Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50523 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

afrikeAfric

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 31 works
Consistency: 98.3% (120 of 122)
Reach if approved: ~128 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: africa
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 122 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 31 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Monoth…lites: but after the death of the Emperour Heraclius, Pyrrhus returned from AfrikeAfric, where he had remained a space in banishment, he came to Rome, recanted his …
With rule
… the Monoth…lites: but after the death of the Emperour Heraclius, Pyrrhus returned from AfrikeAfric, where he had remained a space in banishment, he came to Rome, recanted his …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the firſt Biſhop of Carthage, who admitted the Popes power ouer the Churches of AfrikeAfric. ibid.
With rule
… the firſt Biſhop of Carthage, who admitted the Popes power ouer the Churches of AfrikeAfric. ibid.
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his mouth after the woman, ſo great abondance of waters into Europe and AfrikeAfric; it is alſo apparant enough that the woman fled from the Eaſt into theſe …
With rule
… of his mouth after the woman, ſo great abondance of waters into Europe and AfrikeAfric; it is alſo apparant enough that the woman fled from the Eaſt into theſe …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 342 · Open in the reader
Printed
… those Hemispheres; All Europe is in that, and in that is all Asia, and AfrikeAfric too: So that when we haue seene that Hemisphere, done with that, we might …
With rule
… those Hemispheres; All Europe is in that, and in that is all Asia, and AfrikeAfric too: So that when we haue seene that Hemisphere, done with that, we might …
John Donne · Sermon Upon Judges 5:20 · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… compaſſe ſea and land, crack of what converſions they have wrought in India and AfrikeAfric, and Lampadius-like take it ill at any mans hand that commend them not …
With rule
… compaſſe ſea and land, crack of what converſions they have wrought in India and AfrikeAfric, and Lampadius-like take it ill at any mans hand that commend them not …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… demand, nor ſhall we be left to pay. Scipio Africanus, being about to invade AfrikeAfric, and carry the war to the gates of Carthage, prudently ſeeing that a State …
With rule
… demand, nor ſhall we be left to pay. Scipio Africanus, being about to invade AfrikeAfric, and carry the war to the gates of Carthage, prudently ſeeing that a State …
George Wither · The Modern Statesman · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Donatiſt in AfrikeAfric fauoured this opinion about the yere 298.
With rule
The Donatiſt in AfrikeAfric fauoured this opinion about the yere 298.
John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
AfrikeAfric. In Africa more then 400 years after Chriſt there were ſome four and fortie of …
With rule
AfrikeAfric. In Africa more then 400 years after Chriſt there were ſome four and fortie of …
Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

Printed
EVROPE and AFRIKEAFRIC underſtood it rather by hearing then in very deeded. VALENS and ƲRSATIVS Biſhops, the …
With rule
EVROPE and AFRIKEAFRIC underſtood it rather by hearing then in very deeded. VALENS and ƲRSATIVS Biſhops, the …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 225 · Open in the reader