Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50487 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

belgiaBelgium

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

Puritas changed it: 131 times in 85 works
Consistency: 99.2% (131 of 132)
Reach if approved: ~139 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 132 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (131 changes in 85 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 131)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as appears in all the Confeſſions of all the Proteſtant Churches: As Helvetia, Bohemia, BelgiaBelgium, Auſpurg, Saxony, Wittenberg, Swedeland, France and Peidmont; and Hiſtories tell us 'tis practiſed by …
With rule
… as appears in all the Confeſſions of all the Proteſtant Churches: As Helvetia, Bohemia, BelgiaBelgium, Auſpurg, Saxony, Wittenberg, Swedeland, France and Peidmont; and Hiſtories tell us 'tis practiſed by …
Michael Harrison · Infant Baptism Gods Ordinance · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bloodie inquiſition he delivered unto death many thouſand martyrs in Italie, Spain, France, England, & BelgiaBelgium: when he enwrapt almoſt all the provinces of Europe in cruell warres, to ſuppreſſe …
With rule
… bloodie inquiſition he delivered unto death many thouſand martyrs in Italie, Spain, France, England, & BelgiaBelgium: when he enwrapt almoſt all the provinces of Europe in cruell warres, to ſuppreſſe …
David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now for the space of at least 100. years? What? In Geneva? In France? In BelgiaBelgium, and other places? Now therfore you must either plainly confesse this one Clause to …
With rule
… now for the space of at least 100. years? What? In Geneva? In France? In BelgiaBelgium, and other places? Now therfore you must either plainly confesse this one Clause to …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… continuance, in very many places, namely in Prouince, Sarmatia, Lyuonia, Bohemia, Morauia, Polonia, Sileſia, BelgiaBelgium, and in Calabria: and of you whereſoeuer, or whenſoeuer they were, they haue beene …
With rule
… continuance, in very many places, namely in Prouince, Sarmatia, Lyuonia, Bohemia, Morauia, Polonia, Sileſia, BelgiaBelgium, and in Calabria: and of you whereſoeuer, or whenſoeuer they were, they haue beene …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then into the adjuncts, and subjects, in which respect we call the Church of BelgiaBelgium, of Britany, of France, as we call the Sea according to the shores which …
With rule
… then into the adjuncts, and subjects, in which respect we call the Church of BelgiaBelgium, of Britany, of France, as we call the Sea according to the shores which …
William Ames · The Marrow of Sacred Divinity · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
… imposed Priests on Parish Churches till the Reformation: And since then, besides Helvetia and BelgiaBelgium, it is but few that do it. And even in England, it is not …
With rule
… imposed Priests on Parish Churches till the Reformation: And since then, besides Helvetia and BelgiaBelgium, it is but few that do it. And even in England, it is not …
Richard Baxter · The Defense of the Nonconformists Plea for Grace · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though they live diſperſedly among them! In Brandenburg, Haſſia, and many free Cities, and BelgiaBelgium, where Lutherans and Calviniſts (as called) live together, and own each other as Brethren …
With rule
… though they live diſperſedly among them! In Brandenburg, Haſſia, and many free Cities, and BelgiaBelgium, where Lutherans and Calviniſts (as called) live together, and own each other as Brethren …
Richard Baxter · Schism Detected in Both Extremes · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them Zuinglians, and affirming that all those which had suffered about that point in BelgiaBelgium, England, or France were the Divels Martyrs. At last Lascus returned into his owne …
With rule
… them Zuinglians, and affirming that all those which had suffered about that point in BelgiaBelgium, England, or France were the Divels Martyrs. At last Lascus returned into his owne …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 574 · 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.