Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10899 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

phaenixPhoenix

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

Puritas changed it: 100 times in 73 works
Consistency: 95.2% (100 of 105)
Reach if approved: ~110 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: phoenix
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 105 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 73 works, 95.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
To Mars the Pye they ſacrifizde, the PhaenixPhoenix to the Sunne,
With rule
To Mars the Pye they ſacrifizde, the PhaenixPhoenix to the Sunne,
John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · Open in the reader
Printed
… about a Popiſh work, of making a wonder of a Saint, as of a PhaenixPhoenix or ſome rare unuſual thing. Saints with them muſt b… Canonized, and their names …
With rule
… about a Popiſh work, of making a wonder of a Saint, as of a PhaenixPhoenix or ſome rare unuſual thing. Saints with them muſt b… Canonized, and their names …
Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Death · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the earth, ſaith God himſelfe to Satan (Chap. 1.8.) So Jobs condition was a PhaenixPhoenix, it had no ſecond; there was no man tryed like him in the whole …
With rule
… in the earth, ſaith God himſelfe to Satan (Chap. 1.8.) So Jobs condition was a PhaenixPhoenix, it had no ſecond; there was no man tryed like him in the whole …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… practice, Edua…d Earl of Oxford, the Lord … H…nry Lord Pa…et, our PhaenixPhoenix the No le S… Ph…ip Sidney, Mr. Edward Dyer, Mr. E…m…nd …
With rule
… practice, Edua…d Earl of Oxford, the Lord … H…nry Lord Pa…et, our PhaenixPhoenix the No le S… Ph…ip Sidney, Mr. Edward Dyer, Mr. E…m…nd …
Edward Leigh · Observations of all the Kings of England · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Life, Institution and Example leadeth and directeth the Schollar. And so Homer describeth PhaenixPhoenix the Master and Instructer of Achilles, foreign.
With rule
… and Life, Institution and Example leadeth and directeth the Schollar. And so Homer describeth PhaenixPhoenix the Master and Instructer of Achilles, foreign.
Edward Reynolds · Sermon Touching the Use of Human Learning · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
Naturalists tell us of a PhaenixPhoenix which riseth out of the ashes, into which she had burned her self before …
With rule
Naturalists tell us of a PhaenixPhoenix which riseth out of the ashes, into which she had burned her self before …
Thomas Vincent · Christs Certain and Sudden Appearance to Judgment · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Hiſtory of the PhaenixPhoenix, mentioned in this Epiſtle, is confeſſedly a Fable. But he that conſiders that it …
With rule
The Hiſtory of the PhaenixPhoenix, mentioned in this Epiſtle, is confeſſedly a Fable. But he that conſiders that it …
Samuel Clarke · Reflections on The Defense of Miltons Life · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Tyre and Sidon. But this fable is ſufficiently refuted by the names of Belus, PhaenixPhoenix and Cadmus, which are purely Phenician, and not Aegyptian; and the ancient Phenician Annals …
With rule
… Tyre and Sidon. But this fable is ſufficiently refuted by the names of Belus, PhaenixPhoenix and Cadmus, which are purely Phenician, and not Aegyptian; and the ancient Phenician Annals …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

Printed
… upon her sisters throne that mirrour of Princes, and parragon of her sex, and phaenixPhoenix of her age, restoring at the same time preachers to the Gospell and Gospell …
With rule
… upon her sisters throne that mirrour of Princes, and parragon of her sex, and phaenixPhoenix of her age, restoring at the same time preachers to the Gospell and Gospell …
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 306 · Open in the reader