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vniversitieUniversity

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

Puritas changed it
168 times in 102 works
Consistency
92.8% (168 of 181)
Reach if approved
~190 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: university
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
181 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (168 changes in 102 works, 92.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 168)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … are partes of worship improperly, and in a sorte. So in deed at the VniversitieUniversity, amonge Sophisters impropriè, laxè, modo quodam, quodammodo, are woont to helpe at a dead …
    With rule
    … are partes of worship improperly, and in a sorte. So in deed at the VniversitieUniversity, amonge Sophisters impropriè, laxè, modo quodam, quodammodo, are woont to helpe at a dead …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Printed by the printers to the VniversitieUniversity of Cambridge. 1633.
    With rule
    Printed by the printers to the VniversitieUniversity of Cambridge. 1633.

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Archebishope of Cāterbury, who patriarchally tendered your peace. Fourthly vvith atteſtatiō from the famous VniverſitieUniversity of Oxford vnder their ſeale, & from the Cathedrall Church, vvhere I haue bene a …
    With rule
    … Archebishope of Cāterbury, who patriarchally tendered your peace. Fourthly vvith atteſtatiō from the famous VniverſitieUniversity of Oxford vnder their ſeale, & from the Cathedrall Church, vvhere I haue bene a …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT, Printer to the VniversitieUniversity of Cambridge. 1604
    With rule
    PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT, Printer to the VniversitieUniversity of Cambridge. 1604

    William Perkins · Cases of Conscience Part 1 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    To you my brethren of the VniversitieUniversity, I must say somwhat In the 2. King. 4. it is said that when the famine …
    With rule
    To you my brethren of the VniversitieUniversity, I must say somwhat In the 2. King. 4. it is said that when the famine …

    John Rainolds · The Discovery of the Man of Sin · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Printed at Oxforde by IOSEPH BARNES, Printer to the VniverſitieUniversity. 1591.
    With rule
    Printed at Oxforde by IOSEPH BARNES, Printer to the VniverſitieUniversity. 1591.

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Diſputed by D. Zach. Vrſine in the VniverſitieUniversity of Heidelberge for his degree of Doctorſhip, an. 1562.
    With rule
    Diſputed by D. Zach. Vrſine in the VniverſitieUniversity of Heidelberge for his degree of Doctorſhip, an. 1562.

    Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … which were seldome and sleightly performed before. And such was his esteeme in the VniversitieUniversity for his publike disputations, which he ever performed with such readinesse and acutenesse of …
    With rule
    … which were seldome and sleightly performed before. And such was his esteeme in the VniversitieUniversity for his publike disputations, which he ever performed with such readinesse and acutenesse of …

    Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford A08356

  • Printed
    … LORD ELLESMERE, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, AND THE MVCH HONOVRED CHANCELLOR OF THE VNIVERSITIEUNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
    With rule
    … LORD ELLESMERE, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, AND THE MVCH HONOVRED CHANCELLOR OF THE VNIVERSITIEUNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

  • Printed
    … be wiselie cutt off by the faithfull: as if, in a Sermon to the vniversitieUniversity, expounding that of Iob, I made a covenant with mine eyes, I should tell …
    With rule
    … be wiselie cutt off by the faithfull: as if, in a Sermon to the vniversitieUniversity, expounding that of Iob, I made a covenant with mine eyes, I should tell …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … reference to the Sermon rather which was preached in the publike audience of the vniversitieUniversity, then to letters written in private vnto you. Howbeit, whethersoeuer of vs it toucheth …
    With rule
    … reference to the Sermon rather which was preached in the publike audience of the vniversitieUniversity, then to letters written in private vnto you. Howbeit, whethersoeuer of vs it toucheth …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … bee read at all to youths of tender yeares. Wherevnto a light of our vniversitieUniversity and country, D. Humfrye, subscribeth and agreeth, in that vpon occasion of shewing how …
    With rule
    … bee read at all to youths of tender yeares. Wherevnto a light of our vniversitieUniversity and country, D. Humfrye, subscribeth and agreeth, in that vpon occasion of shewing how …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 121 · Open in the reader