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ʋirgilUirgil

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

Puritas changed it
21 times in 20 works
Consistency
100% (21 of 21)
Reach if approved
~22 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
21 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (21 changes in 20 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 21)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Prophet Habacuck telleth vs) is a teacher of lyes. For which cauſe, as Polidore ƲirgilUirgil reporteth, the Fathers, of all vices, condemned the worſhip of Images, for feare of …
    With rule
    … Prophet Habacuck telleth vs) is a teacher of lyes. For which cauſe, as Polidore ƲirgilUirgil reporteth, the Fathers, of all vices, condemned the worſhip of Images, for feare of …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 514 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Polydor. ƲirgilUirgil. lib. 6. cap. 13. de inuent. rerum, writeth, that by the teſtimonie of Ierome it appeareth …
    With rule
    Polydor. ƲirgilUirgil. lib. 6. cap. 13. de inuent. rerum, writeth, that by the teſtimonie of Ierome it appeareth …

    Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 163 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … dance and manifeſt their ioy after the grapes were gathered in. For which cauſe, ƲirgilUirgil ſaith, that the vine-dreſſer ſings when his laſt labours about his vines are …
    With rule
    … dance and manifeſt their ioy after the grapes were gathered in. For which cauſe, ƲirgilUirgil ſaith, that the vine-dreſſer ſings when his laſt labours about his vines are …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … they had do… they might returne to their former trade of life as … dor ƲirgilUirgil and Eraſmus witneſſe▪ But now they … bound by-Vowes, &c.
    With rule
    … they had do… they might returne to their former trade of life as … dor ƲirgilUirgil and Eraſmus witneſſe▪ But now they … bound by-Vowes, &c.

    Alexander Cooke · The Weather Cock of Romes Religion · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Romane Empire to him. Yea many ſuch verſes both of Homer and of ƲirgilUirgil, have been often uſed to that end; and have proved as ſignificant and effectual …
    With rule
    … the Romane Empire to him. Yea many ſuch verſes both of Homer and of ƲirgilUirgil, have been often uſed to that end; and have proved as ſignificant and effectual …

    John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 321 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … thruſt her needle through the tongue of that dead Orator? Thus haue prophane Authors ƲirgilUirgil, Livie, Plutarch, and others, conducted onely by natures light, noted, and cenſured crueltie againſt …
    With rule
    … thruſt her needle through the tongue of that dead Orator? Thus haue prophane Authors ƲirgilUirgil, Livie, Plutarch, and others, conducted onely by natures light, noted, and cenſured crueltie againſt …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    ƲirgilUirgil of Gnats: and Henisius of Lice:
    With rule
    ƲirgilUirgil of Gnats: and Henisius of Lice:

    Nicolas Billingsley · The Infancy of the World · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … thrust her needle through the tongue of that dead Orator? Thus haue prophane Authors ƲirgilUirgil, Livie, Plutarch, and others, conducted onely by natures light, noted, and censured crueltie against …
    With rule
    … thrust her needle through the tongue of that dead Orator? Thus haue prophane Authors ƲirgilUirgil, Livie, Plutarch, and others, conducted onely by natures light, noted, and censured crueltie against …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · p. 25 · 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.