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apochryphalApocryphal

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

Puritas changed it
49 times in 39 works
Consistency
92.4% (49 of 53)
Reach if approved
~56 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: apocryphal
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
53 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (49 changes in 39 works, 92.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 49)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Scripture, and ſometimes the Scripture it ſelf is made to give way to the ApochryphalApocryphal Chapters; you plead againſt the addition of the Doxology unto the Lord's prayer, you …
    With rule
    … Scripture, and ſometimes the Scripture it ſelf is made to give way to the ApochryphalApocryphal Chapters; you plead againſt the addition of the Doxology unto the Lord's prayer, you …

    Richard Baxter · The Grand Debate Between Bishops and Presbyterian Divines · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    ApochryphalApocryphal books not authentical, three reaſons. page 86
    With rule
    ApochryphalApocryphal books not authentical, three reaſons. page 86

    Thomas Taylor · Works · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … not where to mention it pertinently: It was lately one of the Pretended, or ApochryphalApocryphal, and now its become a Real and Canonical, nay a near and immediate Cause …
    With rule
    … not where to mention it pertinently: It was lately one of the Pretended, or ApochryphalApocryphal, and now its become a Real and Canonical, nay a near and immediate Cause …

    Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Sect. 7. If that Narration is eſteem'd ApochryphalApocryphal by the Proteſtants, that of Joſephus deſerves not a better name, when in the …
    With rule
    Sect. 7. If that Narration is eſteem'd ApochryphalApocryphal by the Proteſtants, that of Joſephus deſerves not a better name, when in the …

    Balthasar Bekker · The World Bewitched · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to which we are tied in ſinging, compoſed by men divinely inſpired. We think ApochryphalApocryphal Anthems to be ſang in publick worship no more lawful, then Liturgical forms of …
    With rule
    … to which we are tied in ſinging, compoſed by men divinely inſpired. We think ApochryphalApocryphal Anthems to be ſang in publick worship no more lawful, then Liturgical forms of …

    John Collinges · Why Nonconforming Ministers Judge it Sinful · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … it Lawful to become Apoſtates in time of perſecution, and approved of one onely. ApochryphalApocryphal Book made by themſelves. They ſprang from Ebion the Heretick.
    With rule
    … it Lawful to become Apoſtates in time of perſecution, and approved of one onely. ApochryphalApocryphal Book made by themſelves. They ſprang from Ebion the Heretick.

    John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 569 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Athanaſius and Nazianzen, &c. which they ſeem'd to doubt of, becauſe of the ſeven ApochryphalApocryphal Fragments (as ſo many Chapters) were uſually and abuſively added and ſtitched to it …
    With rule
    … Athanaſius and Nazianzen, &c. which they ſeem'd to doubt of, becauſe of the ſeven ApochryphalApocryphal Fragments (as ſo many Chapters) were uſually and abuſively added and ſtitched to it …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 661 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    XI. Of ApochryphalApocryphal Books.
    With rule
    XI. Of ApochryphalApocryphal Books.

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.