Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10919 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cretiansCretans

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

Puritas changed it: 344 times in 212 works
Consistency: 99.4% (344 of 346)
Reach if approved: ~364 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 346 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (344 changes in 212 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 344)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… faciunt; cohabitation of place seekes or makes coaptation of manners. S. Paul notes the CretiansCretans for Lyers: S. Luke the Athenians for newes inquirers and bearers. The Graecians were …
With rule
… faciunt; cohabitation of place seekes or makes coaptation of manners. S. Paul notes the CretiansCretans for Lyers: S. Luke the Athenians for newes inquirers and bearers. The Graecians were …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more common it growes to be in the place where they liue. Titus 1. 12. The CretiansCretans are alwaies lyars, euill beasts, &c. It is Vitium gentis. Therefore vers. 13. rebuke them …
With rule
… more common it growes to be in the place where they liue. Titus 1. 12. The CretiansCretans are alwaies lyars, euill beasts, &c. It is Vitium gentis. Therefore vers. 13. rebuke them …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 430 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by his followers. If Ierom may be heard, he will tell you, that the CretiansCretans, whom Paul to Titus ſo much diſgraceth, brought Images firſt into the Church. Wicked …
With rule
… by his followers. If Ierom may be heard, he will tell you, that the CretiansCretans, whom Paul to Titus ſo much diſgraceth, brought Images firſt into the Church. Wicked …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Theſe are they that occaſion the world to judge of Miniſters, as Paul the CretiansCretans, to be ſlowe-bellies. I take no pleaſure in defiling my owne neaſt, nor …
With rule
… Theſe are they that occaſion the world to judge of Miniſters, as Paul the CretiansCretans, to be ſlowe-bellies. I take no pleaſure in defiling my owne neaſt, nor …
Nehemiah Rogers · Christian Courtesy · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
This swearing falsely, to deceiue, is too common a sinne: As the CretiansCretans were saide to be all liars, Tit. 1. 12. so for the most part, among vs …
With rule
This swearing falsely, to deceiue, is too common a sinne: As the CretiansCretans were saide to be all liars, Tit. 1. 12. so for the most part, among vs …
William Ward · Gods Arrows · Open in the reader
Printed
10 Howſoeuer the CretiansCretans haue beene iuſtly cenſured, theſe actions and deuiſes are ſo hainous and loathſome in …
With rule
10 Howſoeuer the CretiansCretans haue beene iuſtly cenſured, theſe actions and deuiſes are ſo hainous and loathſome in …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Consequent is in the antecedent, for the most part, though not alwayes foreign As, The CretiansCretans be lyars, Mothers are too much Cockerers of their children, &c,
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… Consequent is in the antecedent, for the most part, though not alwayes foreign As, The CretiansCretans be lyars, Mothers are too much Cockerers of their children, &c,
Henry Ainsworth · The Art of Logic · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Actings: or Carthaginians of whom it is said that they were alwayes perjured: or CretiansCretans, who are alwayes lyars, Ti…. 1: 12. And what will binde such whom oaths will not …
With rule
… Actings: or Carthaginians of whom it is said that they were alwayes perjured: or CretiansCretans, who are alwayes lyars, Ti…. 1: 12. And what will binde such whom oaths will not …
John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · p. 328 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Remains of John Corbet A34542

Printed
… Scripture way of expreſſion would be, not the Church, but the Churches of the cretiansCretans; (Church) being uſed of a City with its adjacent Villages; and (Churches) of a …
With rule
… Scripture way of expreſſion would be, not the Church, but the Churches of the cretiansCretans; (Church) being uſed of a City with its adjacent Villages; and (Churches) of a …
John Corbet · The Remains of John Corbet · p. 123 · Open in the reader