Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50567 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

camelionChameleon

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

Puritas changed it: 106 times in 83 works
Consistency: 98.1% (106 of 108)
Reach if approved: ~113 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chameleon
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 108 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (106 changes in 83 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 106)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… enforce thée, wyth whyche thou doeſt féede thy ſelfe in ſuche wiſe, as the CamelionChameleon is reported to lyue wyth the aire.
With rule
… enforce thée, wyth whyche thou doeſt féede thy ſelfe in ſuche wiſe, as the CamelionChameleon is reported to lyue wyth the aire.
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
That he (CamelionChameleon-like) must haue a mind,
With rule
That he (CamelionChameleon-like) must haue a mind,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet his Pride will alwaies remain insatiable; he must still provide▪ air for that CamelionChameleon, lay out his whole breath in flatteries (a more hellish wind then any the …
With rule
… yet his Pride will alwaies remain insatiable; he must still provide▪ air for that CamelionChameleon, lay out his whole breath in flatteries (a more hellish wind then any the …
Richard Allestree · The Gentlemans Calling · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their ſouls, Take all reſt? Is not this becauſe conſcience is turned into a CamelionChameleon, to be like every object that it ſtands by? Thus it is with their …
With rule
… their ſouls, Take all reſt? Is not this becauſe conſcience is turned into a CamelionChameleon, to be like every object that it ſtands by? Thus it is with their …
Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this page, I find our Informer in this charge playes but the pityfull CamelionChameleon and versipellis: for finding that this assertion of his, that Christians of all ages …
With rule
… of this page, I find our Informer in this charge playes but the pityfull CamelionChameleon and versipellis: for finding that this assertion of his, that Christians of all ages …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… through all dangers, not ſhrinking at death it ſelf. Thoſe many colours that the CamelionChameleon turns it ſelf into, Ariſtotle aſcribes to extream fear, which, how true it is …
With rule
… through all dangers, not ſhrinking at death it ſelf. Thoſe many colours that the CamelionChameleon turns it ſelf into, Ariſtotle aſcribes to extream fear, which, how true it is …
William Spurstowe · A Crown of Life · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fatnesse. He began in Poverty, continued in Prodigality ended in surfeit. At first a CamelionChameleon, after a Cormorant, and lastly a Swine or Boare fatted for slaughter.
With rule
… Fatnesse. He began in Poverty, continued in Prodigality ended in surfeit. At first a CamelionChameleon, after a Cormorant, and lastly a Swine or Boare fatted for slaughter.
Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… change his work, nor change his hopes; though others under changes, turn like the CamelionChameleon into all colours to ſave their little all, yet the aſſured ſoul under all …
With rule
… change his work, nor change his hopes; though others under changes, turn like the CamelionChameleon into all colours to ſave their little all, yet the aſſured ſoul under all …
Thomas Brooks · Heaven on Earth · p. 251 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

Printed
… of the sanctuary. Their new plagiary divinity depending in a great measure upon the camelionChameleon-rule of worldly wisdom, and steering its course by the versatil rule of human …
With rule
… of the sanctuary. Their new plagiary divinity depending in a great measure upon the camelionChameleon-rule of worldly wisdom, and steering its course by the versatil rule of human …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · Open in the reader