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africkeAfric

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

Puritas changed it
219 times in 68 works
Consistency
99.5% (219 of 220)
Reach if approved
~231 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: afric
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
220 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (219 changes in 68 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 219)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the 2 Punick war. Then (as Florus saith) the conquest of Macedon followed that of AfrickeAfric, then, that of Greece, & of Syria, & of all the rest in a huddle, carried …
    With rule
    … the 2 Punick war. Then (as Florus saith) the conquest of Macedon followed that of AfrickeAfric, then, that of Greece, & of Syria, & of all the rest in a huddle, carried …

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · The Accomplishment of the Prophecies · p. 225 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … precious things of Egypt, and the Cuſhites; That is, the neighbouring Nations, whether of AfrickeAfric, or Lybia, as in thoſe of ALGIERS, &c. or of the Arabians, in Scripture …
    With rule
    … precious things of Egypt, and the Cuſhites; That is, the neighbouring Nations, whether of AfrickeAfric, or Lybia, as in thoſe of ALGIERS, &c. or of the Arabians, in Scripture …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … forged Decretall Epiſtles of diuers Popes, are the Canons of many Prouincial Councels of AfrickeAfric, France, Spaine, &c. ſet forth by Iac. Merlin at Coleine 1530, and which hath been …
    With rule
    … forged Decretall Epiſtles of diuers Popes, are the Canons of many Prouincial Councels of AfrickeAfric, France, Spaine, &c. ſet forth by Iac. Merlin at Coleine 1530, and which hath been …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 765 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … almost. For so the godly doctors Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, both taught and worshipped in AfrickeAfric, the same doth Hierom and Damascene in Syria, Origen and Athanasius in Egypte. Denyse …
    With rule
    … almost. For so the godly doctors Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, both taught and worshipped in AfrickeAfric, the same doth Hierom and Damascene in Syria, Origen and Athanasius in Egypte. Denyse …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 358 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Nice, to prooue appeales from all places to Rome; so as the Bishops of AfrickeAfric were forced to send for the true copies of the saide Councell from Constantinople …
    With rule
    … Nice, to prooue appeales from all places to Rome; so as the Bishops of AfrickeAfric were forced to send for the true copies of the saide Councell from Constantinople …

    William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 349 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and euerie one abhorred of other for their monstruous thoughtes, neither the Seas, nor AfrickeAfric can bring foorth such monsters as mans heart in one houre. It is best …
    With rule
    … and euerie one abhorred of other for their monstruous thoughtes, neither the Seas, nor AfrickeAfric can bring foorth such monsters as mans heart in one houre. It is best …

    William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … clave to the rest of the schismatickes, that were eyther in Italy, or in AfrickeAfric, or in other countries, animated with that vaine confidence, that they did stand for …
    With rule
    … clave to the rest of the schismatickes, that were eyther in Italy, or in AfrickeAfric, or in other countries, animated with that vaine confidence, that they did stand for …

    James Ussher · The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a Generall of the Turkes being ouercome in battell by Charles the fifth in AfrickeAfric, where he often reuiled his Mahomet, and in exceeding bitternesse did curse him. Perhaps …
    With rule
    … a Generall of the Turkes being ouercome in battell by Charles the fifth in AfrickeAfric, where he often reuiled his Mahomet, and in exceeding bitternesse did curse him. Perhaps …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 74 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

  • Printed
    … this constitution (as d…sagreeable from GODS worde) was not regarded, because Bishops in AFRICKEAFRIC married, and had sonnes and daughters: and these are inhibite to marrie with Infideles …
    With rule
    … this constitution (as d…sagreeable from GODS worde) was not regarded, because Bishops in AFRICKEAFRIC married, and had sonnes and daughters: and these are inhibite to marrie with Infideles …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 82 · Open in the reader