Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50722 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

romantickRomantic

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

Puritas changed it: 76 times in 58 works
Consistency: 96.2% (76 of 79)
Reach if approved: ~83 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: romantic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 79 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 58 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… or to adorne it with Blossomes and flourishes out of some Poetick figment, or RomantickRomantic story; but he gathers, eats and digests, that which is fruit indeed, and such …
With rule
… or to adorne it with Blossomes and flourishes out of some Poetick figment, or RomantickRomantic story; but he gathers, eats and digests, that which is fruit indeed, and such …
Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… having their Souls brought into the glorious liberty of the Children of God, seem RomantickRomantic and Ridiculous things unto them. 'Tis said of all unconverted Men, in Eph. 2.12. they …
With rule
… having their Souls brought into the glorious liberty of the Children of God, seem RomantickRomantic and Ridiculous things unto them. 'Tis said of all unconverted Men, in Eph. 2.12. they …
Cotton Mather · Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Scripture, or unwritten Tradition, but upon her Authority. Nay, S: Clara himself notwithstanding his RomantickRomantic strain: That Tradition and the naked Testimony of the present Church is sufficient, yet …
With rule
… Scripture, or unwritten Tradition, but upon her Authority. Nay, S: Clara himself notwithstanding his RomantickRomantic strain: That Tradition and the naked Testimony of the present Church is sufficient, yet …
Matthew Poole · The Nullity of the Romish Faith · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we know the Calamities which we read or hear of, to be nothing but RomantickRomantic Fictions, yet the very Imagination of them is ready to melt us into Tears …
With rule
… we know the Calamities which we read or hear of, to be nothing but RomantickRomantic Fictions, yet the very Imagination of them is ready to melt us into Tears …
John Scott · The Christian Life Part 3 Volume 4 · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very clown in his own language comes off better, then he that by a RomantickRomantic Bumbaſte doth thunder-thump his hearer into an aequilibrium between ſcorn and wonder.
With rule
… very clown in his own language comes off better, then he that by a RomantickRomantic Bumbaſte doth thunder-thump his hearer into an aequilibrium between ſcorn and wonder.
Caleb Trenchfield · A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sometimes Ridiculed by them. Which things though they be Fabulous, as disguised in a RomantickRomantic dress: yet they are good Evidence that there was a Truth in History, which …
With rule
… sometimes Ridiculed by them. Which things though they be Fabulous, as disguised in a RomantickRomantic dress: yet they are good Evidence that there was a Truth in History, which …
John Wallis · Three Sermons Concerning the Sacred Trinity · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… later times, who look upon the whole History of him only as a mere RomantickRomantic Allegory, utterly devoid of all truth and reality) first brought the Rites of Religion …
With rule
… later times, who look upon the whole History of him only as a mere RomantickRomantic Allegory, utterly devoid of all truth and reality) first brought the Rites of Religion …
Thomas Gregory · The Doctrine of a God and Providence Vindicated · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… elſe of old had each City its own Church? 3. Is Catholick Unity become a RomantickRomantic Fancy. Is this the ſame man that wrote the Defence of Archbiſhop Laud, we …
With rule
… elſe of old had each City its own Church? 3. Is Catholick Unity become a RomantickRomantic Fancy. Is this the ſame man that wrote the Defence of Archbiſhop Laud, we …
Richard Baxter · A Second True Defense of the Nonconformists · p. 75 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments A37049

Printed
… Grand Cyrus, Cleapatra, and his other darling Romances;) if there be no real but romantickRomantic and fained love betwixt Christ and the Christian, then no real Christianity, no real …
With rule
… Grand Cyrus, Cleapatra, and his other darling Romances;) if there be no real but romantickRomantic and fained love betwixt Christ and the Christian, then no real Christianity, no real …
James Durham · Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader