Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10708 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sampsonSamson

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

Puritas changed it: 3,235 times in 1,310 works
Consistency: 99.3% (3,235 of 3,255)
Reach if approved: ~3,420 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: sampson
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,255 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,235 changes in 1,310 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,235)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… waken him, Satan giues him some Opium, an ounce of Securitie, able to cast SampsonSamson himselfe into a slumber: especially, when he may lay his voluptuous head on the …
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… waken him, Satan giues him some Opium, an ounce of Securitie, able to cast SampsonSamson himselfe into a slumber: especially, when he may lay his voluptuous head on the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man to lewdnesse and to play the Whore with him, as Dalilah with SampsonSamson, thereby to discouer something that we suspect him to haue wronged vs in. For …
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… a man to lewdnesse and to play the Whore with him, as Dalilah with SampsonSamson, thereby to discouer something that we suspect him to haue wronged vs in. For …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
Examp. 1 1. Wee finde SampſonSamson a godly man (whom yet wee would ſcarce have thought ſuch but that we …
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Examp. 1 1. Wee finde SampſonSamson a godly man (whom yet wee would ſcarce have thought ſuch but that we …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 331 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such things, the Prophet would have us know; though hee be as strong as SampsonSamson; though as beautifull as Absalon; though as rich as Salomon; though as full of …
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… such things, the Prophet would have us know; though hee be as strong as SampsonSamson; though as beautifull as Absalon; though as rich as Salomon; though as full of …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by Prayer; and one faithfull Prayer will ſhake off theſe yokes as eaſily as SampſonSamson did his bonds. Flye to the Word, & ſome Tychieus will comfort your hearts as …
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… by Prayer; and one faithfull Prayer will ſhake off theſe yokes as eaſily as SampſonSamson did his bonds. Flye to the Word, & ſome Tychieus will comfort your hearts as …
Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diuell make, when men are not thus armed to reſiſt? Conſider the ſtorie of SampſonSamson . When the Philiſtines had taken him and put out his eyes, then they might …
With rule
… diuell make, when men are not thus armed to reſiſt? Conſider the ſtorie of SampſonSamson . When the Philiſtines had taken him and put out his eyes, then they might …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… those execrable abominations wherfore they stand guilty before God. Looke as it was with SampsonSamson he went away with the gates of Gaza and made nothing of them: so …
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… those execrable abominations wherfore they stand guilty before God. Looke as it was with SampsonSamson he went away with the gates of Gaza and made nothing of them: so …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they ſhould be reputed as gods: wherupon they were al iudged to dy, & one SampſonSamson that had called the King blind theefe and moſt vile dog, was puniſhed by …
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… they ſhould be reputed as gods: wherupon they were al iudged to dy, & one SampſonSamson that had called the King blind theefe and moſt vile dog, was puniſhed by …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 161 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Life of Faith in Death Exemplified A14753

Printed
… to his Mother LEAH. ESAV when hee takes Uenison, gratifies his aged Father withall. SAMPSONSAMSON findes home by the way and presents of it to his parents. Heere is …
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… to his Mother LEAH. ESAV when hee takes Uenison, gratifies his aged Father withall. SAMPSONSAMSON findes home by the way and presents of it to his parents. Heere is …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith in Death Exemplified · Open in the reader

A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty A33748

Printed
… with fire, Jer. 37. 10. SHAMGAR ſhall kill ſix hundred Men with an Ox-goad; and SAMPSONSAMSON, a Thouſand with the Jaw-bone of an Aſs. Theſe things conſidered and laid …
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… with fire, Jer. 37. 10. SHAMGAR ſhall kill ſix hundred Men with an Ox-goad; and SAMPSONSAMSON, a Thouſand with the Jaw-bone of an Aſs. Theſe things conſidered and laid …
Elisha Coles · A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty · p. 225 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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SAMPSONSAMSON ERDERSWIK, Esq. was born at Sandon near Stafford in this County, of a Right …
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SAMPSONSAMSON ERDERSWIK, Esq. was born at Sandon near Stafford in this County, of a Right …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Funeral Sermon for Esther Sampson A44678

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A Funeral Sermon FOR M^rs. ESTHER SAMPSONSAMSON, The Late Wife of Henry SampsonSamson, D^r. of Physick, who Died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix.
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A Funeral Sermon FOR M^rs. ESTHER SAMPSONSAMSON, The Late Wife of Henry SampsonSamson, D^r. of Physick, who Died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix.
John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Esther Sampson · Open in the reader

A New Martyrology A63966

Printed
SAMPSONSAMSON LARKE. From the House of my blessed Bondage in Dorchester, Sept. 7. 1685.
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SAMPSONSAMSON LARKE. From the House of my blessed Bondage in Dorchester, Sept. 7. 1685.
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 455 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 A70866

Printed
SAmpſonSamson Archbiſhop thereof, p. 234 St: David, who tranſlated the See to St: Davids, p. 234.
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SAmpſonSamson Archbiſhop thereof, p. 234 St: David, who tranſlated the See to St: Davids, p. 234.
William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · Open in the reader

Sermon 20 May 1646 A77017

Printed
By SAMPSONSAMSON BOND Miniſter of Gods Word, at Mayden-head in Berks.
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By SAMPSONSAMSON BOND Miniſter of Gods Word, at Mayden-head in Berks.
Sampson Bond · Sermon 20 May 1646 · Open in the reader
Printed
Your Worſhips moſt humble and faithfull, and in Chriſt at command, SAMPSONSAMSON BOND.
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Your Worſhips moſt humble and faithfull, and in Chriſt at command, SAMPSONSAMSON BOND.
Sampson Bond · Sermon 20 May 1646 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thine, ſo farre as I may further thee to him, SAMPSONSAMSON BOND.
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Thine, ſo farre as I may further thee to him, SAMPSONSAMSON BOND.
Sampson Bond · Sermon 20 May 1646 · Open in the reader

The Christian Soldiers Great Engine A88962

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… the time would faile me to tell of GIDEON, and of BARAK, and of SAMPSONSAMSON, & of JEPHTHAH, of DAVID also and SAMUEL, and of the Prophets.
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… the time would faile me to tell of GIDEON, and of BARAK, and of SAMPSONSAMSON, & of JEPHTHAH, of DAVID also and SAMUEL, and of the Prophets.
John Maudit · The Christian Soldiers Great Engine · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we put this question unto you for a better reason, then Dalilah did to sampsonSamson, how say you, whereby have you overcome so many Armies, Cities, Castles, impregnable Garrisons …
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… we put this question unto you for a better reason, then Dalilah did to sampsonSamson, how say you, whereby have you overcome so many Armies, Cities, Castles, impregnable Garrisons …
John Maudit · The Christian Soldiers Great Engine · p. 31 · Open in the reader

The Scriptures Proved to be the Word of God A94772

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By SAMPSONSAMSON TOƲNESEND, Miniſter of the Goſpel, and Paſtor of S. Auſtins, and Saviours Pariſh in …
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By SAMPSONSAMSON TOƲNESEND, Miniſter of the Goſpel, and Paſtor of S. Auſtins, and Saviours Pariſh in …
Sampson Townsend · The Scriptures Proved to be the Word of God · Open in the reader