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constantinusConstantine

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

Puritas changed it
452 times in 165 works
Consistency
98.9% (452 of 457)
Reach if approved
~480 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
457 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (452 changes in 165 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 452)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in Aſia, and at Carthage in Africa, was decreed againſt Stage-players. For when ConſtantinusConstantine Pogonatus in the yeare 681 called that ſixt general Councel at Conſtantinople againſt the Monothelites …
    With rule
    … in Aſia, and at Carthage in Africa, was decreed againſt Stage-players. For when ConſtantinusConstantine Pogonatus in the yeare 681 called that ſixt general Councel at Conſtantinople againſt the Monothelites …

    Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … were ſtill 7. biſhops and one archbiſhop among the Britaines. And in the Romane Empier ConſtantinusConstantine, and other Chriſtian Emperors appointed great poſſeſſions for the mainteyning of the miniſters of …
    With rule
    … were ſtill 7. biſhops and one archbiſhop among the Britaines. And in the Romane Empier ConſtantinusConstantine, and other Chriſtian Emperors appointed great poſſeſſions for the mainteyning of the miniſters of …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to this extremity, to kil himſelfe with his owne hande? A certain man called ConſtantinusConstantine furiouſly ran vpon Beliſarius with his dagger drawen: was not the traytour killed himſelfe …
    With rule
    … to this extremity, to kil himſelfe with his owne hande? A certain man called ConſtantinusConstantine furiouſly ran vpon Beliſarius with his dagger drawen: was not the traytour killed himſelfe …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſtill, the firſt ſtep to pull of the Emperors crowne after this, was: that ConſtantinusConstantine then Emperour graunted to Benedick the ſecond, that whom ſoeuer the people and clergie …
    With rule
    … ſtill, the firſt ſtep to pull of the Emperors crowne after this, was: that ConſtantinusConstantine then Emperour graunted to Benedick the ſecond, that whom ſoeuer the people and clergie …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … perfites him? Euen, he who ſhould haue holden him downe, the Emperour of Conſtantinople ConſtantinusConstantine, Prorogatius Barbarus, Vitilianus being Biſhop of Rome for the time, he makes vp the …
    With rule
    … perfites him? Euen, he who ſhould haue holden him downe, the Emperour of Conſtantinople ConſtantinusConstantine, Prorogatius Barbarus, Vitilianus being Biſhop of Rome for the time, he makes vp the …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … fayned gyftes of old emperours, that were out of memory, sayeng that the emperour ConstantinusConstantine had geuen vp the empyre of Rome vnto. S. Syluester, which is proued a …
    With rule
    … fayned gyftes of old emperours, that were out of memory, sayeng that the emperour ConstantinusConstantine had geuen vp the empyre of Rome vnto. S. Syluester, which is proued a …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    4 Yet if ConstantinusConstantine that good Emperor had been so minded, to haue bestowed the imperiall dignitie vpon …
    With rule
    4 Yet if ConstantinusConstantine that good Emperor had been so minded, to haue bestowed the imperiall dignitie vpon …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to the wyll and woorde of almightie GOD. For Dauid, Salomon, Josaphat, Ezechias, Josias, ConstantinusConstantine, and other godly Princes are euident examples héereof. Therfore when the Magistrate for the …
    With rule
    … to the wyll and woorde of almightie GOD. For Dauid, Salomon, Josaphat, Ezechias, Josias, ConstantinusConstantine, and other godly Princes are euident examples héereof. Therfore when the Magistrate for the …

    Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · p. 144 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

  • Printed
    … that hee had consented to the abolishing of Images, in the Councill assembled by CONSTANTINUSCONSTANTINE COPRONYMUS.
    With rule
    … that hee had consented to the abolishing of Images, in the Councill assembled by CONSTANTINUSCONSTANTINE COPRONYMUS.

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    CONSTANTINUSCONSTANTINE and HERACLEONAS.
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    CONSTANTINUSCONSTANTINE and HERACLEONAS.

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    CONSTANTINUSCONSTANTINE POGONATUS.
    With rule
    CONSTANTINUSCONSTANTINE POGONATUS.

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the right Faith, but were intangled with heresie. After Cyriacus, Thomas, and Ioannes, and constantinusConstantine, succeeded, whose faith (as vnspotted with anie blame of heresie) hath an honest testimonie …
    With rule
    … the right Faith, but were intangled with heresie. After Cyriacus, Thomas, and Ioannes, and constantinusConstantine, succeeded, whose faith (as vnspotted with anie blame of heresie) hath an honest testimonie …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 11 · Open in the reader