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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50662 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnicorneUnicorn

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

Puritas changed it
85 times in 42 works
Consistency
96.5% (85 of 88)
Reach if approved
~92 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unicorn
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
88 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (85 changes in 42 works, 96.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Cedars of Lebanon, making them to leape like a calfe, yea, like an yong VnicorneUnicorn, diuiding the flames of fire, making the wildernesse, euen the wilde…nesse of Cadesh …
    With rule
    … Cedars of Lebanon, making them to leape like a calfe, yea, like an yong VnicorneUnicorn, diuiding the flames of fire, making the wildernesse, euen the wilde…nesse of Cadesh …

    David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 223 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … point more manifest, I will vse this comparison: A certaine man pursued by an VnicorneUnicorn, in his flight fals into a dungeon, & in his fall takes hold and hangs …
    With rule
    … point more manifest, I will vse this comparison: A certaine man pursued by an VnicorneUnicorn, in his flight fals into a dungeon, & in his fall takes hold and hangs …

    William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and puls out the sting of all our afflictions▪ as it is with the VnicorneUnicorn, who having put his horn into the water, discharges all poison thereout, so as …
    With rule
    … and puls out the sting of all our afflictions▪ as it is with the VnicorneUnicorn, who having put his horn into the water, discharges all poison thereout, so as …

    Richard Sibbes · Exposition of Philippians 3 · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … part of the body then in another, as the Eagle in the beake, the VnicorneUnicorn in the horne, the Bull in the head, the Beare in his armes, the …
    With rule
    … part of the body then in another, as the Eagle in the beake, the VnicorneUnicorn in the horne, the Bull in the head, the Beare in his armes, the …

    Joseph Swetnam · The Arraignment of Lewd Women · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    I In roiall Lyons heart, and princely VnicorneUnicorn
    With rule
    I In roiall Lyons heart, and princely VnicorneUnicorn

    John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Preserve thy servants from the paw of the Lyon, and the horne of the VnicorneUnicorn.
    With rule
    … Preserve thy servants from the paw of the Lyon, and the horne of the VnicorneUnicorn.

    Hugh Peters · The Tales and Jests of Hugh Peters · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    12 VVill the VnicorneUnicorn ſerue thee? or vvill he tarie at thy crib?
    With rule
    12 VVill the VnicorneUnicorn ſerue thee? or vvill he tarie at thy crib?

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 779 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    13 VVilt thou binde the VnicorneUnicorn vvith his bande to (make) the furrovve? vvill hee harrowe the vallies after thee?
    With rule
    13 VVilt thou binde the VnicorneUnicorn vvith his bande to (make) the furrovve? vvill hee harrowe the vallies after thee?

    Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.