Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50484 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

impyreEmpire

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

Puritas changed it: 138 times in 7 works
Consistency: 94.5% (138 of 146)
Reach if approved: ~175 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: impyre
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 167 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (138 changes in 7 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 138)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hereditarie Duchie, and hee holdeth Boheme and Hungarie by intrusion, so that the Romane ImpyreEmpire is but a poore foreign and a naked shadow.
With rule
… hereditarie Duchie, and hee holdeth Boheme and Hungarie by intrusion, so that the Romane ImpyreEmpire is but a poore foreign and a naked shadow.
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
The faggat, in the feild, with grit ImpyreEmpire:
With rule
The faggat, in the feild, with grit ImpyreEmpire:
John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Spaine, as their predeceſſors the hereticall Gothish Kings got footing in the Romane ImpyreEmpire. That even againſt them, the States of a Land with a good conſcience could …
With rule
… of Spaine, as their predeceſſors the hereticall Gothish Kings got footing in the Romane ImpyreEmpire. That even againſt them, the States of a Land with a good conſcience could …
Robert Baillie · The Canterburians Self-Conviction · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ancient conciles by the iniquitie and ambition of a man, affecting and exerting the ImpyreEmpire aboue all others, abrogated ī the latter Counciles.
With rule
… ancient conciles by the iniquitie and ambition of a man, affecting and exerting the ImpyreEmpire aboue all others, abrogated ī the latter Counciles.
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rome two Kirkis, the hoore, & her multitude dispersed in all y^• places of that ImpyreEmpire: & the Kirk which was a stranger blaspheamed and impunged be the multitude. And yet …
With rule
… Rome two Kirkis, the hoore, & her multitude dispersed in all y^• places of that ImpyreEmpire: & the Kirk which was a stranger blaspheamed and impunged be the multitude. And yet …
John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader
Printed
That he micht gouerne his ImpyreEmpire,
With rule
That he micht gouerne his ImpyreEmpire,
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
That he mychte gouerne his ImpyreEmpire
With rule
That he mychte gouerne his ImpyreEmpire
David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader
Printed
… that is called Euphra tes be people, Nationis and tounges that obey the Romane ImpyreEmpire, for the Cietie of Rome it self is new Babilon: This place and that …
With rule
… that is called Euphra tes be people, Nationis and tounges that obey the Romane ImpyreEmpire, for the Cietie of Rome it self is new Babilon: This place and that …
John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass A02831

Printed
… howsoeuer he hath exceaded and excelled all, that hath passed before, in amplytude of impyreEmpire and conques, yit in this iudgeth and pronounceth him self vainquest, and inferiour to …
With rule
… howsoeuer he hath exceaded and excelled all, that hath passed before, in amplytude of impyreEmpire and conques, yit in this iudgeth and pronounceth him self vainquest, and inferiour to …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Rome, till the tyme that the Bishoppes of Rome inuaded and vsurped the impyreEmpire and tirāny aboue their brethren.
With rule
… of Rome, till the tyme that the Bishoppes of Rome inuaded and vsurped the impyreEmpire and tirāny aboue their brethren.
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader

A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered A13078

Printed
… evill, lest the godlie should seeke them as perfect happinesse: Hee who gaue the impyreEmpire to Augustus gaue it also to Nero, and hee who gaue it to Cōstantine …
With rule
… evill, lest the godlie should seeke them as perfect happinesse: Hee who gaue the impyreEmpire to Augustus gaue it also to Nero, and hee who gaue it to Cōstantine …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… counsell, who say that the peace and libertie of the Churches will hurt the impyreEmpire, or that the prosperitie and glorie of the impire will hurt the Churches: for …
With rule
… counsell, who say that the peace and libertie of the Churches will hurt the impyreEmpire, or that the prosperitie and glorie of the impire will hurt the Churches: for …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 98 · Open in the reader