Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50798 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gréekesGreeks

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

Puritas changed it: 62 times in 25 works
Consistency: 98.4% (62 of 63)
Reach if approved: ~66 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: greeks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 63 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: greekes (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (62 changes in 25 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 62)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bicauſe the difference of will and ſufferaunce whiche Auguſtine no doubte tooke from the GréekesGreeks, the Sophiſters drawne from Auguſtine, and finally thou from them, haue depraued: bicauſe, I …
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… bicauſe the difference of will and ſufferaunce whiche Auguſtine no doubte tooke from the GréekesGreeks, the Sophiſters drawne from Auguſtine, and finally thou from them, haue depraued: bicauſe, I …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the primitiue Churche, there aroſe a grudge, for that the widowes of the GréekesGreeks were contemned in the daily miniſtery. Hereunto Chriſt exhorted his, when he willed that …
With rule
… in the primitiue Churche, there aroſe a grudge, for that the widowes of the GréekesGreeks were contemned in the daily miniſtery. Hereunto Chriſt exhorted his, when he willed that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… may be compelled to commend their maners. Moreouer the word foreign is ſpoken of the GréekesGreeks as Latines doe Cogitare for Meditari, that is to thinke for to meditate. Meditation …
With rule
… may be compelled to commend their maners. Moreouer the word foreign is ſpoken of the GréekesGreeks as Latines doe Cogitare for Meditari, that is to thinke for to meditate. Meditation …
John Calvin · Commentary on Philippians · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proprieties, that are in the eſſence of God. The word ſubſtance, or (as the GréekesGreeks ſpeake) Hypoſtaſis is in déede more méete and conuenient, becauſe it is a worde …
With rule
… proprieties, that are in the eſſence of God. The word ſubſtance, or (as the GréekesGreeks ſpeake) Hypoſtaſis is in déede more méete and conuenient, becauſe it is a worde …
John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prophet. foreign That worde, or that ſinguler, or notable worde, or matter. So ſaide the GréekesGreeks foreign. So, by this, wee may not ſay that the King hath included all things …
With rule
… Prophet. foreign That worde, or that ſinguler, or notable worde, or matter. So ſaide the GréekesGreeks foreign. So, by this, wee may not ſay that the King hath included all things …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader
Printed
… Councel of Florence alleaged by M. Iuel, where it is shewed, that in the GréekesGreeks mynisterie after the words of Christ pronounced, this is my body, they make this …
With rule
… Councel of Florence alleaged by M. Iuel, where it is shewed, that in the GréekesGreeks mynisterie after the words of Christ pronounced, this is my body, they make this …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that all goods gotten by vſury, ſhould be attached for his warre againſt the GréekesGreeks: and that all thoſe ſhould be abſolued from all their ſinnes, that would take …
With rule
… that all goods gotten by vſury, ſhould be attached for his warre againſt the GréekesGreeks: and that all thoſe ſhould be abſolued from all their ſinnes, that would take …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then came the GréekesGreeks and toke the dominion from the Persians, and ruled themselues for a whyle, tyll …
With rule
Then came the GréekesGreeks and toke the dominion from the Persians, and ruled themselues for a whyle, tyll …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · 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.