Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10796 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bonifaciusBoniface

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

Puritas changed it: 425 times in 136 works
Consistency: 99.5% (425 of 427)
Reach if approved: ~449 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 427 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (425 changes in 136 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 425)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in the primitiue age: and therefore that you alleadge out of Luther, that before BonifaciusBoniface the third, in the daies of wicked Phocas the Emperour, the Biſhops of Rome …
With rule
… in the primitiue age: and therefore that you alleadge out of Luther, that before BonifaciusBoniface the third, in the daies of wicked Phocas the Emperour, the Biſhops of Rome …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iude describes these wicked impostors and false brethren, as Pope Celestine did his successor BonifaciusBoniface the 8. Ascendisti vt vulpes, craftily crept in; regnabis vt leo, denying God and turning …
With rule
… Iude describes these wicked impostors and false brethren, as Pope Celestine did his successor BonifaciusBoniface the 8. Ascendisti vt vulpes, craftily crept in; regnabis vt leo, denying God and turning …
John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſome ſay, famiſhed for lacke of meat. Then came Pope Donus the 2, after whom, BonifaciusBoniface the 7. was pope, who was conſtrained to hide himſelfe, for feare of the Citizens …
With rule
… ſome ſay, famiſhed for lacke of meat. Then came Pope Donus the 2, after whom, BonifaciusBoniface the 7. was pope, who was conſtrained to hide himſelfe, for feare of the Citizens …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christianus Masseus, Archilles Pirminius, Ioannes Carion, et Martinus Lutherus in Mundi supputacione. Than obtayned BonifaciusBoniface the thirde of that name, of the seyd Phocas for moneye, in the myddes …
With rule
… Christianus Masseus, Archilles Pirminius, Ioannes Carion, et Martinus Lutherus in Mundi supputacione. Than obtayned BonifaciusBoniface the thirde of that name, of the seyd Phocas for moneye, in the myddes …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… noble men at Paris, and ſetting downe the iniuries that he had receiued at BonifaciusBoniface his hands, and his ambition, and wicked ſubtilties to get the popedome, which he …
With rule
… noble men at Paris, and ſetting downe the iniuries that he had receiued at BonifaciusBoniface his hands, and his ambition, and wicked ſubtilties to get the popedome, which he …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
… like as we call the foure windes great or cardinall winds, but after that BonifaciusBoniface the third obtained of Phocas to haue the prerogatiue aboue all Biſhops this name …
With rule
… like as we call the foure windes great or cardinall winds, but after that BonifaciusBoniface the third obtained of Phocas to haue the prerogatiue aboue all Biſhops this name …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 220 · Open in the reader
Printed
… In the MIDDEST OF THE CHURCH. I opened my mouth, And Platina noteth, that BonifaciusBoniface Bishop of Rome, was the first, that in the time of the ministration, divided …
With rule
… In the MIDDEST OF THE CHURCH. I opened my mouth, And Platina noteth, that BonifaciusBoniface Bishop of Rome, was the first, that in the time of the ministration, divided …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the sacraments. At this time began the honor of the saints to increase: BonifaciusBoniface hauing obtained of Phocas the supremacie, the first thing he did, he conuerted Pantheon …
With rule
… of the sacraments. At this time began the honor of the saints to increase: BonifaciusBoniface hauing obtained of Phocas the supremacie, the first thing he did, he conuerted Pantheon …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 216 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Pageant of Popes A02895

Printed
BOnifaciusBoniface a Romaine, the sonne of one Iucundus a priest, was chosen Pope, at suche …
With rule
BOnifaciusBoniface a Romaine, the sonne of one Iucundus a priest, was chosen Pope, at suche …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 A70866

Printed
BONIFACIUSBONIFACE Dei gratia Cantuarienſis electus immeritus, Venerabili in Chriſto Patri Willielmo, Dei gratia Wintonienſi Epiſ …
With rule
BONIFACIUSBONIFACE Dei gratia Cantuarienſis electus immeritus, Venerabili in Chriſto Patri Willielmo, Dei gratia Wintonienſi Epiſ …
William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · p. 591 · Open in the reader