Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10765 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

absolonAbsalom

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

Puritas changed it: 942 times in 417 works
Consistency: 99.6% (942 of 945)
Reach if approved: ~993 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 945 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (942 changes in 417 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 942)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the blood o the euerlasting Couenant. He reconciles vs to God, as Ioab did AbsolonAbsalom to Dauid by the woman of Tekoah: when the whole family rose vp, & said …
With rule
… the blood o the euerlasting Couenant. He reconciles vs to God, as Ioab did AbsolonAbsalom to Dauid by the woman of Tekoah: when the whole family rose vp, & said …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… When God thundred that menace in the cares of Niniueh, it waked them. Let AbsolonAbsalom fire Ioabs barley fields, and he shal make him rise. Shake the foundations of …
With rule
… When God thundred that menace in the cares of Niniueh, it waked them. Let AbsolonAbsalom fire Ioabs barley fields, and he shal make him rise. Shake the foundations of …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 417 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſire of Gods faithfull ſervants, Doct. to have the full fruition of Chriſt Ieſus. AbſolonAbsalom ſo deſired to ſee the face of David the King and his father, that …
With rule
… deſire of Gods faithfull ſervants, Doct. to have the full fruition of Chriſt Ieſus. AbſolonAbsalom ſo deſired to ſee the face of David the King and his father, that …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For neither the wyse head of Achitophell, nor the fayre and flattering face of AbsolonAbsalom that stale from Dauid the peoples hartes, coulde preuaile in their purposes, so pollitickly …
With rule
… For neither the wyse head of Achitophell, nor the fayre and flattering face of AbsolonAbsalom that stale from Dauid the peoples hartes, coulde preuaile in their purposes, so pollitickly …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… when hee might haue beene rigorous: Yea and it made him to mourne for AbsolonAbsalom his wicked sonne. But to the rest of the causes.
With rule
… when hee might haue beene rigorous: Yea and it made him to mourne for AbsolonAbsalom his wicked sonne. But to the rest of the causes.
John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
Printed
… The imperious for ambition, as Alexander the ſixt ſold his ſoule for the popedome, & AbſolonAbsalom for a kingdome. And the vvicked man for is ovvne harts luſt, as did …
With rule
… The imperious for ambition, as Alexander the ſixt ſold his ſoule for the popedome, & AbſolonAbsalom for a kingdome. And the vvicked man for is ovvne harts luſt, as did …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of wicked Achitophel, wrought most vilany against his fathers honoure. What folowed? Was not AbsolonAbsalom miserably slaine? Did not his vntrusty counselor hang him self, were there not also …
With rule
… of wicked Achitophel, wrought most vilany against his fathers honoure. What folowed? Was not AbsolonAbsalom miserably slaine? Did not his vntrusty counselor hang him self, were there not also …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… lappe of Sauls garment though himselfe was neuer the better for it. Thus did AbsolonAbsalom wronge Ioab in setting his corne on fire, not to benefite himselfe, 2. Sam. 14.30.
With rule
… lappe of Sauls garment though himselfe was neuer the better for it. Thus did AbsolonAbsalom wronge Ioab in setting his corne on fire, not to benefite himselfe, 2. Sam. 14.30.
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.