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scepticksSkeptics

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

Puritas changed it
204 times in 128 works
Consistency
95.3% (204 of 214)
Reach if approved
~225 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: sceptics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
214 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (204 changes in 128 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 204)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Makes theſe his fixed Poles, whil'ſt ScepticksSkeptics toſt
    With rule
    Makes theſe his fixed Poles, whil'ſt ScepticksSkeptics toſt

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … power of Religion withered. And ah, that this preſent age, which yeildeth ſo many ScepticksSkeptics in Religion, had not withall increaſed the Spitals of decaied, unſound, ſpiritually ſick, lame …
    With rule
    … power of Religion withered. And ah, that this preſent age, which yeildeth ſo many ScepticksSkeptics in Religion, had not withall increaſed the Spitals of decaied, unſound, ſpiritually ſick, lame …

    Thomas Cobbet · A Practical Discourse of Prayer · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … after due consultation and consideration are past, wee ought not still to be neuters & ScepticksSkeptics, but absolutely to expresse and declare our selves on one side, as wee shall …
    With rule
    … after due consultation and consideration are past, wee ought not still to be neuters & ScepticksSkeptics, but absolutely to expresse and declare our selves on one side, as wee shall …

    Thomas Fuller · The Best Name on Earth · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of Atheiſts who call in queſtion the great things of Religion, they are firſt ScepticksSkeptics and Diſputants, then by degrees they grow Atheiſts and deny God; as one ſaith …
    With rule
    … of Atheiſts who call in queſtion the great things of Religion, they are firſt ScepticksSkeptics and Diſputants, then by degrees they grow Atheiſts and deny God; as one ſaith …

    Oliver Heywood · The Sure Mercies of David · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Caut. I speak not this as if we might dissemble our Religion, and like ScepticksSkeptics deny that to morrow which we hold to day, and so have a menstruous …
    With rule
    Caut. I speak not this as if we might dissemble our Religion, and like ScepticksSkeptics deny that to morrow which we hold to day, and so have a menstruous …

    Thomas Hall · Exposition of Amos 4-9 · p. 200 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    The usual way in these daies is to play the ScepticksSkeptics, and question almost every thing in Religion, and hold nothing, or else to place …
    With rule
    The usual way in these daies is to play the ScepticksSkeptics, and question almost every thing in Religion, and hold nothing, or else to place …

    Edward Leigh · Body of Divinity · p. 385 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    The ScepticksSkeptics put a fortaſſe vp on all things in the world. But ſaid S. Auſtine …
    With rule
    The ScepticksSkeptics put a fortaſſe vp on all things in the world. But ſaid S. Auſtine …

    Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the objects conveniently presented to his sense. There still remaineth one Argument which the ScepticksSkeptics were never able to confute, but will make them at any time to yield …
    With rule
    … the objects conveniently presented to his sense. There still remaineth one Argument which the ScepticksSkeptics were never able to confute, but will make them at any time to yield …

    Richard Baxter · The Crucifying of the World · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Jude 2 A87557

  • Printed
    … but ſuch as he warrants in, and rewards after the doing! Satans ſervants are ſcepticksSkeptics, and he puts them upon ſuch imployments, in the doing whereof they cannot know …
    With rule
    … but ſuch as he warrants in, and rewards after the doing! Satans ſervants are ſcepticksSkeptics, and he puts them upon ſuch imployments, in the doing whereof they cannot know …

    William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude 2 · p. 130 · Open in the reader

Three Decades of Sermons A96523

  • Printed
    … eyes are blinded, and God hath given them the ſpirit of ſlumber: Some Atheiſticall ſcepticksSkeptics we have now adaies, that fancy to themſelves a Platonick Chriſt, a Chim…ra …
    With rule
    … eyes are blinded, and God hath given them the ſpirit of ſlumber: Some Atheiſticall ſcepticksSkeptics we have now adaies, that fancy to themſelves a Platonick Chriſt, a Chim…ra …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 137 · Open in the reader