Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51045 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

smythesSmiths

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

Puritas changed it: 30 times in 10 works
Consistency: 88.2% (30 of 34)
Reach if approved: ~36 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: smiths
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 34 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: smith's (2)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (30 changes in 10 works, 88.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 30)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… buylde vpon these wordes, is abundantlye declared in the Byshoppe of Wynchester and docter SmythesSmiths bokes.
With rule
… buylde vpon these wordes, is abundantlye declared in the Byshoppe of Wynchester and docter SmythesSmiths bokes.
John Calvin · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Church taught▪ were not onelie knowne of Doctors and maiſters, but of Taylers, SmythesSmiths, Weauers and other artificers: not of men onelie but of wemen, and the ſame …
With rule
… the Church taught▪ were not onelie knowne of Doctors and maiſters, but of Taylers, SmythesSmiths, Weauers and other artificers: not of men onelie but of wemen, and the ſame …
Thomas Cartwright · The Answer to the Preface of the Rhemish Testament · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 AS the SmythesSmiths Stithie, the more it is beaten, the harder it is made: Euen ſo, commonly …
With rule
1 AS the SmythesSmiths Stithie, the more it is beaten, the harder it is made: Euen ſo, commonly …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
Mr SmythesSmiths Reaſons for Anabaptiſme of Elder people, Anſwered.
With rule
Mr SmythesSmiths Reaſons for Anabaptiſme of Elder people, Anſwered.
Richard Clifton · The Plea for Infants and Elder People Concerning their Baptism · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… consequent of this argum: Mr B. graunts in his latter book, pag. 200. vpon Mr SmythesSmiths vrging Mat. 18. compared with some other scriptures much what to this purpose; but the …
With rule
… consequent of this argum: Mr B. graunts in his latter book, pag. 200. vpon Mr SmythesSmiths vrging Mat. 18. compared with some other scriptures much what to this purpose; but the …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
I answer in the behalf of Israel; First, by M. SmythesSmiths divinity, the Church of Israel was a carnal people, had a carnal covenant or …
With rule
I answer in the behalf of Israel; First, by M. SmythesSmiths divinity, the Church of Israel was a carnal people, had a carnal covenant or …
Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they ſpeake that wythout reaſon, they doe alſo alleadge the example of the SmythesSmiths, the which I will bring foorth for my ſeconde argument, which is infallible, inaſmuch …
With rule
… that they ſpeake that wythout reaſon, they doe alſo alleadge the example of the SmythesSmiths, the which I will bring foorth for my ſeconde argument, which is infallible, inaſmuch …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faces harder than the rocks. The heart of a wicked man is like the SmythesSmiths anvill, the moe ſtroakes that it getteth, the harder it is, this is a …
With rule
… faces harder than the rocks. The heart of a wicked man is like the SmythesSmiths anvill, the moe ſtroakes that it getteth, the harder it is, this is a …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 16 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.