Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50820 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dalilaDelilah

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

Puritas changed it: 58 times in 47 works
Consistency: 100% (58 of 58)
Reach if approved: ~61 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 58 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (58 changes in 47 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 58)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſervice of their corruption; therefore as Sampſon burſt his withs and came away from DalilaDelilah, ſo let us burſt aſunder the withs and fetters of our ſin, and come …
With rule
… ſervice of their corruption; therefore as Sampſon burſt his withs and came away from DalilaDelilah, ſo let us burſt aſunder the withs and fetters of our ſin, and come …
Alexander Grosse · Sweet and Soul-Persuading Inducements Leading Unto Christ · p. 337 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had not plowed with my Heifer: that is; If ye had not lyen with DalilaDelilah. So the Latines, fundum alinum arat; He tills another mans ground. So by grinding …
With rule
… had not plowed with my Heifer: that is; If ye had not lyen with DalilaDelilah. So the Latines, fundum alinum arat; He tills another mans ground. So by grinding …
John Weemes · The Christian Synagogue · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… building, which is of God, with your husbands and friends at home, not as DalilaDelilah with Sampson, but as Sara with Abraham, whose daughters yee are, whilst yee doe …
With rule
… building, which is of God, with your husbands and friends at home, not as DalilaDelilah with Sampson, but as Sara with Abraham, whose daughters yee are, whilst yee doe …
Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… own ſoule in theſe caſes eſpecially that ſo nearly concerne the ſoule, and as DalilaDelilah relied in Samſons boſome to knowe where his ſtrength lay, euen ſo neuer to …
With rule
… own ſoule in theſe caſes eſpecially that ſo nearly concerne the ſoule, and as DalilaDelilah relied in Samſons boſome to knowe where his ſtrength lay, euen ſo neuer to …
John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
Some with sweete words vndermine their husbands, as DalilaDelilah did Samson, and some with chiding and brawling are made weary of the world …
With rule
Some with sweete words vndermine their husbands, as DalilaDelilah did Samson, and some with chiding and brawling are made weary of the world …
Joseph Swetnam · The Arraignment of Lewd Women · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Phyllis, which had lately enamoured them: which alſo in fine, doo prooue as DalilaDelilah to Samſon, to deceiue them: as Hyena to the paſtour to deuoure them: as …
With rule
… and Phyllis, which had lately enamoured them: which alſo in fine, doo prooue as DalilaDelilah to Samſon, to deceiue them: as Hyena to the paſtour to deuoure them: as …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 213 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no peace with Heaven. Cast the head of Sheba over the wall. Keep not DalilaDelilah… in thy lap. Thou must part with thy sins, or with thy soul. Spare …
With rule
… no peace with Heaven. Cast the head of Sheba over the wall. Keep not DalilaDelilah… in thy lap. Thou must part with thy sins, or with thy soul. Spare …
Joseph Alleine · The Way to True Happiness · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… winded Iemonstrance page 14, 15, 16. and page, 65, 66, 67. (so much are they in love with the Iesuits DalilaDelilah) that so it might now be twice confirmed and setled by the house, in …
With rule
… winded Iemonstrance page 14, 15, 16. and page, 65, 66, 67. (so much are they in love with the Iesuits DalilaDelilah) that so it might now be twice confirmed and setled by the house, in …
William Prynne · Speech 4 December 1648 · p. 107 · 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.