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ninivehNineveh

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

Puritas changed it
500 times in 238 works
Consistency
100% (500 of 500)
Reach if approved
~526 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: nineveh
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
501 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (500 changes in 238 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 500)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … life, not death, conditionally if he returne to God. He vvould the destruction of NinivehNineveh; but conditionally, except they repented. Other things God willeth absolutely; and those must needs …
    With rule
    … life, not death, conditionally if he returne to God. He vvould the destruction of NinivehNineveh; but conditionally, except they repented. Other things God willeth absolutely; and those must needs …

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … as great a charge for the Prophet, as the Prophet had a charge for NinivehNineveh; for this is a sure rule, if in case God gives any of the …
    With rule
    … as great a charge for the Prophet, as the Prophet had a charge for NinivehNineveh; for this is a sure rule, if in case God gives any of the …

    Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the flower of the field. The old world had 120. yeares given them to repent, NinivehNineveh 40. daies, and Iſrael 4…. yeares, but thou O man knoweſt not how long thou haſt …
    With rule
    … the flower of the field. The old world had 120. yeares given them to repent, NinivehNineveh 40. daies, and Iſrael 4…. yeares, but thou O man knoweſt not how long thou haſt …

    John Andrewes · A Golden Trumpet Sounding an Alarm to Judgment · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … by the Whale, and after three dayes restored again. That sign was done at NinivehNineveh, the head City of the Gentiles. This mysterie of the Resurrection, Christ himself preached …
    With rule
    … by the Whale, and after three dayes restored again. That sign was done at NinivehNineveh, the head City of the Gentiles. This mysterie of the Resurrection, Christ himself preached …

    Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 258 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſolemn Feaſts, ver. 15. And alſo in chap. 2.3. with a declaration of the miſery of NinivehNineveh and the deſtruction of it.
    With rule
    … ſolemn Feaſts, ver. 15. And alſo in chap. 2.3. with a declaration of the miſery of NinivehNineveh and the deſtruction of it.

    Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 787 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … us in the Propheſie of Jonah (3.8.) where Proclamation was made, by the King of NinivehNineveh, That all ſhould faſt and put on ſack-cloth. Chriſt himſelfe deſcribing what Sodome …
    With rule
    … us in the Propheſie of Jonah (3.8.) where Proclamation was made, by the King of NinivehNineveh, That all ſhould faſt and put on ſack-cloth. Chriſt himſelfe deſcribing what Sodome …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 315 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of humble & fervent prayer, to pacifie the ſame. When Ionah began to enter into NinivehNineveh, and to threaten Gods vengeance, both King and people by faſting, prayer, and repentance …
    With rule
    … of humble & fervent prayer, to pacifie the ſame. When Ionah began to enter into NinivehNineveh, and to threaten Gods vengeance, both King and people by faſting, prayer, and repentance …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … thee. Had theſe things beene done in Tyre and Sydon, they would have repented. NinivehNineveh repented at the preaching of Ionah, Loe a greater than Ionah is here: Yea …
    With rule
    … thee. Had theſe things beene done in Tyre and Sydon, they would have repented. NinivehNineveh repented at the preaching of Ionah, Loe a greater than Ionah is here: Yea …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 153 · 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.