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democratieDemocracy

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

Puritas changed it
53 times in 24 works
Consistency
94.6% (53 of 56)
Reach if approved
~59 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: democraty
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
56 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (53 changes in 24 works, 94.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 53)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Plato here joins DemocratieDemocracy with Ariſtocratie, ſo in his Leg. 3. pag. 693. he joins Monarchie and DemocratieDemocracy as the …
    With rule
    Plato here joins DemocratieDemocracy with Ariſtocratie, ſo in his Leg. 3. pag. 693. he joins Monarchie and DemocratieDemocracy as the …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … change it as they see good from a Monarchy, to an Aristocratie or a DemocratieDemocracy. But because after the writing that Book, some persons had published a doctrine contrary …
    With rule
    … change it as they see good from a Monarchy, to an Aristocratie or a DemocratieDemocracy. But because after the writing that Book, some persons had published a doctrine contrary …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Concerning Idolatry in the Church of Rome · p. 343 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … task here is to shew you, that in every Form, whether Monarchy, Aristocracie, or DemocratieDemocracy, wise and pious righteous Governors will make the Government a blessing to the people …
    With rule
    … task here is to shew you, that in every Form, whether Monarchy, Aristocracie, or DemocratieDemocracy, wise and pious righteous Governors will make the Government a blessing to the people …

    Richard Baxter · A Holy Commonwealth · p. 238 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in reſpect of the Preſbyters an Ariſtocratie, and in reſpect of the people a DemocratieDemocracy, he concludes thus, In rebus igitur graviſſimis, quae ad totum corpus pertinent, uti eſt …
    With rule
    … in reſpect of the Preſbyters an Ariſtocratie, and in reſpect of the people a DemocratieDemocracy, he concludes thus, In rebus igitur graviſſimis, quae ad totum corpus pertinent, uti eſt …

    Richard Mather · Church Government and Church Covenant · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … as in an Ariſtocratie; or the major part of the people, as in a DemocratieDemocracy. It may bee ſaid that no neceſſity can bee pretended to invade a forraine …
    With rule
    … as in an Ariſtocratie; or the major part of the people, as in a DemocratieDemocracy. It may bee ſaid that no neceſſity can bee pretended to invade a forraine …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … patterne not a Monarchy to an Oligarchie, nor to any other State, Aristocratie or DemocratieDemocracy: let not the well being of a forreine State make thee vnthankfull for the …
    With rule
    … patterne not a Monarchy to an Oligarchie, nor to any other State, Aristocratie or DemocratieDemocracy: let not the well being of a forreine State make thee vnthankfull for the …

    Richard Bernard · The Seven Golden Candlesticks · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … fit, for Isocrates rule is to be held; foreign. ad Demonic. that as in a DemocratieDemocracy the popular state, so in a Monarchie the King onely is to be admired.
    With rule
    … fit, for Isocrates rule is to be held; foreign. ad Demonic. that as in a DemocratieDemocracy the popular state, so in a Monarchie the King onely is to be admired.

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … members of the Church. Thus he profeſſedly vindicateth the Churches right in an Ariſtocratico-DemocratieDemocracy, as appeareth in the title of that chapter.
    With rule
    … members of the Church. Thus he profeſſedly vindicateth the Churches right in an Ariſtocratico-DemocratieDemocracy, as appeareth in the title of that chapter.

    John Davenport · Reply to a Book · p. 242 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.