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romāsRomans

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

Puritas changed it
31 times in 25 works
Consistency
100% (31 of 31)
Reach if approved
~33 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
31 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (31 changes in 25 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 31)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſuch men. For they were commonly called Publicans at that time, to whom the RomāsRomans did let out ſome citie or cuſtome, or ſome charge or ouerſight in matters …
    With rule
    … ſuch men. For they were commonly called Publicans at that time, to whom the RomāsRomans did let out ſome citie or cuſtome, or ſome charge or ouerſight in matters …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … cōmitted by the space of so many hundred yeares among them. But among the RomāsRomans (will Bell, perhaps reply) it is likely that some was cōmitted within five hūdred …
    With rule
    … cōmitted by the space of so many hundred yeares among them. But among the RomāsRomans (will Bell, perhaps reply) it is likely that some was cōmitted within five hūdred …

    John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … they have doon as their old predecessors the idolatrous preists did by the ancient RomāsRomans, they have set us up a sort of lecherous Gods to be worshiped in …
    With rule
    … they have doon as their old predecessors the idolatrous preists did by the ancient RomāsRomans, they have set us up a sort of lecherous Gods to be worshiped in …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the temple, and the vtter ſubuerſion of that kingdom of the Iews by the RomāsRomans. Onely therfore thus are we to take it, that when in ſuch had times …
    With rule
    … the temple, and the vtter ſubuerſion of that kingdom of the Iews by the RomāsRomans. Onely therfore thus are we to take it, that when in ſuch had times …

    Thomas Sparke · Sermon 22 November 1593 · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his book De menſur. & pond. ſpeaking of the Romans, which are not ſtil caled RomāsRomans, ſaith he, but Latines. But this name was not yet ſo commonly uſed, or …
    With rule
    … his book De menſur. & pond. ſpeaking of the Romans, which are not ſtil caled RomāsRomans, ſaith he, but Latines. But this name was not yet ſo commonly uſed, or …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 564 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … alſo is that which S. Paule ſpeaketh wel of, in the eight of the RomāsRomans, for that which he ſpeaketh there of hope, may alſo be vnderſtoode & that rightly …
    With rule
    … alſo is that which S. Paule ſpeaketh wel of, in the eight of the RomāsRomans, for that which he ſpeaketh there of hope, may alſo be vnderſtoode & that rightly …

    John Calvin · Three Propositions · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    It is left in Story concerning Catilines Army in a fight againſt the RomāsRomans, though moſt of his men were ſlain, yet every man was found dead in …
    With rule
    It is left in Story concerning Catilines Army in a fight againſt the RomāsRomans, though moſt of his men were ſlain, yet every man was found dead in …

    Matthew Barker · Standing and Moving Upon the True Foundation · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    A maule of the RomāsRomans. ead.
    With rule
    A maule of the RomāsRomans. ead.

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · 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.