Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10790 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

niniueNineveh

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

Puritas changed it: 372 times in 71 works
Consistency: 100% (372 of 372)
Reach if approved: ~421 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nineveh
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 401 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (372 changes in 71 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 372)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he bare gods anger, yet at y^e length he founde mercy. The citie of NiniueNineveh alſo founde fauour with God, as did manye other, which I wil omit for …
With rule
… he bare gods anger, yet at y^e length he founde mercy. The citie of NiniueNineveh alſo founde fauour with God, as did manye other, which I wil omit for …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… much as a poore cottage: yet as though he had taken great Babylon / or NiniueNineveh / he maketh his Triumphes: which yf he had had any hould off him ſelf …
With rule
… much as a poore cottage: yet as though he had taken great Babylon / or NiniueNineveh / he maketh his Triumphes: which yf he had had any hould off him ſelf …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCXVII · Open in the reader
Printed
… myne hart the loſſe of ſo great a multitude of innocentes as are in NiniueNineveh, which are all mine hādes worke. Nay Ionas, I am God ouer all, and …
With rule
… myne hart the loſſe of ſo great a multitude of innocentes as are in NiniueNineveh, which are all mine hādes worke. Nay Ionas, I am God ouer all, and …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the tymes, or the place or the state of thinges there? For what was NiniueNineveh, a noble, a rytche and a welthy Citye. What is London to …? lyke a …
With rule
… the tymes, or the place or the state of thinges there? For what was NiniueNineveh, a noble, a rytche and a welthy Citye. What is London to …? lyke a …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. NiniueNineveh.
With rule
A. NiniueNineveh.
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Prophet lamented more his greene gourd than hee conſidered the diuaſtation of all NiniueNineveh. Pythagoras thought that the ſoul of a mā was in the life of a …
With rule
… the Prophet lamented more his greene gourd than hee conſidered the diuaſtation of all NiniueNineveh. Pythagoras thought that the ſoul of a mā was in the life of a …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 182 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thousand. The Niniuites seeing the storme approching in the threat, Yet fortie daies, and NiniueNineveh shall be destroied, did flie to this shelter: for high and low, man and …
With rule
… thousand. The Niniuites seeing the storme approching in the threat, Yet fortie daies, and NiniueNineveh shall be destroied, did flie to this shelter: for high and low, man and …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 261 · Open in the reader
Printed
If we can fast with NiniueNineveh we shall not.
With rule
If we can fast with NiniueNineveh we shall not.
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · 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.