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pragePrague

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

Puritas changed it
278 times in 89 works
Consistency
98.9% (278 of 281)
Reach if approved
~295 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: prague
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
281 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (278 changes in 89 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 278)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Richard the ſecond whereof followed great perſecution many yeres. Iohn Huſſe and Hierom of PragePrague, with the countrie of Bohemia, were famous for the true religion, at the counſell …
    With rule
    … Richard the ſecond whereof followed great perſecution many yeres. Iohn Huſſe and Hierom of PragePrague, with the countrie of Bohemia, were famous for the true religion, at the counſell …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 142 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … standeth out with his forces against the Emperour, and commeth with his armie toward PragePrague, obtaineth the crowne and royalties of Hungarie by composition, comes King to Vienna; but …
    With rule
    … standeth out with his forces against the Emperour, and commeth with his armie toward PragePrague, obtaineth the crowne and royalties of Hungarie by composition, comes King to Vienna; but …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 242 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and defended the Pelagian errours, that very ſhame & conſcience with-helde the Ieſuites of PragePrague from publiſhing in printe that monſtrous booke of his. He togither with his Haber …
    With rule
    … and defended the Pelagian errours, that very ſhame & conſcience with-helde the Ieſuites of PragePrague from publiſhing in printe that monſtrous booke of his. He togither with his Haber …

    Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … liues to death for that trueth. Such were Luther, &c. Also Wicliff, Hierom of PragePrague, Huss. &c. Reuel. 11, 11. And they shall stand vp vpon their feete.
    With rule
    … liues to death for that trueth. Such were Luther, &c. Also Wicliff, Hierom of PragePrague, Huss. &c. Reuel. 11, 11. And they shall stand vp vpon their feete.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Vnder this Conradus, as President of the assembly, these Hussites held a Councell at PragePrague, in the yeare 1421, and there they compiled a Confession of their faith. This cause …
    With rule
    … Vnder this Conradus, as President of the assembly, these Hussites held a Councell at PragePrague, in the yeare 1421, and there they compiled a Confession of their faith. This cause …

    Archbishop George Abbot · The Perpetual Visibility and Succession of the True Church in All Ages · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Mantuan pretily describeth. you bring them to the spit. Iohn Hus, and Hierom of PragePrague shall vvitnesse this to be true to all posterities, to the perpetual shame of …
    With rule
    … Mantuan pretily describeth. you bring them to the spit. Iohn Hus, and Hierom of PragePrague shall vvitnesse this to be true to all posterities, to the perpetual shame of …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Hierom of PragePrague to like purpoſe thus, If I had feared the fire, I had not come …
    With rule
    Hierom of PragePrague to like purpoſe thus, If I had feared the fire, I had not come …

    William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Rome, Germany, Fraunce, and England were censured, when Arnoldus de villa nova, Ierome of PragePrague, Martin Luther, Iohn Calvin, William Tyndall, the Baldenses, and the Bohemians, with many other …
    With rule
    … Rome, Germany, Fraunce, and England were censured, when Arnoldus de villa nova, Ierome of PragePrague, Martin Luther, Iohn Calvin, William Tyndall, the Baldenses, and the Bohemians, with many other …

    Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

  • Printed
    Yeerely memoriall for the death of Iohn Huſſe, and Ierome of pragePrague ead.
    With rule
    Yeerely memoriall for the death of Iohn Huſſe, and Ierome of pragePrague ead.

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Diſſention betwixt pragePrague & Ziſca 348
    With rule
    Diſſention betwixt pragePrague & Ziſca 348

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader