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laicksLaics

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

Puritas changed it
279 times in 139 works
Consistency
92.0% (279 of 303)
Reach if approved
~318 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: laics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
303 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (279 changes in 139 works, 92.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 279)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and jurisdictions of the higher rank of Ecclesiasticks, in the implicite faith of the LaicksLaics, and in a formal uniformity in the outside of Religion? Or in the powerful …
    With rule
    … and jurisdictions of the higher rank of Ecclesiasticks, in the implicite faith of the LaicksLaics, and in a formal uniformity in the outside of Religion? Or in the powerful …

    John Corbet · The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … their presumption. Now if any man desires to know from whence this Clergie of LaicksLaics, come, that he may not think that these Russet Rabbies, and Mechanick Enthusiasts, and …
    With rule
    … their presumption. Now if any man desires to know from whence this Clergie of LaicksLaics, come, that he may not think that these Russet Rabbies, and Mechanick Enthusiasts, and …

    Daniel Featley · The Dippers Dipped · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … By him, saith Knighton, page 2644, the Gospel was made vulgar, and more open to LaicksLaics and Women knowing how to read, than it was wont to be to the …
    With rule
    … By him, saith Knighton, page 2644, the Gospel was made vulgar, and more open to LaicksLaics and Women knowing how to read, than it was wont to be to the …

    Henry Hickman · Animadversions on Doctor Heylins Quinquarticular History · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … is to day a Deacon, who to morrow is a Reader: For even unto LaicksLaics do they commit Pastoral Charges, or the Priestly Office. What should I speak of …
    With rule
    … is to day a Deacon, who to morrow is a Reader: For even unto LaicksLaics do they commit Pastoral Charges, or the Priestly Office. What should I speak of …

    Jonathan Hanmer · A View of Antiquity Presented · p. 160 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Blood, which by concomitance is the Bodie, and which after that manner the LaicksLaics receiue. Whereas the holy Father, Chrysostome, could not haue meaned by the Cup, the …
    With rule
    … the Blood, which by concomitance is the Bodie, and which after that manner the LaicksLaics receiue. Whereas the holy Father, Chrysostome, could not haue meaned by the Cup, the …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in matters of Religion, (which most of all concerne vs) nor yet repine at LaicksLaics (as they do) for writing in their iust defence.
    With rule
    … in matters of Religion, (which most of all concerne vs) nor yet repine at LaicksLaics (as they do) for writing in their iust defence.

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the reſt of their Idoles and Images, whilk they call the bookes of the LaicksLaics, wherwith they fill their Temples & Chapels: whilk they honor, adore and prayes vnto, ſaying …
    With rule
    … the reſt of their Idoles and Images, whilk they call the bookes of the LaicksLaics, wherwith they fill their Temples & Chapels: whilk they honor, adore and prayes vnto, ſaying …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 266 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … be jure divino, or humano, is no point of faith.] And how do their LaicksLaics here know what is a point of faith, but by the teſtimony of their …
    With rule
    … be jure divino, or humano, is no point of faith.] And how do their LaicksLaics here know what is a point of faith, but by the teſtimony of their …

    Richard Baxter · Now or Never · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

15 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Reply Against Gilbert Brown A14926

  • Printed
    … yours are, next, the former Monks remained in the order of priuate men, and laicksLaics, and had no thing to do with Eccleſiaſticall charges, whilk was afterward broken by …
    With rule
    … yours are, next, the former Monks remained in the order of priuate men, and laicksLaics, and had no thing to do with Eccleſiaſticall charges, whilk was afterward broken by …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Prieſts and religious men they damne it, but they doe tollerate it in the laicksLaics: and yet the ſpirit of God calles it, a doctrine of Diuels to forbid …
    With rule
    … Prieſts and religious men they damne it, but they doe tollerate it in the laicksLaics: and yet the ſpirit of God calles it, a doctrine of Diuels to forbid …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 200 · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

  • Printed
    … other carnal trades are) that all the rest may be despised and excluded as laicksLaics; but the mater, is left unto the free gift of God, that he may …
    With rule
    … other carnal trades are) that all the rest may be despised and excluded as laicksLaics; but the mater, is left unto the free gift of God, that he may …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 389 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … importeth a declaration of future things, which may be common to others, even to laicksLaics: And if it be taken as importing to speak from the Spirit of truth …
    With rule
    … importeth a declaration of future things, which may be common to others, even to laicksLaics: And if it be taken as importing to speak from the Spirit of truth …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 392 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    14. But Pag. 208. he tels us, that they refuse that distinction of laicksLaics and cleargy. And knoweth he not, that we disapprove these termes? But the thing …
    With rule
    14. But Pag. 208. he tels us, that they refuse that distinction of laicksLaics and cleargy. And knoweth he not, that we disapprove these termes? But the thing …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 369 · Open in the reader

