Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10897 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

micholMichal

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

Puritas changed it: 207 times in 118 works
Consistency: 99.5% (207 of 208)
Reach if approved: ~219 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 208 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (207 changes in 118 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 207)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… while God giueth them theſe things as ſnares to them, like as Saul gaue MicholMichal to Dauid to bee a ſnare vnto him, 1. Sam. 17. Though it be not warrantable …
With rule
… while God giueth them theſe things as ſnares to them, like as Saul gaue MicholMichal to Dauid to bee a ſnare vnto him, 1. Sam. 17. Though it be not warrantable …
Paul Baynes · A Counterbane Against Earthly Carefulness · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mouthes: O (ſaith Dauid) I will be more humble yet before my God. When MicholMichal ſawe his reſolution, ſhe mocked him no more, but reuerenced him euer after. So …
With rule
… mouthes: O (ſaith Dauid) I will be more humble yet before my God. When MicholMichal ſawe his reſolution, ſhe mocked him no more, but reuerenced him euer after. So …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 948 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more prooue, that Samuel sawe Saul at the day of his death, then that MicholMichal had a child then: of whome it is said, that shee had no child …
With rule
… more prooue, that Samuel sawe Saul at the day of his death, then that MicholMichal had a child then: of whome it is said, that shee had no child …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… children in the fire to th… deuil. Wiues be vnfaithfull, as Dalila: scoffers, as MicholMichal. Children may proue vnnatural, as Absolom vvas. Seruants are vntrustie, as Gehez…e. Friends …
With rule
… children in the fire to th… deuil. Wiues be vnfaithfull, as Dalila: scoffers, as MicholMichal. Children may proue vnnatural, as Absolom vvas. Seruants are vntrustie, as Gehez…e. Friends …
William Burton · A Sermon Preached 21 December 1589 · Open in the reader
Printed
… As Saul, a good scholler in this schoole did for Dauid, in giuing him MicholMichal to wife: I will giue him hir, saith he, that shee may be a …
With rule
… As Saul, a good scholler in this schoole did for Dauid, in giuing him MicholMichal to wife: I will giue him hir, saith he, that shee may be a …
Daniel Dyke · The Mystery of Self-Deceiving · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the very conceit of unſeemly behaviour in David, that Father of the ſtate, made MicholMichal deſpiſe him her heart, and ſpeak unreverently of him with her lips, 2 Sam. 6. 16, 20, 21. How …
With rule
… the very conceit of unſeemly behaviour in David, that Father of the ſtate, made MicholMichal deſpiſe him her heart, and ſpeak unreverently of him with her lips, 2 Sam. 6. 16, 20, 21. How …
Thomas Cobbet · The Honor Due from Children · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good, deſpiſe them, and think ſlightly of them, ſuch an one as this was MicholMichal in her carriage to King David, when ſhe ſaw him in the zeal of …
With rule
… good, deſpiſe them, and think ſlightly of them, ſuch an one as this was MicholMichal in her carriage to King David, when ſhe ſaw him in the zeal of …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and therefore worthie to be considered of Saul: againe, though he should haue had MicholMichal to wife, he was not for this to be heyre of the crowne, and …
With rule
… and therefore worthie to be considered of Saul: againe, though he should haue had MicholMichal to wife, he was not for this to be heyre of the crowne, and …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 754 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.