Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11267 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

soveraignesovereign

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

Puritas changed it: 3,427 times in 814 works
Consistency: 98.7% (3,427 of 3,470)
Reach if approved: ~3,647 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sovereign
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,471 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,427 changes in 814 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,427)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… of Davids Lanthorne? To make Abanah and Pharpar rivers of the Italian Damascus more soveraignesovereign then all the waters in Gods Israel? VVhat other thing is meant by that …
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… of Davids Lanthorne? To make Abanah and Pharpar rivers of the Italian Damascus more soveraignesovereign then all the waters in Gods Israel? VVhat other thing is meant by that …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 59 · Open in the reader
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… his chosen; and secondly, wherein generally it may be applyed unto us as a soveraignesovereign Cordiall. Neither doe I intend to distinguish between the Word written and preached, the …
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… his chosen; and secondly, wherein generally it may be applyed unto us as a soveraignesovereign Cordiall. Neither doe I intend to distinguish between the Word written and preached, the …
Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 65 · Open in the reader
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… Cor. 11.21. So by the ſame Spirit of wiſedome, hath his Majeſt…e, our gracious SoveraigneSovereign, with the advice of our reverend Fathers, the god y and learned Biſhops, cut …
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… Cor. 11.21. So by the ſame Spirit of wiſedome, hath his Majeſt…e, our gracious SoveraigneSovereign, with the advice of our reverend Fathers, the god y and learned Biſhops, cut …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 167 · Open in the reader
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… from fainting: and how could it chooſe? being a Cordiall made up of three ſoveraignesovereign Ingredients; a hope to ſee; and to ſee the goodneſs of God; and the …
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… from fainting: and how could it chooſe? being a Cordiall made up of three ſoveraignesovereign Ingredients; a hope to ſee; and to ſee the goodneſs of God; and the …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 55 · Open in the reader
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… them, and are most crosse and contrary to their nature, as he is their SoveraigneSovereign Lord and King, that requireth obedience of them unto those lawes; as he is …
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… them, and are most crosse and contrary to their nature, as he is their SoveraigneSovereign Lord and King, that requireth obedience of them unto those lawes; as he is …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 390 · Open in the reader
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… of a King diſcovers it ſelfe in two things: firſt the King taketh the SoveraigneSovereign command of the place where he is, and if there be any gueſts there …
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… of a King diſcovers it ſelfe in two things: firſt the King taketh the SoveraigneSovereign command of the place where he is, and if there be any gueſts there …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 104 · Open in the reader
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… him out of his chaire of Eſtate. The conſideration hereof (moſt deare and dread SoveraigneSovereign) hath imboldened vs, Gods moſt unworthy ſervants, your Maieſties loving and loyall Subiectes, at …
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… him out of his chaire of Eſtate. The conſideration hereof (moſt deare and dread SoveraigneSovereign) hath imboldened vs, Gods moſt unworthy ſervants, your Maieſties loving and loyall Subiectes, at …
Henry Jacob · A Christian and Modest Offer · Open in the reader
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… the bolder in thine importunity, now the royall head of great Brittanne, our dread SoveraigneSovereign, hath taken the courſe to exempt his kingdomes from this Curſe, by beginning to …
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… the bolder in thine importunity, now the royall head of great Brittanne, our dread SoveraigneSovereign, hath taken the courſe to exempt his kingdomes from this Curſe, by beginning to …
Thomas Barnes · An Alarm to War · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (43)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 are listed here. 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Quench-Coal A10197

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MOST DREAD SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN,
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MOST DREAD SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN,
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Judge of Controversies in Matters of Religion A17865

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A TRACT OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN IVDGE OF CONTROVERSIES IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.
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A TRACT OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN IVDGE OF CONTROVERSIES IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.
John Cameron · The Sovereign Judge of Controversies in Matters of Religion · Open in the reader

Conversion of Nineveh, Gods Trumpet, Physic Against Famine A22562

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PHISICKE AGAINST FAMINE. OR, A SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN Preſervative againſt all diſtruſtfull thoughts and cares touching the things of this life, preſcribed …
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PHISICKE AGAINST FAMINE. OR, A SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN Preſervative againſt all diſtruſtfull thoughts and cares touching the things of this life, preſcribed …
William Attersoll · Conversion of Nineveh, Gods Trumpet, Physic Against Famine · Open in the reader

Practical Divinity A41120

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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN VERTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN VERTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON
William Fenner · Practical Divinity · Open in the reader

