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christansChristians

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

Puritas changed it
114 times in 106 works
Consistency
98.2% (114 of 116)
Reach if approved
~122 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
116 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (114 changes in 106 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 114)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ancient Iewiſh practiſe againſt Chriſtian religion? Who if at any time any of the ChriſtansChristians fell into any ſcandalous euill, fell a rayling vpon Chriſt, and the ſacred Scriptures …
    With rule
    … ancient Iewiſh practiſe againſt Chriſtian religion? Who if at any time any of the ChriſtansChristians fell into any ſcandalous euill, fell a rayling vpon Chriſt, and the ſacred Scriptures …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … dissolves many of our Saviour's Precepts, by teaching they are not Laws obliging all ChristansChristians to Obedience, that will attain to eternal Life, but Counsels of Perfection: if they …
    With rule
    … dissolves many of our Saviour's Precepts, by teaching they are not Laws obliging all ChristansChristians to Obedience, that will attain to eternal Life, but Counsels of Perfection: if they …

    William Bates · The Sovereign and Final Happiness of Man with Means to Obtain it · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … life, we uſing our Friends as our ſelves. As we read of the primitive ChriſtansChristians, Act. 4.32. Neither ſaid any of them, that ought of the things that he poſſeſſed …
    With rule
    … life, we uſing our Friends as our ſelves. As we read of the primitive ChriſtansChristians, Act. 4.32. Neither ſaid any of them, that ought of the things that he poſſeſſed …

    John Barret · The Christian Temper · p. 220 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and remarkable deliverances as ever the Jewes had? some common with us to all ChristansChristians, as the second birth day of the world at the birth of our Saviour …
    With rule
    … and remarkable deliverances as ever the Jewes had? some common with us to all ChristansChristians, as the second birth day of the world at the birth of our Saviour …

    Thomas Fuller · The Best Name on Earth · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … stiles them the Chairs of Pestilence, and concludes that it is not Lawful for ChristansChristians to be present at such Plays. Lactantius saith of them, That they are the …
    With rule
    … stiles them the Chairs of Pestilence, and concludes that it is not Lawful for ChristansChristians to be present at such Plays. Lactantius saith of them, That they are the …

    Increase Mather · Testimony Against Profane and Superstitious Customs · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … captive, and almoſt all their Navy with rich ſpoile came into the handes of ChriſtansChristians: 14000. captive Chriſtians were delivered. An. 1575. Maximilian ſought by many meanes to have been choſen …
    With rule
    … captive, and almoſt all their Navy with rich ſpoile came into the handes of ChriſtansChristians: 14000. captive Chriſtians were delivered. An. 1575. Maximilian ſought by many meanes to have been choſen …

    Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Iewes is for Swine: The Religiō of Mahumetanes is for Chidren: The Religiō of ChristansChristians is of impossibilies: Therefore Anima mea cum Philosophis, my soule with the Philosophs. So …
    With rule
    … Iewes is for Swine: The Religiō of Mahumetanes is for Chidren: The Religiō of ChristansChristians is of impossibilies: Therefore Anima mea cum Philosophis, my soule with the Philosophs. So …

    William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … were laide againſt him. So at this day though inwarde brawles which are among ChriſtansChristians, doe defame the name of Chriſte and his Goſpell among the Turkes and Iewes …
    With rule
    … were laide againſt him. So at this day though inwarde brawles which are among ChriſtansChristians, doe defame the name of Chriſte and his Goſpell among the Turkes and Iewes …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · p. 556 · 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.

The Storming of Antichrist A76800

  • Printed
    … contrary to that which the true Istine writes, in his Second apologie for the chriſtansChristians, to the Emeperour Antoninus; where he ſaith, whoſoever are perſwaded and beleeve thoſe things …
    With rule
    … contrary to that which the true Istine writes, in his Second apologie for the chriſtansChristians, to the Emeperour Antoninus; where he ſaith, whoſoever are perſwaded and beleeve thoſe things …

    Christopher Blackwood · The Storming of Antichrist · p. 26 · Open in the reader