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aethiopianEthiopian

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

Puritas changed it
306 times in 181 works
Consistency
95.6% (306 of 320)
Reach if approved
~346 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: aethiopian
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
329 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (306 changes in 181 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 306)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … too many afterwardes: and ſo in 3600. yeres. Yet though Arabique were neare Hebrew; and AethiopianEthiopian: they tranſlate the 70. And not the Ebrew: and Greekes with Muſcouia follow them. But …
    With rule
    … too many afterwardes: and ſo in 3600. yeres. Yet though Arabique were neare Hebrew; and AethiopianEthiopian: they tranſlate the 70. And not the Ebrew: and Greekes with Muſcouia follow them. But …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … by our own ſtrength; for as the Prophet teacheth vs, as well may the AethiopianEthiopian change his blackneſſe, and the Leopard his ſpots, as we doe well, that are …
    With rule
    … by our own ſtrength; for as the Prophet teacheth vs, as well may the AethiopianEthiopian change his blackneſſe, and the Leopard his ſpots, as we doe well, that are …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … shew it evidentlie to bee such, if I should but oppose to you, the AethiopianEthiopian, and Indian Churches, which haue continued, and not onelie without anie Communion, but al …
    With rule
    … shew it evidentlie to bee such, if I should but oppose to you, the AethiopianEthiopian, and Indian Churches, which haue continued, and not onelie without anie Communion, but al …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the Gospell which they profeſſe: Is euen as if they ſhould reaſon thus: An AethiopianEthiopian is white of his teeth: therefore he is a white man. A blacke Rauen …
    With rule
    … the Gospell which they profeſſe: Is euen as if they ſhould reaſon thus: An AethiopianEthiopian is white of his teeth: therefore he is a white man. A blacke Rauen …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Laſtly, that wee may not want an inſtance among Chriſtians: Zaga Zabo an AethiopianEthiopian Biſhop, ſent Ambaſſador from David King of the Abyſſines to Iohn the 3. King of …
    With rule
    Laſtly, that wee may not want an inſtance among Chriſtians: Zaga Zabo an AethiopianEthiopian Biſhop, ſent Ambaſſador from David King of the Abyſſines to Iohn the 3. King of …

    Joseph Mede · The Reverence of Gods House · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Sabeans inhabite: Others bring her from hence, and say, that shee was an AethiopianEthiopian. The mention of her and of Candace (which name Plinie saith continued to the …
    With rule
    … the Sabeans inhabite: Others bring her from hence, and say, that shee was an AethiopianEthiopian. The mention of her and of Candace (which name Plinie saith continued to the …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 551 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … heart, while Christ by that meanes, is ſhuffled into the ſtable: but as the AethiopianEthiopian Indges in all their meetings, reſerve the higheſt ſeat empty for God: ſo doe …
    With rule
    … heart, while Christ by that meanes, is ſhuffled into the ſtable: but as the AethiopianEthiopian Indges in all their meetings, reſerve the higheſt ſeat empty for God: ſo doe …

    John Stoughton · The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Greekes alwayes vsed the Greeke toong; the Sclauonians, the Sclauonian; the Aethiopians, the AethiopianEthiopian language. And how vntrue this is, their owne canons shall testifie: for Innocentius decreed …
    With rule
    … the Greekes alwayes vsed the Greeke toong; the Sclauonians, the Sclauonian; the Aethiopians, the AethiopianEthiopian language. And how vntrue this is, their owne canons shall testifie: for Innocentius decreed …

    Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 118 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.