Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51011 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

manicheisManichees

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

Puritas changed it: 31 times in 14 works
Consistency: 96.8% (31 of 32)
Reach if approved: ~34 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 32 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 14 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 31)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… suche dissencious sectis heresies & false doctrine in the church of Rome, as of the ManicheisManichees Pelagiās Arrius &c. as had not ben herd of before the popis then being …
With rule
… suche dissencious sectis heresies & false doctrine in the church of Rome, as of the ManicheisManichees Pelagiās Arrius &c. as had not ben herd of before the popis then being …
Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Great baniſhed Arius and his followers. Theodoſius Iunior, Neſtorius. Valentinianus and Theodoſius, the ManicheisManichees and Donatiſtes.
With rule
… the Great baniſhed Arius and his followers. Theodoſius Iunior, Neſtorius. Valentinianus and Theodoſius, the ManicheisManichees and Donatiſtes.
Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wresteth the scripture vnto eueri wicked opinyon and durst refuse the scripture thorow the ManicheisManichees / as he doth now adays cause it be burnt by the bisshops / who dowteth …
With rule
… wresteth the scripture vnto eueri wicked opinyon and durst refuse the scripture thorow the ManicheisManichees / as he doth now adays cause it be burnt by the bisshops / who dowteth …
Alexander Alesius · The Authority of the Word of God Against the Bishop of London · Open in the reader
Printed
… inclination in man to good or euill, as not onely Simon Magus, and the ManicheisManichees of whom maiſter Bellarmine ſpeaketh, but alſo the Bardeſaniſtes, of whome Saint Auguſtine writeth …
With rule
… inclination in man to good or euill, as not onely Simon Magus, and the ManicheisManichees of whom maiſter Bellarmine ſpeaketh, but alſo the Bardeſaniſtes, of whome Saint Auguſtine writeth …
Francis Bunny · Truth and Falsehood · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but onely their Elect, ſuch as your Prieſts and Monkes. And therefore if the ManicheisManichees bee hereby condemned; why not yee alſo?
With rule
… but onely their Elect, ſuch as your Prieſts and Monkes. And therefore if the ManicheisManichees bee hereby condemned; why not yee alſo?
Alexander Cooke · The Abatement of Popish Brags Pretending Scripture to be Theirs · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to ende his life in that errour (no more than he dyd in the ManicheisManichees hereſie, which he did ſometime ſtoutly defende) althoughe it haue not pleaſed him to …
With rule
… to ende his life in that errour (no more than he dyd in the ManicheisManichees hereſie, which he did ſometime ſtoutly defende) althoughe it haue not pleaſed him to …
Robert Crowley · A Defense of English Writers and Preachers · Open in the reader
Printed
… in your owne conceite, please not your selfe ouermuch. Howe were the Arrians, the ManicheisManichees, the Futichiās, with other diuers Heretickes which haue bene in the Church, how I …
With rule
… in your owne conceite, please not your selfe ouermuch. Howe were the Arrians, the ManicheisManichees, the Futichiās, with other diuers Heretickes which haue bene in the Church, how I …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1765 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good learning, was contemned of him, and by wordes of reproche charged with the ManicheisManichees secte, who was a wicked man of horrible sectes not long before those dayes …
With rule
… good learning, was contemned of him, and by wordes of reproche charged with the ManicheisManichees secte, who was a wicked man of horrible sectes not long before those dayes …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 403 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

Printed
… purpose ād will, thē fall ye in to t…at horrible blasphemie of the manicheisManichees, denying gods omnipotent power, And if yet ye wold escape, imagining God to loke …
With rule
… purpose ād will, thē fall ye in to t…at horrible blasphemie of the manicheisManichees, denying gods omnipotent power, And if yet ye wold escape, imagining God to loke …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 41 · Open in the reader