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hunnesHuns

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

Puritas changed it
133 times in 76 works
Consistency
97.7% (133 of 136)
Reach if approved
~143 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: huns
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
136 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 76 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the lawe, and beginning of grace: and maketh it like vnto this speach: the HunnesHuns raigned vs que ad Attylam regem, vnto king Attylas, that is, vnto his death …
    With rule
    … the lawe, and beginning of grace: and maketh it like vnto this speach: the HunnesHuns raigned vs que ad Attylam regem, vnto king Attylas, that is, vnto his death …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 251 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … then learning being ſmothered by the inundation of the barbarous nations, the Gothes, the HunnesHuns, the French, the Vandales, &c. And theſe lights of the primitiue Church extinct, whiles …
    With rule
    … then learning being ſmothered by the inundation of the barbarous nations, the Gothes, the HunnesHuns, the French, the Vandales, &c. And theſe lights of the primitiue Church extinct, whiles …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory · p. 392 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Papiſts could not always plead this argument; time hath been when the Goths, Vandals, HunnesHuns, and Turks, have been more proſperous then they. The Emperor, Henry the fourth, was …
    With rule
    … Papiſts could not always plead this argument; time hath been when the Goths, Vandals, HunnesHuns, and Turks, have been more proſperous then they. The Emperor, Henry the fourth, was …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Moses Choice · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of the victory through the vertue and power of their art: Like as the HunnesHuns (by thoſe very means) had formerly done againſt Sigebert King of France.
    With rule
    … of the victory through the vertue and power of their art: Like as the HunnesHuns (by thoſe very means) had formerly done againſt Sigebert King of France.

    John Gaule · Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations · p. 342 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the dust she trod on; viz. 1 Alaricus and his West-Gothes, 2 Attilas and his HunnesHuns, 3 Gensericus and his Vandals, 4 Odoacer, 5 Theodoricus and his East-Goths, 6 Totilas and his Spaniards …
    With rule
    … the dust she trod on; viz. 1 Alaricus and his West-Gothes, 2 Attilas and his HunnesHuns, 3 Gensericus and his Vandals, 4 Odoacer, 5 Theodoricus and his East-Goths, 6 Totilas and his Spaniards …

    William Prynne · Sad and Serious Political Considerations · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … exaltation, and make them know themſelves to be but men. Attilas, king of the HunnesHuns, proudly gave out, that the ſtarres fell before him, the earth trembled at his …
    With rule
    … exaltation, and make them know themſelves to be but men. Attilas, king of the HunnesHuns, proudly gave out, that the ſtarres fell before him, the earth trembled at his …

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 456 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Dioclesian; the second, by the inuading of Gnarius and Melga, one captaine of the HunnesHuns, the other of the Picts, after they had slaughtered 11000. Uirgines, as before made a …
    With rule
    … Dioclesian; the second, by the inuading of Gnarius and Melga, one captaine of the HunnesHuns, the other of the Picts, after they had slaughtered 11000. Uirgines, as before made a …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … S. Auguſtine, that his city Hippo being beſiged, & hauing bin, by the Vādals, Goths, & HunnesHuns, ſome 3. or 4. months: ſome ten months before it was takē, burnt & conſumed, & the people …
    With rule
    … S. Auguſtine, that his city Hippo being beſiged, & hauing bin, by the Vādals, Goths, & HunnesHuns, ſome 3. or 4. months: ſome ten months before it was takē, burnt & conſumed, & the people …

    Thomas Sparke · Sermon 22 November 1593 · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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