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melchisedecMelchizedek

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

Puritas changed it
1,015 times in 176 works
Consistency
99.8% (1,015 of 1,017)
Reach if approved
~1,069 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,017 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,015 changes in 176 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,015)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Samaritane beleeued vnfainedly that Christ was a Priest for euer after the order of MelchisedecMelchizedek, euen an high Priest which is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Hebr …
    With rule
    … Samaritane beleeued vnfainedly that Christ was a Priest for euer after the order of MelchisedecMelchizedek, euen an high Priest which is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Hebr …

    John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    The example of MelchiſedecMelchizedek boeth king and Priest, is more abſurdly alledged, then the other: not onely becauſe …
    With rule
    The example of MelchiſedecMelchizedek boeth king and Priest, is more abſurdly alledged, then the other: not onely becauſe …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and that upon which our Salvation principally depends, was illustrated by two Glorious types. MelchisedecMelchizedek and Aaron. The one the high Priest in ordinary, the other the Priest of …
    With rule
    … and that upon which our Salvation principally depends, was illustrated by two Glorious types. MelchisedecMelchizedek and Aaron. The one the high Priest in ordinary, the other the Priest of …

    William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 496 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … us entered, even Jesus, made an High-Priest for ever, after the Order of MelchisedecMelchizedek. He is therefore our Fore-runner by vertue of his Priesthood, his Blood giving …
    With rule
    … us entered, even Jesus, made an High-Priest for ever, after the Order of MelchisedecMelchizedek. He is therefore our Fore-runner by vertue of his Priesthood, his Blood giving …

    John Bunyan · Light for Them that Sit in Darkness · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and ſo myſteriouſly figured ſo many Ages before by the bread and wine of MelchiſedecMelchizedek? and nevertheleſs he ſaith not a word of it. What do I ſay, that …
    With rule
    … and ſo myſteriouſly figured ſo many Ages before by the bread and wine of MelchiſedecMelchizedek? and nevertheleſs he ſaith not a word of it. What do I ſay, that …

    Jean Daille · Faith Grounded Upon the Holy Scriptures Against the New Methodists · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … bee profitable to the dead, wherefore the Papistes do now hold the contrarie. Contra MelchisedecMelchizedek sumus Haer. 53. Hee accounteth the hauing of the images of Christ and the Apostles …
    With rule
    … bee profitable to the dead, wherefore the Papistes do now hold the contrarie. Contra MelchisedecMelchizedek sumus Haer. 53. Hee accounteth the hauing of the images of Christ and the Apostles …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … priest, not according to the order of Leui, but according to the order of MelchiſedecMelchizedek, Therefore the holy men at that time, acknowledged the Catholique church, without the marke …
    With rule
    … priest, not according to the order of Leui, but according to the order of MelchiſedecMelchizedek, Therefore the holy men at that time, acknowledged the Catholique church, without the marke …

    Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … they defend the sacrifice of the Masse, by Gen. 14.18. where it is said, that MelchisedecMelchizedek brought forth bread and wine to Abraham, and hee was the Priest of the …
    With rule
    … they defend the sacrifice of the Masse, by Gen. 14.18. where it is said, that MelchisedecMelchizedek brought forth bread and wine to Abraham, and hee was the Priest of the …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 265 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass A02831

  • Printed
    … is a manifest vntrenth. For that Christ is king & preist, wes the office of melchisedecMelchizedek, that his preisthead is eternal, and not temporal (as the preisthead of Aarō wes …
    With rule
    … is a manifest vntrenth. For that Christ is king & preist, wes the office of melchisedecMelchizedek, that his preisthead is eternal, and not temporal (as the preisthead of Aarō wes …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 54 · Open in the reader