The Nonconformists Vindicated A31043

  • Printed
    … by the Church, and commended to the grace of God by prayer, be called laicksLaics? becauſe they labour at ſome employment to keep themſelves from being chargeable to the …
    With rule
    … by the Church, and commended to the grace of God by prayer, be called laicksLaics? becauſe they labour at ſome employment to keep themſelves from being chargeable to the …

    William Barrett · The Nonconformists Vindicated · p. 228 · Open in the reader

The Reason of Church Government A50949

  • Printed
    … now any more to be separated in the Church by vails and partitions as laicksLaics and unclean, but admitted to wait upon the tabernacle as the rightfull Clergy of …
    With rule
    … now any more to be separated in the Church by vails and partitions as laicksLaics and unclean, but admitted to wait upon the tabernacle as the rightfull Clergy of …

    John Milton · The Reason of Church Government · p. 46 · Open in the reader

History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 A54576

  • Printed
    … Princes should commit their chief caſtls and fortreſſes unto church-men rather then to laicksLaics. 3. Unto the pleaſure of the Pope belongeth the authority of the Scripture, the interpretation …
    With rule
    … Princes should commit their chief caſtls and fortreſſes unto church-men rather then to laicksLaics. 3. Unto the pleaſure of the Pope belongeth the authority of the Scripture, the interpretation …

    Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 323 · Open in the reader

The Due Right of Presbyteries A57969

  • Printed
    … Church-lawes: and Justinianus forbiddeth any publick service to be in the Church by laicksLaics onely, in the absence of the Clergie, and commandeth the Bishops not to muttter …
    With rule
    … Church-lawes: and Justinianus forbiddeth any publick service to be in the Church by laicksLaics onely, in the absence of the Clergie, and commandeth the Bishops not to muttter …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Due Right of Presbyteries · p. 410 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to bee present in Synods, except in generall Synods, where both Church men and laicksLaics are present: wee teach that the Magistrate is as the hand, the ministry as …
    With rule
    … to bee present in Synods, except in generall Synods, where both Church men and laicksLaics are present: wee teach that the Magistrate is as the hand, the ministry as …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Due Right of Presbyteries · p. 448 · Open in the reader

Popery Anatomized A65422

  • Printed
    … if ye would, infinit examples not only of the Saints of God, of the laicksLaics (as ye call them) but alſo of the Prieſts, Prophets, Apoſtles, yea and of …
    With rule
    … if ye would, infinit examples not only of the Saints of God, of the laicksLaics (as ye call them) but alſo of the Prieſts, Prophets, Apoſtles, yea and of …

    John Welch · Popery Anatomized · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … yours are. Next, the former Monks remained in the order of privat men and laicksLaics, and had nothing to do with Eccleſiaſtical charges, which was afterward broken by Pope …
    With rule
    … yours are. Next, the former Monks remained in the order of privat men and laicksLaics, and had nothing to do with Eccleſiaſtical charges, which was afterward broken by Pope …

    John Welch · Popery Anatomized · p. 335 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Prieſts and religious men, they damn it; but they do tolerat it in the laicksLaics: and yet the Spirit of God calls it, A doctrine of Devils to forbid …
    With rule
    … Prieſts and religious men, they damn it; but they do tolerat it in the laicksLaics: and yet the Spirit of God calls it, A doctrine of Devils to forbid …

    John Welch · Popery Anatomized · p. 339 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Pontifical habit, and commands it to be buried again in the burial of the laicksLaics, cuts off two of his fingers, and caſts them into Tyber, and abrogats his …
    With rule
    … Pontifical habit, and commands it to be buried again in the burial of the laicksLaics, cuts off two of his fingers, and caſts them into Tyber, and abrogats his …

    John Welch · Popery Anatomized · p. 370 · Open in the reader

The Canterburians Self-Conviction A68103

  • Printed
    … above your deſerving, we ſee how courſly ye ſerve them; they muſt as profaine laicksLaics be kept far aback with railes from that holy place, where ye, the Lords …
    With rule
    … above your deſerving, we ſee how courſly ye ſerve them; they muſt as profaine laicksLaics be kept far aback with railes from that holy place, where ye, the Lords …

    Robert Baillie · The Canterburians Self-Conviction · p. 17 · Open in the reader