Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10884 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dalilahDelilah

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

Puritas changed it: 489 times in 303 works
Consistency: 99.5% (489 of 491)
Reach if approved: ~517 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 492 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (489 changes in 303 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 489)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The Divell is like DalilahDelilah, who said to Sampson, the Philistims be upon thee, when it was too late …
With rule
The Divell is like DalilahDelilah, who said to Sampson, the Philistims be upon thee, when it was too late …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 547 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so much seeme to ascribe the praise of Sampsons Acts against the Philistims, to DalilahDelilah, because she awakened, and stirred him vp; will any beleeue him? It is against …
With rule
… so much seeme to ascribe the praise of Sampsons Acts against the Philistims, to DalilahDelilah, because she awakened, and stirred him vp; will any beleeue him? It is against …
Henry Burton · A Plea to an Appeal · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before the Philistims bored them out, in that once and againe being deceived by DalilahDelilah, hee still relyed on her word: But if hee hath shewed himselfe such a …
With rule
… before the Philistims bored them out, in that once and againe being deceived by DalilahDelilah, hee still relyed on her word: But if hee hath shewed himselfe such a …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Theſe are often given for a ſnare, as Sauls daughter to David; Theſe like DalilahDelilah betray us, after they have ſung ſweetly to us, cut off our lockes, ſpoyle …
With rule
… Theſe are often given for a ſnare, as Sauls daughter to David; Theſe like DalilahDelilah betray us, after they have ſung ſweetly to us, cut off our lockes, ſpoyle …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne cause, you implead your husbands. Have you not heard of a lascivious, treacherous DalilahDelilah, of a disdainfull Michol, of a painted Iezabel? and yet these counterfeits looked for …
With rule
… owne cause, you implead your husbands. Have you not heard of a lascivious, treacherous DalilahDelilah, of a disdainfull Michol, of a painted Iezabel? and yet these counterfeits looked for …
William Loe · The Incomparable Jewel · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would break those bonds of iniquitie, as easily as Sampson did the cordes wherwith DalilahDelilah tyed him, and give good reasons also from the word of God for their …
With rule
… would break those bonds of iniquitie, as easily as Sampson did the cordes wherwith DalilahDelilah tyed him, and give good reasons also from the word of God for their …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feare, and there is a feare without loue, and both are hypocrites. Therefore as DalilahDelilah searched where Sampsons strength lay, so let euery mā search where his weakenes lieth …
With rule
… feare, and there is a feare without loue, and both are hypocrites. Therefore as DalilahDelilah searched where Sampsons strength lay, so let euery mā search where his weakenes lieth …
Henry Smith · A Preparative to Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… him a laughing ſtocke to his enimies, but the only loue of his ſpouſe DalilahDelilah? And O Chriſt! what bound thy hands and feet, what powled thee and depriued …
With rule
… him a laughing ſtocke to his enimies, but the only loue of his ſpouſe DalilahDelilah? And O Chriſt! what bound thy hands and feet, what powled thee and depriued …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 170 · 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.

Exposition of Job 4-7 A35438

Printed
DAlilahDelilah, What it ſignifies, pag. 303.
With rule
DAlilahDelilah, What it ſignifies, pag. 303.
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · Open in the reader