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niniuitesNinevites

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

Puritas changed it
332 times in 135 works
Consistency
99.7% (332 of 333)
Reach if approved
~350 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: ninivites
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
333 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (332 changes in 135 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 332)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … what hee would doe vpon his warnings, and whether hee would repent as the NiniuitesNinevites did, therefore the holy Ghoſt ſheweth how the time ranne, and how he liued …
    With rule
    … what hee would doe vpon his warnings, and whether hee would repent as the NiniuitesNinevites did, therefore the holy Ghoſt ſheweth how the time ranne, and how he liued …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 360 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in the examples of Hester, sauing her people from Hamans deuise: and of the NiniuitesNinevites, turning away the destruction threatned by Ionah, by fasting and humbling themselues. 3. If wee …
    With rule
    … in the examples of Hester, sauing her people from Hamans deuise: and of the NiniuitesNinevites, turning away the destruction threatned by Ionah, by fasting and humbling themselues. 3. If wee …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … after the same sorte: when Saint Chrysostome calleth the sackecloth, and fasting of the NiniuitesNinevites for certaine dayes, tot dierum poenitentiam, so many dayes penaunce: in all these places …
    With rule
    … after the same sorte: when Saint Chrysostome calleth the sackecloth, and fasting of the NiniuitesNinevites for certaine dayes, tot dierum poenitentiam, so many dayes penaunce: in all these places …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 359 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sinne: This course the NiniuitesNinevites tooke, Ionah 3. 8. The contrary is obserued as a note of a desperate sinner, when …
    With rule
    … this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sinne: This course the NiniuitesNinevites tooke, Ionah 3. 8. The contrary is obserued as a note of a desperate sinner, when …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 404 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … yet the effect of altogether reſteth therein. Thou readeſt not in Ionas: And the NiniuitesNinevites receaued the lawe of Moſes, were circumciſed, offered vp ſacrifice, fulfilled the works of …
    With rule
    … yet the effect of altogether reſteth therein. Thou readeſt not in Ionas: And the NiniuitesNinevites receaued the lawe of Moſes, were circumciſed, offered vp ſacrifice, fulfilled the works of …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to throw asshes vpō theyr heades, as ye scriptures shewe of Achab, of the NiniuitesNinevites, of the Iewes, whā they were oppressed of holofernes, & of diuers other, therfore the …
    With rule
    … to throw asshes vpō theyr heades, as ye scriptures shewe of Achab, of the NiniuitesNinevites, of the Iewes, whā they were oppressed of holofernes, & of diuers other, therfore the …

    Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … eyes of men. Nor whyle the ſacred hiſtorie reporteth the deſtruction forgiuen to the NiniuitesNinevites which before was publiſhed, & the prorogation of Ezechias his life, whē death was denounced …
    With rule
    … eyes of men. Nor whyle the ſacred hiſtorie reporteth the deſtruction forgiuen to the NiniuitesNinevites which before was publiſhed, & the prorogation of Ezechias his life, whē death was denounced …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … serued Baalim; And they put away their strange gods and serued the Lord. The NiniuitesNinevites, though Gods iudgements were peremptorily pronounced against them, yet they so farre take notice …
    With rule
    … serued Baalim; And they put away their strange gods and serued the Lord. The NiniuitesNinevites, though Gods iudgements were peremptorily pronounced against them, yet they so farre take notice …

    Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 193 · 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.