Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10914 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aphricaAfrica

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

Puritas changed it: 64 times in 26 works
Consistency: 100% (64 of 64)
Reach if approved: ~67 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: africa
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 64 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (64 changes in 26 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 64)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… if alreadie you be not) much more vnrulie then ever were the Donatiſts in AphricaAfrica. And therfore I cannot cōiecture, what you ſhould meane by thoſe wordes that we …
With rule
… if alreadie you be not) much more vnrulie then ever were the Donatiſts in AphricaAfrica. And therfore I cannot cōiecture, what you ſhould meane by thoſe wordes that we …
Francis Bunny · An Answer to a Popish Libel · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… graunted. Where he addeth Cyprian had the charge, and ouerſight off all churches in AphricaAfrica, and for proofe alledgeth the 4. booke, 8. Epiſtle: he is abuſed / for Cyprian dothe ſaie …
With rule
… graunted. Where he addeth Cyprian had the charge, and ouerſight off all churches in AphricaAfrica, and for proofe alledgeth the 4. booke, 8. Epiſtle: he is abuſed / for Cyprian dothe ſaie …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. DXXX · Open in the reader
Printed
… all them that appealed to the Bishop of Rome or any other out of AphricaAfrica. Cap. 22. Yea he y^t thought such appellations lawfull, was excommunicated, by which it appeareth …
With rule
… all them that appealed to the Bishop of Rome or any other out of AphricaAfrica. Cap. 22. Yea he y^t thought such appellations lawfull, was excommunicated, by which it appeareth …
William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 789 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mare mediterraneum: But also a wonderfull great Ilande, whiche he affirmeth, was greater then AphricaAfrica and Asia both, called Atlantis, was swallowed vp, and couered by the waters, in …
With rule
… Mare mediterraneum: But also a wonderfull great Ilande, whiche he affirmeth, was greater then AphricaAfrica and Asia both, called Atlantis, was swallowed vp, and couered by the waters, in …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Churches through the world as wrapped together in the guiltines of thoſe Churches of AphricaAfrica. They pronounced them all polluted, vncleane, abominable and vtterlie fallen from the Couenant of …
With rule
… Churches through the world as wrapped together in the guiltines of thoſe Churches of AphricaAfrica. They pronounced them all polluted, vncleane, abominable and vtterlie fallen from the Couenant of …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
VIctor borne in AphricaAfrica, did succeade Eleutherius. This man was the first that when the storme of persecution …
With rule
VIctor borne in AphricaAfrica, did succeade Eleutherius. This man was the first that when the storme of persecution …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gepha: in Greeke, Gephar. Epher] or Gepher, in Greek Apheir: of him the country AphricaAfrica is thought to have the name. Enoch] in Heb. Chanoch: as Gen. 5. 18.
With rule
… Gepha: in Greeke, Gephar. Epher] or Gepher, in Greek Apheir: of him the country AphricaAfrica is thought to have the name. Enoch] in Heb. Chanoch: as Gen. 5. 18.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or bounde to a certaine place, person, and sect, or no; As for example AphricaAfrica, Donatus and Donatistes, then Rome, Pope and Papistes nowe. Augustine there tyeth the Churche …
With rule
… or bounde to a certaine place, person, and sect, or no; As for example AphricaAfrica, Donatus and Donatistes, then Rome, Pope and Papistes nowe. Augustine there tyeth the Churche …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 143 · 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.