Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50068 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

africkAfrica

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

Puritas changed it: 606 times in 221 works
Consistency: 100% (606 of 606)
Reach if approved: ~637 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: africa
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 606 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (606 changes in 221 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 606)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and who ſo did otherwiſe ſhold not be receiued to the cōmunion in al AfrickAfrica. But we know that ſince that time, the pride of that wicked whore of …
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… and who ſo did otherwiſe ſhold not be receiued to the cōmunion in al AfrickAfrica. But we know that ſince that time, the pride of that wicked whore of …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Father in his Apologie which hee wrote for Christians unto Demetrian the proconsul of AfrickAfrica, affirmeth in like maner; that the end of this temporall life being accomplished, we …
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… Father in his Apologie which hee wrote for Christians unto Demetrian the proconsul of AfrickAfrica, affirmeth in like maner; that the end of this temporall life being accomplished, we …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… permittitur unicui que è populo partem sumere. In Tertullians time it seemeth, that in AfrickAfrica they tooke the elements out of the hands of their rulers or presidents, that …
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… permittitur unicui que è populo partem sumere. In Tertullians time it seemeth, that in AfrickAfrica they tooke the elements out of the hands of their rulers or presidents, that …
David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVHen the Portugals had first begun their Navigation by AfrickAfrica into the East-Indies, some of them intending to have held their course Eastward …
With rule
VVHen the Portugals had first begun their Navigation by AfrickAfrica into the East-Indies, some of them intending to have held their course Eastward …
Archbishop George Abbot · A Brief Description of the Whole World · p. 302 · Open in the reader
Printed
… greater Number, and ſo called themſelves the Church; for being the ſuppoſed Majority in AfrickAfrica, and having the trueſt Biſhop, as the Papiſts and ſome Prelatiſts arrogate the Name …
With rule
… greater Number, and ſo called themſelves the Church; for being the ſuppoſed Majority in AfrickAfrica, and having the trueſt Biſhop, as the Papiſts and ſome Prelatiſts arrogate the Name …
Richard Baxter · The Scripture Gospel Defended · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… open for us to attain great conqueſts, for who would not afterwards go into AfrickAfrica, and ſo to Carthage? But (ſaith Sineus) when we have all in our hands …
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… open for us to attain great conqueſts, for who would not afterwards go into AfrickAfrica, and ſo to Carthage? But (ſaith Sineus) when we have all in our hands …
Jeremiah Burroughs · The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hunting of Lyons, and Elephants: And in fourty dayes he conquered his enemies, subdued AfrickAfrica, and setled the affaires of the Kings, and Kingdoms of that part of the …
With rule
… hunting of Lyons, and Elephants: And in fourty dayes he conquered his enemies, subdued AfrickAfrica, and setled the affaires of the Kings, and Kingdoms of that part of the …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Pompey the Great · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
19. In AfrickAfrica are many wild Asses, whereof one male hath many females, and he is so …
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19. In AfrickAfrica are many wild Asses, whereof one male hath many females, and he is so …
Samuel Clarke · A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations in America · p. 28 · 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.