Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50275 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

graeciaGreece

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

Puritas changed it: 250 times in 125 works
Consistency: 97.6% (250 of 256)
Reach if approved: ~276 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: graeciam
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 263 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (250 changes in 125 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 250)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Parts, who called it Gaul-Asia, and corruptly Galatia; it was likewise called Gallo-GraeciaGreece, from the mixture of Galls and Grecians; and here to this day the Antient …
With rule
… Parts, who called it Gaul-Asia, and corruptly Galatia; it was likewise called Gallo-GraeciaGreece, from the mixture of Galls and Grecians; and here to this day the Antient …
Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ruines, (…ea of the vtter extinction, for Etiam periere ruinae) Gr…ciam in GraeciaGreece quaerimus, non inuenimus: Wee seeke for Greece in Greece, and can not find it …
With rule
… the ruines, (…ea of the vtter extinction, for Etiam periere ruinae) Gr…ciam in GraeciaGreece quaerimus, non inuenimus: Wee seeke for Greece in Greece, and can not find it …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Biſhop of Bitonto acknowledged in the Councell of Trent. It is our mother GraeciaGreece to whom the Latine Church is beholding for that which ſhe hath: the Eaſterne …
With rule
… the Biſhop of Bitonto acknowledged in the Councell of Trent. It is our mother GraeciaGreece to whom the Latine Church is beholding for that which ſhe hath: the Eaſterne …
Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Irene ann. 789. gaue full allowance to the adoration of Images, out of Asia, and GraeciaGreece, and some other parts: with the ambassadours of Adrian bishop of Rome, were assembled …
With rule
… Irene ann. 789. gaue full allowance to the adoration of Images, out of Asia, and GraeciaGreece, and some other parts: with the ambassadours of Adrian bishop of Rome, were assembled …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did liue and die there. The same may be sayd of the Cities of GraeciaGreece, which did heare Saint Paule preaching, did reade Saint Paule writing. For some hundreds …
With rule
… did liue and die there. The same may be sayd of the Cities of GraeciaGreece, which did heare Saint Paule preaching, did reade Saint Paule writing. For some hundreds …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Conſtantine left hated Rome: and I would expound in Greek all the Apocalyps for GraeciaGreece: and choſe out of their Commentaries all that is good. A Greek Biſhop told …
With rule
… Conſtantine left hated Rome: and I would expound in Greek all the Apocalyps for GraeciaGreece: and choſe out of their Commentaries all that is good. A Greek Biſhop told …
Hugh Broughton · A Petition to the King · Open in the reader
Printed
… Athens, Thebes, & many other famous cities haue bin made deſolate. That Chaldaea, Babylō, Perſia, GraeciaGreece, & other mightie Monarches of the world, haue altered their turnes, and chaunged their faces …
With rule
… Athens, Thebes, & many other famous cities haue bin made deſolate. That Chaldaea, Babylō, Perſia, GraeciaGreece, & other mightie Monarches of the world, haue altered their turnes, and chaunged their faces …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 278 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obſervatum conſtat ex electione Eradii ſucceſſoris D. Auguſtini de quo extat Epiſtola ejus 120. In GraeciaGreece aetate Chryſoſtomi ex lib. 3. de Sacerdot. In Hiſpaniis ex hoc Cypriani loco, & Iſidor. lib …
With rule
… obſervatum conſtat ex electione Eradii ſucceſſoris D. Auguſtini de quo extat Epiſtola ejus 120. In GraeciaGreece aetate Chryſoſtomi ex lib. 3. de Sacerdot. In Hiſpaniis ex hoc Cypriani loco, & Iſidor. lib …
Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Episcopacy · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Select Observations of Roman Emperors 2 A47620

Printed
… of Frenchmen and Greeks together, he made his boast, That he had subdued Gallo-graeciaGreece, a Nation mixt of French and Greekes.
With rule
… of Frenchmen and Greeks together, he made his boast, That he had subdued Gallo-graeciaGreece, a Nation mixt of French and Greekes.
Edward Leigh · Select Observations of Roman Emperors 2 · p. 53 · Open in the reader