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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10829 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melchizedechMelchizedek

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

Puritas changed it
246 times in 80 works
Consistency
100% (246 of 246)
Reach if approved
~258 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: melchisedec
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
246 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 80 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … our high Prieſt came, who is a Prieſt for euer after the order of MelchizedechMelchizedek, they brought their children to him to be bleſt, And hee laid his hands …
    With rule
    … our high Prieſt came, who is a Prieſt for euer after the order of MelchizedechMelchizedek, they brought their children to him to be bleſt, And hee laid his hands …

    Samuel Gibson · Sermon of Ecclesiastical Benediction · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the hiſtorie of the king of Sodome, that we conſider what Abram did to MelchizedechMelchizedek: The holy Ghoſt ſaith, Abram gaue him Tyth of all, wherein he giueth vs …
    With rule
    … the hiſtorie of the king of Sodome, that we conſider what Abram did to MelchizedechMelchizedek: The holy Ghoſt ſaith, Abram gaue him Tyth of all, wherein he giueth vs …

    Eusebius Pagit · Sermon on Genesis 14:20-21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … will not repente, thou art a prieſt for euer, according to the order of MelchizedechMelchizedek. And laſtly concerning his office of a prophet and teacher of his Church, Mathew …
    With rule
    … will not repente, thou art a prieſt for euer, according to the order of MelchizedechMelchizedek. And laſtly concerning his office of a prophet and teacher of his Church, Mathew …

    Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 124 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vſe for our good. And as for patternes, how might I tell you of MelchizedechMelchizedek, the Prieſt of the moſt high God; of Moſes and Aaron, who led the …
    With rule
    … vſe for our good. And as for patternes, how might I tell you of MelchizedechMelchizedek, the Prieſt of the moſt high God; of Moſes and Aaron, who led the …

    Robert Abbot · Be Thankful London and Her Sisters · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … new testament, abrogateth and abolisheth the Priesthood of christ, being after the order of MelchizedechMelchizedek, who was both king and priest.
    With rule
    … new testament, abrogateth and abolisheth the Priesthood of christ, being after the order of MelchizedechMelchizedek, who was both king and priest.

    William Attersoll · The Badges of Christianity · p. 274 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … not the patterne, but a type and shadowing resemblance of Christs Priesthhood: for as MelchizedechMelchizedek in his Scriptural being is mentioned and brought in, without shewing who was his …
    With rule
    … not the patterne, but a type and shadowing resemblance of Christs Priesthhood: for as MelchizedechMelchizedek in his Scriptural being is mentioned and brought in, without shewing who was his …

    David Dickson · A Brief Explication of the Last Fifty Psalms · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Remark the ſecond, This Wonder-working Prophet is brought in here, like another MelchizedechMelchizedek, Gen. 14.18. Heb. 7.3. without any mention of his Father or Mother, or the beginning of …
    With rule
    Remark the ſecond, This Wonder-working Prophet is brought in here, like another MelchizedechMelchizedek, Gen. 14.18. Heb. 7.3. without any mention of his Father or Mother, or the beginning of …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 488 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Abraham… family should be more vile then the Church in the family of Noah, MelchizedechMelchizedek, Sem, Job, Lot, &c. which were more then ceremonies.
    With rule
    … Abraham… family should be more vile then the Church in the family of Noah, MelchizedechMelchizedek, Sem, Job, Lot, &c. which were more then ceremonies.

    John Tombes · Anti-Paedobaptism Part 3 · p. 506 · 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.