Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10869 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stoickStoic

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

Puritas changed it: 272 times in 146 works
Consistency: 97.8% (272 of 278)
Reach if approved: ~292 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stoic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 278 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (272 changes in 146 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 272)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… negative part, can tell you that all earthly things are vaine and perishing. A StoickStoic will declaime wittily and gravely from morrall principels and daily experience upon these things …
With rule
… negative part, can tell you that all earthly things are vaine and perishing. A StoickStoic will declaime wittily and gravely from morrall principels and daily experience upon these things …
Richard Sibbes · Beams of Divine Light · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do give to any whose Moral honour is conspicuous; and under this notion the StoickStoic-Moralists hath very well expressed it, Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. which upon …
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… do give to any whose Moral honour is conspicuous; and under this notion the StoickStoic-Moralists hath very well expressed it, Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. which upon …
Richard Allestree · The Beauty of Holiness · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
The StoickStoic Philoſophers bear alſo as full a teſtimony againſt the Athieſt and the denyers of …
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The StoickStoic Philoſophers bear alſo as full a teſtimony againſt the Athieſt and the denyers of …
Richard Baxter · The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 · p. 595 · Open in the reader
Printed
… accounts ſin nothing in the beleever, becauſe of juſtification, as with one Dionyſius a StoickStoic (as I take it) who held, that pain was nothing; but, being once ſick …
With rule
… accounts ſin nothing in the beleever, becauſe of juſtification, as with one Dionyſius a StoickStoic (as I take it) who held, that pain was nothing; but, being once ſick …
Anthony Burgess · A Vindication of the Moral Law and the Covenants · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but more eſpecially about the Forehead) with all the Apathy of a moſt accompliſh'd StoickStoic; for notwithſtanding all his Diſgraces, he has ſtill the Courage to live, and in …
With rule
… but more eſpecially about the Forehead) with all the Apathy of a moſt accompliſh'd StoickStoic; for notwithſtanding all his Diſgraces, he has ſtill the Courage to live, and in …
Thomas Doolittle · Fears and Jealousies Ceased · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finde it a hard thing to ſtir up mine affections, I am a very StoickStoic, foreign, I have no affection, I cannot compel mine affections to God. Canſt thou not …
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… finde it a hard thing to ſtir up mine affections, I am a very StoickStoic, foreign, I have no affection, I cannot compel mine affections to God. Canſt thou not …
William Fenner · A Treatise of the Affections · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this by his reading, and revolving Trojani Belli Scriptorem. Well Chryſippus the ſecond StoickStoic Philoſopher for eminency, Qui fulcire putatur Porticum (as Cicer. Acad. l. 4. quoted by M^r …
With rule
… of this by his reading, and revolving Trojani Belli Scriptorem. Well Chryſippus the ſecond StoickStoic Philoſopher for eminency, Qui fulcire putatur Porticum (as Cicer. Acad. l. 4. quoted by M^r …
Henry Hurst · The Inability of Natural Man to Attain Right Knowledge · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as to ſay, Thou ſhalt have the happineſſe of the Epicure, and of the StoickStoic both at once; at leaſt, there ſhall bee no feare of hunger and thirſt …
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… as to ſay, Thou ſhalt have the happineſſe of the Epicure, and of the StoickStoic both at once; at leaſt, there ſhall bee no feare of hunger and thirſt …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 156 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 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.

The Annals of the World A64619

Printed
Athenodorus, the stoickStoic Philosopher, is made Praefect of Cilicia, by Octavianus. A. M. 3975
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Athenodorus, the stoickStoic Philosopher, is made Praefect of Cilicia, by Octavianus. A. M. 3975
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · Open in the reader

Heaven Upon Earth A87500

Printed
… reproaches that are caſt upon him, he is ready to ſay with that wiſe ſtoickStoic (Epiſt.) If he had known me better, he would have ſpoke much worſe of …
With rule
… reproaches that are caſt upon him, he is ready to ſay with that wiſe ſtoickStoic (Epiſt.) If he had known me better, he would have ſpoke much worſe of …
James Janeway · Heaven Upon Earth · p. 182 · Open in the reader