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ethicksEthics

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

Puritas changed it
445 times in 246 works
Consistency
97.1% (445 of 458)
Reach if approved
~483 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ethics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
460 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (445 changes in 246 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 445)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the word to beare, beside that it is so vsed by Aristotle in his EthicksEthics, who of iustificatiō before God (whereof wee speake) vnderstoode neuer a whit. Therefore, if …
    With rule
    … the word to beare, beside that it is so vsed by Aristotle in his EthicksEthics, who of iustificatiō before God (whereof wee speake) vnderstoode neuer a whit. Therefore, if …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 257 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in Iob 33. 9. are ſpoken, without Rhetoricke: not 1. Cor. 10. 1. 2. 3. 4. Act. 5. 36. 37. without Hiſtory. Nor 2. Peter 1. 5. 6. 7. without EthicksEthics: nor Geneſ. 49. 10. without Politiques. And thus might I inſtance the occaſion of all knowledge …
    With rule
    … in Iob 33. 9. are ſpoken, without Rhetoricke: not 1. Cor. 10. 1. 2. 3. 4. Act. 5. 36. 37. without Hiſtory. Nor 2. Peter 1. 5. 6. 7. without EthicksEthics: nor Geneſ. 49. 10. without Politiques. And thus might I inſtance the occaſion of all knowledge …

    Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … witt, did not relish of truth. You maye as well censure Aristotles Physicks, and EthicksEthics, and Politiques, and Rhetoricks, for surely they doe not relish of Metaphysicall truths; no …
    With rule
    … witt, did not relish of truth. You maye as well censure Aristotles Physicks, and EthicksEthics, and Politiques, and Rhetoricks, for surely they doe not relish of Metaphysicall truths; no …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the knower blessed; to be wise and happy, are … termes, saith Aristotle in his EthicksEthics; and mans happinesse, …aith another, consists in believing the Gospell, and obeying Gods commands …
    With rule
    … the knower blessed; to be wise and happy, are … termes, saith Aristotle in his EthicksEthics; and mans happinesse, …aith another, consists in believing the Gospell, and obeying Gods commands …

    Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 608 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … whole man: which he proues diuinely out of Aristotle, in the fift of his EthicksEthics. And the second hee proueth, Apoc. 22. 11. Qui iustus est, iustificetur adhuc: He that is …
    With rule
    … whole man: which he proues diuinely out of Aristotle, in the fift of his EthicksEthics. And the second hee proueth, Apoc. 22. 11. Qui iustus est, iustificetur adhuc: He that is …

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his most compos'd sedate temper, when he solemnly seats himself in his School, reads EthicksEthics to his disciples, and professes his design of giving subtilty to the Simple, and …
    With rule
    … his most compos'd sedate temper, when he solemnly seats himself in his School, reads EthicksEthics to his disciples, and professes his design of giving subtilty to the Simple, and …

    Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 340 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    9. A Christian Directory, or Body of practical Divinity. 1. Christian EthicksEthics. 2. Oeconomicks. 3. Ecclesiasticks. 4. Politicks: Resolving multitudes of Cases on each Subject. Fol.
    With rule
    9. A Christian Directory, or Body of practical Divinity. 1. Christian EthicksEthics. 2. Oeconomicks. 3. Ecclesiasticks. 4. Politicks: Resolving multitudes of Cases on each Subject. Fol.

    Richard Baxter · Compassionate Counsel to All Young Men · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    § 147. The Nature of things convinced me, That as Physicks are presupposed in EthicksEthics, and that Morality is but the ordering of the Rational Nature and its Actions …
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    § 147. The Nature of things convinced me, That as Physicks are presupposed in EthicksEthics, and that Morality is but the ordering of the Rational Nature and its Actions …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 are listed here. 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christian See to Thy Conscience A08989

  • Printed
    … commendably, it may appeare by theſe things, Firſt, by ſome writing of morall vertues, ethicksEthics and politicks, excellent well. Secondly, by many golden ſentences diſperſed here and there in …
    With rule
    … commendably, it may appeare by theſe things, Firſt, by ſome writing of morall vertues, ethicksEthics and politicks, excellent well. Secondly, by many golden ſentences diſperſed here and there in …

    Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 241 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … being trained vp in good manners. Secondly, by humaine ſciences and good literature, as ethicksEthics, Oeconomicks, and Politicks. Thirdly, by the common naturall notions of right and wrong, which …
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    … being trained vp in good manners. Secondly, by humaine ſciences and good literature, as ethicksEthics, Oeconomicks, and Politicks. Thirdly, by the common naturall notions of right and wrong, which …

    Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 242 · Open in the reader

Gods Mercy Showed to His People A32753

  • Printed
    … in their writings: or elſe all other Arts beſides Theology, as they call phyſicks, ethicksEthics, politicks &c: take in alſo the grounds of languages, Latine Greek & Hebrew. Now in …
    With rule
    … in their writings: or elſe all other Arts beſides Theology, as they call phyſicks, ethicksEthics, politicks &c: take in alſo the grounds of languages, Latine Greek & Hebrew. Now in …

    Charles Chauncey · Gods Mercy Showed to His People · p. 35 · Open in the reader

The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled A42502

  • Printed
    … the body (conſiſting of an influentiall and elementary mixtion) be the principall ſubject of ethicksEthics, or morality: and not the ſoul, that conſiſts of an Underſtanding, and a will …
    With rule
    … the body (conſiſting of an influentiall and elementary mixtion) be the principall ſubject of ethicksEthics, or morality: and not the ſoul, that conſiſts of an Underſtanding, and a will …

    John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 135 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues A45744

  • Printed
    Of the NATURE of ETHICKSETHICS.
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    Of the NATURE of ETHICKSETHICS.

    John Hartcliffe · Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    1. ETHICKSETHICS.
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    1. ETHICKSETHICS.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS, OR MORALS, JN FOVRE BOOKES.
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    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS, OR MORALS, JN FOVRE BOOKES.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS, OR GOVERNMENT OF Behauiour and Manners. THE FIRST BOOKE. FELICITY.
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    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS, OR GOVERNMENT OF Behauiour and Manners. THE FIRST BOOKE. FELICITY.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 207 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS. THE SECOND BOOKE. PRƲDENCE.
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    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS. THE SECOND BOOKE. PRƲDENCE.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 211 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS. THE THIRD BOOKE. IƲSTICE.
    With rule
    SALOMONS ETHICKSETHICS. THE THIRD BOOKE. IƲSTICE.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 215 · Open in the reader