Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50447 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rhetoriqueRhetoric

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

Puritas changed it: 155 times in 82 works
Consistency: 92.8% (155 of 167)
Reach if approved: ~175 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rhetoric
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 167 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (155 changes in 82 works, 92.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
7. The Mistery of RhetoriqueRhetoric Unveil'd, Eminently delightfull, and profitable for young Scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling …
With rule
7. The Mistery of RhetoriqueRhetoric Unveil'd, Eminently delightfull, and profitable for young Scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling …
John Maynard · The Beauty and Order of Creation · Open in the reader
Printed
… the preaching of the word will not bring you to Heaven, neither would his RhetoriqueRhetoric do it who rose from the dead. In Heaven there will be no need …
With rule
… the preaching of the word will not bring you to Heaven, neither would his RhetoriqueRhetoric do it who rose from the dead. In Heaven there will be no need …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 499 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could teach her a tricke of new deuise in Schole: No painted speach of RhetoriqueRhetoric could qualifie her rage: No subtile Sophister could geue her the shift: No brag …
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… could teach her a tricke of new deuise in Schole: No painted speach of RhetoriqueRhetoric could qualifie her rage: No subtile Sophister could geue her the shift: No brag …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · Open in the reader
Printed
… made better uſe of his mercies, as Matth. 11.21. Theſe are grounds of this holy RhetoriqueRhetoric, which if by your ſelves you will work upon by meditation; Truſt me no …
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… made better uſe of his mercies, as Matth. 11.21. Theſe are grounds of this holy RhetoriqueRhetoric, which if by your ſelves you will work upon by meditation; Truſt me no …
William Sclater · Sermons Experimental · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will ſweare he was vnlearned, that would thinke any of Chriſtian ſtudie in Ebrew & RhetoriqueRhetoric could followe the Rabbin for ſtyle: and perpetuitie of ſpeach: with contempt of periodes …
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… will ſweare he was vnlearned, that would thinke any of Chriſtian ſtudie in Ebrew & RhetoriqueRhetoric could followe the Rabbin for ſtyle: and perpetuitie of ſpeach: with contempt of periodes …
Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpake by me, and his word was in my tongue; Not the ſpirit of RhetoriqueRhetoric, nor the ſpirit of Poetry, nor the ſpirit of Mathematiques, and Demonſtration, But, The …
With rule
… ſpake by me, and his word was in my tongue; Not the ſpirit of RhetoriqueRhetoric, nor the ſpirit of Poetry, nor the ſpirit of Mathematiques, and Demonſtration, But, The …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 561 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mercies. It is Clavis viscerum Dei, A preservative against all misery. Oh the divine RhetoriqueRhetoric, and omnipotent efficacie of Repentance! This is that Raine-bow, which if God seeth …
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… mercies. It is Clavis viscerum Dei, A preservative against all misery. Oh the divine RhetoriqueRhetoric, and omnipotent efficacie of Repentance! This is that Raine-bow, which if God seeth …
Edmund Calamy · Englands Looking Glass · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
Oh deare Sir, you your ſelfe can ſufficiently RhetoriqueRhetoric, what an unparallel'd plague it is, and an infandous curſe and miſery, for our …
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Oh deare Sir, you your ſelfe can ſufficiently RhetoriqueRhetoric, what an unparallel'd plague it is, and an infandous curſe and miſery, for our …
Nicholas Darton · Clear and Protestant Manifesto · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

4 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.

Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking A15295

Printed
… out of Aristotles RhetoriqueRhetoric. Agayne, wee must knowe hee speaketh of good in his rhetoriqueRhetoric as it is the subiect or matter of an Oratour. And what is that …
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… out of Aristotles RhetoriqueRhetoric. Agayne, wee must knowe hee speaketh of good in his rhetoriqueRhetoric as it is the subiect or matter of an Oratour. And what is that …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 76 · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
RHetoriqueRhetoric is an art to set furthe by vtteraunce of wordes, matter at large, or …
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RHetoriqueRhetoric is an art to set furthe by vtteraunce of wordes, matter at large, or …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 32-24 A35535

Printed
… ſupplications to God. Further, we may take the meaning plainly without any ſtraine of rhetoriqueRhetoric, Set thy words in order before me. Methode is good in every thing, either …
With rule
… ſupplications to God. Further, we may take the meaning plainly without any ſtraine of rhetoriqueRhetoric, Set thy words in order before me. Methode is good in every thing, either …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 32-24 · p. 177 · Open in the reader

The Saints Delight A96109

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… Tully when he comes to ſpeak of the death of the Croſſe, ſhews his rhetoriqueRhetoric beſt by an Apoſiopeſis, or ſilence; what ſhall I ſay of this death? Though …
With rule
… Tully when he comes to ſpeak of the death of the Croſſe, ſhews his rhetoriqueRhetoric beſt by an Apoſiopeſis, or ſilence; what ſhall I ſay of this death? Though …
Thomas Watson · The Saints Delight · p. 354 · Open in the reader