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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50774 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chinesesChinese

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

Puritas changed it
65 times in 35 works
Consistency
100% (65 of 65)
Reach if approved
~68 places (estimated)
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Agrees: chinese
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
65 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (65 changes in 35 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 65)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that which kept them alive, till at last they espyed a large Boat of ChinesesChinese making to the shore to take in Water in that Island, and the people …
    With rule
    … that which kept them alive, till at last they espyed a large Boat of ChinesesChinese making to the shore to take in Water in that Island, and the people …

    Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or their own danger, infelicity, or miſery: and indeed no miſery to this. The ChineſesChinese uſe to ſay of themſelves, that all other Nations of the world did ſee …
    With rule
    … or their own danger, infelicity, or miſery: and indeed no miſery to this. The ChineſesChinese uſe to ſay of themſelves, that all other Nations of the world did ſee …

    Thomas Brooks · The Crown and Glory of Christianity · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſeeing they poſſeſſed it far long before; the Jeſuits would do wrong to the ChineſesChinese, if they ſhould endeavour to drive from their hearts the idolatry and worſhiping of …
    With rule
    … ſeeing they poſſeſſed it far long before; the Jeſuits would do wrong to the ChineſesChinese, if they ſhould endeavour to drive from their hearts the idolatry and worſhiping of …

    Jean Daille · Faith Grounded Upon the Holy Scriptures Against the New Methodists · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … entred into China. And preſently there follows an Antiphona, which ſaith, The Indians, the ChineſesChinese, the Perſians, and other Iſlanders, thoſe of Syria, Armenia, Grecia and Romania, in Commemoration …
    With rule
    … entred into China. And preſently there follows an Antiphona, which ſaith, The Indians, the ChineſesChinese, the Perſians, and other Iſlanders, thoſe of Syria, Armenia, Grecia and Romania, in Commemoration …

    John Shower · Sacramental Discourses Before and After the Lords Supper · p. 306 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of Apollodorus, Abydenus, and Alexander Polyhistor preserved in Eusebius his Greek Chronica; among the ChinesesChinese under the name of Puoncuus, who by them is said to have escaped alone …
    With rule
    … of Apollodorus, Abydenus, and Alexander Polyhistor preserved in Eusebius his Greek Chronica; among the ChinesesChinese under the name of Puoncuus, who by them is said to have escaped alone …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Grounds of the Christian Faith · p. 552 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … both thoſe Nations did anciently reckon months for years. And the account of the ChineſesChinese is not hard to be reconcil'd with that of the Septuagint. Now in ſo …
    With rule
    … both thoſe Nations did anciently reckon months for years. And the account of the ChineſesChinese is not hard to be reconcil'd with that of the Septuagint. Now in ſo …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 1 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    This ſhieneſs and averſion to Strangers was found to be the temper of the ChineſesChinese by Marcus Paulus Venetus, who firſt diſcovered them to the Europaeans; and is confirmed …
    With rule
    This ſhieneſs and averſion to Strangers was found to be the temper of the ChineſesChinese by Marcus Paulus Venetus, who firſt diſcovered them to the Europaeans; and is confirmed …

    Nathanael Vincent · The Right Notion of Honor · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … all Doctrines muſt be brought to the beame and ballance of the Sanctuary: The ChineſesChinese uſe to ſay of themſelves, That all other Nations ſee but with one eye …
    With rule
    … all Doctrines muſt be brought to the beame and ballance of the Sanctuary: The ChineſesChinese uſe to ſay of themſelves, That all other Nations ſee but with one eye …

    Robert Dingley · The Deputation of Angels · p. 45 · 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.