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rubrickeRubric

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

Puritas changed it
93 times in 35 works
Consistency
90.2% (93 of 103)
Reach if approved
~108 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: rubric
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
103 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (93 changes in 35 works, 90.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 93)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … f. 130. I find these two decrees cited; the one of Pope Lucinus with this RubrickeRubric prefixed. In what places Primates and Patriarches ought to be ordained. The Cities and …
    With rule
    … f. 130. I find these two decrees cited; the one of Pope Lucinus with this RubrickeRubric prefixed. In what places Primates and Patriarches ought to be ordained. The Cities and …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 492 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſaith the Peace of God, and the People depart, which is grounded upon a RubrickeRubric miſunderſtood.
    With rule
    … ſaith the Peace of God, and the People depart, which is grounded upon a RubrickeRubric miſunderſtood.

    Peter Smart · A Catalogue of Superstitions · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … all that fear God among us, if you would Practiſe but that which the RubrickeRubric of the Common-Prayer Book requireth of you, in this one point? For it …
    With rule
    … all that fear God among us, if you would Practiſe but that which the RubrickeRubric of the Common-Prayer Book requireth of you, in this one point? For it …

    Richard Baxter · Confirmation and Restoration Necessary Means · p. 219 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … applaud the action: for they uſe ſo to regiſter victorious, ſucceſſeful villanies, with a RubrickeRubric in their new Gregorian Kalender. I omit them therefore, and chuſe to fall upon …
    With rule
    … applaud the action: for they uſe ſo to regiſter victorious, ſucceſſeful villanies, with a RubrickeRubric in their new Gregorian Kalender. I omit them therefore, and chuſe to fall upon …

    Calybute Downing · A Discovery of the False Grounds of the Bavarian Party · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    He is on Sunday like the RubrickeRubric, or Sunday-letter, zealously red; but all the weeke you may write his deedes …
    With rule
    He is on Sunday like the RubrickeRubric, or Sunday-letter, zealously red; but all the weeke you may write his deedes …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … live in sin notorious without repentance. And the booke of common prayer, in the RubrickeRubric before the communion, commandeth that if any be an open, and notorious evill liver …
    With rule
    … live in sin notorious without repentance. And the booke of common prayer, in the RubrickeRubric before the communion, commandeth that if any be an open, and notorious evill liver …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Popes Calender: namely, all those Saints of the old Testament, whereof the Popes RubrickeRubric hath none. As the same Leo saith: Omnes Sancti, qui Saluatoris nostri tempora praecesserunt …
    With rule
    … the Popes Calender: namely, all those Saints of the old Testament, whereof the Popes RubrickeRubric hath none. As the same Leo saith: Omnes Sancti, qui Saluatoris nostri tempora praecesserunt …

    Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 172 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Gods lawe, ſtands vntouched in this newe and laſt edition of all : onely the RubrickeRubric, or title, or Contens, whereof wee ſpake before is altered thus;
    With rule
    … Gods lawe, ſtands vntouched in this newe and laſt edition of all : onely the RubrickeRubric, or title, or Contens, whereof wee ſpake before is altered thus;

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.