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letanieLitany

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

Puritas changed it
71 times in 46 works
Consistency
92.2% (71 of 77)
Reach if approved
~81 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: letanie
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
77 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (71 changes in 46 works, 92.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 71)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    All this is done after the reading of the LetanieLitany, wherein fiftie Saints at the least are called vpon, with diuers prayers which craue …
    With rule
    All this is done after the reading of the LetanieLitany, wherein fiftie Saints at the least are called vpon, with diuers prayers which craue …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Buckler of the Faith · p. 404 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … And therefore many who are in charitie with other prayers are frighted with the LetanieLitany, and as soon as the Minister beginneth it they run swifter out of the …
    With rule
    … And therefore many who are in charitie with other prayers are frighted with the LetanieLitany, and as soon as the Minister beginneth it they run swifter out of the …

    Daniel Featley · The Dippers Dipped · p. 126 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … part of the ordinary Morning Prayer; as appeareth by the laſt Rubrick before the LetanieLitany, and before that which they call the ſecond Service, Thus endeth the order of …
    With rule
    … part of the ordinary Morning Prayer; as appeareth by the laſt Rubrick before the LetanieLitany, and before that which they call the ſecond Service, Thus endeth the order of …

    Peter Smart · A Catalogue of Superstitions · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the Church of England aimed at this Prayers, order, in the compoſition of the LetanieLitany; where praying more particularly, wee beſeech God in the firſt place to bleſſe our …
    With rule
    … the Church of England aimed at this Prayers, order, in the compoſition of the LetanieLitany; where praying more particularly, wee beſeech God in the firſt place to bleſſe our …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Proper Psalms · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and counteth that it was an hundreth yeares before the heresie of Arrius. The LetanieLitany or supplication prescribed by the Councel of Ments, Martial saith the Papistes do obserue …
    With rule
    … and counteth that it was an hundreth yeares before the heresie of Arrius. The LetanieLitany or supplication prescribed by the Councel of Ments, Martial saith the Papistes do obserue …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 185 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … by the battologies and tautologies, lenton curses, and adjurations of the service-booke and LetanieLitany? besides the fearfull roaring, racking, and torturing of the word in their Cathedrall Churches?
    With rule
    … by the battologies and tautologies, lenton curses, and adjurations of the service-booke and LetanieLitany? besides the fearfull roaring, racking, and torturing of the word in their Cathedrall Churches?

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … wholy omitted in these new Deuotions. Take but away the seuen selected Psalmes, the LetanieLitany, and some three Psalmes more: and I dare confidently a…rre, that these old …
    With rule
    … wholy omitted in these new Deuotions. Take but away the seuen selected Psalmes, the LetanieLitany, and some three Psalmes more: and I dare confidently a…rre, that these old …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … law against the Nestorians, and Eutychians: Iustinian inserteth diuers Ecclesiasticall lawes; as that the LetanieLitany should not be said by lay-men, none of the Clergie beeing present: Novell …
    With rule
    … law against the Nestorians, and Eutychians: Iustinian inserteth diuers Ecclesiasticall lawes; as that the LetanieLitany should not be said by lay-men, none of the Clergie beeing present: Novell …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 612 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Altar of Damascus A17571

  • Printed
    … through which none might passe but himselfe, saith Borrow, For the ch…piters and letanieLitany, there is commandement given, that they should be read in the body of the …
    With rule
    … through which none might passe but himselfe, saith Borrow, For the ch…piters and letanieLitany, there is commandement given, that they should be read in the body of the …

    David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 190 · Open in the reader

Counterpoison Considerations A26579

  • Printed
    … the worship and calling vpon God which your Church vseth, in reading the prayers letanieLitany collects, and other like things of your Leiturgie, translated out of AntiChr…st masse …
    With rule
    … the worship and calling vpon God which your Church vseth, in reading the prayers letanieLitany collects, and other like things of your Leiturgie, translated out of AntiChr…st masse …

    Henry Ainsworth · Counterpoison Considerations · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland A68707

  • Printed
    … the dead, praying or speaking in a strange language, with his processions and blasphemous letanieLitany, and multitude of advocates or mediatours, His manifold orders, auricular confession. His desperate & uncertaine …
    With rule
    … the dead, praying or speaking in a strange language, with his processions and blasphemous letanieLitany, and multitude of advocates or mediatours, His manifold orders, auricular confession. His desperate & uncertaine …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland · p. 140 · Open in the reader