Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10894 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mahumetansMuhammadans

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

Puritas changed it: 365 times in 176 works
Consistency: 99.1% (365 of 368)
Reach if approved: ~403 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: mahometans
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 384 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (365 changes in 176 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 365)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not only Arminians, Libertines, and Socinians gratified in abundance of their principles; but even MahumetansMuhammadans cloſed with by ſome, in what they hold concerning the authority of Scripture, and …
With rule
… not only Arminians, Libertines, and Socinians gratified in abundance of their principles; but even MahumetansMuhammadans cloſed with by ſome, in what they hold concerning the authority of Scripture, and …
John Arrowsmith · A Great Wonder in Heaven · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unity in the true Faith, for the Jews they are one amongſt themſelves, the MahumetansMuhammadans are one, the Papiſts are ſo one that they boaſt of it, and make …
With rule
… unity in the true Faith, for the Jews they are one amongſt themſelves, the MahumetansMuhammadans are one, the Papiſts are ſo one that they boaſt of it, and make …
Anthony Burgess · One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 · p. 562 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The Inhabitants are for the most part naked, being a mixture of Jews, and MahumetansMuhammadans; their habit is only a wreath of Calico tyed about their heads, a cloth …
With rule
… The Inhabitants are for the most part naked, being a mixture of Jews, and MahumetansMuhammadans; their habit is only a wreath of Calico tyed about their heads, a cloth …
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and commanded all the vines to be pluckt up by the roots: and the MahumetansMuhammadans for a like reason, forbid any of their Sect to drinke wine under pain …
With rule
… and commanded all the vines to be pluckt up by the roots: and the MahumetansMuhammadans for a like reason, forbid any of their Sect to drinke wine under pain …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… this day possesse neer about a sixt part of the known inhabited world; the MahumetansMuhammadans a fifth part, and the idolatrous gentiles, two thirds or little lesse; so that …
With rule
… this day possesse neer about a sixt part of the known inhabited world; the MahumetansMuhammadans a fifth part, and the idolatrous gentiles, two thirds or little lesse; so that …
Daniel Featley · Romes Ruin(1) · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The Arabian doth the like, especially the Iewes in Turkie vse in hatred of MahumetansMuhammadans, to write downe their matters of Religion; in the Hebrew character, though in the …
With rule
… The Arabian doth the like, especially the Iewes in Turkie vse in hatred of MahumetansMuhammadans, to write downe their matters of Religion; in the Hebrew character, though in the …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thirdly, that no other Rule or Religion can bee assigned, either of Pagans or MahumetansMuhammadans, which may not manifestly by the strength of right reason bee justly disproved, as …
With rule
Thirdly, that no other Rule or Religion can bee assigned, either of Pagans or MahumetansMuhammadans, which may not manifestly by the strength of right reason bee justly disproved, as …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe with vs, then either with the Samaritan or the Heathen, or with the MahumetansMuhammadans. And that Nunc qui verè Catholici ſunt, maiori odio Calviniſtas, cateroſ que omnes Haeriticos …
With rule
… doe with vs, then either with the Samaritan or the Heathen, or with the MahumetansMuhammadans. And that Nunc qui verè Catholici ſunt, maiori odio Calviniſtas, cateroſ que omnes Haeriticos …
Alexander Cooke · Work More Work and a Little More Work for a Mass-Priest · p. 11 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws A42925

Printed
MAhumetansMuhammadans, their ſevere puniſhment of Adultery, p. 471. Sect. 6.
With rule
MAhumetansMuhammadans, their ſevere puniſhment of Adultery, p. 471. Sect. 6.
John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… all ſorts of men, almoſt of all Nations, whether learned, or unlearned, viz. HEATHENS, MAHUMETANSMUHAMMADANS, JEWS, and CHRISTIANS, confeſsing more or leſſe, our general THESIS.
With rule
… all ſorts of men, almoſt of all Nations, whether learned, or unlearned, viz. HEATHENS, MAHUMETANSMUHAMMADANS, JEWS, and CHRISTIANS, confeſsing more or leſſe, our general THESIS.
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 413 · Open in the reader
Printed
Next wee come to the MAHUMETANSMUHAMMADANS, viz. the SARACENS, TURKS, and ARABIANS, touching their opinions of the future glorious ſtate …
With rule
Next wee come to the MAHUMETANSMUHAMMADANS, viz. the SARACENS, TURKS, and ARABIANS, touching their opinions of the future glorious ſtate …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 418 · Open in the reader