Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51063 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

camelionsChameleons

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

Puritas changed it: 24 times in 21 works
Consistency: 100% (24 of 24)
Reach if approved: ~25 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chameleons
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 24 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (24 changes in 21 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 24)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and places, haue chaunged as religion hath changed; now Papists, now Protestants, like to CamelionsChameleons into any colour. Of this we had experience in Queene Maries dayes: few great …
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… and places, haue chaunged as religion hath changed; now Papists, now Protestants, like to CamelionsChameleons into any colour. Of this we had experience in Queene Maries dayes: few great …
William Perkins · Satans Sophistry Answered · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
Can these CamelionsChameleons alter thus their case;
With rule
Can these CamelionsChameleons alter thus their case;
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
CamelionsChameleons:
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CamelionsChameleons:
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · Open in the reader
Printed
… the non veſtra ſed vos, not to acquire that thin blaſt of aire, that CamelionsChameleons are wont to feed on, but that ſolid ſubſtantial eſtimation, that dwells onely in …
With rule
… the non veſtra ſed vos, not to acquire that thin blaſt of aire, that CamelionsChameleons are wont to feed on, but that ſolid ſubſtantial eſtimation, that dwells onely in …
Henry Hammond · Directions for Priest and People · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… also now in these discriminating, shedding times. Affliction tryeth men who are Crocodiles, Spunges, CamelionsChameleons, &c. Before these dayes came (said Master Bradford Martyr) how many thought of themselves …
With rule
… also now in these discriminating, shedding times. Affliction tryeth men who are Crocodiles, Spunges, CamelionsChameleons, &c. Before these dayes came (said Master Bradford Martyr) how many thought of themselves …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Gospels and Acts · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faith, and let it dye through want of nouriſhment and ſupport. We hear of CamelionsChameleons that live in the ayr, and Salamanders in the fire; A Wonder was not …
With rule
… faith, and let it dye through want of nouriſhment and ſupport. We hear of CamelionsChameleons that live in the ayr, and Salamanders in the fire; A Wonder was not …
Thomas Blake · The Covenant Sealed · p. 509 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we will ſlight all the dignities of the world, and leave them to thoſe CamelionsChameleons that live by that ayre. And to come to the point intended, they are …
With rule
… we will ſlight all the dignities of the world, and leave them to thoſe CamelionsChameleons that live by that ayre. And to come to the point intended, they are …
Josias Shute · Judgment and Mercy · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it recompense bountifull enough to praise our paines; as if wee could liue like CamelionsChameleons, vpon the subtill ayre of Commendations. So they serue vs as Carriers do their …
With rule
… it recompense bountifull enough to praise our paines; as if wee could liue like CamelionsChameleons, vpon the subtill ayre of Commendations. So they serue vs as Carriers do their …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 9 · 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.