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ʋrbsUrbs

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

Puritas changed it
29 times in 23 works
Consistency
100% (29 of 29)
Reach if approved
~32 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
30 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (29 changes in 23 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 29)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Ver. 10. The City of confuſion] ƲrbsUrbs deſolanda, deſtined to deſolation: whether it be Babylon, Tyre, Jeruſalem, or any other, Mundum …
    With rule
    Ver. 10. The City of confuſion] ƲrbsUrbs deſolanda, deſtined to deſolation: whether it be Babylon, Tyre, Jeruſalem, or any other, Mundum …

    John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … And in her Revelationes Extravagantes, cap. 3. ſhe relates, that Chriſt himſelf revealed to her, ƲrbsUrbs, humana creatura quam Diabolus quadruplici peccato obſedit, (in their Mother Eve) quodammodo liberavit Mater …
    With rule
    … And in her Revelationes Extravagantes, cap. 3. ſhe relates, that Chriſt himſelf revealed to her, ƲrbsUrbs, humana creatura quam Diabolus quadruplici peccato obſedit, (in their Mother Eve) quodammodo liberavit Mater …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſecond beast that goeth to deſtruction, Apoc. 16.13. (19.20.) by which are meant (as I conceive) ƲrbsUrbs Romana, Imperium Romanum, Pontifex Romanus, and Clerus Romanus. The two beaſts in Cap. 13. verſe …
    With rule
    … ſecond beast that goeth to deſtruction, Apoc. 16.13. (19.20.) by which are meant (as I conceive) ƲrbsUrbs Romana, Imperium Romanum, Pontifex Romanus, and Clerus Romanus. The two beaſts in Cap. 13. verſe …

    James Ussher · The Judgment of Babylon · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    In tenues ƲrbsUrbs una jacet resoluta favillas:
    With rule
    In tenues ƲrbsUrbs una jacet resoluta favillas:

    Simon Ford · Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    ƲrbsUrbs in portu ſatis tuto.
    With rule
    ƲrbsUrbs in portu ſatis tuto.

    William Crashaw · A Manual for True Catholics · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Reſtitution is in Sacred Prophecy, as Chronicular and Monumental as is its Building, or ƲrbsUrbs Condita.
    With rule
    … Reſtitution is in Sacred Prophecy, as Chronicular and Monumental as is its Building, or ƲrbsUrbs Condita.

    Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 106 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    In tenues ƲrbsUrbs una jacet resoluta favillas:
    With rule
    In tenues ƲrbsUrbs una jacet resoluta favillas:

    Simon Ford · Londons Remains · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … us, prora, puppis, for Navis, imen, Janua, par…es, tectum, for-Domus, maenia, for ƲrbsUrbs, te ſeptima portat omnibus errantem ter ris et fluctibus aeſtas, for annus, quieſcit, for …
    With rule
    … us, prora, puppis, for Navis, imen, Janua, par…es, tectum, for-Domus, maenia, for ƲrbsUrbs, te ſeptima portat omnibus errantem ter ris et fluctibus aeſtas, for annus, quieſcit, for …

    Richard Lloyd · The Latin Grammar · p. 6 · 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.