Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50811 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

centinelsSentinels

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

Puritas changed it: 66 times in 42 works
Consistency: 90.4% (66 of 73)
Reach if approved: ~77 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 73 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (66 changes in 42 works, 90.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 66)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… age; yea, Parliament Members new ſtricteſt Wardſhips and cloſe reſtraints under armed Garriſons and CentinelsSentinels of meaneſt quality in theſe Garriſon'd new Courts of Wards.
With rule
… age; yea, Parliament Members new ſtricteſt Wardſhips and cloſe reſtraints under armed Garriſons and CentinelsSentinels of meaneſt quality in theſe Garriſon'd new Courts of Wards.
William Prynne · Eight Military Aphorisms · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
The trees ſtood CentinelsSentinels, and bullets flew
With rule
The trees ſtood CentinelsSentinels, and bullets flew
Benjamin Tompson · Sad and Deplorable News from New England · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſcarce a hole for comfort to enter; ſorrow where it rules, hath ſo many CentinelsSentinels, and Guards; that its hard for comfort to get in, unleſſe it be by …
With rule
… ſcarce a hole for comfort to enter; ſorrow where it rules, hath ſo many CentinelsSentinels, and Guards; that its hard for comfort to get in, unleſſe it be by …
John Durant · Comfort and Counsel for Dejected Souls · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of our Plymouth-Friends, who had Lodg'd themſelves in an Houſe, without Commanders or CentinelsSentinels. The Engliſh as ſoon as the Light of the Day, (which was the Lords …
With rule
… of our Plymouth-Friends, who had Lodg'd themſelves in an Houſe, without Commanders or CentinelsSentinels. The Engliſh as ſoon as the Light of the Day, (which was the Lords …
Cotton Mather · History of the War with Indian Savages · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
The private CentinelsSentinels in the Spiritual Army, (Heads of Families, & private Chriſtians I mean,) have their proper …
With rule
The private CentinelsSentinels in the Spiritual Army, (Heads of Families, & private Chriſtians I mean,) have their proper …
Grindal Rawson · Christians Treated in the Quality of Soldiers · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… square with faire walles, hauing in each square fiue Gates, besides many Turrets for CentinelsSentinels to watch, made of Wood, and gilded very faire. The streetes are straight as …
With rule
… square with faire walles, hauing in each square fiue Gates, besides many Turrets for CentinelsSentinels to watch, made of Wood, and gilded very faire. The streetes are straight as …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 394 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ye] There is a ſpecial Emphaſis upon that word Ye, q. d. Let the CentinelsSentinels whoſe work it is to Guard the Sepulchre be affrighted, if they will; but …
With rule
… Ye] There is a ſpecial Emphaſis upon that word Ye, q. d. Let the CentinelsSentinels whoſe work it is to Guard the Sepulchre be affrighted, if they will; but …
Timothy Cruso · Last Three Sermons · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a People are secure and asleep unapprehensive of their own dangers, the Saints are CentinelsSentinels upon the Guard, watchmen to give warning, Crowing Cocks to awaken: Noah gave warning …
With rule
… a People are secure and asleep unapprehensive of their own dangers, the Saints are CentinelsSentinels upon the Guard, watchmen to give warning, Crowing Cocks to awaken: Noah gave warning …
Robert Gouge · The Faith of Dying Jacob · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.