Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50533 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cynickCynic

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

Puritas changed it: 119 times in 79 works
Consistency: 97.5% (119 of 122)
Reach if approved: ~128 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cynic
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 (119 changes in 79 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 119)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… would not from him, nor seeke to any other but him: As Diogenes the CynickCynic somtime told his Master Antisthenes, there was no cudgell so crabbed that could driue …
With rule
… would not from him, nor seeke to any other but him: As Diogenes the CynickCynic somtime told his Master Antisthenes, there was no cudgell so crabbed that could driue …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was not enough to say that Diogenes was a Philosopher, but he was a CynickCynic: such a one was an Epicurean, another a Peripa…eticke, this an Academike, that …
With rule
… was not enough to say that Diogenes was a Philosopher, but he was a CynickCynic: such a one was an Epicurean, another a Peripa…eticke, this an Academike, that …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
THe CynickCynic in his Tub, found more content,
With rule
THe CynickCynic in his Tub, found more content,
Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… near alliance) ſet for the object, Senſual pleaſures, Riches, and Honors: Which, as the CynickCynic wittily expreſſeth it, are the maſques of Vices; yea, and the fuel of them …
With rule
… near alliance) ſet for the object, Senſual pleaſures, Riches, and Honors: Which, as the CynickCynic wittily expreſſeth it, are the maſques of Vices; yea, and the fuel of them …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pray you take heed you do not deserve the like sharp repartee; which the CynickCynic met with from that noble Philosopher, that he taxed his pride with greater pride …
With rule
… pray you take heed you do not deserve the like sharp repartee; which the CynickCynic met with from that noble Philosopher, that he taxed his pride with greater pride …
John Howe · Letter to a Person Who Took Offense at Stillingfleets Sermon · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fifth, ſixth, Henry the eighth, Queen Elizabeth, or King James, would be reputed a CynickCynic, Fantaſtick, or Fanatick (eſpecially at Court) and the very boyes in the ſtreets would …
With rule
… fifth, ſixth, Henry the eighth, Queen Elizabeth, or King James, would be reputed a CynickCynic, Fantaſtick, or Fanatick (eſpecially at Court) and the very boyes in the ſtreets would …
William Prynne · Why Some do Not Conform to Common Prayer · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is ſtoried of a Philoſopher (if I miſtake not) the CynickCynic, Diogenes, that he went with a Lanthorn and candle at high noon into the …
With rule
It is ſtoried of a Philoſopher (if I miſtake not) the CynickCynic, Diogenes, that he went with a Lanthorn and candle at high noon into the …
Ralph Venning · Warning to Backsliders · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Grace comes not to deſtroy, but eſtabliſh civilitie; it teacheth no man to be CynickCynic, moroſe, crabbed, auſtere, to humane order, calling, relation, but it ſiveetens thoſe boſoms wherein …
With rule
… Grace comes not to deſtroy, but eſtabliſh civilitie; it teacheth no man to be CynickCynic, moroſe, crabbed, auſtere, to humane order, calling, relation, but it ſiveetens thoſe boſoms wherein …
Nicholas Clagett · The Abuse of Gods Grace · p. 207 · 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.