Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #52599 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ecclesiastickecclesiastic

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 1,574 times in 318 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,574 of 1,576)
Reach if approved: ~1,657 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ecclesiastic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,577 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,574 changes in 318 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,574)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… better could be expected from weaker men! Were it not for ſecular advantage, or EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic faction and applauſe, how could it come to paſs that Miniſters in all the …
With rule
… better could be expected from weaker men! Were it not for ſecular advantage, or EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic faction and applauſe, how could it come to paſs that Miniſters in all the …
Richard Baxter · The Reformed Pastor · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more wonder at (that ever they were endured) than Richard Hookers eight Books of EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic Policy, dedicated by Biſhop Gauden to our preſent King, and vindicated by him; and …
With rule
… more wonder at (that ever they were endured) than Richard Hookers eight Books of EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic Policy, dedicated by Biſhop Gauden to our preſent King, and vindicated by him; and …
Richard Baxter · Poetical Fragments · Open in the reader
Printed
… Image of the Pagan; and who would not profeſs ſlavery, and vaſſalage under the EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic, or Pſeudo-Spiritual Supremacy, the Image of the Imperial. So it would be effective …
With rule
… Image of the Pagan; and who would not profeſs ſlavery, and vaſſalage under the EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic, or Pſeudo-Spiritual Supremacy, the Image of the Imperial. So it would be effective …
Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Church; & make himself a Pope & the fountaine of all power & jurisdiction, both civill & ecclesiastickecclesiastic, & challenge power, to give commission for deposeing & ordaineing of Ministers, & hinder free preaching, to …
With rule
… the Church; & make himself a Pope & the fountaine of all power & jurisdiction, both civill & ecclesiastickecclesiastic, & challenge power, to give commission for deposeing & ordaineing of Ministers, & hinder free preaching, to …
John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Cardinals and Biſhops, all Monaſteries, yea, the Houſe of every Pariſh Prieſt and EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic, are all Sanctuaries for Sodomites. They could not well proceed further in favour of …
With rule
… of Cardinals and Biſhops, all Monaſteries, yea, the Houſe of every Pariſh Prieſt and EccleſiaſtickEcclesiastic, are all Sanctuaries for Sodomites. They could not well proceed further in favour of …
David Clarkson · The Practical Divinity of the Papists Discovered to be Destructive · p. 358 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of hierarchicall act these may bee referred, for Dionysi…s recounting the acts of EcclesiastickEcclesiastic hierarchie, hath no such matter: Therefore they are his Monarchick exercises, which hee hath …
With rule
… of hierarchicall act these may bee referred, for Dionysi…s recounting the acts of EcclesiastickEcclesiastic hierarchie, hath no such matter: Therefore they are his Monarchick exercises, which hee hath …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And I fear that envious artifice has been too often transcrib'd, as well in EcclesiastickEcclesiastic, as in Civil Transactions: No detriment is thought so formidable to a malicious mind …
With rule
… And I fear that envious artifice has been too often transcrib'd, as well in EcclesiastickEcclesiastic, as in Civil Transactions: No detriment is thought so formidable to a malicious mind …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 374 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Popes absolute Government of the whole Church, as without or above Laws and EcclesiastickEcclesiastic Parliaments.
With rule
… the Popes absolute Government of the whole Church, as without or above Laws and EcclesiastickEcclesiastic Parliaments.
Richard Baxter · Cain and Abel Malignity · p. 24 · 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.