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ethnikeEthnic

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

Puritas changed it
95 times in 28 works
Consistency
95.9% (95 of 99)
Reach if approved
~104 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ethnic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
99 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (95 changes in 28 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 95)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the haires of thy head, and that thou haſt liued like a Pagan or EthnikeEthnic, which knew not what God was. After that, runne ouer both the Tables of …
    With rule
    … the haires of thy head, and that thou haſt liued like a Pagan or EthnikeEthnic, which knew not what God was. After that, runne ouer both the Tables of …

    Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … I could talke more largely of examples, & heape a nomber here together, aswell of EthnikeEthnic Aucthours, as of other here at home: but for feare I should be tediouse …
    With rule
    … I could talke more largely of examples, & heape a nomber here together, aswell of EthnikeEthnic Aucthours, as of other here at home: but for feare I should be tediouse …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … an Academike, and doubtfull of minde, and vncertein in euery thing: but alſo an EthnikeEthnic, and nothing beelonging vnto vs Chriſtians: for the thinges that are without beelong not …
    With rule
    … an Academike, and doubtfull of minde, and vncertein in euery thing: but alſo an EthnikeEthnic, and nothing beelonging vnto vs Chriſtians: for the thinges that are without beelong not …

    Lambert Daneau · The Wonderful Workmanship of the World · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Theſe things haue I therfore rehearſed, leſt the Greke and EthnikeEthnic writers ſhould be thought to be the firſt inuenters of theſe profitable fayninges. Al …
    With rule
    Theſe things haue I therfore rehearſed, leſt the Greke and EthnikeEthnic writers ſhould be thought to be the firſt inuenters of theſe profitable fayninges. Al …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 160 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … offences against his religion may be punished. And whereas M. Sander inferreth, that an EthnikeEthnic Prince or Turke may be supreame heade of our Church, we vtterly denye to …
    With rule
    … offences against his religion may be punished. And whereas M. Sander inferreth, that an EthnikeEthnic Prince or Turke may be supreame heade of our Church, we vtterly denye to …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Who is an EthnikeEthnic or Miscreant? He that vseth not those lawes, and ordinaunces, and hath not the …
    With rule
    Who is an EthnikeEthnic or Miscreant? He that vseth not those lawes, and ordinaunces, and hath not the …

    Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Iſraelites thē being the Church of God. And as Magog was a borne EthnikeEthnic: ſo is the Pope borne among Chriſtians, which nowe are Gods Church: And the …
    With rule
    … the Iſraelites thē being the Church of God. And as Magog was a borne EthnikeEthnic: ſo is the Pope borne among Chriſtians, which nowe are Gods Church: And the …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … yeare of Darius the Mede, but two and fifty yeares. Iosephus better seene in EthnikeEthnic Authors dissenteth from them. As for Metasthenes of Annius, wee haue before shewed him …
    With rule
    … yeare of Darius the Mede, but two and fifty yeares. Iosephus better seene in EthnikeEthnic Authors dissenteth from them. As for Metasthenes of Annius, wee haue before shewed him …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 304 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

Commentary on Romans A14353

  • Printed
    … in the booke of Ioſua the ſecond chapiter, that Rahab the harlot being an ethnikeEthnic, ſayd vnto ye eſpies of the Hebrues, We haue harde here of the mightye …
    With rule
    … in the booke of Ioſua the ſecond chapiter, that Rahab the harlot being an ethnikeEthnic, ſayd vnto ye eſpies of the Hebrues, We haue harde here of the mightye …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader