Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50499 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sceptickSceptic

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

Puritas changed it: 141 times in 74 works
Consistency: 90.3% (141 of 156)
Reach if approved: ~164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sceptic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (141 changes in 74 works, 90.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 141)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and downe among us, and expatiate it ſelfe in the larger walkes of a SceptickSceptic, and ſeeme onely to enquire rationally touching the Beeing, and Providence of a Deity …
With rule
… and downe among us, and expatiate it ſelfe in the larger walkes of a SceptickSceptic, and ſeeme onely to enquire rationally touching the Beeing, and Providence of a Deity …
Henry Hurst · The Inability of Natural Man to Attain Right Knowledge · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reſtraint the Sword comes to at length, having both edge and point, if any SceptickSceptic will needs doubt, let him feel. It is alſo affirm'd from diligent ſearch made …
With rule
… reſtraint the Sword comes to at length, having both edge and point, if any SceptickSceptic will needs doubt, let him feel. It is alſo affirm'd from diligent ſearch made …
John Milton · The Sovereign Right and Power of the People Over Tyrants · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… evidenced it self (and still doth) by your constant attendance upon it. In this SceptickSceptic Age you have been Wise to Sobriety; in this Erroneous Age you have been …
With rule
… evidenced it self (and still doth) by your constant attendance upon it. In this SceptickSceptic Age you have been Wise to Sobriety; in this Erroneous Age you have been …
Samuel Slater · An Earnest Call to Family Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… truth. John 14. 17. the Scripture a moſt ſure word. 2 Pet. 1. 19. that here to be a SceptickSceptic is to be an Atheiſt, whilſt faith is above Science, and belief above Demonſtration …
With rule
… truth. John 14. 17. the Scripture a moſt ſure word. 2 Pet. 1. 19. that here to be a SceptickSceptic is to be an Atheiſt, whilſt faith is above Science, and belief above Demonſtration …
Anthony Tuckney · Forty Sermons · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Doctrines of faith; tis a good ſaying of Luther The holy Spirit is no SceptickSceptic, neither doth it write doubts or opinions in our hearts, but aſſertions more certaine …
With rule
… Doctrines of faith; tis a good ſaying of Luther The holy Spirit is no SceptickSceptic, neither doth it write doubts or opinions in our hearts, but aſſertions more certaine …
Thomas Edwards · The Casting Down of the Last and Strongest Hold of Satan · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he is to reap all this: And if any man be so much a SceptickSceptic, as not to have faith enough to put him on the adventure, I should …
With rule
… he is to reap all this: And if any man be so much a SceptickSceptic, as not to have faith enough to put him on the adventure, I should …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preſence of true Religion, and an iron hand inſtead of it, makes men Atheiſtick, SceptickSceptic and Fanatick, ever teeming into vain opinion, for want of ſolid goodneſs to reſt …
With rule
… preſence of true Religion, and an iron hand inſtead of it, makes men Atheiſtick, SceptickSceptic and Fanatick, ever teeming into vain opinion, for want of ſolid goodneſs to reſt …
Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is moved, that it may be removed. He reſteth not in doubting as a SceptickSceptic, as knowing that it is neither needleſſe, nor impoſſible, by ordinary diligence, to reſolve …
With rule
… is moved, that it may be removed. He reſteth not in doubting as a SceptickSceptic, as knowing that it is neither needleſſe, nor impoſſible, by ordinary diligence, to reſolve …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 293 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Existence and Attributes of God A32723

Printed
… ſelves to anſwer temptations: We know not what wicked temptation in a debauched and ſceptickSceptic Age, meeting with a corrupt heart, may prompt men to: And tho there may …
With rule
… ſelves to anſwer temptations: We know not what wicked temptation in a debauched and ſceptickSceptic Age, meeting with a corrupt heart, may prompt men to: And tho there may …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience A92140

Printed
… Timothy, or any one particular paſtor, and this is more than the directive and ſceptickSceptic teaching of one private Libertine, teaching (with a reſerve) convincing and condemning another in …
With rule
… Timothy, or any one particular paſtor, and this is more than the directive and ſceptickSceptic teaching of one private Libertine, teaching (with a reſerve) convincing and condemning another in …
Samuel Rutherford · Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience · p. 121 · Open in the reader