Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50033 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oratourOrator

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

Puritas changed it: 752 times in 412 works
Consistency: 100% (752 of 752)
Reach if approved: ~790 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: orator
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 752 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (752 changes in 412 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 752)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it is a very true Character which Tully and Quintilian give of a right OratourOrator. That he must be Vir bonus dicendi Peritus, as well a Good man as …
With rule
… it is a very true Character which Tully and Quintilian give of a right OratourOrator. That he must be Vir bonus dicendi Peritus, as well a Good man as …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 510 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it selfe, they are proued to bee no good mettell. Wherefore as the Romane OratourOrator makes a Dilemma, touching Brutus and Antonie, being in Armes one against the other …
With rule
… it selfe, they are proued to bee no good mettell. Wherefore as the Romane OratourOrator makes a Dilemma, touching Brutus and Antonie, being in Armes one against the other …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
1573. Your Lordshippes humble OratourOrator George Gyffard.
With rule
1573. Your Lordshippes humble OratourOrator George Gyffard.
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… is a sophister, dispute not with him in his owne logique; he is an oratourOrator, beware of his eloquence; he is a Prince, take heede of his power. As …
With rule
… is a sophister, dispute not with him in his owne logique; he is an oratourOrator, beware of his eloquence; he is a Prince, take heede of his power. As …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 307 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we not ſay with more reaſon and upon better ground, That as a learned oratourOrator being to make an oration in an honourable preſence about divers matters of weight …
With rule
… we not ſay with more reaſon and upon better ground, That as a learned oratourOrator being to make an oration in an honourable preſence about divers matters of weight …
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to accept fauorably thys my temerous interprise. And I your most humble and faythful OratourOrator shall praye vnto Iehouah, the God which is of himself, by whom, and in …
With rule
… to accept fauorably thys my temerous interprise. And I your most humble and faythful OratourOrator shall praye vnto Iehouah, the God which is of himself, by whom, and in …
Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… and vertuouſe Lady. Lady Anne, doucheſſe of Somerſet &c, her moſte bounden and dayly OratourOrator Gwalter Lynne wyſhed aboundaunce of all grace and Godlynes wyth a longe and proſperous …
With rule
… and vertuouſe Lady. Lady Anne, doucheſſe of Somerſet &c, her moſte bounden and dayly OratourOrator Gwalter Lynne wyſhed aboundaunce of all grace and Godlynes wyth a longe and proſperous …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
EPIG. 123. Against a tedious OratourOrator.
With rule
EPIG. 123. Against a tedious OratourOrator.
John Owen · Epigrams · 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.