Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50067 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iosuahJoshua

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

Puritas changed it: 616 times in 190 works
Consistency: 100% (616 of 616)
Reach if approved: ~647 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: josuah
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 616 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (616 changes in 190 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 616)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Moyses and Aaron are troubled with the people in the Vildernes, and after them, IosuahJoshua, and will enter into the historie of the Iudges. What defection read ye there …
With rule
… Moyses and Aaron are troubled with the people in the Vildernes, and after them, IosuahJoshua, and will enter into the historie of the Iudges. What defection read ye there …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinner in this caſe, as enemies in the warre; as IoſuahJoshua 8. you know when IoſuahJoshua went to defeat the men of Ai, hee towled them out of the Citie …
With rule
… ſinner in this caſe, as enemies in the warre; as IoſuahJoshua 8. you know when IoſuahJoshua went to defeat the men of Ai, hee towled them out of the Citie …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 594 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him. Why doe wee not proſper in any thing whither ſoever wee goe as IoſuahJoshua did? euen becauſe wee doe not as IoſuahJoshua did. Wee walke not according to …
With rule
… him. Why doe wee not proſper in any thing whither ſoever wee goe as IoſuahJoshua did? euen becauſe wee doe not as IoſuahJoshua did. Wee walke not according to …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
In the 24. of Exodus, verſ. 14. Moſes with his Miniſter IoſuahJoshua going vp to the Mount of God, ſaith vnto the Elders, Tary yee here …
With rule
In the 24. of Exodus, verſ. 14. Moſes with his Miniſter IoſuahJoshua going vp to the Mount of God, ſaith vnto the Elders, Tary yee here …
Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it were of things lawfull, within his power, it must bee kept: so did IosuahJoshua to the Gibeonites, and the breach thereof by Saul was grieuously punished, as we …
With rule
… it were of things lawfull, within his power, it must bee kept: so did IosuahJoshua to the Gibeonites, and the breach thereof by Saul was grieuously punished, as we …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and to dwell in boothes seuen dayes. This was neglected from the time of IosuahJoshua, till the dayes of Nehemiah, when hee and Ezra solemnized this Feast seuen daies …
With rule
… and to dwell in boothes seuen dayes. This was neglected from the time of IosuahJoshua, till the dayes of Nehemiah, when hee and Ezra solemnized this Feast seuen daies …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place which he had promiſed and prepared for them. It was for this, that IoſuahJoshua told the people, that except they would feare the Lord and ſerve him in …
With rule
… place which he had promiſed and prepared for them. It was for this, that IoſuahJoshua told the people, that except they would feare the Lord and ſerve him in …
Henry Scudder · The Christians Daily Walk in Holy Security and Peace · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as that vsed by Samuel for the election of Saul; and that vsed by IosuahJoshua for the discouery of Achan; or by speciall instinct of the Spirit of God …
With rule
… as that vsed by Samuel for the election of Saul; and that vsed by IosuahJoshua for the discouery of Achan; or by speciall instinct of the Spirit of God …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 298 · 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.