Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10859 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nilusNile

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

Puritas changed it: 1,252 times in 417 works
Consistency: 100% (1,252 of 1,252)
Reach if approved: ~1,345 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,280 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,252 changes in 417 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,252)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… if he ſpeed, enjoyes his conqueſts moderatly, uſing them, as the dogs drinke at NilusNile; or as Gidions Souldiers, lap and away, leſt if hee ſhould let looſe the …
With rule
… if he ſpeed, enjoyes his conqueſts moderatly, uſing them, as the dogs drinke at NilusNile; or as Gidions Souldiers, lap and away, leſt if hee ſhould let looſe the …
John Stoughton · The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
Bicauſe that if that NilusNile do not encreaſe but twelue cubytes, then they haue the famine in Aegypt: bycauſe …
With rule
Bicauſe that if that NilusNile do not encreaſe but twelue cubytes, then they haue the famine in Aegypt: bycauſe …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other smaller riuers, though Euphates which is sometime simply called the great riuer, and NilusNile in Egypt, were greater then it.
With rule
… other smaller riuers, though Euphates which is sometime simply called the great riuer, and NilusNile in Egypt, were greater then it.
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 375 · Open in the reader
Printed
About this time liued NilusNile, Archbiſhop of Theſſalonica, and wrote a large worke againſt the Roman Church, and layeth …
With rule
About this time liued NilusNile, Archbiſhop of Theſſalonica, and wrote a large worke againſt the Roman Church, and layeth …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon due obſeruation perhaps the nature of ſome riuer: namely, either howe the river NilusNile ſwelleth in winter by reaſon of the increaſe of waters which it gathereth in …
With rule
… vpon due obſeruation perhaps the nature of ſome riuer: namely, either howe the river NilusNile ſwelleth in winter by reaſon of the increaſe of waters which it gathereth in …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they ſay, Flumina Nili, or Montes Sion, the riuers of NilusNile, for the riuer NilusNile, or the mountaines of Sion, for Mount Sion: Or rather in progreſſe of time …
With rule
… they ſay, Flumina Nili, or Montes Sion, the riuers of NilusNile, for the riuer NilusNile, or the mountaines of Sion, for Mount Sion: Or rather in progreſſe of time …
Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of ſeruice is not ſufficient, as it were the Dogge, at the waters of NilusNile, touch and goe, lappe and away. No. The continuing is as godly as the …
With rule
… of ſeruice is not ſufficient, as it were the Dogge, at the waters of NilusNile, touch and goe, lappe and away. No. The continuing is as godly as the …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which flow from it. And yet we like men that looke on the River NilusNile, and gaze wonderously on the Streames, remaine still ignorant of the head, and Originall …
With rule
… which flow from it. And yet we like men that looke on the River NilusNile, and gaze wonderously on the Streames, remaine still ignorant of the head, and Originall …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 164 · Open in the reader

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