Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50503 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

anonymusAnonymous

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

Puritas changed it: 132 times in 55 works
Consistency: 94.9% (132 of 139)
Reach if approved: ~146 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 139 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (132 changes in 55 works, 94.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 132)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… passionate speech of a man besides himselfe, is no incongruitie. For as the herbe AnonymusAnonymous, got that name by the lacke of a name: and as the signe of …
With rule
… passionate speech of a man besides himselfe, is no incongruitie. For as the herbe AnonymusAnonymous, got that name by the lacke of a name: and as the signe of …
Humphrey Lynde · A Case for the Spectacles · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Popes chaire; and ſhall not we from God? It was a complaint of an AnonymusAnonymous in his Epiſtle to Calvin; (we hope through the bleſſing of God this Parliament …
With rule
… Popes chaire; and ſhall not we from God? It was a complaint of an AnonymusAnonymous in his Epiſtle to Calvin; (we hope through the bleſſing of God this Parliament …
Anthony Burgess · The Difficulty of and the Encouragements to a Reformation · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hour's Approbation with the King, with this Prelate, ſo much ſtruck at by the AnonymusAnonymous, or by any of the grave Council. Seditious Male-contents ſpread open ſuch a …
With rule
… hour's Approbation with the King, with this Prelate, ſo much ſtruck at by the AnonymusAnonymous, or by any of the grave Council. Seditious Male-contents ſpread open ſuch a …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the former and later Prophets; Rabbi Joseph coecus (or as some will a certaine AnonymusAnonymous) upon some of the Hagiographa. Those Paraphrases of Onkelos and Jonathan are the ancienter …
With rule
… the former and later Prophets; Rabbi Joseph coecus (or as some will a certaine AnonymusAnonymous) upon some of the Hagiographa. Those Paraphrases of Onkelos and Jonathan are the ancienter …
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
187. AnonymusAnonymous, an Infant dead before Baptiz'd.
With rule
187. AnonymusAnonymous, an Infant dead before Baptiz'd.
John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
6. A Letter to AnonymusAnonymous, in Anſwer to his Three Letters to Dr. Sherlock about Church-Communion.
With rule
6. A Letter to AnonymusAnonymous, in Anſwer to his Three Letters to Dr. Sherlock about Church-Communion.
Simon Patrick · About Tradition · Open in the reader
Printed
6. A Letter to AnonymusAnonymous, in answer to his three Letters to Dr. Sherlock about Church-Communion.
With rule
6. A Letter to AnonymusAnonymous, in answer to his three Letters to Dr. Sherlock about Church-Communion.
John Tillotson · A Discourse Against Transubstantiation · Open in the reader
Printed
The firſt I ſhall take notice of, is, the AnonymusAnonymous Doubts and Scruples recommended to the world by Dr. Gauden, and offered Sir, to …
With rule
The firſt I ſhall take notice of, is, the AnonymusAnonymous Doubts and Scruples recommended to the world by Dr. Gauden, and offered Sir, to …
Zachary Crofton · The Fastening of Saint Peters Fetters · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works Volume 4 A70318

Printed
§. 6. Sic cùm Pſeud-Ambroſius, ſeu, quiſquis ille fuerit, Author anonymusAnonymous Quaeſtionum in Vet. & Nov. Teſtam. In Alexandriâ, & per totam Aegyptum, ſi deſit Epiſcopus, conſecrare …
With rule
§. 6. Sic cùm Pſeud-Ambroſius, ſeu, quiſquis ille fuerit, Author anonymusAnonymous Quaeſtionum in Vet. & Nov. Teſtam. In Alexandriâ, & per totam Aegyptum, ſi deſit Epiſcopus, conſecrare …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 786 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſcripſit, praedicans, & Eccleſias, inquit ille, foreign (& poſtea in Pentapoli, ait vitae illius apud Photium Scriptor anonymusAnonymous) Apoſtolus ab eodem Euſebio, ut & ab Epiphanio, Lucae adjunctus, vocatur.
With rule
… ſcripſit, praedicans, & Eccleſias, inquit ille, foreign (& poſtea in Pentapoli, ait vitae illius apud Photium Scriptor anonymusAnonymous) Apoſtolus ab eodem Euſebio, ut & ab Epiphanio, Lucae adjunctus, vocatur.
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 795 · Open in the reader

A Case for the Spectacles B14661

Printed
… the whole Church; and howsoever the Iesuite would intimate that the Authour was an anonymusAnonymous, yet hee might have learned from their great Cardinall Hosius that hee was the …
With rule
… the whole Church; and howsoever the Iesuite would intimate that the Authour was an anonymusAnonymous, yet hee might have learned from their great Cardinall Hosius that hee was the …
Humphrey Lynde · A Case for the Spectacles · p. 3 · Open in the reader