Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50364 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ethnicksEthnics

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

Puritas changed it: 187 times in 126 works
Consistency: 97.4% (187 of 192)
Reach if approved: ~202 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ethnics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 192 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (187 changes in 126 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 187)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were counted Chriſtian Princes, but under that name they carryed the cruelty af the EthnicksEthnics. Therefore the Dragon graunted noe truce, but being expelled from heaven, vexed the woman …
With rule
… were counted Chriſtian Princes, but under that name they carryed the cruelty af the EthnicksEthnics. Therefore the Dragon graunted noe truce, but being expelled from heaven, vexed the woman …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… waſh out, nor length of time weare off. O lamentable▪ when the Turkes and EthnicksEthnics out-ſtrip vs in their cloudy and ignorant zeale: they will diſpute in the …
With rule
… waſh out, nor length of time weare off. O lamentable▪ when the Turkes and EthnicksEthnics out-ſtrip vs in their cloudy and ignorant zeale: they will diſpute in the …
Peter du Moulin Jr · Meditations Upon the Misery of Mankind · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Devils and damned ſpirits, in thoſe torments that are endleſs, eaſleſs, and remedileſs. The EthnicksEthnics feign, that their Gods and Goddeſſes loved ſome certain Trees, for ſome lovely good …
With rule
… Devils and damned ſpirits, in thoſe torments that are endleſs, eaſleſs, and remedileſs. The EthnicksEthnics feign, that their Gods and Goddeſſes loved ſome certain Trees, for ſome lovely good …
Thomas Brooks · An Ark for All Gods Noahs · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Dr. Fulk) Take away those things from the Hereticks, which they hold with EthnicksEthnics, that they may stay their Questions upon Scripture only.
With rule
… to Dr. Fulk) Take away those things from the Hereticks, which they hold with EthnicksEthnics, that they may stay their Questions upon Scripture only.
Thomas Grantham · The Ancient Christian Religion · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proclaime them Hereticks that were ſaid to doe ſuch deeds. Becauſe the ſhameleſſe lying EthnicksEthnics put ſuch things upon the Chriſtians, by the malice of the Devill invented, onely …
With rule
… proclaime them Hereticks that were ſaid to doe ſuch deeds. Becauſe the ſhameleſſe lying EthnicksEthnics put ſuch things upon the Chriſtians, by the malice of the Devill invented, onely …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was receaued of the EthnicksEthnics, but ſomewhat reformed, and in better order. For the EthnicksEthnics alſo gaue theyr feaſ…es in the Churches, at theyr byrth dayes and burial …
With rule
… was receaued of the EthnicksEthnics, but ſomewhat reformed, and in better order. For the EthnicksEthnics alſo gaue theyr feaſ…es in the Churches, at theyr byrth dayes and burial …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · Open in the reader
Printed
… attributed to fortune: Their reason is this, who knoweth not that unto fortune, the EthnicksEthnics ascribe all perverse and pestilent wickednesse. Answ. Herein they wander from the truth, and …
With rule
… attributed to fortune: Their reason is this, who knoweth not that unto fortune, the EthnicksEthnics ascribe all perverse and pestilent wickednesse. Answ. Herein they wander from the truth, and …
Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
To Iewes, or EthnicksEthnics, backe ſhall turned bee.
With rule
To Iewes, or EthnicksEthnics, backe ſhall turned bee.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 219 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

Printed
… case to be instructed. for what was he euer yet amongest the most ignorant ethnicksEthnics so foolishe or so presumpteous, but that he did confesse that the workes and …
With rule
… case to be instructed. for what was he euer yet amongest the most ignorant ethnicksEthnics so foolishe or so presumpteous, but that he did confesse that the workes and …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 302 · Open in the reader