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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50674 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ethnickeEthnic

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

Puritas changed it
87 times in 56 works
Consistency
92.5% (87 of 94)
Reach if approved
~99 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ethnic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
94 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (87 changes in 56 works, 92.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 87)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Babylon is the seat of Antichrist, which I thinke Rome was not. For if EthnickeEthnic Rome were the seat of Antichrist, then could not Antichrist sit in the Temple …
    With rule
    … Babylon is the seat of Antichrist, which I thinke Rome was not. For if EthnickeEthnic Rome were the seat of Antichrist, then could not Antichrist sit in the Temple …

    Thomas Taylor · Two Sermons · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … his ſinne, and ſatisfying of his brother, & the congregation, is to be accounted an EthnickeEthnic. Therefore whatſoeuer the church ſayes muſt be beleeued, or therefore the Church cannot erre …
    With rule
    … his ſinne, and ſatisfying of his brother, & the congregation, is to be accounted an EthnickeEthnic. Therefore whatſoeuer the church ſayes muſt be beleeued, or therefore the Church cannot erre …

    Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … scorne the catholique fayth, after which manner taking example of this author, if an EthnickeEthnic should iest of (Fiat Lux) at (fi) was nothing, and then at (at) was …
    With rule
    … scorne the catholique fayth, after which manner taking example of this author, if an EthnickeEthnic should iest of (Fiat Lux) at (fi) was nothing, and then at (at) was …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 256 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Church, if he heare not the Church, let him be to thee as an EthnickeEthnic: But every Congregation, and it onely▪ is the Church, becauſe in the whole Scripture …
    With rule
    … Church, if he heare not the Church, let him be to thee as an EthnickeEthnic: But every Congregation, and it onely▪ is the Church, becauſe in the whole Scripture …

    Robert Baillie · A Dissuasive from the Errors of the time · p. 216 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of heauen. And this is acknowledged both by Heathens and Christians; for euen the EthnickeEthnic Poet could say that, Beautie is the gift of God. And with him agree …
    With rule
    … of heauen. And this is acknowledged both by Heathens and Christians; for euen the EthnickeEthnic Poet could say that, Beautie is the gift of God. And with him agree …

    John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and purpoſed to bring him into ſuch ſpite, that he ſhould be counted an EthnickeEthnic, a rebell, & diſobedient perſon throughout the world: and therevpon cauſed his letters to be …
    With rule
    … and purpoſed to bring him into ſuch ſpite, that he ſhould be counted an EthnickeEthnic, a rebell, & diſobedient perſon throughout the world: and therevpon cauſed his letters to be …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 232 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … state of a Christian manne before GOD is worse, thenne the state of any EthnickeEthnic and infydelle. For hee is more troubled, and oppreste wyth many mo tentations and …
    With rule
    … state of a Christian manne before GOD is worse, thenne the state of any EthnickeEthnic and infydelle. For hee is more troubled, and oppreste wyth many mo tentations and …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … as drunkennes, health-quaffing, wantonnesse, luxurie, dancing… dicing, Stage-playes, Masques with all other EthnickeEthnic sports) into the Church of God; (she being never defiled with these prophane abominations …
    With rule
    … as drunkennes, health-quaffing, wantonnesse, luxurie, dancing… dicing, Stage-playes, Masques with all other EthnickeEthnic sports) into the Church of God; (she being never defiled with these prophane abominations …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 754 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

  • Printed
    … Peter 6. Lord God of Iſraell there is no God lyke the. And therfore the ethnickeEthnic Antiſtenes vſethe this argumēte. There is nothing lyke God, therfore God can no wyſe …
    With rule
    … Peter 6. Lord God of Iſraell there is no God lyke the. And therfore the ethnickeEthnic Antiſtenes vſethe this argumēte. There is nothing lyke God, therfore God can no wyſe …

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 49 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … en Idoll Gods and Goddesses, Satyrs, Syluanes, Furies, Fayries, Fates, Nymphes, Muses, & such like ethnickeEthnic idolatrous figments, which Christians should not name or represent: Or else Adulterers, Whoremasters, Adulteresses …
    With rule
    … en Idoll Gods and Goddesses, Satyrs, Syluanes, Furies, Fayries, Fates, Nymphes, Muses, & such like ethnickeEthnic idolatrous figments, which Christians should not name or represent: Or else Adulterers, Whoremasters, Adulteresses …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 875 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of Plautus, Terence, and other such amorous Bookes savoring either of Pagan Gods, of ethnickeEthnic rites and ceremonies, or of scurrility, amorousnesse & prophanesse; as their alleaged places will most …
    With rule
    … of Plautus, Terence, and other such amorous Bookes savoring either of Pagan Gods, of ethnickeEthnic rites and ceremonies, or of scurrility, amorousnesse & prophanesse; as their alleaged places will most …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 913 · Open in the reader