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timotheTimothy

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

Puritas changed it
496 times in 100 works
Consistency
99.6% (496 of 498)
Reach if approved
~523 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: timothy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
498 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (496 changes in 100 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 496)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    How godly Salomon, yoūg Toby, Susāna, Philip y• Euangelistes daughters, TimotheTimothy, and such lyke were brought vp of their parentes, the holy scriptures beare witnes.
    With rule
    How godly Salomon, yoūg Toby, Susāna, Philip y• Euangelistes daughters, TimotheTimothy, and such lyke were brought vp of their parentes, the holy scriptures beare witnes.

    Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … killed golias withe / & ſo is TimotheTimothy goddis inſtrument / wherby he wrought the ſaluation of TimotheTimothy / and of them that beleued hys prechyng / But if a man ſay that a …
    With rule
    … killed golias withe / & ſo is TimotheTimothy goddis inſtrument / wherby he wrought the ſaluation of TimotheTimothy / and of them that beleued hys prechyng / But if a man ſay that a …

    William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to be holy and blameles, which ſelfe thing is ſignified in the epiſtle to TimotheTimothy. For thus Paul writeth of himſelfe: I haue obtayned mercy, that I might be …
    With rule
    … to be holy and blameles, which ſelfe thing is ſignified in the epiſtle to TimotheTimothy. For thus Paul writeth of himſelfe: I haue obtayned mercy, that I might be …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … we think (as certain fooliſh men doo fain) that vnwritten Traditions were committed vnto TimotheTimothy, as though the Apoſtle had ment, that without traditions, the Scriptures ſuffiſe not vnto …
    With rule
    … we think (as certain fooliſh men doo fain) that vnwritten Traditions were committed vnto TimotheTimothy, as though the Apoſtle had ment, that without traditions, the Scriptures ſuffiſe not vnto …

    Henrich Bullinger · Of the End of the World and Judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a Virgine marrie, he saieth she dooeth not synne. But in the firste of TimotheTimothy. v. he entreateth of widowes, whiche as thei were nourished by the Churche, so …
    With rule
    … a Virgine marrie, he saieth she dooeth not synne. But in the firste of TimotheTimothy. v. he entreateth of widowes, whiche as thei were nourished by the Churche, so …

    William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 47 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … eloquence hath wrytten an excellent worke vpon the .ii. epyſtles of ſaynt Paule to TimotheTimothy. Thys boke maye not come a brode to be tryed by the ſcrypturs and …
    With rule
    … eloquence hath wrytten an excellent worke vpon the .ii. epyſtles of ſaynt Paule to TimotheTimothy. Thys boke maye not come a brode to be tryed by the ſcrypturs and …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … rightly diuided, according to the ſaying of the Apoſtle in the ſecond Epiſtle of TimotheTimothy, Chapter. 2. verſe. 15.
    With rule
    … rightly diuided, according to the ſaying of the Apoſtle in the ſecond Epiſtle of TimotheTimothy, Chapter. 2. verſe. 15.

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … nedye? What a frendly lesson in ye poore peoples behalfe wryteth he vnto Byshop TimotheTimothy to be declared vnto the ryche worldlynges? Cōmaund them that are rych (sayth he …
    With rule
    … nedye? What a frendly lesson in ye poore peoples behalfe wryteth he vnto Byshop TimotheTimothy to be declared vnto the ryche worldlynges? Cōmaund them that are rych (sayth he …

    Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.