Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50235 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mauritiusMaurice

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

Puritas changed it: 283 times in 150 works
Consistency: 99.3% (283 of 285)
Reach if approved: ~360 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: mauritius
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 343 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (283 changes in 150 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 283)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… this behalfe be praysed / but dispraysed / and accused: Who seinge that the lawe whiche MauritiusMaurice the Emperour had made was vniuste / which was / That no man entangled with the …
With rule
… this behalfe be praysed / but dispraysed / and accused: Who seinge that the lawe whiche MauritiusMaurice the Emperour had made was vniuste / which was / That no man entangled with the …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the popes did acknowledge to the emperors. As moſt notably in an Epiſtle to MauritiusMaurice the emperour, hee calleth the emperour his lord very often, yea he abaſeth himſelfe …
With rule
… the popes did acknowledge to the emperors. As moſt notably in an Epiſtle to MauritiusMaurice the emperour, hee calleth the emperour his lord very often, yea he abaſeth himſelfe …
Francis Bunny · A Survey of the Popes Supremacy · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
§ 57. The Emperor MauritiusMaurice, though a great and excellent person, was ruined by the mad and uncurable mutinies …
With rule
§ 57. The Emperor MauritiusMaurice, though a great and excellent person, was ruined by the mad and uncurable mutinies …
Richard Baxter · Church History of the Government of Bishops and Their Councils · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinke we of Martyrdome? 2. What thinke we of ſome of the primitive Chriſtians, as MauritiusMaurice a noble Captaine, who together with a great band of Chriſtian Souldiers upon the …
With rule
… thinke we of Martyrdome? 2. What thinke we of ſome of the primitive Chriſtians, as MauritiusMaurice a noble Captaine, who together with a great band of Chriſtian Souldiers upon the …
Benjamin Bruning · The Best Wisdom Propounded · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the world, wee haue the iudgement of Gregory expresly against them: who, writing to MauritiusMaurice the Emperour, condemned Iohn Bishop of Constantinople in that behalf, calling him the Prince …
With rule
… the world, wee haue the iudgement of Gregory expresly against them: who, writing to MauritiusMaurice the Emperour, condemned Iohn Bishop of Constantinople in that behalf, calling him the Prince …
Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Theodoſius tame Eugenius, who was intruded into the Emperours roome? Phocas killed his Maſter MauritiusMaurice the Emperour with his wife Conſtantia and his children and was not hee afterward …
With rule
… Theodoſius tame Eugenius, who was intruded into the Emperours roome? Phocas killed his Maſter MauritiusMaurice the Emperour with his wife Conſtantia and his children and was not hee afterward …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obtained of Phocas (whoſe hāds were yet blody with the ſlaughter of his L. MauritiusMaurice) to be this ſoueraigne & chiefe Biſhop of Biſhops, & then came into the popes ſtile …
With rule
… obtained of Phocas (whoſe hāds were yet blody with the ſlaughter of his L. MauritiusMaurice) to be this ſoueraigne & chiefe Biſhop of Biſhops, & then came into the popes ſtile …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kingly Prophet Righteous art thou, O Lord, and iuſt are thy iudgements Which verſe MauritiusMaurice the Emperour vttered when he ſaw his wife and children put to death before …
With rule
… kingly Prophet Righteous art thou, O Lord, and iuſt are thy iudgements Which verſe MauritiusMaurice the Emperour vttered when he ſaw his wife and children put to death before …
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 321 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ A13294

Printed
MAuritiusMaurice was Captaine of the Army of Tiberius, to whom Tiberius gaue his daughter in …
With rule
MAuritiusMaurice was Captaine of the Army of Tiberius, to whom Tiberius gaue his daughter in …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 95 · Open in the reader