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aegyptEgypt

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

Puritas changed it
6,242 times in 1,228 works
Consistency
99.9% (6,242 of 6,244)
Reach if approved
~6,686 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: egypt
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
6,363 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,242 changes in 1,228 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,242)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the end of all the Euangeliſts is in the firſt moneth, tovvards leaving the AegyptEgypt of this World at the Paſcha. And at Pentecoſt after, the Lavv vvas giuen …
    With rule
    … the end of all the Euangeliſts is in the firſt moneth, tovvards leaving the AegyptEgypt of this World at the Paſcha. And at Pentecoſt after, the Lavv vvas giuen …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 298 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … from Euphrates (meant here by the channell of the riuer) vnto the riuer of AegyptEgypt, were their iuſt and lawfull bounders. The inheritance firſt promiſed to Abraham, Gen. 15. 18. and …
    With rule
    … from Euphrates (meant here by the channell of the riuer) vnto the riuer of AegyptEgypt, were their iuſt and lawfull bounders. The inheritance firſt promiſed to Abraham, Gen. 15. 18. and …

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … downe, and cast her into the fire. If Israel begin to looke backe into AegyptEgypt; it shall be iust with God to bring backe his Israel that was, into …
    With rule
    … downe, and cast her into the fire. If Israel begin to looke backe into AegyptEgypt; it shall be iust with God to bring backe his Israel that was, into …

    Thomas Gataker · An Anniversary Memorial · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Church hath beene in Captivity, and that thou haſt returned it, (as out of AegyptEgypt, &c.) and therefore wee hope that thou wilt doe ſo againe; Thou haſt beene …
    With rule
    … Church hath beene in Captivity, and that thou haſt returned it, (as out of AegyptEgypt, &c.) and therefore wee hope that thou wilt doe ſo againe; Thou haſt beene …

    Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Heaven, in the quire of Angels. Before I repented, I ſaid to the world AegyptEgypt, thou art my ſtaffe, and to the fleſh Dalilah, thou art my joy: but …
    With rule
    … Heaven, in the quire of Angels. Before I repented, I ſaid to the world AegyptEgypt, thou art my ſtaffe, and to the fleſh Dalilah, thou art my joy: but …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Colledges and Schooles, the Seminaries of Sciences, and Nurseries of Religion, (like Goshen in AegyptEgypt, where the light of the Land is) they shall carefullie trayne up, and yearlie …
    With rule
    Colledges and Schooles, the Seminaries of Sciences, and Nurseries of Religion, (like Goshen in AegyptEgypt, where the light of the Land is) they shall carefullie trayne up, and yearlie …

    William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … so weary of it that they preferred the cucumbers, and onyons, and garlicke of AegyptEgypt before it Num. 11.5, 6. any thing rather then Mannah then that food that came downe …
    With rule
    … so weary of it that they preferred the cucumbers, and onyons, and garlicke of AegyptEgypt before it Num. 11.5, 6. any thing rather then Mannah then that food that came downe …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 778 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … kindly with ſtrangers; why, becauſe yee your ſelves were ſtrangers, in the land of AegyptEgypt: we that have been in priſon, under ſinne and Satan, and have beene in …
    With rule
    … kindly with ſtrangers; why, becauſe yee your ſelves were ſtrangers, in the land of AegyptEgypt: we that have been in priſon, under ſinne and Satan, and have beene in …

    Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 11 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Still Voice A06196

  • Printed
    … Vandales, Visigothes, and Ostrogothes; pulled downe the Metropolis of the Assirians, Tyre, and Sydon, aegyptEgypt, and Persia, Palestina, and Constantinople, by despicable and poo… means. So also know yee …
    With rule
    … Vandales, Visigothes, and Ostrogothes; pulled downe the Metropolis of the Assirians, Tyre, and Sydon, aegyptEgypt, and Persia, Palestina, and Constantinople, by despicable and poo… means. So also know yee …

    William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 41 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    RELATIONS OF THE REGIONS AND RELIGIONS IN AFRICA. OF AeGYPTEgypt, BARBARIE, NVMI, DIA, LIBYA, AND THE LAND OF NEGROS; AND OF THEIR RELIGIONS.
    With rule
    RELATIONS OF THE REGIONS AND RELIGIONS IN AFRICA. OF AeGYPTEgypt, BARBARIE, NVMI, DIA, LIBYA, AND THE LAND OF NEGROS; AND OF THEIR RELIGIONS.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 463 · Open in the reader