Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11150 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

soueraignesovereign

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 2,941 times in 623 works
Consistency: 100% (2,941 of 2,941)
Reach if approved: ~3,091 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sovereign
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,942 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,941 changes in 623 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,941)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to execute their mischiefes: so the rebellious spirites impotency giues most security to his SoueraigneSovereign: whiles Hee sees afarre off what he would doe, but knowes (neere at hand …
With rule
… to execute their mischiefes: so the rebellious spirites impotency giues most security to his SoueraigneSovereign: whiles Hee sees afarre off what he would doe, but knowes (neere at hand …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 The soueraignesovereign attribute of God.
With rule
2 The soueraignesovereign attribute of God.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 376 · Open in the reader
Printed
The King is Ieſus Chriſt, the Lord of Hoſts, SoueraigneSovereign commander of heauen and of earth, and of the armies and powers of them …
With rule
The King is Ieſus Chriſt, the Lord of Hoſts, SoueraigneSovereign commander of heauen and of earth, and of the armies and powers of them …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereupon the trumpe of those sweete and amiable promises is hearkened vnto: wherewith the soueraignesovereign bountie of God qualifiyng the fretting corrosiue of his former displeasure, with milde & medicinable …
With rule
… whereupon the trumpe of those sweete and amiable promises is hearkened vnto: wherewith the soueraignesovereign bountie of God qualifiyng the fretting corrosiue of his former displeasure, with milde & medicinable …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… bee, errant …aytors to Englande and the most godly prince of the …me, our soueraignesovereign Lady Queene Elizabeth: as for …e conuenticle of Trent, we owe no more subiection …
With rule
… bee, errant …aytors to Englande and the most godly prince of the …me, our soueraignesovereign Lady Queene Elizabeth: as for …e conuenticle of Trent, we owe no more subiection …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is euer infolded, and sometime also expressed, both a confession that God is a soueraignesovereign Iudge to determine such things, and a supplication to him that by the Lot …
With rule
… is euer infolded, and sometime also expressed, both a confession that God is a soueraignesovereign Iudge to determine such things, and a supplication to him that by the Lot …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſubiect, (theſe be moſt friuolous and fantaſticall imaginations) but in his moſt high and ſoueraignesovereign power he vſeth Antichriſt and Satan as the inſtruments of his wrath, not vtterly …
With rule
… ſubiect, (theſe be moſt friuolous and fantaſticall imaginations) but in his moſt high and ſoueraignesovereign power he vſeth Antichriſt and Satan as the inſtruments of his wrath, not vtterly …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Vouchſafe vnto it all needefull proſperity. Wee heartily pray thee to bleſſe our royall SoueraigneSovereign King Iames and his gouernement: long preſerue his life, & health, and raigne. Bleſſe all …
With rule
… Vouchſafe vnto it all needefull proſperity. Wee heartily pray thee to bleſſe our royall SoueraigneSovereign King Iames and his gouernement: long preſerue his life, & health, and raigne. Bleſſe all …
William Gouge · A Short Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.