works
Consistency
96.3% (79 of 82)
Reach if approved
~86 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
82 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
fraūce (3)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (79 changes in 28 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 79)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … he were anſwered by Greekes. What whole Kingdomes holde, as Albion vpon our Bible: FraūceFrance in Genebrard, the Hebrew Profeſſour at Paris: Heydelberge, vnder Tremelius, well payd: Zurick in …
    With rule
    … he were anſwered by Greekes. What whole Kingdomes holde, as Albion vpon our Bible: FraūceFrance in Genebrard, the Hebrew Profeſſour at Paris: Heydelberge, vnder Tremelius, well payd: Zurick in …

    Hugh Broughton · Grounds of Divinity Study · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … treaſon, that hart of man could thinke of; in reſpect whereof, the maſſacre of FraūceFrance though inhumane, the purpoſe of Haman though very cruel, the murder committed by Simeon …
    With rule
    … treaſon, that hart of man could thinke of; in reſpect whereof, the maſſacre of FraūceFrance though inhumane, the purpoſe of Haman though very cruel, the murder committed by Simeon …

    Francis Bunny · An Answer to a Popish Libel · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of FraūceFrance: & to encourage the young kyng thereto / the Pope accursed the kyng of FraūceFrance & al his aiders & succurrers. Then free pardons flue abroade as thycke / as butter flyes …
    With rule
    … of FraūceFrance: & to encourage the young kyng thereto / the Pope accursed the kyng of FraūceFrance & al his aiders & succurrers. Then free pardons flue abroade as thycke / as butter flyes …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … If he be not yet ſtrong inough, then he ſendeth vnto the biſhops of FraūceFrance warning them that if his ſeate decay, theirs can not long proſper, and therfore …
    With rule
    … If he be not yet ſtrong inough, then he ſendeth vnto the biſhops of FraūceFrance warning them that if his ſeate decay, theirs can not long proſper, and therfore …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 365 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Massons wife in the entrie, and gently saluted hir, and after the maner of FraūceFrance, specially of the Court, he kissed hir, and asked hir where hir husbād was …
    With rule
    … Massons wife in the entrie, and gently saluted hir, and after the maner of FraūceFrance, specially of the Court, he kissed hir, and asked hir where hir husbād was …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. lXXV · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Quene Magdalē, the fyrst doughter of FraūceFrance
    With rule
    Quene Magdalē, the fyrst doughter of FraūceFrance

    David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … writinge, not onely as there are countries, but also as ther are persōs in FraūceFrance: they should first learne to pronounce, before they teach mē to write. For to …
    With rule
    … writinge, not onely as there are countries, but also as ther are persōs in FraūceFrance: they should first learne to pronounce, before they teach mē to write. For to …

    Theodore Beza · A Tragedy of Abrahams Sacrifice · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … cā against hī / & ouerthrew the iolyest rutter that was in al the hoste of FraūceFrance. And out of the feld hote frō bloud sheading was he made bisshop of …
    With rule
    … cā against hī / & ouerthrew the iolyest rutter that was in al the hoste of FraūceFrance. And out of the feld hote frō bloud sheading was he made bisshop of …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.