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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50940 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wickliefWycliffe

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

Puritas changed it
42 times in 5 works
Consistency
100% (42 of 42)
Reach if approved
~44 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
42 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (42 changes in 5 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (7 of 42)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſigne muſt be receiued in Baptiſme, which hath ben deuiſed by man. It was WickliefWycliffe himſelf that ſett it on foote; Iohn Huſſe continued it: Mr Caluin reſumed it …
    With rule
    … ſigne muſt be receiued in Baptiſme, which hath ben deuiſed by man. It was WickliefWycliffe himſelf that ſett it on foote; Iohn Huſſe continued it: Mr Caluin reſumed it …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … intreat for him, and to stop the Bishops in their proceedings. And thus was WickliefWycliffe dismissed, the Bishops charging him that he should Preach no more such Doctrine to …
    With rule
    … intreat for him, and to stop the Bishops in their proceedings. And thus was WickliefWycliffe dismissed, the Bishops charging him that he should Preach no more such Doctrine to …

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Catalogus Teſtium veritatis, Tom. 2 reports, that WickliefWycliffe held but two orders of miniſters, Walſing. Hist. in Rich. 2 p. 205. ſaith, That it …
    With rule
    Catalogus Teſtium veritatis, Tom. 2 reports, that WickliefWycliffe held but two orders of miniſters, Walſing. Hist. in Rich. 2 p. 205. ſaith, That it …

    John Corbet · The Remains of John Corbet · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    John WickliefWycliffe, justly might Compare;
    With rule
    John WickliefWycliffe, justly might Compare;

    Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … coū cel holden at Constance, the xiii, session, where ye most famous clerk Iohn WickliefWycliffe our countrey man was condemned for an heretike, & the two learned men Iohn Hus …
    With rule
    … coū cel holden at Constance, the xiii, session, where ye most famous clerk Iohn WickliefWycliffe our countrey man was condemned for an heretike, & the two learned men Iohn Hus …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    The Life of John WickliefWycliffe, who dyed Anno Christi 1384.
    With rule
    The Life of John WickliefWycliffe, who dyed Anno Christi 1384.

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 201 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    WickliefWycliffe.
    With rule
    WickliefWycliffe.

    Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · 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.