Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50796 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋnicornUnicorn

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

Puritas changed it: 62 times in 27 works
Consistency: 100% (62 of 62)
Reach if approved: ~67 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 64 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (62 changes in 27 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 62)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
London, Printed for W. Roybould, at the ƲnicornUnicorn in S. Paul's Church-yard. 1660.
With rule
London, Printed for W. Roybould, at the ƲnicornUnicorn in S. Paul's Church-yard. 1660.
Ames Short · God Save the King · Open in the reader
Printed
… Kings Arms of the Three Kingdoms, supported and guarded with a Lyon rampant, and ƲnicornUnicorn, that hath Faced and Fought so terribly the Dutch at Sea) to this Great …
With rule
… Kings Arms of the Three Kingdoms, supported and guarded with a Lyon rampant, and ƲnicornUnicorn, that hath Faced and Fought so terribly the Dutch at Sea) to this Great …
Stephen Coven · The Militant Christian · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him out of Egypt; he hath as it n ere, the ſtrength of a ƲnicornUnicorn, he ſhall eat up the Nations his Enemies, and ſhall break their bones, and …
With rule
… him out of Egypt; he hath as it n ere, the ſtrength of a ƲnicornUnicorn, he ſhall eat up the Nations his Enemies, and ſhall break their bones, and …
John Canne · The Time of the End · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gard, and are to bee ſold by Rob. Littleberrie at the ſign of the ƲnicornUnicorn in Little Britain. 1650.
With rule
… Gard, and are to bee ſold by Rob. Littleberrie at the ſign of the ƲnicornUnicorn in Little Britain. 1650.
John Dury · The Reformed Library Keeper · Open in the reader
Printed
… for Edmund Paxton, neer Doctors Commons; And William Royhould at the Sign of the ƲnicornUnicorn in S. Pauls Church-yard, neer the Weſt-end. 1651.
With rule
… for Edmund Paxton, neer Doctors Commons; And William Royhould at the Sign of the ƲnicornUnicorn in S. Pauls Church-yard, neer the Weſt-end. 1651.
John Godolphin · The Holy Arbor · Open in the reader
Printed
But my horne ſhall be exalted like the horne of an ƲnicornUnicorn; I ſhall be annointed with freſh oyl.
With rule
But my horne ſhall be exalted like the horne of an ƲnicornUnicorn; I ſhall be annointed with freſh oyl.
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
And his horns are like the horns of an ƲnicornUnicorn.] This is a further deſcription of the power and ſtrength of the Houſe of …
With rule
And his horns are like the horns of an ƲnicornUnicorn.] This is a further deſcription of the power and ſtrength of the Houſe of …
Simon Patrick · Commentary on Deuteronomy · p. 663 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the conjunction of anointing with exaltation, foreign the exalting of the horn, foreign as of an ƲnicornUnicorn, is queſtionleſs the advancing to Regal Monarchick power, of which that horn of an …
With rule
… the conjunction of anointing with exaltation, foreign the exalting of the horn, foreign as of an ƲnicornUnicorn, is queſtionleſs the advancing to Regal Monarchick power, of which that horn of an …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 267 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.