Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10962 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

soveraignesSovereigns

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

Puritas changed it: 272 times in 111 works
Consistency: 96.4% (272 of 282)
Reach if approved: ~296 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sovereigns
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 282 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (272 changes in 111 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 272)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Romans againſt Parricides, was Contra interfectores Patrum & Dominorum; They were made equall, Fathers and SoveraignesSovereigns: And in the Law of God it ſelfe, Honour thy Father, wee ſee all …
With rule
… Romans againſt Parricides, was Contra interfectores Patrum & Dominorum; They were made equall, Fathers and SoveraignesSovereigns: And in the Law of God it ſelfe, Honour thy Father, wee ſee all …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 388 · Open in the reader
Printed
… theſe Treatiſes, mine onely end and purpoſe is to magnifie the Lords mercy, our SoveraignesSovereigns goodneſſe, and the Parliaments noble ſervice, in freeing the Kingdome from theſe evils. The …
With rule
… theſe Treatiſes, mine onely end and purpoſe is to magnifie the Lords mercy, our SoveraignesSovereigns goodneſſe, and the Parliaments noble ſervice, in freeing the Kingdome from theſe evils. The …
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a proper Court, I am bound to it; yet, as Kings which are both SoveraignesSovereigns, may therefore justly decide a cause by Warre, because there can bee no competent …
With rule
… a proper Court, I am bound to it; yet, as Kings which are both SoveraignesSovereigns, may therefore justly decide a cause by Warre, because there can bee no competent …
John Donne · Self-Homicide is Not So Naturally Sin that it may Never be Otherwise · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so great) were as glistering, as those of the mightiest Monarchs, being as absolute SoveraignesSovereigns in their own small territories.
With rule
… so great) were as glistering, as those of the mightiest Monarchs, being as absolute SoveraignesSovereigns in their own small territories.
Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Seditions, State-schismes, Contempts, and Disloyalties of the Arch-Bishops of YORKE, against their SoveraignesSovereigns, and of the Warres, Tumults, and Civill Dissentions caused by them
With rule
… Seditions, State-schismes, Contempts, and Disloyalties of the Arch-Bishops of YORKE, against their SoveraignesSovereigns, and of the Warres, Tumults, and Civill Dissentions caused by them
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this for Christ their Masters sake, good subjects wish the ampliation of their SoveraignesSovereigns honour, and how glad should wee bee when the kingdome of darknesse is empaired …
With rule
… of this for Christ their Masters sake, good subjects wish the ampliation of their SoveraignesSovereigns honour, and how glad should wee bee when the kingdome of darknesse is empaired …
Thomas Thorowgood · The Jews Now in America · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he is man, men and Angels are put under him as Subjects under their SoveraignesSovereigns, as Nobles under their Prince; the Saints and faithfull ſervants of God are put …
With rule
… he is man, men and Angels are put under him as Subjects under their SoveraignesSovereigns, as Nobles under their Prince; the Saints and faithfull ſervants of God are put …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seditions, warres, treasons, massacres, stabbing of Princes, powderplots, arming of subjects against their undoubted SoveraignesSovereigns, &c. They are locusts, spoiling, invading, and eating up kingdomes.
With rule
… seditions, warres, treasons, massacres, stabbing of Princes, powderplots, arming of subjects against their undoubted SoveraignesSovereigns, &c. They are locusts, spoiling, invading, and eating up kingdomes.
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 443 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Discourse of the Ecclesiastical State of this Kingdom A20775

Printed
… re-aſſuming their power, (which ſhewes that all their right was nothing but our ſoveraignesSovereigns wrong;) ſurely now wee are not to expect ſo much favour from them: and …
With rule
… re-aſſuming their power, (which ſhewes that all their right was nothing but our ſoveraignesSovereigns wrong;) ſurely now wee are not to expect ſo much favour from them: and …
Calybute Downing · A Discourse of the Ecclesiastical State of this Kingdom · p. 6 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
THE TREACHERY and DISLOYALTY OF PAPISTS TO THEIR SOVERAIGNESSOVEREIGNS, IN DOCTRINE AND PRACTISE. Together with The first part of the SOVERAIGNE POWER OF …
With rule
THE TREACHERY and DISLOYALTY OF PAPISTS TO THEIR SOVERAIGNESSOVEREIGNS, IN DOCTRINE AND PRACTISE. Together with The first part of the SOVERAIGNE POWER OF …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Minor Prophets A63068

Printed
… higheſt, Excelſus ſuper Excelſos Eccleſ. 5.8. terrible to all the kings of the … thoſe dread ſoveraignesSovereigns) Pſal. 76.12. the moſt high God Gen. 14.18. and 22. that hath heaven for his throne, and …
With rule
… higheſt, Excelſus ſuper Excelſos Eccleſ. 5.8. terrible to all the kings of the … thoſe dread ſoveraignesSovereigns) Pſal. 76.12. the moſt high God Gen. 14.18. and 22. that hath heaven for his throne, and …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 249 · Open in the reader

The Canterburians Self-Conviction A68103

Printed
… be ſubject to the juriſdiction of any eccleſiaſticall ſynod doth belong alike to all ſoveraignesSovereigns whether Turkish, Iewish, Pagan, hereticall or Chriſtian and Orthodox.
With rule
… be ſubject to the juriſdiction of any eccleſiaſticall ſynod doth belong alike to all ſoveraignesSovereigns whether Turkish, Iewish, Pagan, hereticall or Chriſtian and Orthodox.
Robert Baillie · The Canterburians Self-Conviction · p. 120 · Open in the reader

The Fifth Kingdom that Shortly is to Come Into the World A75729

Printed
… of the moſt High, whoſe Kingdome is an everlaſting Kingdome, and all ſoveraignties (or ſoveraignesSovereigns) ſhall ſerve and obey him.
With rule
… of the moſt High, whoſe Kingdome is an everlaſting Kingdome, and all ſoveraignties (or ſoveraignesSovereigns) ſhall ſerve and obey him.
William Aspinwall · The Fifth Kingdom that Shortly is to Come Into the World · p. 3 · Open in the reader