Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50345 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melchizedeckMelchizedek

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

Puritas changed it: 193 times in 121 works
Consistency: 99.4% (193 of 194)
Reach if approved: ~204 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: melchisedec
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 194 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (193 changes in 121 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 193)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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Q. Why came MelchizedeckMelchizedek?
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Q. Why came MelchizedeckMelchizedek?
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 17 · Open in the reader
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… captaines as gods. The church all this time remained with Heber and his poſteritie, MelchizedeckMelchizedek and ſome few others who dwelt in Canaan. Thoſe of Hebers poſterity who went …
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… captaines as gods. The church all this time remained with Heber and his poſteritie, MelchizedeckMelchizedek and ſome few others who dwelt in Canaan. Thoſe of Hebers poſterity who went …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 93 · Open in the reader
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… Monarchical. 2. Christ was not a Priest according to the Order of Aaron, but of MelchizedeckMelchizedek. 3. Christ is Universal King as well as Priest; and hath National Kings under him …
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… Monarchical. 2. Christ was not a Priest according to the Order of Aaron, but of MelchizedeckMelchizedek. 3. Christ is Universal King as well as Priest; and hath National Kings under him …
Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 524 · Open in the reader
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… be ſome called Eraſtians who hold the King to be ſo mixta perſona like MelchizedeckMelchizedek, as that he is alſo the chief Prieſt, and hath the chief power of …
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… be ſome called Eraſtians who hold the King to be ſo mixta perſona like MelchizedeckMelchizedek, as that he is alſo the chief Prieſt, and hath the chief power of …
Richard Baxter · The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches · p. 215 · Open in the reader
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He also mentioneth his being at Worms this year in his Treatise of MelchizedeckMelchizedek. And this same year he wrote his little Tract of Mordecai his Age to …
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He also mentioneth his being at Worms this year in his Treatise of MelchizedeckMelchizedek. And this same year he wrote his little Tract of Mordecai his Age to …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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… is called in Scripture the houſe of God, and the habitation of the Saints. MelchizedeckMelchizedek called God the Poſſeſſor of Heaven and Earth, Gen. 14. The whole created World is …
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… is called in Scripture the houſe of God, and the habitation of the Saints. MelchizedeckMelchizedek called God the Poſſeſſor of Heaven and Earth, Gen. 14. The whole created World is …
William Gearing · A Prospect of Heaven · p. 119 · Open in the reader
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… been in his hot diſputes, to deliver his ſoul from his Spiritual Enemies, our MelchizedeckMelchizedek, the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, will refreſh him with Bread and Wine; for his Fleſh …
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… been in his hot diſputes, to deliver his ſoul from his Spiritual Enemies, our MelchizedeckMelchizedek, the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, will refreſh him with Bread and Wine; for his Fleſh …
Philip Lamb · A Funeral Sermon for John Gould · p. 46 · Open in the reader
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… a greater Veneration from his Subjects. This Name ſignifieth the ſame in effect with MelchizedeckMelchizedek, which is by Interpretation, King of Righteouſneſs, who was likewiſe called King of Salem …
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… a greater Veneration from his Subjects. This Name ſignifieth the ſame in effect with MelchizedeckMelchizedek, which is by Interpretation, King of Righteouſneſs, who was likewiſe called King of Salem …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 36 · 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.