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ʋniversitieUniversity

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

Puritas changed it
34 times in 23 works
Consistency
100% (34 of 34)
Reach if approved
~37 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
35 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (34 changes in 23 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 34)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Say to him, b You may do well (St Ierom) to go to the ƲniverſitieUniversity againe, whence you came afore you were wiſe, and there learne to put quantity …
    With rule
    … Say to him, b You may do well (St Ierom) to go to the ƲniverſitieUniversity againe, whence you came afore you were wiſe, and there learne to put quantity …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    AT OXFORD, Printed by IOSEPH BARNES Printer to the ƲniverſitieUniversity.
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    AT OXFORD, Printed by IOSEPH BARNES Printer to the ƲniverſitieUniversity.

    Thomas Sparke · Sermon 22 November 1593 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    ¶ Printed by the Printers to the ƲniverſitieUniversity of CAMBRIDGE. MDCXXXIIII.
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    ¶ Printed by the Printers to the ƲniverſitieUniversity of CAMBRIDGE. MDCXXXIIII.

    John Donne · Two Sermons Preached Before King Charles on Genesis 1:26 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſake of the whole: and is not the Divine Bonitie and Glorie that great ƲniverſitieUniversity or whole, into which al lower ends muſt be melted? (4) Plato blames his young …
    With rule
    … ſake of the whole: and is not the Divine Bonitie and Glorie that great ƲniverſitieUniversity or whole, into which al lower ends muſt be melted? (4) Plato blames his young …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 471 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Muſes, and many of them in their ſeaſons changed an Hoſpital for an ƲniverſitieUniversity: But this famous Hoſpital for the moſt part is conſumed; this pool of Betheſda …
    With rule
    … the Muſes, and many of them in their ſeaſons changed an Hoſpital for an ƲniverſitieUniversity: But this famous Hoſpital for the moſt part is conſumed; this pool of Betheſda …

    John Wells · The Practical Sabbatarian · p. 714 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Chriſt ſprang up and began from a company of Prieſts by the ſuggeſtion of ƲniverſitieUniversity Doctors.
    With rule
    … Chriſt ſprang up and began from a company of Prieſts by the ſuggeſtion of ƲniverſitieUniversity Doctors.

    William Erbery · The Grand Oppressor · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the ƲniverſitieUniversity of Cambridge. 1642.
    With rule
    Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the ƲniverſitieUniversity of Cambridge. 1642.

    Richard Holdsworth · Inauguration Sermon · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Dog; he is not afraid of the Beaſts of the earth, not he. The ƲniverſitieUniversity proteſteth againſt this man, that if he be a Divine, he ſhall never be …
    With rule
    … Dog; he is not afraid of the Beaſts of the earth, not he. The ƲniverſitieUniversity proteſteth againſt this man, that if he be a Divine, he ſhall never be …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Good Soldier Maintaining His Militia · p. 132 · 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.