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niceaNicaea

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

Puritas changed it
58 times in 31 works
Consistency
100% (58 of 58)
Reach if approved
~61 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: nicaea
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
58 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (58 changes in 31 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 58)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Empreſſe by the counſel of Theraſius, Biſhop of Conſtantinople, held a Counſell at NiceaNicaea, wherin it was decreed, that Images again ſhould be reſtored to the Church: which …
    With rule
    … the Empreſſe by the counſel of Theraſius, Biſhop of Conſtantinople, held a Counſell at NiceaNicaea, wherin it was decreed, that Images again ſhould be reſtored to the Church: which …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 92 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … toward the church, Eusebius wryteth at large. He sommoned the first generall counsell at NiceaNicaea, wherein the detestable heresie of Arrius was condemned, though it could not be with …
    With rule
    … toward the church, Eusebius wryteth at large. He sommoned the first generall counsell at NiceaNicaea, wherein the detestable heresie of Arrius was condemned, though it could not be with …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Rome, cōteining at large a cōfutatiō of al the reaſons vſed for images at NiceaNicaea, which in his yoūg yeares he ſaw, & which the keeper of the Popes library …
    With rule
    … Rome, cōteining at large a cōfutatiō of al the reaſons vſed for images at NiceaNicaea, which in his yoūg yeares he ſaw, & which the keeper of the Popes library …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    In this Countrey standeth the City NiceaNicaea, where the first General Councill was held against Arius the Hereticke by Constantine the …
    With rule
    In this Countrey standeth the City NiceaNicaea, where the first General Councill was held against Arius the Hereticke by Constantine the …

    Archbishop George Abbot · A Brief Description of the Whole World · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … have sent us by Faustinus our Fellow-Bishop, as belonging to the Councel of NiceaNicaea, we could not find it in the most undoubted Copies of the Councel sent …
    With rule
    … have sent us by Faustinus our Fellow-Bishop, as belonging to the Councel of NiceaNicaea, we could not find it in the most undoubted Copies of the Councel sent …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Letter to a Person of Honor · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    At NiceaNicaea in Bithynia, Aſſembled by the Authority of Conſtantine the Great, a General Council, conſiſting …
    With rule
    At NiceaNicaea in Bithynia, Aſſembled by the Authority of Conſtantine the Great, a General Council, conſiſting …

    John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 593 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Universal practice of the Church, and utterly forbidden by the first General Council of NiceaNicaea. And a little before, he saith, that to distinguish the Christian Pasch from the …
    With rule
    … Universal practice of the Church, and utterly forbidden by the first General Council of NiceaNicaea. And a little before, he saith, that to distinguish the Christian Pasch from the …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Answer to Cressys Epistle · p. 302 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Celebration of Easter. Hereupon he called a generall Councell in the City of NiceaNicaea in the province of Bithinia in Asia, and having sent abroad his Writs into …
    With rule
    … the Celebration of Easter. Hereupon he called a generall Councell in the City of NiceaNicaea in the province of Bithinia in Asia, and having sent abroad his Writs into …

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Part 2 · p. 9 · 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.