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naamāNaamā

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

Puritas changed it
25 times in 15 works
Consistency
100% (25 of 25)
Reach if approved
~26 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
25 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (25 changes in 15 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 25)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … or frō fantaſieng NaamāNaamā as he was wont. As ſoone ſhal we find yt NaamāNaamā was ſtrēghtned to obeie god more then man, as we ſhal fynd yt Naaman …
    With rule
    … or frō fantaſieng NaamāNaamā as he was wont. As ſoone ſhal we find yt NaamāNaamā was ſtrēghtned to obeie god more then man, as we ſhal fynd yt Naaman …

    John Bradford · The Hurt of Hearing Mass · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Iordane or ouer Naaman, or that any words were preſcribed of the prophet to NaamāNaamā that he ſhould repeate, wherby (forſooth) there might be any force of purifying or …
    With rule
    … Iordane or ouer Naaman, or that any words were preſcribed of the prophet to NaamāNaamā that he ſhould repeate, wherby (forſooth) there might be any force of purifying or …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 972 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … controuerſy. But I pray you, what a mockynge is thys, to allege thexample of NaamāNaamā to couer or cloke them wythe: when there is ſo greate a difference in …
    With rule
    … controuerſy. But I pray you, what a mockynge is thys, to allege thexample of NaamāNaamā to couer or cloke them wythe: when there is ſo greate a difference in …

    John Calvin · What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of. C xx. M. in Niniue, of diuers priuate perſons in diuers cōtreyes, as NaamāNaamā in Siria, the wydow of Serephtha Iethro the father inlawe of Moyſes, Hira of …
    With rule
    … of. C xx. M. in Niniue, of diuers priuate perſons in diuers cōtreyes, as NaamāNaamā in Siria, the wydow of Serephtha Iethro the father inlawe of Moyſes, Hira of …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxxvi · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſafetie, and proſperitie conſiſteth. For we acknowledge your Grace to be as a certain NaamāNaamā by whom God at this day giueth health to Germanie, as in time paſt …
    With rule
    … ſafetie, and proſperitie conſiſteth. For we acknowledge your Grace to be as a certain NaamāNaamā by whom God at this day giueth health to Germanie, as in time paſt …

    Martin Luther · Fourteen Points of Consolation · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … had vvashed his hart vvhen he vvashed his handes, he had bin cleaner than NaamāNaamā vvhē he came out of Iordā if the Sichemites had circumcised their harts, vvhē …
    With rule
    … had vvashed his hart vvhen he vvashed his handes, he had bin cleaner than NaamāNaamā vvhē he came out of Iordā if the Sichemites had circumcised their harts, vvhē …

    Henry Smith · The Christians Sacrifice Seen and Allowed · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … for y• he to satisfie his couetous desire, exacted gold, siluer, & riche garments of NaamāNaamā ye K. of Siria his seruant. Balaam was reproued of his asse, for his …
    With rule
    … for y• he to satisfie his couetous desire, exacted gold, siluer, & riche garments of NaamāNaamā ye K. of Siria his seruant. Balaam was reproued of his asse, for his …

    Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that thinge in this historie / which our men do not consider / namely this / that NaamāNaamā now newly cō uerted to the faithe was a smoking flaxe which was not …
    With rule
    … that thinge in this historie / which our men do not consider / namely this / that NaamāNaamā now newly cō uerted to the faithe was a smoking flaxe which was not …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 32 · 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.