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joshuahsJoshuas

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

Puritas changed it
115 times in 84 works
Consistency
100% (115 of 115)
Reach if approved
~121 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: joshua's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
115 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (115 changes in 84 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and narrow ſearch for Achans may not be fruitles, nor miſcarry, let us obſerve JoſhuahsJoshuas rules of diſcovery as well as our diligence of inquirie, to wit, with the …
    With rule
    … and narrow ſearch for Achans may not be fruitles, nor miſcarry, let us obſerve JoſhuahsJoshuas rules of diſcovery as well as our diligence of inquirie, to wit, with the …

    Samuel Fairclough Sr · The Troublers Troubled · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and took them away alive, so that here we have cause to think of JoshuahsJoshuas words, who said, O Lord, What shall I say when Israel turns their backs …
    With rule
    … and took them away alive, so that here we have cause to think of JoshuahsJoshuas words, who said, O Lord, What shall I say when Israel turns their backs …

    Increase Mather · History of the War with the Indians · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … juſt ſo long as the Sun in the Firmament had his Courſe, ſtop'd on JoſhuahsJoshuas long Day, Joſh. 10. 13.) Then did Chriſt Break the Bonds of Death as eaſily as …
    With rule
    … juſt ſo long as the Sun in the Firmament had his Courſe, ſtop'd on JoſhuahsJoshuas long Day, Joſh. 10. 13.) Then did Chriſt Break the Bonds of Death as eaſily as …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 361 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … when the blood of their ſouls ſhall be required of thee! O therefore let JoſhuahsJoshuas practice and reſolution be thine, That thou and thy houſe will ſerve the Lord …
    With rule
    … when the blood of their ſouls ſhall be required of thee! O therefore let JoſhuahsJoshuas practice and reſolution be thine, That thou and thy houſe will ſerve the Lord …

    George Swinnock · Heaven and Hell Epitomized · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſuſtice. But this I leave to the wiſedom of Superiours, to our Moſes, and JoſhuahsJoshuas, of whom I may ſay as David did of and to his Son Solomon …
    With rule
    … ſuſtice. But this I leave to the wiſedom of Superiours, to our Moſes, and JoſhuahsJoshuas, of whom I may ſay as David did of and to his Son Solomon …

    John Brinsley · The Healing of Israels Breaches · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Dragon and his; In the Aſſemblies, Devils are preſent and active, Satan ſtood at JoſhuahsJoshuas right hand to reſiſt him, to hinder all the Temple work; when we are …
    With rule
    … Dragon and his; In the Aſſemblies, Devils are preſent and active, Satan ſtood at JoſhuahsJoshuas right hand to reſiſt him, to hinder all the Temple work; when we are …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 1-5 · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … conceiued vpon his meeting with his Father: the one, the bunch of grapes, which JoshuahsJoshuas Spies brought to shew the goodnesse of the Land; the other, the whole Vintage …
    With rule
    … conceiued vpon his meeting with his Father: the one, the bunch of grapes, which JoshuahsJoshuas Spies brought to shew the goodnesse of the Land; the other, the whole Vintage …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 77 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    2. For the particulars of the ſecond part JoſhuahsJoshuas reſolution; many things might be obſeved, but we ſhall wave them all; and look …
    With rule
    2. For the particulars of the ſecond part JoſhuahsJoshuas reſolution; many things might be obſeved, but we ſhall wave them all; and look …

    Daniel Cawdry · Family Reformation Promoted · p. 8 · 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.