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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50620 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

esawEsau

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

Puritas changed it
91 times in 43 works
Consistency
100% (91 of 91)
Reach if approved
~96 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
91 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (91 changes in 43 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 91)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be come. They which haue the outward kisses, & not the inward assurances, are like EsawEsau with his pottage, but without his birthright. But they which haue lost all, but …
    With rule
    … be come. They which haue the outward kisses, & not the inward assurances, are like EsawEsau with his pottage, but without his birthright. But they which haue lost all, but …

    William Burton · Davids Evidence · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in the power of any childe of man, as maie well be ſeen in EſawEsau, who is ſaide to haue founde no place to repentance, though he ſought the …
    With rule
    … in the power of any childe of man, as maie well be ſeen in EſawEsau, who is ſaide to haue founde no place to repentance, though he ſought the …

    John Calvin · Commentary on 1 John and Jude · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … conſent: and contrariwiſe what a hart-breaking was it to Iſaac and Rebecca, that EſawEsau married contrary to their conſent? So that this is a ſpeciall duty of children …
    With rule
    … conſent: and contrariwiſe what a hart-breaking was it to Iſaac and Rebecca, that EſawEsau married contrary to their conſent? So that this is a ſpeciall duty of children …

    Thomas Cartwright · Commentary Upon Colossians · p. 216 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … If Jacob deceive his old Father Iſaac, by the borrow'd garments of his Brother EſawEsau; his own children, when he is old impoſe upon him by the bloudy garment …
    With rule
    … If Jacob deceive his old Father Iſaac, by the borrow'd garments of his Brother EſawEsau; his own children, when he is old impoſe upon him by the bloudy garment …

    John Shower · The Present Correction and Reproof of Sin · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thirſt after the water of life, and to complaine and cry for it, (as EſawEsau cryed for the bleſſing and ſought it with teares) but ye muſt come and …
    With rule
    … thirſt after the water of life, and to complaine and cry for it, (as EſawEsau cryed for the bleſſing and ſought it with teares) but ye muſt come and …

    William Troughton · Saints in England Under a Cloud · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … but rather serue him in trembling and feare / as a iealous God / least with EsawEsau we find no place to repentance / though we seeke yt with teares. Againe / though …
    With rule
    … but rather serue him in trembling and feare / as a iealous God / least with EsawEsau we find no place to repentance / though we seeke yt with teares. Againe / though …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and which were rather in the houſe then of the houſe, as Iſmael and EſawEsau) the true Church of God. And we may not forget that here is expreſſe …
    With rule
    … and which were rather in the houſe then of the houſe, as Iſmael and EſawEsau) the true Church of God. And we may not forget that here is expreſſe …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … All this dooth ſhewe, that the Vſurer is like Eſau, of whome God ſaide, EſawEsau haue I hated. Now in the 112 Pſalme, you ſhall ſee who is like Iacob …
    With rule
    … All this dooth ſhewe, that the Vſurer is like Eſau, of whome God ſaide, EſawEsau haue I hated. Now in the 112 Pſalme, you ſhall ſee who is like Iacob …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 171 · 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.