Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10767 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

assuerusAhasuerus

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

Puritas changed it: 257 times in 81 works
Consistency: 100% (257 of 257)
Reach if approved: ~270 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 257 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (257 changes in 81 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 257)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Yet at the great feaſt which AſſuerusAhasuerus made to his Princes, it is ſpecially noted,
With rule
Yet at the great feaſt which AſſuerusAhasuerus made to his Princes, it is ſpecially noted,
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 311 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And if Haman had litle ioy of all his wealth and his treaſures, when AſſuerusAhasuerus frowned on him, when he was fall'n forth of his fauour; no maruaile if …
With rule
… And if Haman had litle ioy of all his wealth and his treaſures, when AſſuerusAhasuerus frowned on him, when he was fall'n forth of his fauour; no maruaile if …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with love; not foreign as in the feast in Homer; nor as in that of AssuerusAhasuerus at Sushan, where every one dranke as much as hee pleased and would, unlesse …
With rule
… with love; not foreign as in the feast in Homer; nor as in that of AssuerusAhasuerus at Sushan, where every one dranke as much as hee pleased and would, unlesse …
John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… title. Beroaldus in the Persian Chronologie faineth diuerse names to the Persian Kings; as AssuerusAhasuerus, Artaxerxes, Darius Assyrius, Artaxerxes Pius. Lively, and other moderne Writers out of the Greeke …
With rule
… title. Beroaldus in the Persian Chronologie faineth diuerse names to the Persian Kings; as AssuerusAhasuerus, Artaxerxes, Darius Assyrius, Artaxerxes Pius. Lively, and other moderne Writers out of the Greeke …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 304 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ieruſalem. So did Haman falſely accuſe the Iewes that were in captiuitie vnder king AſſuerusAhasuerus, that they denied to fulfill the kings decrees. So did Saules Courtiers ſlaunder Dauid …
With rule
… Ieruſalem. So did Haman falſely accuſe the Iewes that were in captiuitie vnder king AſſuerusAhasuerus, that they denied to fulfill the kings decrees. So did Saules Courtiers ſlaunder Dauid …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or vnder Salomon, whose mariage with Pharaohs daughter should be here solemnized: or vnder AssuerusAhasuerus the great King of Persia, when he maried Queene Ester: as diuers of the …
With rule
… or vnder Salomon, whose mariage with Pharaohs daughter should be here solemnized: or vnder AssuerusAhasuerus the great King of Persia, when he maried Queene Ester: as diuers of the …
Andrew Willet · Solomons Marriage · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
20 Like as Queene Heſter, when ſhee was to ſpeake to King AſſuerusAhasuerus, for the bodily health of her Nation, prayed vnto God to giue her conuenient …
With rule
20 Like as Queene Heſter, when ſhee was to ſpeake to King AſſuerusAhasuerus, for the bodily health of her Nation, prayed vnto God to giue her conuenient …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 589 · Open in the reader
Printed
… promoted in honour and credit above all the Princes of the Court of King AssuerusAhasuerus, conceived so beastly an hatred against the poore dispersed Iewes (being at that time …
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… promoted in honour and credit above all the Princes of the Court of King AssuerusAhasuerus, conceived so beastly an hatred against the poore dispersed Iewes (being at that time …
Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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