Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50726 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cynicksCynics

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

Puritas changed it: 73 times in 21 works
Consistency: 98.6% (73 of 74)
Reach if approved: ~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cynics
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 (73 changes in 21 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 73)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… godly diſpoſitions, they might the better bee preſerued from the parching detractions of malignant CynicksCynics: I make bolde therefore (diſcarding all ſelfe-humour and irregular ſingularity) to commend this …
With rule
… godly diſpoſitions, they might the better bee preſerued from the parching detractions of malignant CynicksCynics: I make bolde therefore (diſcarding all ſelfe-humour and irregular ſingularity) to commend this …
Henry Greenwood · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… by a short reflection on the immoral maxims of several Sects of Philosophers. The CynicksCynics assert that all natural actions may be done in the face of the Sun …
With rule
… by a short reflection on the immoral maxims of several Sects of Philosophers. The CynicksCynics assert that all natural actions may be done in the face of the Sun …
William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 358 · Open in the reader
Printed
How much did the light of nature teach the Stoicks, the CynicksCynics, and many other Sects, which differeth not much in auſterity from Chriſt's precepts of …
With rule
How much did the light of nature teach the Stoicks, the CynicksCynics, and many other Sects, which differeth not much in auſterity from Chriſt's precepts of …
Richard Baxter · The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 · p. 442 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Quarrel dead with one soft, but heavy Blow. Diogenes the Father of the CynicksCynics, that is, of the cross-grain'd, unmannerly Humourists, who are for pleasing no Body …
With rule
… the Quarrel dead with one soft, but heavy Blow. Diogenes the Father of the CynicksCynics, that is, of the cross-grain'd, unmannerly Humourists, who are for pleasing no Body …
John Faldo · Discourse of the Gospel of Peace · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poor trifles that the World admires. The Sum of their desires is (as that CynicksCynics, was of the Sun-shine) that the rays of the love of God may …
With rule
… poor trifles that the World admires. The Sum of their desires is (as that CynicksCynics, was of the Sun-shine) that the rays of the love of God may …
Robert Leighton · Sermons · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no more, saith a learned man, then the Stoicks of old did from the CynicksCynics, by the wearing of their cloaks onely. If the Lutherans admit of universall grace …
With rule
… no more, saith a learned man, then the Stoicks of old did from the CynicksCynics, by the wearing of their cloaks onely. If the Lutherans admit of universall grace …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Gospels and Acts · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt filthy and abominable. See Deut. 23. 18. which Text, though ſome interpret Metaphorically, of impudent CynicksCynics, or of Sodomites, buggerers that have caſt off all manhood, and are become Dogs …
With rule
… moſt filthy and abominable. See Deut. 23. 18. which Text, though ſome interpret Metaphorically, of impudent CynicksCynics, or of Sodomites, buggerers that have caſt off all manhood, and are become Dogs …
James Wood · Shepherdy Spiritualized · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hereof in ſome perſons religious ſtrictneſs is loathed, Gods imprudent, diſcourteous ſervants are called CynicksCynics, Clowns, …lo…k-heads, Proud ones, Phariſees, unfit for ſocietie; their holy profeſſion is …
With rule
… hereof in ſome perſons religious ſtrictneſs is loathed, Gods imprudent, diſcourteous ſervants are called CynicksCynics, Clowns, …lo…k-heads, Proud ones, Phariſees, unfit for ſocietie; their holy profeſſion is …
Nicholas Clagett · The Abuse of Gods Grace · p. 207 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

Printed
CYnicksCynics Original from Antiſthenes, his Schole the Cynoſarges. 417
With rule
CYnicksCynics Original from Antiſthenes, his Schole the Cynoſarges. 417
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader