Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10762 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

letanyLitany

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

Puritas changed it: 356 times in 159 works
Consistency: 93.9% (356 of 379)
Reach if approved: ~399 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: letany
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 380 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (356 changes in 159 works, 93.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 356)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were not a few, could not be quiet till they had cried up the LetanyLitany again into its old place. So as in sine, through the love of superstition …
With rule
… were not a few, could not be quiet till they had cried up the LetanyLitany again into its old place. So as in sine, through the love of superstition …
Henry Burton · A vindication of Churches · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
Our Author proceeds. Fol. 27. The LetanyLitany, Surplice, and other Ceremonies in Service and Sacraments they omitted, both as superfluous and …
With rule
Our Author proceeds. Fol. 27. The LetanyLitany, Surplice, and other Ceremonies in Service and Sacraments they omitted, both as superfluous and …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… put the moſt candid comment on this eſſay, and joyn with me in this LetanyLitany.
With rule
… put the moſt candid comment on this eſſay, and joyn with me in this LetanyLitany.
John Humfrey · The Design and Nature of Historical Mistakes Found in Stillingfleet · Open in the reader
Printed
… King, preached on the fifth of November laſt. The fifth and laſt, D^r. Baſtwickes LetanyLitany.
With rule
… King, preached on the fifth of November laſt. The fifth and laſt, D^r. Baſtwickes LetanyLitany.
John Bastwick · Relation of Passages and Speeches in the Star Chamber · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drew rivers of teares both from their eyes and hearts, which these nonpraying Doctors LetanyLitany could not doe. When the honorable religious Lord Veere some two yeares since, was …
With rule
… drew rivers of teares both from their eyes and hearts, which these nonpraying Doctors LetanyLitany could not doe. When the honorable religious Lord Veere some two yeares since, was …
William Prynne · A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhoulde be requiſite then by that accompt, to make out of hand a newe LetanyLitany. In ſtéede where the Pr…eſtes do ſing, ſaint Michael, pray for vs: ſaint …
With rule
… ſhoulde be requiſite then by that accompt, to make out of hand a newe LetanyLitany. In ſtéede where the Pr…eſtes do ſing, ſaint Michael, pray for vs: ſaint …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader
Printed
… day of Eaſter, the ſingle life of Prieſts, and the Church-muſique proceſſions and LetanyLitany after the order of Rome: conſider further that ſome of the people were Pelagians …
With rule
… day of Eaſter, the ſingle life of Prieſts, and the Church-muſique proceſſions and LetanyLitany after the order of Rome: conſider further that ſome of the people were Pelagians …
Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
In the LetanyLitany.
With rule
In the LetanyLitany.
Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 322 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (23)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05604

Printed
THE LETANYLITANY OF JOHN BASTVVICK, Doctor of Phiſicke, Being now full of Devotion, as well in …
With rule
THE LETANYLITANY OF JOHN BASTVVICK, Doctor of Phiſicke, Being now full of Devotion, as well in …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I ſhould anſwer any thing or no, vnto the exceptions you made againſt my LETANYLITANY: and had I not indeed heard from many, that others alſo, from your ſpeeches …
With rule
… I ſhould anſwer any thing or no, vnto the exceptions you made againſt my LETANYLITANY: and had I not indeed heard from many, that others alſo, from your ſpeeches …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
But now breifly to ſumme vp what you obiect againſt MY LETANYLITANY, OBLIGATION and EPISTLE to the LADY. You ſeemd to blame ſome three paſſages, as …
With rule
But now breifly to ſumme vp what you obiect againſt MY LETANYLITANY, OBLIGATION and EPISTLE to the LADY. You ſeemd to blame ſome three paſſages, as …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… taken, that I call Bishops, Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes; and in my LETANYLITANY deſire deliuerahce from them, and withall ſeeme to accuſe them of incontinency, all which …
With rule
… taken, that I call Bishops, Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes; and in my LETANYLITANY deſire deliuerahce from them, and withall ſeeme to accuſe them of incontinency, all which …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from them, that I deſire that all would ioyne with mee in the ſame LETANYLITANY feruently and vnceſſantly praying From plague pestilence and famin, from BISHOPS PREISTS AND DEACONS …
With rule
… from them, that I deſire that all would ioyne with mee in the ſame LETANYLITANY feruently and vnceſſantly praying From plague pestilence and famin, from BISHOPS PREISTS AND DEACONS …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05611

Printed
… I ſhould anſwer any thing or no, vnto the exceptions you made againſt my LETANYLITANY: and had I not indeed heard from many, that others alſo, from your ſpeeches …
With rule
… I ſhould anſwer any thing or no, vnto the exceptions you made againſt my LETANYLITANY: and had I not indeed heard from many, that others alſo, from your ſpeeches …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
But now breifly to ſumme vp what you obiect againſt MY LETANYLITANY, OBLIGATION and EPISTLE to the LADY. You ſeemd to blame ſome three paſſages, as …
With rule
But now breifly to ſumme vp what you obiect againſt MY LETANYLITANY, OBLIGATION and EPISTLE to the LADY. You ſeemd to blame ſome three paſſages, as …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… taken, that I call Bishops, Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes; and in my LETANYLITANY deſire deliuerahce from them, and withall ſeeme to accuſe them of incontinency, all which …
With rule
… taken, that I call Bishops, Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes; and in my LETANYLITANY deſire deliuerahce from them, and withall ſeeme to accuſe them of incontinency, all which …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from them, that I deſire that all would ioyne with mee in the ſame LETANYLITANY feruently and vnceſſantly praying From plague pestilence and famin, from BISHOPS PREISTS AND DEACONS …
With rule
… from them, that I deſire that all would ioyne with mee in the ſame LETANYLITANY feruently and vnceſſantly praying From plague pestilence and famin, from BISHOPS PREISTS AND DEACONS …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader