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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50614 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

steeuenStephen

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

Puritas changed it
92 times in 14 works
Consistency
100% (92 of 92)
Reach if approved
~97 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: steven
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
92 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (92 changes in 14 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 92)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not buried with Abraham, because the enimies as yet had dominion of that place. SteeuenStephen reherseth the bones of the twelue Patriarchs: and it may be, that the other …
    With rule
    … not buried with Abraham, because the enimies as yet had dominion of that place. SteeuenStephen reherseth the bones of the twelue Patriarchs: and it may be, that the other …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Joshua · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … wickedneſſe, as it were by inheritance from their fathers. Furthermore, it was requiſite for SteeuenStephen by this meanes to plucke from their faces the viſure of the church, wherewith …
    With rule
    … wickedneſſe, as it were by inheritance from their fathers. Furthermore, it was requiſite for SteeuenStephen by this meanes to plucke from their faces the viſure of the church, wherewith …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Shortly after, bleſſed SteeuenStephen burning in the ſpirite of Chriſte, and with great zeale diſputing in the ſynagogs …
    With rule
    Shortly after, bleſſed SteeuenStephen burning in the ſpirite of Chriſte, and with great zeale diſputing in the ſynagogs …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … time before hee brought the people out of Egypt receiued diuine reuelation as S. SteeuenStephen testifieth, so that hee thought his brethren shoulde haue acknowledged that God had appointed …
    With rule
    … time before hee brought the people out of Egypt receiued diuine reuelation as S. SteeuenStephen testifieth, so that hee thought his brethren shoulde haue acknowledged that God had appointed …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Edward Winsloe, Iohn Tilley, Edward Tilley, Iohn Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, SteeuenStephen Hopkins and Edward Dotte, and two of our Sea-men, Iohn Alderton and Thomas …
    With rule
    … Edward Winsloe, Iohn Tilley, Edward Tilley, Iohn Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, SteeuenStephen Hopkins and Edward Dotte, and two of our Sea-men, Iohn Alderton and Thomas …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Henry SteeuenStephen incomparably better skilled in the tongue than maſter Stapleton, in his greek Lexicon ſaith …
    With rule
    Henry SteeuenStephen incomparably better skilled in the tongue than maſter Stapleton, in his greek Lexicon ſaith …

    John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 244 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Preacher before, yet one Sermon made him almoſt a Chriſtian. As Luke ſaith of SteeuenStephen, when he diſputed againſt the Sirenians, Acts the ſixt Chapter, and the tenth verſe …
    With rule
    … Preacher before, yet one Sermon made him almoſt a Chriſtian. As Luke ſaith of SteeuenStephen, when he diſputed againſt the Sirenians, Acts the ſixt Chapter, and the tenth verſe …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 927 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … you will not be founde in much vnlike case. Blasphemie, was obiected to S. SteeuenStephen the first Martyr after Christe his Ascention: vnto Sainte Paule also afterwarde, &c. No …
    With rule
    … you will not be founde in much vnlike case. Blasphemie, was obiected to S. SteeuenStephen the first Martyr after Christe his Ascention: vnto Sainte Paule also afterwarde, &c. No …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 163 · 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.