Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50330 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋniversitiesUniversities

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

Puritas changed it: 202 times in 96 works
Consistency: 100% (202 of 202)
Reach if approved: ~224 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 213 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (202 changes in 96 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 202)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Country Ministers. I dare say, that they who sate at the stern in our ƲniversitiesUniversities heretofore such as Reynolds, Whittaker, Davenant, Prideaux, &c. would never have indured to see …
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… Country Ministers. I dare say, that they who sate at the stern in our ƲniversitiesUniversities heretofore such as Reynolds, Whittaker, Davenant, Prideaux, &c. would never have indured to see …
William Eyre · Justification Without Conditions · Open in the reader
Printed
March the 27^th. 1651. At the Comittee for Reformation of the ƲniverſitiesUniversities.
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March the 27^th. 1651. At the Comittee for Reformation of the ƲniverſitiesUniversities.
Charles Hotham · The Petition and Argument of Mr Hotham · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… times. Nay it were well, if yet at this day ſome pious Rectors of ƲniverſitiesUniversities and Schools of Learning would take up the ancienteſt and pureſt Copies, and perform …
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… times. Nay it were well, if yet at this day ſome pious Rectors of ƲniverſitiesUniversities and Schools of Learning would take up the ancienteſt and pureſt Copies, and perform …
Samuel Lee · The Joy of Faith · Open in the reader
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… Kings Chappell, and at Westminster at the Kings coronation, p. 67, to 71. 473, to 476. in the ƲniverſitiesUniversities of Oxford and Cambridge, p. 70, to 76. 476, to 479. in the Cathedrals of Glouceſter, Durham, Canterbury …
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… Kings Chappell, and at Westminster at the Kings coronation, p. 67, to 71. 473, to 476. in the ƲniverſitiesUniversities of Oxford and Cambridge, p. 70, to 76. 476, to 479. in the Cathedrals of Glouceſter, Durham, Canterbury …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · Open in the reader
Printed
… thouſands to their raſh Atheiſtical Entrance into their Callings. How many go to the ƲniverſitiesUniversities, and to Trades without any Senſe of Religion, of their Duty, of their Dangers …
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… thouſands to their raſh Atheiſtical Entrance into their Callings. How many go to the ƲniverſitiesUniversities, and to Trades without any Senſe of Religion, of their Duty, of their Dangers …
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… agreeable to the people, than Comedies or Satyrs, or Sarcaſms dealt out againſt the ƲniverſitiesUniversities: let us be ſure that we act no parts in them our ſelves, nor …
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… agreeable to the people, than Comedies or Satyrs, or Sarcaſms dealt out againſt the ƲniverſitiesUniversities: let us be ſure that we act no parts in them our ſelves, nor …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 631 · Open in the reader
Printed
V. It furthers the power of Religion, in Families, Villages, Townes, Cities, in ƲniverſitiesUniversities, and in Princes Palaces.
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V. It furthers the power of Religion, in Families, Villages, Townes, Cities, in ƲniverſitiesUniversities, and in Princes Palaces.
Richard Bernard · A Short View of the Prelatical Church of England 2 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of hopeful promising Parts, she wholly, or in a good measure maintained in the ƲniversitiesUniversities, allowing to some Thirty, to some Twenty, to some ten, to some eight, and …
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… of hopeful promising Parts, she wholly, or in a good measure maintained in the ƲniversitiesUniversities, allowing to some Thirty, to some Twenty, to some ten, to some eight, and …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 176 · 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.