Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50359 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

niniveNineveh

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

Puritas changed it: 185 times in 101 works
Consistency: 99.4% (185 of 186)
Reach if approved: ~195 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nineveh
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 186 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (185 changes in 101 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 185)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Yea, and Serious Children too, may make us all beholden to them. God spared NiniveNineveh, because of the Children in it; You Children that shall pray, and cry, and …
With rule
… Yea, and Serious Children too, may make us all beholden to them. God spared NiniveNineveh, because of the Children in it; You Children that shall pray, and cry, and …
Cotton Mather · The Present State of New England Considered · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Saviour inſtanceth firſt in the men of NiniveNineveh, affirming that the men of NiniveNineveh ſhall riſe in iudgement with this generations, and condemne it; for they repented at …
With rule
… our Saviour inſtanceth firſt in the men of NiniveNineveh, affirming that the men of NiniveNineveh ſhall riſe in iudgement with this generations, and condemne it; for they repented at …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
When the Lord threatned NiniveNineveh that it ſhould bee deſtroyed within forty dayes, and it was not deſtroyed; this …
With rule
When the Lord threatned NiniveNineveh that it ſhould bee deſtroyed within forty dayes, and it was not deſtroyed; this …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the cauſe of all, to be pride; and therefore after, when hee ſaw that NiniveNineveh was not deſtroyed, what a chafe was hee in? and was not this horrible …
With rule
… the cauſe of all, to be pride; and therefore after, when hee ſaw that NiniveNineveh was not deſtroyed, what a chafe was hee in? and was not this horrible …
Richard Capel · Temptations · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
With ſhame then turn'd to NiniveNineveh again,
With rule
With ſhame then turn'd to NiniveNineveh again,
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who fled to Tarſis when he was bound to have gone and Preached to NiniveNineveh; but their faults make the word of God loſe nothing either of its Truth …
With rule
… who fled to Tarſis when he was bound to have gone and Preached to NiniveNineveh; but their faults make the word of God loſe nothing either of its Truth …
Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
But what is now become of NiniveNineveh? it is even buried in its own ruines, and may have this Epitaph upon …
With rule
But what is now become of NiniveNineveh? it is even buried in its own ruines, and may have this Epitaph upon …
Thomas Fuller · Mixed Contemplations in Better Times · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whoſe Name was the Name NiniveNineveh given to the City built by him; and NiniveNineveh I find is all one with Ninus, in Herodotus, whoſe Kingdom began 1360 years before …
With rule
… whoſe Name was the Name NiniveNineveh given to the City built by him; and NiniveNineveh I find is all one with Ninus, in Herodotus, whoſe Kingdom began 1360 years before …
Joseph Hill · Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of Temples · p. 45 · 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.

A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners A33339

Printed
NIniveNineveh was first founded by Assur the son of Sem, Gen. 11. 10. enlarged by Ninus the …
With rule
NIniveNineveh was first founded by Assur the son of Sem, Gen. 11. 10. enlarged by Ninus the …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 596 · Open in the reader