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dinaDinah

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

Puritas changed it
94 times in 74 works
Consistency
93.0% (94 of 101)
Reach if approved
~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: dinam
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (94 changes in 74 works, 93.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 94)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … or feaſts and méetings, where there is great reſort of youthes. The example of DinaDinah Iacobs daughter ſhould teach vs this leſſon, how dangerous it is for maids to …
    With rule
    … or feaſts and méetings, where there is great reſort of youthes. The example of DinaDinah Iacobs daughter ſhould teach vs this leſſon, how dangerous it is for maids to …

    Francis Bunny · A Guide Unto Godliness · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    6 Euen as DinaDinah was deflowred, when ſhe ſtrayed from home: So is the Heart, when it ſtrayeth …
    With rule
    6 Euen as DinaDinah was deflowred, when ſhe ſtrayed from home: So is the Heart, when it ſtrayeth …

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 398 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Others mark but only such things which are not remarkable. DinaDinah marks, but what? Gen. 34. 1. The fancie-ful fashions of the daughters of Canaan: and …
    With rule
    Others mark but only such things which are not remarkable. DinaDinah marks, but what? Gen. 34. 1. The fancie-ful fashions of the daughters of Canaan: and …

    Thomas Fuller · Perfection and Peace · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Wander or walk too much in Fields or Streets, after the example of DinaDinah, Gen. 34. 2. and the strange woman, Prov. 7. 12.
    With rule
    Wander or walk too much in Fields or Streets, after the example of DinaDinah, Gen. 34. 2. and the strange woman, Prov. 7. 12.

    Henry Stubbes · A Dissuasive from Conformity to the World · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … backe, thou foolish sinner: turne in to thine owne house, and stray not with DinaDinah, till thou be rauished. Consider your wayes in your hearts. If thou findest not …
    With rule
    … backe, thou foolish sinner: turne in to thine owne house, and stray not with DinaDinah, till thou be rauished. Consider your wayes in your hearts. If thou findest not …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 261 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … seruice; his marying with two Sisters; the nomber of his Children; the rauishing of DinaDinah; the slaughter of Sichem; and likewise the selling of Ioseph; his imprisonment, his deliuerance …
    With rule
    … seruice; his marying with two Sisters; the nomber of his Children; the rauishing of DinaDinah; the slaughter of Sichem; and likewise the selling of Ioseph; his imprisonment, his deliuerance …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 462 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the way. The foolishe Virgins thinke that their oyle will neuer be spent: so DinaDinah stragled abroad whilst she was defloured: what a thing is this to say reioyce …
    With rule
    … the way. The foolishe Virgins thinke that their oyle will neuer be spent: so DinaDinah stragled abroad whilst she was defloured: what a thing is this to say reioyce …

    Henry Smith · The Trumpet of the Soul Sounding to Judgment · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … shew. Act 5. 2. Many will not sticke to be circumcised, with the Sychemits to get DinaDinah: But you must know that it is not the painting of a filthy sepulcher …
    With rule
    … shew. Act 5. 2. Many will not sticke to be circumcised, with the Sychemits to get DinaDinah: But you must know that it is not the painting of a filthy sepulcher …

    William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of the Laws of Moses A73378

  • Printed
    … Iudicij, becauſe there were three that ſat in their leſſer Iudicatorie; and when Beth dinaDinah ſignifieth the Iudges themſelues, it hath the point aboue judh, but when it ſignifieth …
    With rule
    … Iudicij, becauſe there were three that ſat in their leſſer Iudicatorie; and when Beth dinaDinah ſignifieth the Iudges themſelues, it hath the point aboue judh, but when it ſignifieth …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Explication of the Judicial Laws of Moses B16297

  • Printed
    … Iudicij, becauſe there were three that ſat in their leſſer Iudicatorie; and when Beth dinaDinah ſignifieth the Iudges themſelues, it hath the point aboue judh, but when it ſignifieth …
    With rule
    … Iudicij, becauſe there were three that ſat in their leſſer Iudicatorie; and when Beth dinaDinah ſignifieth the Iudges themſelues, it hath the point aboue judh, but when it ſignifieth …

    John Weemes · Explication of the Judicial Laws of Moses · p. 61 · Open in the reader