Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50570 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

belshazzerBelshazzar

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

Puritas changed it: 104 times in 90 works
Consistency: 99.0% (104 of 105)
Reach if approved: ~110 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 105 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (104 changes in 90 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 104)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Some have charged BelſhazzerBelshazzar with Sacriledge for alienating the Veſſels of the Temple, only ſo far forth as …
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Some have charged BelſhazzerBelshazzar with Sacriledge for alienating the Veſſels of the Temple, only ſo far forth as …
Samuel Rolle · Loyalty and Peace · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thither too: and will fit Rehoboam with flatterers, Ahab with lyer, Pharaoh with Sorcerers, BelshazzerBelshazzar with cups, Solomon with Concubines. Art thou in the Market? He is ready with …
With rule
… thither too: and will fit Rehoboam with flatterers, Ahab with lyer, Pharaoh with Sorcerers, BelshazzerBelshazzar with cups, Solomon with Concubines. Art thou in the Market? He is ready with …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… polluted shal turne to his greater woe. A man would haue thought that King BelshazzerBelshazzar had beene an happy man, when hee kept his royall feast, & dranke wine in …
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… polluted shal turne to his greater woe. A man would haue thought that King BelshazzerBelshazzar had beene an happy man, when hee kept his royall feast, & dranke wine in …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 407 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the the originall: the one consisteth of 7. letters, Beltheshaatzer, the other onely of sixe, BelshazzerBelshazzar. And Daniel was so called before this time, when as Balthazar the king was …
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… the the originall: the one consisteth of 7. letters, Beltheshaatzer, the other onely of sixe, BelshazzerBelshazzar. And Daniel was so called before this time, when as Balthazar the king was …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their sight; but terrifieth them as the hand writing on the wall did BelshazzerBelshazzar, Dan. 5.5.6.
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… of their sight; but terrifieth them as the hand writing on the wall did BelshazzerBelshazzar, Dan. 5.5.6.
Thomas Draxe · The Christian Armory · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Army defeated by a handful of Ahabs men, and hardly eſcaped with his life. BelſhazzerBelshazzar carouſing Wine with his Wives and Concubines in the Veſſels of the Temple, had …
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… Army defeated by a handful of Ahabs men, and hardly eſcaped with his life. BelſhazzerBelshazzar carouſing Wine with his Wives and Concubines in the Veſſels of the Temple, had …
Edward Bury · Englands Bane · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and art found too light, thy kingdom is departed from thee, ſaith God to BelſhazzerBelshazzar, Dan. 5. 27. So if thou be light, thou ſhalt be weighed, and ſo found▪ thou …
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… and art found too light, thy kingdom is departed from thee, ſaith God to BelſhazzerBelshazzar, Dan. 5. 27. So if thou be light, thou ſhalt be weighed, and ſo found▪ thou …
William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… awaken a wicked mans conſcience; the fingers of a mans hand upon the wall: BelſhazzerBelshazzar ſeemed a jolly fellow: a brave ſpirit, ſets light by the Perſian forces that …
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… awaken a wicked mans conſcience; the fingers of a mans hand upon the wall: BelſhazzerBelshazzar ſeemed a jolly fellow: a brave ſpirit, ſets light by the Perſian forces that …
Christopher Love · The Natural Mans Case · p. 21 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.