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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50112 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chirchChurch

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

Puritas changed it
495 times in 2 works
Consistency
96.4% (495 of 513)
Reach if approved
~540 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: church
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
514 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (495 changes in 2 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (3 of 495)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Bysshops and ministers of Gods word so lykewyse do & teach ī ye primatiue ChirchChurch, vntyl yt wycked man ye son of perdiciō came, which exalted him selfe aboue …
    With rule
    … the Bysshops and ministers of Gods word so lykewyse do & teach ī ye primatiue ChirchChurch, vntyl yt wycked man ye son of perdiciō came, which exalted him selfe aboue …

    Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … later place to the discipline of Excommunication, which is committed to the Chirche. The ChirchChurch byndeth, whom she excommunicateth: not that she throweth him into perpetual ruine and desperation …
    With rule
    … later place to the discipline of Excommunication, which is committed to the Chirche. The ChirchChurch byndeth, whom she excommunicateth: not that she throweth him into perpetual ruine and desperation …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hath brought yet more plē tiful frute than it hath done heretofore to the ChirchChurch of God. This is my only desire. And truely ful ill it were with …
    With rule
    … hath brought yet more plē tiful frute than it hath done heretofore to the ChirchChurch of God. This is my only desire. And truely ful ill it were with …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.