Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51105 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saphyresSapphires

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

Puritas changed it: 22 times in 21 works
Consistency: 91.6% (22 of 24)
Reach if approved: ~25 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sapphires
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 24 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (22 changes in 21 works, 91.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 22)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… people, or just power of them that rule? Were not our foundations laid with SaphyresSapphires, and our stones with fair colours? Was not the patern in the mount, the …
With rule
… people, or just power of them that rule? Were not our foundations laid with SaphyresSapphires, and our stones with fair colours? Was not the patern in the mount, the …
William Hubbard · The Happiness of a People in the Wisdom of their Rulers · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I haue a place here. The beautie of that excellent Citie Ierusalem, built with SaphyresSapphires, Emeralds, Chrysolites, and such precious stones: the foundation and walls whereof are perfect gold …
With rule
… I haue a place here. The beautie of that excellent Citie Ierusalem, built with SaphyresSapphires, Emeralds, Chrysolites, and such precious stones: the foundation and walls whereof are perfect gold …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 344 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath he a Triple crowne all of perfecte golde, hanged with Diademes, Carbuncles, Smaradges, SaphyresSapphires, Pearles, and all kinde of precious Stones glistring like the Sun. His crosier then …
With rule
… hath he a Triple crowne all of perfecte golde, hanged with Diademes, Carbuncles, Smaradges, SaphyresSapphires, Pearles, and all kinde of precious Stones glistring like the Sun. His crosier then …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader
Printed
… thereof be obtained with ſiluer. No gold of Ophir, no pretious Onyx ſtoans, nor SaphyresSapphires may be valued with it, for this is the higheſt Treaſure of a king …
With rule
… thereof be obtained with ſiluer. No gold of Ophir, no pretious Onyx ſtoans, nor SaphyresSapphires may be valued with it, for this is the higheſt Treaſure of a king …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as gold rings, ſet with Beryle; his belly is as bright Ivory, overlaid with SaphyresSapphires; his legs are as pillars of marble, ſet upon ſockets of fine gold; his …
With rule
… as gold rings, ſet with Beryle; his belly is as bright Ivory, overlaid with SaphyresSapphires; his legs are as pillars of marble, ſet upon ſockets of fine gold; his …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 38-42 · p. 723 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rings of Gold ſet with the Chryſolite; his belly like white Iuory couered with SaphyresSapphires.
With rule
… Rings of Gold ſet with the Chryſolite; his belly like white Iuory couered with SaphyresSapphires.
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beseeming the kings of the world, then the kingdome of Christ. The Carbuncles, the SaphyresSapphires, the Emeraulds, the Chrysolites; the gold, the precious stones, wherewith my foundation, walles, windowes …
With rule
… beseeming the kings of the world, then the kingdome of Christ. The Carbuncles, the SaphyresSapphires, the Emeraulds, the Chrysolites; the gold, the precious stones, wherewith my foundation, walles, windowes …
David Calderwood · The Speech of the Kirk of Scotland to Her Beloved Children · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Judgements were given, in the form of Heaven, the ſtone-work of skie-coloured SaphyresSapphires, and the ceiling like clouds. Princes, or ſoveraigne States (ſuch as you are in …
With rule
… Judgements were given, in the form of Heaven, the ſtone-work of skie-coloured SaphyresSapphires, and the ceiling like clouds. Princes, or ſoveraigne States (ſuch as you are in …
Samuel Torshell · The Palace of Justice · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.