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syriackSyriac

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

Puritas changed it
2,567 times in 444 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,567 of 2,568)
Reach if approved
~2,698 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: syriac
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,568 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,567 changes in 444 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,567)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … our almes ſhould proceed from a mercifull and pittifull heart, in the Hebrew and SyriackSyriac tongue it is called righteouſneſſe, as if it were by right due to the …
    With rule
    … our almes ſhould proceed from a mercifull and pittifull heart, in the Hebrew and SyriackSyriac tongue it is called righteouſneſſe, as if it were by right due to the …

    William Whately · The Poor Mans Advocate · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … subscription, in which besides the ancient Greeke copies, it is also testified in the SyriackSyriac, that this Epistle was written from Nicopolis, Athanasius speaking of that Epistle to Titus …
    With rule
    … subscription, in which besides the ancient Greeke copies, it is also testified in the SyriackSyriac, that this Epistle was written from Nicopolis, Athanasius speaking of that Epistle to Titus …

    George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … which are … and rhetoricall in themselues and which rude: but holdeth euery tongue barbarous, …, SyriackSyriac, Caldy, Arabick, …, and Latine, to him that knoweth not the force and signification thereof …
    With rule
    … which are … and rhetoricall in themselues and which rude: but holdeth euery tongue barbarous, …, SyriackSyriac, Caldy, Arabick, …, and Latine, to him that knoweth not the force and signification thereof …

    William Attersoll · The Badges of Christianity · p. 232 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Prov. 28. 20. He that ma…gth haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.▪ The SyriackSyriac rende…s the word ▪ … ▪ and the Arabick ▪ the wicked▪ which we here translate [ …e …
    With rule
    … Prov. 28. 20. He that ma…gth haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.▪ The SyriackSyriac rende…s the word ▪ … ▪ and the Arabick ▪ the wicked▪ which we here translate [ …e …

    Richard Baxter · The Crucifying of the World · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that a man may be a ſinner and a penitent Believer at once. The SyriackSyriac and Ethiopick tranſlating the word [ſinners] do thus expound the Text; and its the …
    With rule
    … that a man may be a ſinner and a penitent Believer at once. The SyriackSyriac and Ethiopick tranſlating the word [ſinners] do thus expound the Text; and its the …

    Richard Baxter · Of Justification · p. 275 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that are now moſt known), do ſhew, that thus they underſtood the Text. The SyriackSyriac turns it by [ſo death paſſed on all the ſons of men, for that …
    With rule
    … that are now moſt known), do ſhew, that thus they underſtood the Text. The SyriackSyriac turns it by [ſo death paſſed on all the ſons of men, for that …

    Richard Baxter · Two Disputations of Original Sin · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … alſo in moſt of the greeke copies of the New Teſtament. And the ancient SyriackSyriac tranſlator, who was none of the greeke expoſitors, hath it. Yea many of the …
    With rule
    … alſo in moſt of the greeke copies of the New Teſtament. And the ancient SyriackSyriac tranſlator, who was none of the greeke expoſitors, hath it. Yea many of the …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 321 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Greeke is foreign and according to that Etymoligie ſignifieth pittie, in the Hebrew and SyriackSyriac tongue is called righteouſneſſe, as if it were by right due to the poore.
    With rule
    … the Greeke is foreign and according to that Etymoligie ſignifieth pittie, in the Hebrew and SyriackSyriac tongue is called righteouſneſſe, as if it were by right due to the poore.

    Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.