Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10769 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

germaynesGermans

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

Puritas changed it: 28 times in 14 works
Consistency: 96.5% (28 of 29)
Reach if approved: ~30 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: germains
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 29 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (28 changes in 14 works, 96.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 28)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… learned deuine, Wolfangus Muſculus, for the comfort, edifycation and inſtruction of his contryemen the… GermaynesGermans, then oppreſſed by the tyrannye of Antechriſt in his fylthy mēbres. And nowe I …
With rule
… learned deuine, Wolfangus Muſculus, for the comfort, edifycation and inſtruction of his contryemen the… GermaynesGermans, then oppreſſed by the tyrannye of Antechriſt in his fylthy mēbres. And nowe I …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… then it was any ſynne. As touchynge that hee excuſed hym ſelfe to the GermaynesGermans in thys wyſe: Where as I haue had to doo ſometyme wyth the Pope …
With rule
… then it was any ſynne. As touchynge that hee excuſed hym ſelfe to the GermaynesGermans in thys wyſe: Where as I haue had to doo ſometyme wyth the Pope …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader
Printed
… hymselfe put oute as a father. In the dayes of our forefathers, the noble GermaynesGermans (afore they came to Christen faythe the punyshmente of a woman that brake wedlocke …
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… hymselfe put oute as a father. In the dayes of our forefathers, the noble GermaynesGermans (afore they came to Christen faythe the punyshmente of a woman that brake wedlocke …
Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · Open in the reader
Printed
… be approued both by the holy ſcripture and by. S Auguſtine) yet becauſe the GermaynesGermans teach it / it muſt nedes be condemned of you for an erroure. I wondre …
With rule
… be approued both by the holy ſcripture and by. S Auguſtine) yet becauſe the GermaynesGermans teach it / it muſt nedes be condemned of you for an erroure. I wondre …
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus all the GermaynesGermans and Almaynes, both of Luthers ſide and alſo of Oecolampadius, doe wholy approue my …
With rule
Thus all the GermaynesGermans and Almaynes, both of Luthers ſide and alſo of Oecolampadius, doe wholy approue my …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wherwith he might obteyne agayne euen the City of Conſtantinople, and to puniſhe the GermaynesGermans and Engliſhemen, and other whiche fell from the Churche of Rome.
With rule
… wherwith he might obteyne agayne euen the City of Conſtantinople, and to puniſhe the GermaynesGermans and Engliſhemen, and other whiche fell from the Churche of Rome.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader
Printed
… pouerte and maynte…aūce of his common welthe. …s for an example the noble GermaynesGermans hath gracyouslye done before him / makynge of they… monasteryes / nonnes / couētes / and fryers houses …
With rule
… pouerte and maynte…aūce of his common welthe. …s for an example the noble GermaynesGermans hath gracyouslye done before him / makynge of they… monasteryes / nonnes / couētes / and fryers houses …
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader
Printed
… callinges: but whatſoeuer worthies, of what ſo euer power or place: as alſo the GermaynesGermans name theyrs Iunkers and Idelles, which ſoundeth in engliſhe Idle men. Theſe alſo both …
With rule
… callinges: but whatſoeuer worthies, of what ſo euer power or place: as alſo the GermaynesGermans name theyrs Iunkers and Idelles, which ſoundeth in engliſhe Idle men. Theſe alſo both …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · 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.