Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10955 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

romayneRoman

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

Puritas changed it: 67 times in 24 works
Consistency: 94.3% (67 of 71)
Reach if approved: ~75 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: roman
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 71 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (67 changes in 24 works, 94.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 67)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by whom it appertayneth not. For ſeynge that Iury was in ſubiection vnto the RomayneRoman Empyre: the people had none authoritie to choſe a newe kynge at their pleaſure …
With rule
… by whom it appertayneth not. For ſeynge that Iury was in ſubiection vnto the RomayneRoman Empyre: the people had none authoritie to choſe a newe kynge at their pleaſure …
John Calvin · Against the Errors of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader
Printed
… writings of the auncient doctors, for y^e maſſe ſuch as it is in the RomayneRoman Church. For firſt they do take for ſacrifice propitiatorie, that which the auncient Doctors …
With rule
… writings of the auncient doctors, for y^e maſſe ſuch as it is in the RomayneRoman Church. For firſt they do take for ſacrifice propitiatorie, that which the auncient Doctors …
Pierre Viret · Controversy Concerning the Holy Supper and the Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… oppose the Catholike RomayneRoman Religion, to all other new doctrines? When by the Catholike RomayneRoman religion, you meane the present Popishe religion, and not the auncient RomayneRoman religion, which …
With rule
… oppose the Catholike RomayneRoman Religion, to all other new doctrines? When by the Catholike RomayneRoman religion, you meane the present Popishe religion, and not the auncient RomayneRoman religion, which …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… he is a ſuſpected perſon, beynge at the tyme when the Pompe of the RomayneRoman byſhoppe or Antichriſte, beganne to exalte hym ſelfe aboue euerie thynge, that was god …
With rule
… he is a ſuſpected perſon, beynge at the tyme when the Pompe of the RomayneRoman byſhoppe or Antichriſte, beganne to exalte hym ſelfe aboue euerie thynge, that was god …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… buſied in entending his ſhepe, from his countreye coate ſcale the heyghthe of y^e RomayneRoman ſcepters? Happd not the like to Tarquinius Priſcus ſonne of Demaratus a Corinthian mat …
With rule
… buſied in entending his ſhepe, from his countreye coate ſcale the heyghthe of y^e RomayneRoman ſcepters? Happd not the like to Tarquinius Priſcus ſonne of Demaratus a Corinthian mat …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… dye a thousand deathes, than onely to receiue either the Emperours Image, or the RomayneRoman Standard peinted with an Eagle; insomuch that they left the breache of the wall …
With rule
… dye a thousand deathes, than onely to receiue either the Emperours Image, or the RomayneRoman Standard peinted with an Eagle; insomuch that they left the breache of the wall …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 539 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rehearſe manye moe, yea and that amongeſt thoſe which haue departed from the Antichriſtian RomayneRoman Church.
With rule
… rehearſe manye moe, yea and that amongeſt thoſe which haue departed from the Antichriſtian RomayneRoman Church.
Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
But is not the RomayneRoman church the heade of all the other, vnto the whyche all the other oughte …
With rule
But is not the RomayneRoman church the heade of all the other, vnto the whyche all the other oughte …
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 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.

Exposition of the Apostles Creed A14468

Printed
And is not the romayneRoman churche that holie catholyke church, which thou beleueſte and muſt be folowed?
With rule
And is not the romayneRoman churche that holie catholyke church, which thou beleueſte and muſt be folowed?
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader
Printed
If the romayneRoman churche do abyde and perſeuer in the apoſtolyke doctrine, I wyl reknowledge hyr a …
With rule
If the romayneRoman churche do abyde and perſeuer in the apoſtolyke doctrine, I wyl reknowledge hyr a …
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
Three hundred romayneRoman boyes, beneficed in England. 266.287.
With rule
Three hundred romayneRoman boyes, beneficed in England. 266.287.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader