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ahashueroshAhasuerus

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

Puritas changed it: 233 times in 124 works
Consistency: 98.7% (233 of 236)
Reach if approved: ~248 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 236 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (233 changes in 124 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 233)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it, doth imply a Magistrate. The garment with which Mordecai was clad when King AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus advanced him to Magiſtracy, hath this Epithite given unto it. It is tranſlated white …
With rule
… it, doth imply a Magistrate. The garment with which Mordecai was clad when King AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus advanced him to Magiſtracy, hath this Epithite given unto it. It is tranſlated white …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be the very Ende of all: And as it was a Lawe in AhashueroshAhasuerus his court (beeing giuen to pleasure and iollitie,) that no man might enter it …
With rule
… to be the very Ende of all: And as it was a Lawe in AhashueroshAhasuerus his court (beeing giuen to pleasure and iollitie,) that no man might enter it …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… accusation against the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem. ^k That is of Xerxes called AhashueroshAhasuerus or Assuerus, (q. d.) an hereditary Prince, both because he was borne after that …
With rule
… accusation against the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem. ^k That is of Xerxes called AhashueroshAhasuerus or Assuerus, (q. d.) an hereditary Prince, both because he was borne after that …
William Pemble · The Period of the Persian Monarchy · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, and the meanes thereof. Therefore alſo, as Eſter ſaid of thoſe that provoked AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus againſt the Iewes, ſo may it be ſaid of all thoſe that perſwade the …
With rule
… God, and the meanes thereof. Therefore alſo, as Eſter ſaid of thoſe that provoked AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus againſt the Iewes, ſo may it be ſaid of all thoſe that perſwade the …
Gabriel Powel · The Deprived and Silenced Ministers Arguments · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our ſelues that we are in his fauour. When Heſter obtained her ſuite at AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus, it was an argument ſhe was acceptable to him: So is it with vs …
With rule
… our ſelues that we are in his fauour. When Heſter obtained her ſuite at AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus, it was an argument ſhe was acceptable to him: So is it with vs …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make it good. No just Prince can forget the faithfull service of his subject: AhashueroshAhasuerus at length remembred Mordecai his good service: much more will our God who is …
With rule
… make it good. No just Prince can forget the faithfull service of his subject: AhashueroshAhasuerus at length remembred Mordecai his good service: much more will our God who is …
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 346 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſought to deſtroy all the Iewes, that were through out the whole kingdome of AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus; and to this end he had obtained a Decree from the king, to roote …
With rule
… ſought to deſtroy all the Iewes, that were through out the whole kingdome of AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus; and to this end he had obtained a Decree from the king, to roote …
Nicholas Bownd · The Holy Exercise of Fasting · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in it, but prouoke our ſelues thereby to be thankfull in after times: As AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus his regiſtring of his deliuerance made him afterwards to be thankefull to Mordecai who …
With rule
… in it, but prouoke our ſelues thereby to be thankfull in after times: As AhaſhueroſhAhasuerus his regiſtring of his deliuerance made him afterwards to be thankefull to Mordecai who …
Robert Abbot · Be Thankful London and Her Sisters · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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 Churchs Deliverance A19286

Printed
… no; Behold Heſter ſo highly preferred yet performes dutie to her Father, and yet ahaſhueroſhAhasuerus being chiefe Commander, cannot finde loyaltie in his ſubiects: but while he is wallowing …
With rule
… no; Behold Heſter ſo highly preferred yet performes dutie to her Father, and yet ahaſhueroſhAhasuerus being chiefe Commander, cannot finde loyaltie in his ſubiects: but while he is wallowing …
Thomas Cooper · The Churchs Deliverance · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
5. The perſon is deſcribed againſt whom the Treaſon is committed, namely King ahaſhueroſhAhasuerus.
With rule
5. The perſon is deſcribed againſt whom the Treaſon is committed, namely King ahaſhueroſhAhasuerus.
Thomas Cooper · The Churchs Deliverance · p. 195 · Open in the reader