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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10775 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

moisesMoses

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

Puritas changed it
387 times in 96 works
Consistency
99.7% (387 of 388)
Reach if approved
~408 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: moses
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
388 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (387 changes in 96 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 387)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Iesus Christe whiche was crucified for our synne, as Christ himselfe testifieth, sayinge: As MoisesMoses lyfted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse, euen so must the Son of man …
    With rule
    … Iesus Christe whiche was crucified for our synne, as Christ himselfe testifieth, sayinge: As MoisesMoses lyfted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse, euen so must the Son of man …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … him, if they might haue condemned him for blasphemie, according to the law of MoisesMoses. And that the Angell in that place by no meanes can vnderstand Ierusalem, it …
    With rule
    … him, if they might haue condemned him for blasphemie, according to the law of MoisesMoses. And that the Angell in that place by no meanes can vnderstand Ierusalem, it …

    William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 346 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … for they goe before you to the lande of promiſe; becauſe they are like MoiſesMoses, which ſtept betweene the plague and the people, becauſe they are like good Andrewe …
    With rule
    … for they goe before you to the lande of promiſe; becauſe they are like MoiſesMoses, which ſtept betweene the plague and the people, becauſe they are like good Andrewe …

    Henry Smith · Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5 · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … hathe glory ſo, that the children of Iſrael could not beholde the face of MoiſesMoses for the glory of his coūtenance. And here vnto ſerueth this ſentence of Daniel …
    With rule
    … hathe glory ſo, that the children of Iſrael could not beholde the face of MoiſesMoses for the glory of his coūtenance. And here vnto ſerueth this ſentence of Daniel …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Hope of the Faithful · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … old Teſtament, vnto the beginning of the new, called the ſtate after abrogation of MoiſesMoses, the Kingome of heauen. Iohn Baptiſt doth begin with his tongue. The kinddome of …
    With rule
    … old Teſtament, vnto the beginning of the new, called the ſtate after abrogation of MoiſesMoses, the Kingome of heauen. Iohn Baptiſt doth begin with his tongue. The kinddome of …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … consumed, doo not only remaine saulfe, but also doo accomplishe those incredible procéedings wherof MoisesMoses maketh report. But here the lewdnes of man sheweth it selfe to malicious, in …
    With rule
    … consumed, doo not only remaine saulfe, but also doo accomplishe those incredible procéedings wherof MoisesMoses maketh report. But here the lewdnes of man sheweth it selfe to malicious, in …

    John Calvin · The Little Book · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … vnleſſe he eate the fleſhe of the ſonne of man, and drinke hys blonde. MoiſesMoses and the prophetes were ſaued therfore dyd they eate hys fleſhe and drinke hys …
    With rule
    … vnleſſe he eate the fleſhe of the ſonne of man, and drinke hys blonde. MoiſesMoses and the prophetes were ſaued therfore dyd they eate hys fleſhe and drinke hys …

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

  8. Printed
    … think verely that if iudgement shoulde be referred vnto you, yt that then shoulde MoisesMoses and the tribe of Leui be iudged wolues, sent to d…uore innocent shepe …
    With rule
    … think verely that if iudgement shoulde be referred vnto you, yt that then shoulde MoisesMoses and the tribe of Leui be iudged wolues, sent to d…uore innocent shepe …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 214 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.