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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50720 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

italickItalic

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

Puritas changed it
74 times in 23 works
Consistency
100% (74 of 74)
Reach if approved
~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: italic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (74 changes in 23 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 74)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … leſſer faults, miſpointing, omiſſion or redundancy or tranſpoſing of a ſmall word, uſing the ItalickItalic letter for the Roman, a great for a ſmall, or vice verſa, which the …
    With rule
    … leſſer faults, miſpointing, omiſſion or redundancy or tranſpoſing of a ſmall word, uſing the ItalickItalic letter for the Roman, a great for a ſmall, or vice verſa, which the …

    Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Sir-Name, to wit, Odeſchalcho, more eſpecially when it is Allowable to give an ItalickItalic Name an Attick Etymology, and ſo [nomen quaſi notamen] that Name hath an evil …
    With rule
    … Sir-Name, to wit, Odeſchalcho, more eſpecially when it is Allowable to give an ItalickItalic Name an Attick Etymology, and ſo [nomen quaſi notamen] that Name hath an evil …

    Christopher Ness · The Devils Patriarch · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … into the Vulgar Language for the Peoples benefit. Which I proved from the Ancient ItalickItalic Versions before St. Jerom's time, the Gothick, Persian, Armenian, Syriack, Coptick and Aethiopick Translations …
    With rule
    … into the Vulgar Language for the Peoples benefit. Which I proved from the Ancient ItalickItalic Versions before St. Jerom's time, the Gothick, Persian, Armenian, Syriack, Coptick and Aethiopick Translations …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Council of Trent Examined and Disproved · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of the two founders of the chief sects of Philosophers, viz. the Ionick, and ItalickItalic, (for all the other were but the various issues of these two) did come …
    With rule
    … of the two founders of the chief sects of Philosophers, viz. the Ionick, and ItalickItalic, (for all the other were but the various issues of these two) did come …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Grounds of the Christian Faith · p. 423 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    The Small ItalickItalic Letters.
    With rule
    The Small ItalickItalic Letters.

    James Ussher · The Protestant School · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … it was observable that [towards the end] and [probable] being put, as citations, in ItalickItalic letters, the [of the world] and [he thinks there may be one] were not …
    With rule
    … it was observable that [towards the end] and [probable] being put, as citations, in ItalickItalic letters, the [of the world] and [he thinks there may be one] were not …

    Henry Hammond · Brief Account of One Suggestion of the Romanist · p. 375 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … really. But this, that is to ſay, really, ought not to be written in ItalickItalic, as if 'twere S. Hilary's own explication; and if the fault be the Printer's …
    With rule
    … really. But this, that is to ſay, really, ought not to be written in ItalickItalic, as if 'twere S. Hilary's own explication; and if the fault be the Printer's …

    Jean Claude · The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is in like manner taken from the ſame verſe, and ſo marks by the ItalickItalic letter, and [falling] there evidently ſignifying that Lot, to which the precedent [judging] determines …
    With rule
    … is in like manner taken from the ſame verſe, and ſo marks by the ItalickItalic letter, and [falling] there evidently ſignifying that Lot, to which the precedent [judging] determines …

    Henry Hammond · A Second Defense of the Learned Hugo Grotius · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.