Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50370 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

whitsontideWhitsuntide

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

Puritas changed it: 186 times in 110 works
Consistency: 95.8% (186 of 194)
Reach if approved: ~204 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: whitsuntide
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 194 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (186 changes in 110 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 186)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… yearely as the paſſeouer, the feaſt of vnleauened bread, of the firſt fruites of WhitſontideWhitsuntide, of trumpets, and of Tabernacles.
With rule
… yearely as the paſſeouer, the feaſt of vnleauened bread, of the firſt fruites of WhitſontideWhitsuntide, of trumpets, and of Tabernacles.
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
To ſtand in prayer and not to kneele, on all dayes betweene Eaſter and WhitſontideWhitsuntide, commended alſo as Apoſtolicall, Baſil. Tertul. Hieron. ibid.
With rule
To ſtand in prayer and not to kneele, on all dayes betweene Eaſter and WhitſontideWhitsuntide, commended alſo as Apoſtolicall, Baſil. Tertul. Hieron. ibid.
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of traditions: such as these; To stand and pray euery Sabboth from Easter to WhitsontideWhitsuntide; The Signe of the Crosse; to pray towards the East; the annointing of the …
With rule
… of traditions: such as these; To stand and pray euery Sabboth from Easter to WhitsontideWhitsuntide; The Signe of the Crosse; to pray towards the East; the annointing of the …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt, and the Holy Ghoſt out of office a weeke after Eaſter, or after WhitſontideWhitsuntide? Since man is naturally apt to multiply Gods, let us be Chriſtianly diligent, to …
With rule
… Chriſt, and the Holy Ghoſt out of office a weeke after Eaſter, or after WhitſontideWhitsuntide? Since man is naturally apt to multiply Gods, let us be Chriſtianly diligent, to …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 485 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they were tyed to come to the Biſhops Church for communion but at Eaſter, WhitſontideWhitsuntide, or ſome great and rare ſeaſons: After that they were ſo many and far …
With rule
… they were tyed to come to the Biſhops Church for communion but at Eaſter, WhitſontideWhitsuntide, or ſome great and rare ſeaſons: After that they were ſo many and far …
Richard Baxter · The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches · p. 241 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moneth Nisan; from which day were reckoned the fifty dayes ended at Pentecost, or WhitsontideWhitsuntide, reckoning that second day inclusively. Pentecost, or WhitsontideWhitsuntide was kept in memoriall, first of …
With rule
… moneth Nisan; from which day were reckoned the fifty dayes ended at Pentecost, or WhitsontideWhitsuntide, reckoning that second day inclusively. Pentecost, or WhitsontideWhitsuntide was kept in memoriall, first of …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… every one at leaſt ought to communicate thrice a yeere, at Chriſtmas, Eaſter, and WhitſontideWhitsuntide: howbeit we are not ſo much to regard the ſeaſon of the yeere, as …
With rule
… every one at leaſt ought to communicate thrice a yeere, at Chriſtmas, Eaſter, and WhitſontideWhitsuntide: howbeit we are not ſo much to regard the ſeaſon of the yeere, as …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 861 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is, absolution and regeneration. Therefore also primative Christians clad their servants in white at WhitsontideWhitsuntide, in token of their manumission: which may well admonish Ministers to whom God hath …
With rule
… is, absolution and regeneration. Therefore also primative Christians clad their servants in white at WhitsontideWhitsuntide, in token of their manumission: which may well admonish Ministers to whom God hath …
John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

Printed
… his brother, he was woūded by one y^t was ſuborned to kill him. About whitſontideWhitsuntide after, the K. aſſēbled his hoſt, & entended to make war againſt them, & vowed to …
With rule
… his brother, he was woūded by one y^t was ſuborned to kill him. About whitſontideWhitsuntide after, the K. aſſēbled his hoſt, & entended to make war againſt them, & vowed to …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

Printed
… what is your true whitsontyd and pentecost, Whiche is much more glorious, than the whitsontideWhitsuntide of the Iewes. For the holye Ghoste is shedforth vpon all fleshe, that we …
With rule
… what is your true whitsontyd and pentecost, Whiche is much more glorious, than the whitsontideWhitsuntide of the Iewes. For the holye Ghoste is shedforth vpon all fleshe, that we …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 280 · Open in the reader

A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths A20303

Printed
… the true meaning, and maketh onely this change, in stead of Christmasse, Easter, and whitsontideWhitsuntide, he saith, thrise in the yeare, and in doing so, what blame deserueth he …
With rule
… the true meaning, and maketh onely this change, in stead of Christmasse, Easter, and whitsontideWhitsuntide, he saith, thrise in the yeare, and in doing so, what blame deserueth he …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 159 · Open in the reader