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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10703 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ievvesJews

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

Puritas changed it
415 times in 56 works
Consistency
94.5% (415 of 439)
Reach if approved
~461 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: jews
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
439 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
iewes (24)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (415 changes in 56 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 415)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … theſe be Idol-ſhepheards, not true paſtours of the flock, &c. Now amōg the IevvesJews at this day, they have vnlavvful offices vvithout calling & appointment from God: Their principall …
    With rule
    … theſe be Idol-ſhepheards, not true paſtours of the flock, &c. Now amōg the IevvesJews at this day, they have vnlavvful offices vvithout calling & appointment from God: Their principall …

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 287 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … houſe and cuttes off all the generation. And the Lord did ſo vvith theſe IevvesJews, It is ſaid in the ſecond command, that the Lord viſites the th…d …
    With rule
    … houſe and cuttes off all the generation. And the Lord did ſo vvith theſe IevvesJews, It is ſaid in the ſecond command, that the Lord viſites the th…d …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … farre as this. He offered to spend his bodie for the Religion of the IevvesJews. So vvould other, saith Saint Austen, who had a zeale as Saint Paule speaketh …
    With rule
    … farre as this. He offered to spend his bodie for the Religion of the IevvesJews. So vvould other, saith Saint Austen, who had a zeale as Saint Paule speaketh …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … gaue to the olde worlde, when he named Noah A ſpeciall Comforter. But the IevvesJews went in the miſbeliefe of the olde worlde. The Lorde by theſe times had …
    With rule
    … gaue to the olde worlde, when he named Noah A ſpeciall Comforter. But the IevvesJews went in the miſbeliefe of the olde worlde. The Lorde by theſe times had …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Gentiles and not as the IevvesJews, vvhy compelleſt thou the Gentiles to play the IevvesJews?
    With rule
    … Gentiles and not as the IevvesJews, vvhy compelleſt thou the Gentiles to play the IevvesJews?

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    IevvesJews in America, OR, Probabilities that the Americans are Iewes.
    With rule
    IevvesJews in America, OR, Probabilities that the Americans are Iewes.

    Thomas Thorowgood · The Jews Now in America · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … but haue showed and taught you openly, through euery house, testifying bothe to the IevvesJews and Grecians, the repentance tovvardes God, and faith through our Lord Iesus.
    With rule
    … but haue showed and taught you openly, through euery house, testifying bothe to the IevvesJews and Grecians, the repentance tovvardes God, and faith through our Lord Iesus.

    Henrich Bullinger · Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods Word · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    TO the noble Church of Englande seruing in claye and bricke as the IevvesJews did in times past vnder the tyrannie of the Egiptiās: Peter the sonne of …
    With rule
    TO the noble Church of Englande seruing in claye and bricke as the IevvesJews did in times past vnder the tyrannie of the Egiptiās: Peter the sonne of …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · 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.