Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50280 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lacedemonianLacedaemonian

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

Puritas changed it: 242 times in 118 works
Consistency: 100% (242 of 242)
Reach if approved: ~254 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lacedaemonian
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 242 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (242 changes in 118 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 242)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… exercise and sproutings, nothing but Love can pluck up the root of sinne. A LacedemonianLacedaemonian endeavouring to make a dead carcasse stand upright as formerly it had done while …
With rule
… exercise and sproutings, nothing but Love can pluck up the root of sinne. A LacedemonianLacedaemonian endeavouring to make a dead carcasse stand upright as formerly it had done while …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nobis ista nascuntur, we haue plentie of such stuffe at home. But as the LacedemonianLacedaemonian magistrates said to Cephisophon the Orator, when they expelled him, that it was a …
With rule
… nobis ista nascuntur, we haue plentie of such stuffe at home. But as the LacedemonianLacedaemonian magistrates said to Cephisophon the Orator, when they expelled him, that it was a …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it shall suffice to doe herein, as Lycurgus of old, who to deterre the LacedemonianLacedaemonian lads, from that more then beastly vice of drunkennesse, caused their drunken slaues to …
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… it shall suffice to doe herein, as Lycurgus of old, who to deterre the LacedemonianLacedaemonian lads, from that more then beastly vice of drunkennesse, caused their drunken slaues to …
Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
I have read of a LacedemonianLacedaemonian that ſaid, that they well deſerved death that did but quench Tyranny, they ſhould …
With rule
I have read of a LacedemonianLacedaemonian that ſaid, that they well deſerved death that did but quench Tyranny, they ſhould …
Thomas Brooks · An Ark for All Gods Noahs · Open in the reader
Printed
Lycurgus the LacedemonianLacedaemonian Lawgiver considering the manifold mischiefs which come by the love of money, and covetousnesse …
With rule
Lycurgus the LacedemonianLacedaemonian Lawgiver considering the manifold mischiefs which come by the love of money, and covetousnesse …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 335 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Citizens good and obedient to Laws. We have inſtances hereof in the Cretenſian and LacedemonianLacedaemonian Legiſlators: who made it the grand deſigne to promove Virtue. So l. 1. c. 9. he …
With rule
… Citizens good and obedient to Laws. We have inſtances hereof in the Cretenſian and LacedemonianLacedaemonian Legiſlators: who made it the grand deſigne to promove Virtue. So l. 1. c. 9. he …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… makes them, the lowest ranke of Kings. Iohn Bodin informes us, That in the LacedemonianLacedaemonian Aristocracie, the Soveraignty remained in the State, wherein were two Kings without any Soveraignty …
With rule
… makes them, the lowest ranke of Kings. Iohn Bodin informes us, That in the LacedemonianLacedaemonian Aristocracie, the Soveraignty remained in the State, wherein were two Kings without any Soveraignty …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Garden, and curyouſly to plant hys trees in ſeemly order. Nay, when Liſander, the LacedemonianLacedaemonian Legate, came to hym with preſentes, vaunted to him, that all hee ſawe, him …
With rule
… Garden, and curyouſly to plant hys trees in ſeemly order. Nay, when Liſander, the LacedemonianLacedaemonian Legate, came to hym with preſentes, vaunted to him, that all hee ſawe, him …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.