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gretiansGrecians

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

Puritas changed it
34 times in 25 works
Consistency
94.4% (34 of 36)
Reach if approved
~38 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
36 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 25 works, 94.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 34)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Healths. … at Alexandro, (Gen. Dier 1. 5, 10, 21, 3. and Polidor Virgit (De invent … lib. 3. 1, 5.) record that the GretiansGrecians (yea and the Romans too, quod sumut … libunt. Ovid. Fel. 1. 3.) did Salute their Gods …
    With rule
    … Healths. … at Alexandro, (Gen. Dier 1. 5, 10, 21, 3. and Polidor Virgit (De invent … lib. 3. 1, 5.) record that the GretiansGrecians (yea and the Romans too, quod sumut … libunt. Ovid. Fel. 1. 3.) did Salute their Gods …

    Henry Jessey · The Lords Loud Call to England · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    The GretiansGrecians uſe to give farre greater reſpect and honour to their Philoſophers, then to their …
    With rule
    The GretiansGrecians uſe to give farre greater reſpect and honour to their Philoſophers, then to their …

    Thomas Brooks · The Unsearchable Riches of Christ · p. 320 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … same kind is thought of the most learned to be that deuil which the GretiansGrecians called Python. S. Luke doth report Act. 16. that at Philippos there was a mayd …
    With rule
    … same kind is thought of the most learned to be that deuil which the GretiansGrecians called Python. S. Luke doth report Act. 16. that at Philippos there was a mayd …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſay, they imitate the Fathers in their proceſſions. No (ſay we) they are the GretiansGrecians whom yee imitate, in their carrying about their Idolls. The ſame would father their …
    With rule
    … ſay, they imitate the Fathers in their proceſſions. No (ſay we) they are the GretiansGrecians whom yee imitate, in their carrying about their Idolls. The ſame would father their …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not the word foreign, that is diuinitie, but foreign, that is deitie or Godhead: for the GretiansGrecians, I know not by what meane, do much better and more effectuallie expreſſe theſe …
    With rule
    … not the word foreign, that is diuinitie, but foreign, that is deitie or Godhead: for the GretiansGrecians, I know not by what meane, do much better and more effectuallie expreſſe theſe …

    Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … called foreign strong or as famous amongst stones, as … was amongst men, by the latter GretiansGrecians it was termed foreign, mirificus a stone that doth wonders for it is inrich'… by …
    With rule
    … called foreign strong or as famous amongst stones, as … was amongst men, by the latter GretiansGrecians it was termed foreign, mirificus a stone that doth wonders for it is inrich'… by …

    Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Alexander 6. Herein I ſomewhat mende Clement from all other GretiansGrecians.
    With rule
    Alexander 6. Herein I ſomewhat mende Clement from all other GretiansGrecians.

    Hugh Broughton · A Letter to a Friend Touching Mordecais Age · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … this to be learned of such as wil read thē. The prophane writers both GretiansGrecians & Romans, which haue registred ye diuersities, chāges, ouerthrows & ruins of cōmō wealths, do teach …
    With rule
    … this to be learned of such as wil read thē. The prophane writers both GretiansGrecians & Romans, which haue registred ye diuersities, chāges, ouerthrows & ruins of cōmō wealths, do teach …

    Laurence Chaderton · Sermon Upon Romans 12:3-8 · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentaries A68840

  • Printed
    … other. Cicero in his 2. boke de Oratore, touching theſe, writeth after this ſort. The gretiansGrecians at ye firſt wrote euē as our Cato, Pictor & Piſo did: for an hiſtory …
    With rule
    … other. Cicero in his 2. boke de Oratore, touching theſe, writeth after this ſort. The gretiansGrecians at ye firſt wrote euē as our Cato, Pictor & Piſo did: for an hiſtory …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 3 · Open in the reader