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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10841 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

criticksCritics

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

Puritas changed it
469 times in 293 works
Consistency
100% (469 of 469)
Reach if approved
~493 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: critics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
469 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (469 changes in 293 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 469)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … but also thy beliefe, and their end. But if thou professest thy selfe among CriticksCritics, such as are curious about matter, and manner of stile, I would have th …
    With rule
    … but also thy beliefe, and their end. But if thou professest thy selfe among CriticksCritics, such as are curious about matter, and manner of stile, I would have th …

    Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … may serve to reprove those that come unto Sermons, as Judges, to play the CriticksCritics, not to subject themselves to the will of God, and such as cast off …
    With rule
    … may serve to reprove those that come unto Sermons, as Judges, to play the CriticksCritics, not to subject themselves to the will of God, and such as cast off …

    William Ames · Analytical Exposition of Peters Epistles · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſay, that it is more than one, of our late famous Philological and Grammatical CriticksCritics, who openly ſhew ſo much pride of their kind of wordy knowledge, as may …
    With rule
    … ſay, that it is more than one, of our late famous Philological and Grammatical CriticksCritics, who openly ſhew ſo much pride of their kind of wordy knowledge, as may …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Knowledge and Love · p. 160 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Eccleſ. 12. 5. the word is there uſed, but tranſlated by the Septnagint foreign, which hath exerciſed CriticksCritics; The root of the Hebrew word is foreign from whence is Ebion, poor, needy, from …
    With rule
    … Eccleſ. 12. 5. the word is there uſed, but tranſlated by the Septnagint foreign, which hath exerciſed CriticksCritics; The root of the Hebrew word is foreign from whence is Ebion, poor, needy, from …

    Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    2. The ſecond Word the Text uſes is foreign, obey them. CriticksCritics obſerve, it ſignifies a free and voluntary Obedience to them, without ſimulation or coaction …
    With rule
    2. The ſecond Word the Text uſes is foreign, obey them. CriticksCritics obſerve, it ſignifies a free and voluntary Obedience to them, without ſimulation or coaction …

    Jonathan Clapham · Obedience to Magistrates Recommended · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … doubt what God will do with them, or the Church to which they relate. CriticksCritics derive the word from the privative particle, α, which is as much as not …
    With rule
    … doubt what God will do with them, or the Church to which they relate. CriticksCritics derive the word from the privative particle, α, which is as much as not …

    John Collinges · Thirteen Sermons · p. 193 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſhe keeps her footing ſteddily. The Latines have a word ſignifying wild Goats, which criticksCritics ſay, comes from another latine word ſignifying a bird or flying fowl, becauſe Goats …
    With rule
    … ſhe keeps her footing ſteddily. The Latines have a word ſignifying wild Goats, which criticksCritics ſay, comes from another latine word ſignifying a bird or flying fowl, becauſe Goats …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 38-42 · p. 307 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … these diminutives there are many in the Hebrew text, but we leave them for CriticksCritics.
    With rule
    … these diminutives there are many in the Hebrew text, but we leave them for CriticksCritics.

    Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · p. 200 · 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.