Twenty-Nine Sermons A41140

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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN VERTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON By that laborious and faithful Meſſenger of …
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN VERTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON By that laborious and faithful Meſſenger of …
William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · Open in the reader
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN VERTUE OF THE GOSPEL.
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN VERTUE OF THE GOSPEL.
William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 223 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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… wit, & deep learning our ſtrong deſignes in Holland, &c. NOW WE HAVE PLANTED THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN DRVGGE ARMINIANISME, which we hope will purge the Proteſtants from their Hereſy: and it …
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… wit, & deep learning our ſtrong deſignes in Holland, &c. NOW WE HAVE PLANTED THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN DRVGGE ARMINIANISME, which we hope will purge the Proteſtants from their Hereſy: and it …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 159 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES: Divided into FOVRE PARTS. Together with AN APPENDIX: Wherein …
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES: Divided into FOVRE PARTS. Together with AN APPENDIX: Wherein …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · Open in the reader
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… mature Iudgements, and recommend to your Highest, Noblest Patronage, this Quadruple Discourse, OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS AND KINGDOMES, (now at last compacted into one intire Body, though …
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… mature Iudgements, and recommend to your Highest, Noblest Patronage, this Quadruple Discourse, OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS AND KINGDOMES, (now at last compacted into one intire Body, though …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · Open in the reader
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POVVER OF PARLIAMENTS & KINGDOMES. OR Second Part of the Treachery and Disloialty of Papists …
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POVVER OF PARLIAMENTS & KINGDOMES. OR Second Part of the Treachery and Disloialty of Papists …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · Open in the reader
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS AND KINGDOMES.
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS AND KINGDOMES.
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 1 · Open in the reader
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS & KINGDOMES:
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS & KINGDOMES:
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 1 · Open in the reader

A Holy Commonwealth A76178

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… nature of man (waving other arguments further from our subject) that GOD IS THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN RULER OF MAN-KIND.
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… nature of man (waving other arguments further from our subject) that GOD IS THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN RULER OF MAN-KIND.
Richard Baxter · A Holy Commonwealth · p. 18 · Open in the reader
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… concerned in it much to confirm and defend my only Foundation, that GOD'S OUR SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN KING and I would have you know what points they be that Papists are …
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… concerned in it much to confirm and defend my only Foundation, that GOD'S OUR SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN KING and I would have you know what points they be that Papists are …
Richard Baxter · A Holy Commonwealth · p. 38 · Open in the reader

The Sacred and Sovereign Church Remedy A77507

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THE SACRED AND SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN Church-Remedie.
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THE SACRED AND SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN Church-Remedie.
John Brinsley · The Sacred and Sovereign Church Remedy · p. 1 · Open in the reader

A Sovereign Salve A85500

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A SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN SALVE TO CURE VVounded Spirits.
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A SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN SALVE TO CURE VVounded Spirits.
Richard Gove · A Sovereign Salve · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments Part 4 A91185

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THE FOVRTH PART OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES. Wherein the Parliaments Right and Intereſt in ordering the …
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THE FOVRTH PART OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES. Wherein the Parliaments Right and Intereſt in ordering the …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments Part 4 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

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THE THIRD PART OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES. Wherein the Parliaments preſent Neceſſary Defenſive Warre againſt the …
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THE THIRD PART OF THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES. Wherein the Parliaments preſent Neceſſary Defenſive Warre againſt the …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · Open in the reader
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POVVER OF PARLIAMENTS & KINGDOMES: PROVING Iſt.
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THE SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN POVVER OF PARLIAMENTS & KINGDOMES: PROVING Iſt.
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Garden of Zion B01751

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TO THE HIGH, AND MIGHTY MONARCH, OUR DEAR AND DREAD SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN, CHARLES, By the Grace of GOD, King of great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender …
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TO THE HIGH, AND MIGHTY MONARCH, OUR DEAR AND DREAD SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN, CHARLES, By the Grace of GOD, King of great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender …
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · Open in the reader

An Apology of an Appeal B11858

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MOST DEARE AND DREAD SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN,
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MOST DEARE AND DREAD SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN,
Henry Burton · An Apology of an Appeal · Open in the reader

A Sovereign Cordial B18136

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Aqua Coelestis: OR, A SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN CORDIAL, Extracted from the Sufficiency of Divine Grace, AND Strength made perfect in Weaknesse.
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Aqua Coelestis: OR, A SOVERAIGNESOVEREIGN CORDIAL, Extracted from the Sufficiency of Divine Grace, AND Strength made perfect in Weaknesse.
John Brinsley · A Sovereign Cordial · Open in the reader