Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50080 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chanaanCanaan

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

Puritas changed it: 559 times in 88 works
Consistency: 99.8% (559 of 560)
Reach if approved: ~588 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: canaan
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 560 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (559 changes in 88 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 559)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Aegipt, they met no foes: but when they came from Aegipt to go to ChanaanCanaan, they met with many. Lazarus had a bitter battell as it were in his …
With rule
… Aegipt, they met no foes: but when they came from Aegipt to go to ChanaanCanaan, they met with many. Lazarus had a bitter battell as it were in his …
Richard Webb · The Lot or Portion of the Righteous · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ChanaanCanaan, bred Abraham for Egypt but 70. ſoules, and 215. in Egypt bred to goe for ChanaanCanaan ſix hundred thouſand warriers, that heathen ſhould not mocke Moſes, vſed wordes that one …
With rule
… ChanaanCanaan, bred Abraham for Egypt but 70. ſoules, and 215. in Egypt bred to goe for ChanaanCanaan ſix hundred thouſand warriers, that heathen ſhould not mocke Moſes, vſed wordes that one …
Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… why the New Teſtament was not written in the Iewes language: (or tongue of ChanaanCanaan. Eſ. 19.) and thy have forgotten what theyr old Doctours ſay: in the Thalmud Ieruſalemy …
With rule
… why the New Teſtament was not written in the Iewes language: (or tongue of ChanaanCanaan. Eſ. 19.) and thy have forgotten what theyr old Doctours ſay: in the Thalmud Ieruſalemy …
Hugh Broughton · Two Epistles in the Year 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
16 Steeuē ſaith, that the Patriarks were carried into the land of ChanaanCanaan, after they wer dead. But Moſes maketh mētiō only of the bones of Ioſeph …
With rule
16 Steeuē ſaith, that the Patriarks were carried into the land of ChanaanCanaan, after they wer dead. But Moſes maketh mētiō only of the bones of Ioſeph …
John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for that tyme: that is to ſay he did ſet foorth the lād of ChanaanCanaan as a pledge to thoſe whom he taught, & keepe them to the Sacrifiſes, waſhings …
With rule
… for that tyme: that is to ſay he did ſet foorth the lād of ChanaanCanaan as a pledge to thoſe whom he taught, & keepe them to the Sacrifiſes, waſhings …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſpleaſed with him, that he would not let him enter into the land of ChanaanCanaan.
With rule
… diſpleaſed with him, that he would not let him enter into the land of ChanaanCanaan.
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what time the people should obtaine peaceable rest and possession of the Lande of ChanaanCanaan, that then they might begin to reckon by these Sabbatical years and yeares of …
With rule
… what time the people should obtaine peaceable rest and possession of the Lande of ChanaanCanaan, that then they might begin to reckon by these Sabbatical years and yeares of …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his ſonne Iſaac, he ſware him that hee ſhoulde not take anie Daughter of ChanaanCanaan. So when Sampſon required his parents to giue him a wife of the daughters …
With rule
… his ſonne Iſaac, he ſware him that hee ſhoulde not take anie Daughter of ChanaanCanaan. So when Sampſon required his parents to giue him a wife of the daughters …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 311 · 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.