Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50654 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stoickesStoics

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

Puritas changed it: 85 times in 52 works
Consistency: 97.7% (85 of 87)
Reach if approved: ~91 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stoics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 87 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (85 changes in 52 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wretchednesse. Eyther they do not feele as blockes, or they will not feele as StoickesStoics. You know a seared conscience is not sensible: and vsuall whipping makes some carelesse …
With rule
… wretchednesse. Eyther they do not feele as blockes, or they will not feele as StoickesStoics. You know a seared conscience is not sensible: and vsuall whipping makes some carelesse …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had ſorrow vppon ſorrow. Therefore the Sainctes of the Papiſts are like to the StoickesStoics, who imagined ſuch wiſe men, as in all the world were neuer yet to …
With rule
… had ſorrow vppon ſorrow. Therefore the Sainctes of the Papiſts are like to the StoickesStoics, who imagined ſuch wiſe men, as in all the world were neuer yet to …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
This then ſerues to condemne; Firſt, the StoickesStoics, who allow not any vſe of affections: Men may not ſigh, or change countenance …
With rule
This then ſerues to condemne; Firſt, the StoickesStoics, who allow not any vſe of affections: Men may not ſigh, or change countenance …
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 303 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on the contrary we are charged, to have too great correspondency herin with the StoickesStoics of ancient times, and with the Turkes in these dayes; And indeede I reade …
With rule
… on the contrary we are charged, to have too great correspondency herin with the StoickesStoics of ancient times, and with the Turkes in these dayes; And indeede I reade …
William Twisse · The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we reade also of diuers sectes, the Epicures, that gaue themselues to pleasure. The StoickesStoics and Pythagoreans, that professed strictnesse and seueritie of life, yet both these were enemies …
With rule
… we reade also of diuers sectes, the Epicures, that gaue themselues to pleasure. The StoickesStoics and Pythagoreans, that professed strictnesse and seueritie of life, yet both these were enemies …
Andrew Willet · A Catholicon · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And Rom. 11. 29. foreign, the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance. If the StoickesStoics did attribute such a perfection to a wise man, as that he should not …
With rule
… And Rom. 11. 29. foreign, the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance. If the StoickesStoics did attribute such a perfection to a wise man, as that he should not …
Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 318 · Open in the reader
Printed
Severeſt StoickesStoics, Paſſion moſt refraining,
With rule
Severeſt StoickesStoics, Paſſion moſt refraining,
Edward Calver · Passion and Discretion in Youth and Age · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
CHAP. IIII. How the StoickesStoics cure the Paſsions.
With rule
CHAP. IIII. How the StoickesStoics cure the Paſsions.
John Weemes · The Portraiture of the Image of God in Man · p. 158 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.