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phaenomenaPhenomena

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

Puritas changed it
92 times in 49 works
Consistency
93.8% (92 of 98)
Reach if approved
~103 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: phenomena
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
98 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (92 changes in 49 works, 93.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 92)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … was thwackt together of. In a word, 'tis ſo clear that the Shows or PhaenomenaPhenomena of the world are weilded by unſeen laws, even the worſt of its ſhocks …
    With rule
    … was thwackt together of. In a word, 'tis ſo clear that the Shows or PhaenomenaPhenomena of the world are weilded by unſeen laws, even the worſt of its ſhocks …

    Nathaniel Fairfax · Bulk and Selvage of the World · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of the Holy Ghoſt: if we do wreſt and torture Scripture to ſalve our PhaenomenaPhenomena, we do thereby injure, and lie againſt the Holy Ghoſt. This is the honour …
    With rule
    … of the Holy Ghoſt: if we do wreſt and torture Scripture to ſalve our PhaenomenaPhenomena, we do thereby injure, and lie againſt the Holy Ghoſt. This is the honour …

    Henry Hickman · The Believers Duty Towards the Spirit · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    There are his Enarrationes Gr. Lat. Ad Arati & Eudoxi PhaenomenaPhenomena.
    With rule
    There are his Enarrationes Gr. Lat. Ad Arati & Eudoxi PhaenomenaPhenomena.

    Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 223 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … wind-motions, in his fifth book of Natural Magick, and Marinus Mersennus hath written PhaenomenaPhenomena pneumatica. I will here produce some instances or examples of both kindes, and first …
    With rule
    … wind-motions, in his fifth book of Natural Magick, and Marinus Mersennus hath written PhaenomenaPhenomena pneumatica. I will here produce some instances or examples of both kindes, and first …

    Thomas Powell · Human Industry · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thoſe Luminaries, but made no uſeful enquiries into the Cauſes and Nature of thoſe PhaenomenaPhenomena. And 'tis very reproachful unto profeſſing Chriſtians, when they imagine that a paſſionate ſorrow …
    With rule
    … thoſe Luminaries, but made no uſeful enquiries into the Cauſes and Nature of thoſe PhaenomenaPhenomena. And 'tis very reproachful unto profeſſing Chriſtians, when they imagine that a paſſionate ſorrow …

    John Shower · The Mourners Companion · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Arati PhaenomenaPhenomena: Initio.
    With rule
    Arati PhaenomenaPhenomena: Initio.

    John Wallis · The Resurrection Asserted · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … their persons be annihilated, aeternized by their successive Posterity, and a whole scheme of PhaenomenaPhenomena, bearing sutable proportion with these Principles) I finde a Section Of Ordination of Teachers …
    With rule
    … their persons be annihilated, aeternized by their successive Posterity, and a whole scheme of PhaenomenaPhenomena, bearing sutable proportion with these Principles) I finde a Section Of Ordination of Teachers …

    Henry Hammond · Letter of Resolution to Six Queries · p. 384 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Now for the saluing of all the caelestiall PhaenomenaPhenomena, or appearances, the truth is the same, if wee suppose the earth to moue …
    With rule
    Now for the saluing of all the caelestiall PhaenomenaPhenomena, or appearances, the truth is the same, if wee suppose the earth to moue …

    William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

5 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.

The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 A27004

  • Printed
    … you know what you oblige your ſelves to, when you undertake to ſolve all phaenomenaPhenomena by matter and motion only? and how have you ſatisfied the ſtudious and impartial …
    With rule
    … you know what you oblige your ſelves to, when you undertake to ſolve all phaenomenaPhenomena by matter and motion only? and how have you ſatisfied the ſtudious and impartial …

    Richard Baxter · The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 · p. 511 · Open in the reader

A Weapon-Salve for the Churchs Wounds A61558

  • Printed
    … can any one be necessarily inferred from them? As if the several motions and phaenomenaPhenomena of the Heavens may be with equal probability explained according to the Ptolemaick or …
    With rule
    … can any one be necessarily inferred from them? As if the several motions and phaenomenaPhenomena of the Heavens may be with equal probability explained according to the Ptolemaick or …

    Edward Stillingfleet · A Weapon-Salve for the Churchs Wounds · p. 285 · Open in the reader

The Grounds of the Christian Faith A61580

  • Printed
    … and to terrifie them from Idolatry, (which was a great reason of those dreadful phaenomenaPhenomena at the delivery of the Law) but he came to draw all men to …
    With rule
    … and to terrifie them from Idolatry, (which was a great reason of those dreadful phaenomenaPhenomena at the delivery of the Law) but he came to draw all men to …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Grounds of the Christian Faith · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … profound it is, the more impossible will it be found to explicate all the phaenomenaPhenomena of nature by meer matter and Motion. It was wisely observed of a great …
    With rule
    … profound it is, the more impossible will it be found to explicate all the phaenomenaPhenomena of nature by meer matter and Motion. It was wisely observed of a great …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Grounds of the Christian Faith · p. 404 · Open in the reader

The Disarmers Dexterities Examined A87018

  • Printed
    As for his onely foreign, which can pretend to salve his phaenomenaPhenomena, and make his way of arguing consistent to it self, the Recantation of all …
    With rule
    As for his onely foreign, which can pretend to salve his phaenomenaPhenomena, and make his way of arguing consistent to it self, the Recantation of all …

    Henry Hammond · The Disarmers Dexterities Examined · p. 219 · Open in the reader