Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50592 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nathaneelNathanael

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

Puritas changed it: 101 times in 51 works
Consistency: 97.1% (101 of 104)
Reach if approved: ~109 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 104 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (101 changes in 51 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 101)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… dutie made Dauid glad at the very heart. Thus Philip, and Andrew did inuite NathaneelNathanael and Simon to come vnto Chriſt whom they had found before.
With rule
… dutie made Dauid glad at the very heart. Thus Philip, and Andrew did inuite NathaneelNathanael and Simon to come vnto Chriſt whom they had found before.
Stephen Egerton · The Boring of the Ear · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… plain, sincere, I had almost said a perfect man; I am sure a true NathaneelNathanael, in whom was no guile.
With rule
… plain, sincere, I had almost said a perfect man; I am sure a true NathaneelNathanael, in whom was no guile.
Samuel Clarke · A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alike, and high enough (all of them) to cauſe them to entitle him God. NathaneelNathanael ſees his omnipreſence and omniſcience, when Chriſt told him, before Philip called thee, I …
With rule
… alike, and high enough (all of them) to cauſe them to entitle him God. NathaneelNathanael ſees his omnipreſence and omniſcience, when Chriſt told him, before Philip called thee, I …
Samuel Eaton · A Vindication · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot determine; certaine it is, the sense of his name is the same with NathaneelNathanael, though not the sound: and I should as soone fix upon him for the …
With rule
… cannot determine; certaine it is, the sense of his name is the same with NathaneelNathanael, though not the sound: and I should as soone fix upon him for the …
John Lightfoot · Commentary Upon Acts · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called them to the office, and withall he gifted them. He called alſo learned NathaneelNathanael, and Nicodemus, a Maſter in Iſrael: leſt, if he had called none but ſuch …
With rule
… called them to the office, and withall he gifted them. He called alſo learned NathaneelNathanael, and Nicodemus, a Maſter in Iſrael: leſt, if he had called none but ſuch …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 274 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſerviceable to Church and State, and in this particular he was a true NathaneelNathanael in whom there was no guile: he was a countenancer of religion in the …
With rule
… be ſerviceable to Church and State, and in this particular he was a true NathaneelNathanael in whom there was no guile: he was a countenancer of religion in the …
Edmund Calamy · A Pattern for All · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Believers on Christ to live in the constant Exercise of Grace. by Mr. NathaneelNathanael Mather, Minister of the Gospel at Dublin in Ireland.
With rule
… of Believers on Christ to live in the constant Exercise of Grace. by Mr. NathaneelNathanael Mather, Minister of the Gospel at Dublin in Ireland.
Increase Mather · The Greatest Sinners Exhorted and Encouraged · Open in the reader
Printed
… our dealings with him. God loues simplicity and plaine dealing; as in Iacob and NathaneelNathanael.
With rule
… our dealings with him. God loues simplicity and plaine dealing; as in Iacob and NathaneelNathanael.
John Rogers · A Treatise of Love · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Christ Displayed as the Choicest Gift and Best Master A43568

Printed
… the last Sermons Preached by that faithful and industrious Servant of Jesus Christ▪ Mr. NATHANEELNATHANAEL HEYWOOD,
With rule
… the last Sermons Preached by that faithful and industrious Servant of Jesus Christ▪ Mr. NATHANEELNATHANAEL HEYWOOD,
Nathaniel Heywood · Christ Displayed as the Choicest Gift and Best Master · Open in the reader

An Elegy on the Death of Nathanael Collins B43419

Printed
FƲNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NATHANEELNATHANAEL COLLINS? Who changed Death for LIFE, December 28. 1684.
With rule
FƲNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NATHANEELNATHANAEL COLLINS? Who changed Death for LIFE, December 28. 1684.
Cotton Mather · An Elegy on the Death of Nathanael Collins · p. 1 · Open in the reader