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phenicianPhoenician

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

Puritas changed it
537 times in 15 works
Consistency
100% (537 of 537)
Reach if approved
~564 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: phenician
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
537 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (537 changes in 15 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 537)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … some 600. some 800. yeares, Iosephus also alleageth Manethan, Berosus, Mochus Estia…s the Aegyptian, Chalde, PhenicianPhoenician Chronologers, who testifie, that those old fathers lived toward a thousand yeares.
    With rule
    … some 600. some 800. yeares, Iosephus also alleageth Manethan, Berosus, Mochus Estia…s the Aegyptian, Chalde, PhenicianPhoenician Chronologers, who testifie, that those old fathers lived toward a thousand yeares.

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    § 28. The same (say some) with Baal, onely he was a PhenicianPhoenician, this a Babylonish Deity. This Bel was the grand confounder of so many barnes …
    With rule
    § 28. The same (say some) with Baal, onely he was a PhenicianPhoenician, this a Babylonish Deity. This Bel was the grand confounder of so many barnes …

    Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … makes Plato to ſpeak many things, which he underſtood not, drawn out of the PhenicianPhoenician Theologie. So Scaliger Exer. 61. §. 3, which opinion ſeems very probable to me. For as to …
    With rule
    … makes Plato to ſpeak many things, which he underſtood not, drawn out of the PhenicianPhoenician Theologie. So Scaliger Exer. 61. §. 3, which opinion ſeems very probable to me. For as to …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … only Confederation, but alſo intime Amitie and Fraternitie. Plato, Repub. 3. pag. 415. gives us a PhenicianPhoenician Fable, touching the original Fraternitie of al men, which he makes to be the …
    With rule
    … only Confederation, but alſo intime Amitie and Fraternitie. Plato, Repub. 3. pag. 415. gives us a PhenicianPhoenician Fable, touching the original Fraternitie of al men, which he makes to be the …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    But of PhenicianPhoenician Traffick hereabout, there are many Proofs and Reliques, beside the Famous Story of the …
    With rule
    But of PhenicianPhoenician Traffick hereabout, there are many Proofs and Reliques, beside the Famous Story of the …

    John Sadler · Rights of the Kingdom · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … best manner he could, of those imputations which they laid upon him, concerning the PhenicianPhoenician fleet and other things: and as soon as he was come to Ephesus, he …
    With rule
    … best manner he could, of those imputations which they laid upon him, concerning the PhenicianPhoenician fleet and other things: and as soon as he was come to Ephesus, he …

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Hiſtorians. Diocles in the ſecond book of his Perſian Hiſtory, and Philoſtratus in his PhenicianPhoenician and Indian Hiſtory, make mention of this King, ſaying, that hee overcame the City …
    With rule
    … Hiſtorians. Diocles in the ſecond book of his Perſian Hiſtory, and Philoſtratus in his PhenicianPhoenician and Indian Hiſtory, make mention of this King, ſaying, that hee overcame the City …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · p. 579 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the whole Country euen to the Pillers of Hercules, and their language is half PhenicianPhoenician. Also in Numidy (among other Cities) they builded Tingit, the seat whereof is very …
    With rule
    … the whole Country euen to the Pillers of Hercules, and their language is half PhenicianPhoenician. Also in Numidy (among other Cities) they builded Tingit, the seat whereof is very …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 469 · Open in the reader

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