Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50368 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

craesusCroesus

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

Puritas changed it: 181 times in 89 works
Consistency: 100% (181 of 181)
Reach if approved: ~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (181 changes in 89 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 181)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for his former folly, and pitieth those that have no higher happiness. O poor CraesusCroesus, Caesar, Alexander, (thinks he) how small? how short was your happiness? Ah poor riches …
With rule
… for his former folly, and pitieth those that have no higher happiness. O poor CraesusCroesus, Caesar, Alexander, (thinks he) how small? how short was your happiness? Ah poor riches …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Church, and it becomes him (at least) to pray hard for his Mother, as CraesusCroesus his dumb son did for his Father.
With rule
… Church, and it becomes him (at least) to pray hard for his Mother, as CraesusCroesus his dumb son did for his Father.
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Divinity · p. 314 · Open in the reader
Printed
If CraeſusCroesus fearleſſe ſhall paſſe Italy's river,
With rule
If CraeſusCroesus fearleſſe ſhall paſſe Italy's river,
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 322 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their account; for, as we find in other Hiſtories, the proud Babylonian joyning with CraeſusCroesus, King of the Lydians, had made war upon the Medes, whoſe King Cyaxares then …
With rule
… their account; for, as we find in other Hiſtories, the proud Babylonian joyning with CraeſusCroesus, King of the Lydians, had made war upon the Medes, whoſe King Cyaxares then …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon Isaiah · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you may underſtand, that if any one among you could enjoy the wealth of CraeſusCroesus, the wiſdom and glory of Solomon, the beauty of Abſolom, the ſtrength of Sampſon …
With rule
… you may underſtand, that if any one among you could enjoy the wealth of CraeſusCroesus, the wiſdom and glory of Solomon, the beauty of Abſolom, the ſtrength of Sampſon …
George Swinnock · The Fading of the Flesh and Flourishing of Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… his tongue were unlooſed, and hee cried out to the murtherer, Kill not King CraeſusCroesus; ſo, when the enemies of his Church are ready to devoure his people, and …
With rule
… his tongue were unlooſed, and hee cried out to the murtherer, Kill not King CraeſusCroesus; ſo, when the enemies of his Church are ready to devoure his people, and …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 281 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not by abundance of outward things, no not if thou couldest passe Midas or CraesusCroesus in wealth, for thou art hereby but more bound, laden, and entangled, but by …
With rule
… not by abundance of outward things, no not if thou couldest passe Midas or CraesusCroesus in wealth, for thou art hereby but more bound, laden, and entangled, but by …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much, he neuer ſaith to them that bring in, ho, ho. Neither is rich CraeſusCroesus ſatisfied with his wealth, nor will Alexander bee contented with the conqueſt of one …
With rule
… much, he neuer ſaith to them that bring in, ho, ho. Neither is rich CraeſusCroesus ſatisfied with his wealth, nor will Alexander bee contented with the conqueſt of one …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 272 · Open in the reader

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None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.