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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8137 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ciuilitiecivility

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
197 times in 115 works
Consistency
81.0% (197 of 243)
Reach if approved
~255 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: civility
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
243 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (197 changes in 115 works, 81.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 197)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … their gaines: they lose their credit, their respect, their good names, their time, their ciuilitiecivility, their modestie, their chastitie; and all that was commendable in them heretofore: yea, they …
    With rule
    … their gaines: they lose their credit, their respect, their good names, their time, their ciuilitiecivility, their modestie, their chastitie; and all that was commendable in them heretofore: yea, they …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or extortioner. Fooliſh men, as if wickednes lay all in extreamities, or as if ciuilitiecivility were righteouſnes in the ſight of God. But let all ſuch know, ciuilitiecivility ſufficeth …
    With rule
    … or extortioner. Fooliſh men, as if wickednes lay all in extreamities, or as if ciuilitiecivility were righteouſnes in the ſight of God. But let all ſuch know, ciuilitiecivility ſufficeth …

    William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … is much more hope of great sinners, then of many who haue (not onely ciuilitiecivility, but) a shew of religion, and want the power and life of it: of …
    With rule
    … is much more hope of great sinners, then of many who haue (not onely ciuilitiecivility, but) a shew of religion, and want the power and life of it: of …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their gifts with all due and reſpectiue cariage towards them agreeable thereto in all ciuilitiecivility and curteſie.
    With rule
    … their gifts with all due and reſpectiue cariage towards them agreeable thereto in all ciuilitiecivility and curteſie.

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … behauiour; and the whole mysterie of Christianity, to be onely a graue and stayed ciuilitiecivility: And the much adoe about faithfull and conscionable preaching, to bee onely the humor …
    With rule
    … behauiour; and the whole mysterie of Christianity, to be onely a graue and stayed ciuilitiecivility: And the much adoe about faithfull and conscionable preaching, to bee onely the humor …

    Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    For ciuilitiecivility, the breaking of relatiues, is the ruine of substantiues. We stand not of our …
    With rule
    For ciuilitiecivility, the breaking of relatiues, is the ruine of substantiues. We stand not of our …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … laboreth alſo by killing mens care to ſhew themſelues forward in theſe duties of ciuilitiecivility, to leſſen the credit of the Goſpel, & to haue matter of ſlaunder againſt the …
    With rule
    … laboreth alſo by killing mens care to ſhew themſelues forward in theſe duties of ciuilitiecivility, to leſſen the credit of the Goſpel, & to haue matter of ſlaunder againſt the …

    Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … beginne to thinke, that it is eyther the ſweeteneſſe of the ayre, or the ciuilitiecivility of your people, or the contentedneſſe of their mindes, or their deſire to doe …
    With rule
    … beginne to thinke, that it is eyther the ſweeteneſſe of the ayre, or the ciuilitiecivility of your people, or the contentedneſſe of their mindes, or their deſire to doe …

    Thomas Newhouse · Sermon in Norwich · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (46)

27 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 are listed here. 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Touch-Stone of Grace A02746

  • Printed
    CiuilitieCivility is not Grace. 50
    With rule
    CiuilitieCivility is not Grace. 50

    Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … in euery Nation, shew the cradle & child-hood therof? Their later receiued Letters, Arts, CiuilitieCivility? But what then, say they, did God before he made the World? I answere …
    With rule
    … in euery Nation, shew the cradle & child-hood therof? Their later receiued Letters, Arts, CiuilitieCivility? But what then, say they, did God before he made the World? I answere …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … learned of certaine Muscouites, that the inhabitants of Noua Zemla, had neither Religion nor CiuilitieCivility prescribed them by any Law, but worshipped the Sunne, Moone, and North-Starre, and …
    With rule
    … learned of certaine Muscouites, that the inhabitants of Noua Zemla, had neither Religion nor CiuilitieCivility prescribed them by any Law, but worshipped the Sunne, Moone, and North-Starre, and …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 365 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … on a winding crooke of Nilus, about fiue hundred myles square. It hath neither CiuilitieCivility, Letters, nor Gouernment. The inhabitants haue no vnderstanding, especially they which dwell in the …
    With rule
    … on a winding crooke of Nilus, about fiue hundred myles square. It hath neither CiuilitieCivility, Letters, nor Gouernment. The inhabitants haue no vnderstanding, especially they which dwell in the …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 544 · Open in the reader

