Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50468 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ethnickesEthnics

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

Puritas changed it: 136 times in 60 works
Consistency: 99.2% (136 of 137)
Reach if approved: ~144 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ethnics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 137 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (136 changes in 60 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 136)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that in times past even frō the beginning of the world, there were more EthnickesEthnics, then are Saracens since the daies of Mahomet, or true Christians since Christs time …
With rule
… that in times past even frō the beginning of the world, there were more EthnickesEthnics, then are Saracens since the daies of Mahomet, or true Christians since Christs time …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be clad vuith the spiders vueb: he anſwereth, that the Pope, as the EthnickesEthnics, may make good lawes: which is vntrue, in matters belonging to the church, eſpecially …
With rule
… to be clad vuith the spiders vueb: he anſwereth, that the Pope, as the EthnickesEthnics, may make good lawes: which is vntrue, in matters belonging to the church, eſpecially …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were the plagues and iuſte vengeance powred vpon the kinges, princes & people, dyd verie EthnickesEthnics thē ſelues giue teſtimonie & record. Their land & cities were ſpoyled, burnt and left deſolate …
With rule
… were the plagues and iuſte vengeance powred vpon the kinges, princes & people, dyd verie EthnickesEthnics thē ſelues giue teſtimonie & record. Their land & cities were ſpoyled, burnt and left deſolate …
John Knox · Letter to Ministers in Geneva · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Natures law vnlawfull? I might here produce many goodly sentences, many notable examples of EthnickesEthnics, and Pagans, to shew vnto you the iust punishment, which for the most part …
With rule
… Natures law vnlawfull? I might here produce many goodly sentences, many notable examples of EthnickesEthnics, and Pagans, to shew vnto you the iust punishment, which for the most part …
Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this ſobrietie is, that keepeth vs frō ſurfetting with theſe tranſitorie things. The very EthnickesEthnics hane found & taught that there is a bleſſing, which a good men hathmay iynde …
With rule
… this ſobrietie is, that keepeth vs frō ſurfetting with theſe tranſitorie things. The very EthnickesEthnics hane found & taught that there is a bleſſing, which a good men hathmay iynde …
John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Egyptians, that Moſes wrote long before Orpheus, Linus, Amphyon, Homer, or the moſt ancient EthnickesEthnics. Now the Bookes of Moſes are in effect the whole Scriptures, all that followeth …
With rule
… Egyptians, that Moſes wrote long before Orpheus, Linus, Amphyon, Homer, or the moſt ancient EthnickesEthnics. Now the Bookes of Moſes are in effect the whole Scriptures, all that followeth …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 548 · Open in the reader
Printed
The superstitious EthnickesEthnics had a Tradition among them, That if euer mans hand did offer violence to …
With rule
The superstitious EthnickesEthnics had a Tradition among them, That if euer mans hand did offer violence to …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 483 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the other declareth, that adoration of reliques at this time, was the custome of EthnickesEthnics: supplication is appointed to be made to the Emperors, that reliques which are found …
With rule
… the other declareth, that adoration of reliques at this time, was the custome of EthnickesEthnics: supplication is appointed to be made to the Emperors, that reliques which are found …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 571 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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