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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10825 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

graeciansGrecians

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

Puritas changed it
518 times in 241 works
Consistency
100% (518 of 518)
Reach if approved
~544 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: grecians
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
518 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (518 changes in 241 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 518)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … The trueth is, it cometh from foreign to ſee, and α the privative: as all GraeciansGrecians (Plato, Plutarch, &c.) yea the Fathers, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Ambroſe, &c.) do ſhewe: and that …
    With rule
    … The trueth is, it cometh from foreign to ſee, and α the privative: as all GraeciansGrecians (Plato, Plutarch, &c.) yea the Fathers, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Ambroſe, &c.) do ſhewe: and that …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … people to communicate vnder both kinds, as it is this day vſed amongſt the GraeciansGrecians, and was vſed in times paſt amongſt the Corinthians, and in Africa.
    With rule
    … people to communicate vnder both kinds, as it is this day vſed amongſt the GraeciansGrecians, and was vſed in times paſt amongſt the Corinthians, and in Africa.

    Humphrey Lynde · The Safe Way Leading All Christians · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vanities; refusing to resort to Aristophanes his Comedies; & persuading the Athenians with all the GraeciansGrecians to abandon Comicall Play-Poets, which they did accordingly: for which see, Plato his …
    With rule
    … vanities; refusing to resort to Aristophanes his Comedies; & persuading the Athenians with all the GraeciansGrecians to abandon Comicall Play-Poets, which they did accordingly: for which see, Plato his …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 702 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Therefore neither the GraeciansGrecians, nor the people of Antioch, looked eastward, but rather westward when th…y prayed.
    With rule
    Therefore neither the GraeciansGrecians, nor the people of Antioch, looked eastward, but rather westward when th…y prayed.

    Peter Smart · Sermon 7 July 1628 · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vulgar sort, as vnto his Slaues; and the number of his name vnto the GraeciansGrecians, as vnto straungers. Reuel. 13, 17. That no man might buy or sell, saue hee that …
    With rule
    … vulgar sort, as vnto his Slaues; and the number of his name vnto the GraeciansGrecians, as vnto straungers. Reuel. 13, 17. That no man might buy or sell, saue hee that …

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Iewe doth acknowledge his Epiſtle Printed as he ſent it: & daylie teſtified to GraeciansGrecians, that he never hoped to ſee ſo much for our Goſpell as he read …
    With rule
    … the Iewe doth acknowledge his Epiſtle Printed as he ſent it: & daylie teſtified to GraeciansGrecians, that he never hoped to ſee ſo much for our Goſpell as he read …

    Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Well, Leo the pope is called moſt holy in three ſeuerall titles, that three GraeciansGrecians wrote to him. It is true maſter Bellarmine, and in the ſame action in …
    With rule
    … Well, Leo the pope is called moſt holy in three ſeuerall titles, that three GraeciansGrecians wrote to him. It is true maſter Bellarmine, and in the ſame action in …

    Francis Bunny · A Survey of the Popes Supremacy · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and will bee blinde: for certaine it is (and I appeale to their greatest GraeciansGrecians) that howsoeuer it be taken for good in their diuinitie, it will be esteemed …
    With rule
    … and will bee blinde: for certaine it is (and I appeale to their greatest GraeciansGrecians) that howsoeuer it be taken for good in their diuinitie, it will be esteemed …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 35 · 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.