The True Convert A10929

  • Printed
    And firſt CiuilitieCivility reacheth onely to the outward man, as for the inward, it is not regarded …
    With rule
    And firſt CiuilitieCivility reacheth onely to the outward man, as for the inward, it is not regarded …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Secondly, CiuilitieCivility reſpects principally duties of the Difference. 2 ſecond Table, little or no regard is had …
    With rule
    Secondly, CiuilitieCivility reſpects principally duties of the Difference. 2 ſecond Table, little or no regard is had …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Thirdly, the workes of Pietie, which CiuilitieCivility performes, are but ceremoniouſly obſerued, to preſerue credite, or for faſhion ſake; it reſteth …
    With rule
    Thirdly, the workes of Pietie, which CiuilitieCivility performes, are but ceremoniouſly obſerued, to preſerue credite, or for faſhion ſake; it reſteth …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Fourthly, CiuilitieCivility for the moſt part contenteth it ſelfe in abſtaining from euill; it does no …
    With rule
    Fourthly, CiuilitieCivility for the moſt part contenteth it ſelfe in abſtaining from euill; it does no …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … thither. And theſe are ſome differences betwixt true ſanctitie, and that ſame mock-grace CiuilitieCivility, which ſo couzens many.
    With rule
    … thither. And theſe are ſome differences betwixt true ſanctitie, and that ſame mock-grace CiuilitieCivility, which ſo couzens many.

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 22 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    … hard to cut a difference. Two things there are eſpecially, Cognatae ſanctitati. Firſt, is CiuilitieCivility, or as we commonly terme it, ciuill honeſtie: The ſecond, Grace reſtrayning. It may …
    With rule
    … hard to cut a difference. Two things there are eſpecially, Cognatae ſanctitati. Firſt, is CiuilitieCivility, or as we commonly terme it, ciuill honeſtie: The ſecond, Grace reſtrayning. It may …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Betwixt CiuilitieCivility and Sanctification obſerue theſe differences.
    With rule
    Betwixt CiuilitieCivility and Sanctification obſerue theſe differences.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Thirdly, CiuilitieCivility ſtayeth for moſt part in Negatiues, in abſtinence from euill, thinkes it Charitie enough …
    With rule
    Thirdly, CiuilitieCivility ſtayeth for moſt part in Negatiues, in abſtinence from euill, thinkes it Charitie enough …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Soule, and Body is thorowout ſanctified. And theſe are ſome differences twixt Sanctitie and CiuilitieCivility.
    With rule
    … Soule, and Body is thorowout ſanctified. And theſe are ſome differences twixt Sanctitie and CiuilitieCivility.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … act of vncleanneſſe; Nor Murtherers, but ſuch as ſhead bloud. Whence it is, that CiuilitieCivility goes currant for complete Righteouſneſſe: and the Law of God is thought to be …
    With rule
    … act of vncleanneſſe; Nor Murtherers, but ſuch as ſhead bloud. Whence it is, that CiuilitieCivility goes currant for complete Righteouſneſſe: and the Law of God is thought to be …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 232 · Open in the reader

Christian Observations and Resolutions A13075

  • Printed
    … Earth, so is VVarre to Mankinde, a fearefull commotion: The calamities of it destroyeth CiuilitieCivility, Libertie, Lawes, Religigion, and Humanitie it selfe. It is a grieuous thing to see …
    With rule
    … Earth, so is VVarre to Mankinde, a fearefull commotion: The calamities of it destroyeth CiuilitieCivility, Libertie, Lawes, Religigion, and Humanitie it selfe. It is a grieuous thing to see …

    William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 168 · Open in the reader

A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church A15739

  • Printed
    … your vulgar, or any other tranſlation. I confeſſe it is againſt both Charitie and CiuilitieCivility to ſuſpect a man of vntruth, without iuſt cauſe of ſuſpition: but ſuch fruites …
    With rule
    … your vulgar, or any other tranſlation. I confeſſe it is againſt both Charitie and CiuilitieCivility to ſuſpect a man of vntruth, without iuſt cauſe of ſuſpition: but ſuch fruites …

    Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · p. 70 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached in London A19590

  • Printed
    … and are infinitely more excellent then all wee take from them:and that is 1.CiuilitieCivility for their bodies, 2.Christianitie for their soules: The first to make thē men: the …
    With rule
    … and are infinitely more excellent then all wee take from them:and that is 1.CiuilitieCivility for their bodies, 2.Christianitie for their soules: The first to make thē men: the …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached in London · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … the glory of a perfect breeding, and the perfection of that, which we call CiuilitieCivility, in Trauell: of which ſort I haue (not without indignation) ſeene too many loſe …
    With rule
    … the glory of a perfect breeding, and the perfection of that, which we call CiuilitieCivility, in Trauell: of which ſort I haue (not without indignation) ſeene too many loſe …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 667 · Open in the reader