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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50172 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

creetCrete

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

Puritas changed it
365 times in 132 works
Consistency
97.8% (365 of 373)
Reach if approved
~392 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
373 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (365 changes in 132 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 365)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … likeneſſe in manners. Howbeit, we reade of Saints even in Cappadocea , of Chriſtians in CreetCrete , and of brethren in Cilicia . Yea, Paul himſelf was a Cilician, borne in Tarſus …
    With rule
    … likeneſſe in manners. Howbeit, we reade of Saints even in Cappadocea , of Chriſtians in CreetCrete , and of brethren in Cilicia . Yea, Paul himſelf was a Cilician, borne in Tarſus …

    Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 604 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … but for the finiſhing ſome ſpecial work, as Timothy at Epheſus, 1 Tim. 1.3. Titus at CreetCrete, cap. 1.5. & 3.12.
    With rule
    … but for the finiſhing ſome ſpecial work, as Timothy at Epheſus, 1 Tim. 1.3. Titus at CreetCrete, cap. 1.5. & 3.12.

    John Geree · The Sifters Sieve Broken · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſtrictly to be minded, appeareth by Titus 1.5. For this cauſe left I thee in CreetCrete; that thou ſhouldeſt ſet in order.
    With rule
    … ſtrictly to be minded, appeareth by Titus 1.5. For this cauſe left I thee in CreetCrete; that thou ſhouldeſt ſet in order.

    Thomas Lamb · Truth Prevailing Against the Fiercest Opposition · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … prove him Bishop there, no more doth the same power given to Titus in CreetCrete, Tit. 1. 3. prove him Bishop there.
    With rule
    … prove him Bishop there, no more doth the same power given to Titus in CreetCrete, Tit. 1. 3. prove him Bishop there.

    James Owen · Plea for Scripture Ordination · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Thebais, Marmarica, Cyrenaica, Numidia, Mauritania, Getulia, Lybia, Aethiopia: in Alexandria, Carthage, the Ilands Pathmos, CreetCrete, Gortyna, and Meſſana a city of Sicily.
    With rule
    … Thebais, Marmarica, Cyrenaica, Numidia, Mauritania, Getulia, Lybia, Aethiopia: in Alexandria, Carthage, the Ilands Pathmos, CreetCrete, Gortyna, and Meſſana a city of Sicily.

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … how Codrus of Athens offered himselfe for his people: and one Idomeneus King of CreetCrete, as he came from the battell of Troy, being in a great tempest upon …
    With rule
    … how Codrus of Athens offered himselfe for his people: and one Idomeneus King of CreetCrete, as he came from the battell of Troy, being in a great tempest upon …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 210 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    1. It's not improbable that Titus was left in CreetCrete, and acted there, not as a fixed Biſhop, but as an extraordinary Officer, an …
    With rule
    1. It's not improbable that Titus was left in CreetCrete, and acted there, not as a fixed Biſhop, but as an extraordinary Officer, an …

    Richard Alleine · Letter to a Friend on Valid Ordination · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Pomphilia, Armenia Minor, Aegypt, Greece, Thessaly, Boeotia, Achaia, Epirus, Athens, Lacedemonia, the Isles of CreetCrete, and Rhodes, and from many other Countries. There came also to his aid King …
    With rule
    … Pomphilia, Armenia Minor, Aegypt, Greece, Thessaly, Boeotia, Achaia, Epirus, Athens, Lacedemonia, the Isles of CreetCrete, and Rhodes, and from many other Countries. There came also to his aid King …

    Samuel Clarke · the Life and Death of Julius Caesar · p. 27 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Reading and Spelling English Made Easy A49507

  • Printed
    diſ╌creetCrete╌ly
    With rule
    diſ╌creetCrete╌ly

    Thomas Lye · Reading and Spelling English Made Easy · Open in the reader