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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10758 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ieweJew

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

Puritas changed it
711 times in 237 works
Consistency
99.8% (711 of 712)
Reach if approved
~748 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: jew
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
712 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (711 changes in 237 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 711)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … signe or marke appointed to signifie that religion. As for example, In Italy a IeweJew may bee knowne, First, by his woordes, if hee woulde professe him selfe to …
    With rule
    … signe or marke appointed to signifie that religion. As for example, In Italy a IeweJew may bee knowne, First, by his woordes, if hee woulde professe him selfe to …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or a capon: Oh abominable hereſie, treaſon and lowlardy. He is worſſe then a IeweJew or a Turke.
    With rule
    … or a capon: Oh abominable hereſie, treaſon and lowlardy. He is worſſe then a IeweJew or a Turke.

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. ccij · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … lyuynge to gyde the Christen congregacyon / and to suffre no maner of supersticyon of IeweJew nor gentyle to regne amonge them. And these two offyces were all one in …
    With rule
    … lyuynge to gyde the Christen congregacyon / and to suffre no maner of supersticyon of IeweJew nor gentyle to regne amonge them. And these two offyces were all one in …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … nation, neither haue they knowne his iudgements. And Rom. 3. 2. The chiefe preferment of the IeweJew was this, because to them were committed the Oracles of God. 3. The saluation here …
    With rule
    … nation, neither haue they knowne his iudgements. And Rom. 3. 2. The chiefe preferment of the IeweJew was this, because to them were committed the Oracles of God. 3. The saluation here …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that ſhineth in the darkeneſſe: here hathe the Gentile gotten as muche as the IeweJew: for this is the true light that lighteth euery man that commeth into the …
    With rule
    … that ſhineth in the darkeneſſe: here hathe the Gentile gotten as muche as the IeweJew: for this is the true light that lighteth euery man that commeth into the …

    Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the lawe, then reasoneth he no otherwise, then if he were some Turke or IeweJew, which either knoweth not Christ, or plainly denieth him. So is it likewise with …
    With rule
    … the lawe, then reasoneth he no otherwise, then if he were some Turke or IeweJew, which either knoweth not Christ, or plainly denieth him. So is it likewise with …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 224 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … euer beleuethe in God, shall not be confounded. For there is no differēce betwene IeweJew & Gentyle. For one is LORDE of all, whiche is rytche ynough vnto all that …
    With rule
    … euer beleuethe in God, shall not be confounded. For there is no differēce betwene IeweJew & Gentyle. For one is LORDE of all, whiche is rytche ynough vnto all that …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … an Iſraelit… to haue done, in aſmuche as it was not lawfull for a IeweJew to ſacrifice vnto God in any other place, thē in yt which he had …
    With rule
    … an Iſraelit… to haue done, in aſmuche as it was not lawfull for a IeweJew to ſacrifice vnto God in any other place, thē in yt which he had …

    Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · 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.