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germainesGermans

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

Puritas changed it
69 times in 42 works
Consistency
95.8% (69 of 72)
Reach if approved
~76 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: germans
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
72 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (69 changes in 42 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 69)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Pope, and goyng into Almanie for the defence of the libertie of the GermainesGermans afflicted for Religion, your affaires prospered as ye would wishe or desire.
    With rule
    … the Pope, and goyng into Almanie for the defence of the libertie of the GermainesGermans afflicted for Religion, your affaires prospered as ye would wishe or desire.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2109 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the two brethren Emperours ioyned together, and warred againſt the Quades, Vandals, Sarmates, and GermainesGermans, when their ſouldiers wanting water fiue daies together, and by meanes thereof were like …
    With rule
    … the two brethren Emperours ioyned together, and warred againſt the Quades, Vandals, Sarmates, and GermainesGermans, when their ſouldiers wanting water fiue daies together, and by meanes thereof were like …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … this the Iewes and Arabians, as Rabbi Levi; But in these latter daies, the GermainesGermans especially, as Regiomontanus; Werner, Schoner, and Appian have grac'd it: But above all other …
    With rule
    … this the Iewes and Arabians, as Rabbi Levi; But in these latter daies, the GermainesGermans especially, as Regiomontanus; Werner, Schoner, and Appian have grac'd it: But above all other …

    Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … with quietnes and pleaſures, by the grace and goodnes of God? And yet the GermainesGermans haue a prouerb: there is many euelles in one good houre. What ought we …
    With rule
    … with quietnes and pleaſures, by the grace and goodnes of God? And yet the GermainesGermans haue a prouerb: there is many euelles in one good houre. What ought we …

    Martin Luther · Certain Meditations of Perfect Consolation · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Greekes out of Naples: When hee wearied of the Normanes, hee assisted the GermainesGermans against them: When hee wearied of the Germanes, hee brought in the Frensh: And …
    With rule
    … the Greekes out of Naples: When hee wearied of the Normanes, hee assisted the GermainesGermans against them: When hee wearied of the Germanes, hee brought in the Frensh: And …

    William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … barbarous nations in his time had not heard of the Gospel: as the Aethiopians, GermainesGermans, Sarmatians, Dacians, Scythians, and so his opinion is, that prope consummationē seculi, &c. neere …
    With rule
    … barbarous nations in his time had not heard of the Gospel: as the Aethiopians, GermainesGermans, Sarmatians, Dacians, Scythians, and so his opinion is, that prope consummationē seculi, &c. neere …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 469 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Turcks, the Greeks, the Egiptians, the Africans, the Spanyards, the Frenchmen, the Englishmen, the GermainesGermans, the Siciliās, the Italiās, haue in poſſeſſion the prouinces of Rome, and haue rooted …
    With rule
    … Turcks, the Greeks, the Egiptians, the Africans, the Spanyards, the Frenchmen, the Englishmen, the GermainesGermans, the Siciliās, the Italiās, haue in poſſeſſion the prouinces of Rome, and haue rooted …

    Henrich Bullinger · Of the End of the World and Judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … this opinion, writeth earneſtly Philip Melancthon the chiefeſt and beſt learned of all the GermainesGermans: In like maner doth Bullenger, the chiefeſt and moſt excellent of all the Switcers …
    With rule
    … this opinion, writeth earneſtly Philip Melancthon the chiefeſt and beſt learned of all the GermainesGermans: In like maner doth Bullenger, the chiefeſt and moſt excellent of all the Switcers …

    Robert Crowley · A Defense of English Writers and Preachers · p. 84 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked A16795

  • Printed
    … of Fraunce deale with the Iesuits, who are the bringers vp, brethren and cousin germainesGermans of our Seminarians. If they keepe them out of Fraūce they are not touched …
    With rule
    … of Fraunce deale with the Iesuits, who are the bringers vp, brethren and cousin germainesGermans of our Seminarians. If they keepe them out of Fraūce they are not touched …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 217 · Open in the reader