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macchabeesMaccabees

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

Puritas changed it
243 times in 106 works
Consistency
98.7% (243 of 246)
Reach if approved
~258 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
246 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (243 changes in 106 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 243)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be better knowne to us all, which is written in the second booke of MacchabeesMaccabees, of Nicanor the Iewes enemy, who would needs set upon them on the Sabbath …
    With rule
    … be better knowne to us all, which is written in the second booke of MacchabeesMaccabees, of Nicanor the Iewes enemy, who would needs set upon them on the Sabbath …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in the Churches, yea, in the time of Augustine, and by Augustine himself: The MacchabeesMaccabees was not received into the Canon of Scripture, though esteemed by some as Canonical.
    With rule
    … in the Churches, yea, in the time of Augustine, and by Augustine himself: The MacchabeesMaccabees was not received into the Canon of Scripture, though esteemed by some as Canonical.

    Thomas Grantham · The Ancient Christian Religion · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … moved on Earth in a Fiery Chariot, foreign, ſaith the Author of the Book of MacchabeesMaccabees; his zeal had fire and fire again (foreign comes from foreign an exceſſive fervency) and agreeable …
    With rule
    … moved on Earth in a Fiery Chariot, foreign, ſaith the Author of the Book of MacchabeesMaccabees; his zeal had fire and fire again (foreign comes from foreign an exceſſive fervency) and agreeable …

    Henry Hammond · Sermons · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … we wist not what. Sometimes ending their talke, as doth the history of the MacchabeesMaccabees, if we haue done, wel, & aa the cause required it is that we desire …
    With rule
    … we wist not what. Sometimes ending their talke, as doth the history of the MacchabeesMaccabees, if we haue done, wel, & aa the cause required it is that we desire …

    Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in Politie. But being after deliuered from Macedonian thraldome by the Familie of the MacchabeesMaccabees, the Gouernment, Ecclesiasticall and Temporall, became theirs, but the mindes of this Iewish people …
    With rule
    … in Politie. But being after deliuered from Macedonian thraldome by the Familie of the MacchabeesMaccabees, the Gouernment, Ecclesiasticall and Temporall, became theirs, but the mindes of this Iewish people …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 117 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … nouriſhed by his owne mother, and the mother of the ſeven ſonnes in the MacchabeesMaccabees, 2 Macch. 7. nouriſhed her owne ſonnes, and Auguſtine ſaith in his book of confeſſions that …
    With rule
    … nouriſhed by his owne mother, and the mother of the ſeven ſonnes in the MacchabeesMaccabees, 2 Macch. 7. nouriſhed her owne ſonnes, and Auguſtine ſaith in his book of confeſſions that …

    John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    2. The booke of MacchabeesMaccabees, which is Scripture with them, saith, 1. chap. 2. 58. Elias was taken vp, foreign: vsque, euen into …
    With rule
    2. The booke of MacchabeesMaccabees, which is Scripture with them, saith, 1. chap. 2. 58. Elias was taken vp, foreign: vsque, euen into …

    Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … our cōſolation, that which Ben-Gorian, or the Author of the 2. booke of the MacchabeesMaccabees hath written for the cōfort of all them that read his book: I beſeech …
    With rule
    … our cōſolation, that which Ben-Gorian, or the Author of the 2. booke of the MacchabeesMaccabees hath written for the cōfort of all them that read his book: I beſeech …

    John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 314 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Annals of the World A64619

  • Printed
    Containing the HISTORIE Of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT. With that of the MACCHABEESMACCABEES.
    With rule
    Containing the HISTORIE Of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT. With that of the MACCHABEESMACCABEES.

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … OF JAMES USSHER, Arch-Bishop of Armagh: Wherein is contained (besides that of the MACCHABEESMACCABEES AND NEW TESTAMENT) The HISTORY of all the remarkable Occurrences transacted during the ROMAN …
    With rule
    … OF JAMES USSHER, Arch-Bishop of Armagh: Wherein is contained (besides that of the MACCHABEESMACCABEES AND NEW TESTAMENT) The HISTORY of all the remarkable Occurrences transacted during the ROMAN …

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Asiatic and Egyptian Affaires, carried on from the beginning of the times of the MACCHABEESMACCABEES, untill the Destruction of the Jewish Common-wealth under Vespasian.
    With rule
    … Asiatic and Egyptian Affaires, carried on from the beginning of the times of the MACCHABEESMACCABEES, untill the Destruction of the Jewish Common-wealth under Vespasian.

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 409 · Open in the reader