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letaniesLitanies

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

Puritas changed it
134 times in 71 works
Consistency
94.3% (134 of 142)
Reach if approved
~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: litanies
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (134 changes in 71 works, 94.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 134)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … throughout, very unbecoming the Worship of the great God: 2. The many impertinencies of its LetaniesLitanies, Gospels, Epistles, and Collects. 3. Its mancking and confounding of Holy Scripture, specially in its …
    With rule
    … throughout, very unbecoming the Worship of the great God: 2. The many impertinencies of its LetaniesLitanies, Gospels, Epistles, and Collects. 3. Its mancking and confounding of Holy Scripture, specially in its …

    Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 286 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … especially on Fridays (or Sa…urdays) every week, and use the special prayers and LetaniesLitanies herein prescribed, privately amongst themselves, For the preservation and advancement of their Order, House …
    With rule
    … especially on Fridays (or Sa…urdays) every week, and use the special prayers and LetaniesLitanies herein prescribed, privately amongst themselves, For the preservation and advancement of their Order, House …

    William Prynne · Some Popish Errors Unadvisedly Embraced and Pursued · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … be approaching, yet will it not be Neceſſary to turne the Faſts, or the LetaniesLitanies, or the Services aſſigned to it out of the Church, as long as dangers …
    With rule
    … be approaching, yet will it not be Neceſſary to turne the Faſts, or the LetaniesLitanies, or the Services aſſigned to it out of the Church, as long as dangers …

    Henry Hammond · View of the he New Directory · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to goe barefooted in sackcloth and ashes? The Councel of Orleans anno. 515. calleth these LetaniesLitanies rogations, but of processiō or going abroad, it speaketh nothing. S. Ambrose in deed …
    With rule
    … to goe barefooted in sackcloth and ashes? The Councel of Orleans anno. 515. calleth these LetaniesLitanies rogations, but of processiō or going abroad, it speaketh nothing. S. Ambrose in deed …

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

  5. Printed
    … iii. Rogation dayes, that are before the feast of Christes ascention, and made ye LetaniesLitanies yt are song about the stretes & fieldes on those dayes, againste earthquakes, and tempest …
    With rule
    … iii. Rogation dayes, that are before the feast of Christes ascention, and made ye LetaniesLitanies yt are song about the stretes & fieldes on those dayes, againste earthquakes, and tempest …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … In this Councell nothing was entreated, except a mandate was giuen concerning the yeerely LetaniesLitanies that shoulde bee made three dayes immediately following the Ides of December, and if …
    With rule
    … In this Councell nothing was entreated, except a mandate was giuen concerning the yeerely LetaniesLitanies that shoulde bee made three dayes immediately following the Ides of December, and if …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … if he doe not, hee sinneth against the Church of Rome, which in their LetaniesLitanies call vpon all the Prophets and Patriarchs in generall.
    With rule
    … if he doe not, hee sinneth against the Church of Rome, which in their LetaniesLitanies call vpon all the Prophets and Patriarchs in generall.

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · The Accomplishment of the Prophecies · p. 418 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Conſecrations of Altars, Cups, Corporals; the Maſs, offerings for the dead; the ſeven LetaniesLitanies, Rogations; the ſeven Canonical hours; In ſhort, almoſt the whole fardel of the Popiſh …
    With rule
    … the Conſecrations of Altars, Cups, Corporals; the Maſs, offerings for the dead; the ſeven LetaniesLitanies, Rogations; the ſeven Canonical hours; In ſhort, almoſt the whole fardel of the Popiſh …

    John Collinges · Supplement to Why Nonconforming Ministers Judge it Sinful · p. 57 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

  • Printed
    … seruice was set vp in England and all other places, and mass…s, ceremonies, letaniesLitanies, and other Romish ware, which was long before Hildebrands time. And if we account …
    With rule
    … seruice was set vp in England and all other places, and mass…s, ceremonies, letaniesLitanies, and other Romish ware, which was long before Hildebrands time. And if we account …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · Open in the reader

Abrahams Faith A08201

  • Printed
    … Anno 1048. And this booke doth aſcribe vnto Mammertius B. of Vienna, the daies of letaniesLitanies, that is the rogations before aſcention, and after him, the church vniuerſal allowed it …
    With rule
    … Anno 1048. And this booke doth aſcribe vnto Mammertius B. of Vienna, the daies of letaniesLitanies, that is the rogations before aſcention, and after him, the church vniuerſal allowed it …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 219 · Open in the reader

A Short View of the Prelatical Church of England 2 A27512

  • Printed
    … the Papiſts idolizing of this Letany, we have not only our ordinary and weekly letaniesLitanies, but alſo our annual or yearly letaniesLitanies, acted in Proceſſion. It is true, we …
    With rule
    … the Papiſts idolizing of this Letany, we have not only our ordinary and weekly letaniesLitanies, but alſo our annual or yearly letaniesLitanies, acted in Proceſſion. It is true, we …

    Richard Bernard · A Short View of the Prelatical Church of England 2 · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … have not only our ordinary and weekly letaniesLitanies, but alſo our annual or yearly letaniesLitanies, acted in Proceſſion. It is true, we have left out the Saints in our …
    With rule
    … have not only our ordinary and weekly letaniesLitanies, but alſo our annual or yearly letaniesLitanies, acted in Proceſſion. It is true, we have left out the Saints in our …

    Richard Bernard · A Short View of the Prelatical Church of England 2 · p. 26 · Open in the reader