Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #52700 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

antientsancients

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

Puritas changed it: 1,233 times in 439 works
Consistency: 100% (1,233 of 1,233)
Reach if approved: ~1,296 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ancients
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,233 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,233 changes in 439 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,233)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
17 The Office of the AntientsAncients is expressed in their Description: their especiall care must bee to see the Canons …
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17 The Office of the AntientsAncients is expressed in their Description: their especiall care must bee to see the Canons …
Christopher Lawne · Brownish Turn Inside Outward · Open in the reader
Printed
But Moſes is vailed? What will they inferre? Moſt of the AntientsAncients underſtood it onely of his darke way of delivery; He gave things obſcurely, by …
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But Moſes is vailed? What will they inferre? Moſt of the AntientsAncients underſtood it onely of his darke way of delivery; He gave things obſcurely, by …
Samuel Torshell · Three Questions · p. 286 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hatched that monstrous Figment of Transubstantiation, upon the discovery of any Expressions amongst the AntientsAncients, (though made use of to another end) cry out, and Triumph, as if they …
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… hatched that monstrous Figment of Transubstantiation, upon the discovery of any Expressions amongst the AntientsAncients, (though made use of to another end) cry out, and Triumph, as if they …
Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 305 · Open in the reader
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… and ſalvation. And this ſeemeth to be the opinion of Origen, Macarius and divers AntientsAncients: Even that God doth with Believers as he did with the Angels, and Adam …
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… and ſalvation. And this ſeemeth to be the opinion of Origen, Macarius and divers AntientsAncients: Even that God doth with Believers as he did with the Angels, and Adam …
Richard Baxter · Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſenſe of the words that are intereſſed in the matter; which by the AntientsAncients was called [Liquido jurare]
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… the ſenſe of the words that are intereſſed in the matter; which by the AntientsAncients was called [Liquido jurare]
Richard Baxter · The Nonconformists Plea for Peace · p. 329 · Open in the reader
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… becauſe, natural Magick is not commonly accurately diſtinguiſhed from the Artificial, either by the AntientsAncients or by the Moderns; and that which belongs to one, is frequently attributed to …
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… becauſe, natural Magick is not commonly accurately diſtinguiſhed from the Artificial, either by the AntientsAncients or by the Moderns; and that which belongs to one, is frequently attributed to …
Balthasar Bekker · The World Bewitched · p. 36 · Open in the reader
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… is ſaid to weep tears of blood; but the moſt and beſt of the AntientsAncients underſtand the words in a literal ſenſe, and believe it was truly and properly …
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… is ſaid to weep tears of blood; but the moſt and beſt of the AntientsAncients underſtand the words in a literal ſenſe, and believe it was truly and properly …
Thomas Brooks · A Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures · p. 112 · Open in the reader
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… is evil they will make uſe of Quotation… and Antiquities, yet we ſee the AntientsAncients did abhor this, Chriſt and his Apoſtles they quoted none of the Learned men …
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… is evil they will make uſe of Quotation… and Antiquities, yet we ſee the AntientsAncients did abhor this, Chriſt and his Apoſtles they quoted none of the Learned men …
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 8-10 · p. 86 · 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.