Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7588 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

starrestar

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 2,787 times in 886 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,787 of 2,789)
Reach if approved: ~2,930 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: star
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,789 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,787 changes in 886 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,787)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… For to this ende thou wast borne out of the wombe before the day starrestar, that thou mightest be a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech. For …
With rule
… For to this ende thou wast borne out of the wombe before the day starrestar, that thou mightest be a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech. For …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you it must ſerue, not as a ſpur to pricke you, but as a ſtarrestar to direct you, and a line to leade & draw you forward to al holy …
With rule
… you it must ſerue, not as a ſpur to pricke you, but as a ſtarrestar to direct you, and a line to leade & draw you forward to al holy …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… N…me, that would not be enough; seeing St. Paul tels us, that one StarreStar excels another in glory: and indeed the heavens in shewing the glory of God …
With rule
… N…me, that would not be enough; seeing St. Paul tels us, that one StarreStar excels another in glory: and indeed the heavens in shewing the glory of God …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he had been toſſed divers dayes upon the deluge; the re-appearing of the StarreStar to the Wiſe men, made them exceeding joyfull: And ſuch is the comming of …
With rule
… he had been toſſed divers dayes upon the deluge; the re-appearing of the StarreStar to the Wiſe men, made them exceeding joyfull: And ſuch is the comming of …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the sacred scripturs. They haue no true iudgement in them to dyscerne the fallen starrestar, from the starrestar so fyermelye fixed in the fyrmamēt as neuer coude be yet …
With rule
… the sacred scripturs. They haue no true iudgement in them to dyscerne the fallen starrestar, from the starrestar so fyermelye fixed in the fyrmamēt as neuer coude be yet …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt Ieſus. It ſeemeth that Zacharie had reference to the ancient Prophecies, touching a ſtarrestar that ſhould come of Iaacob , and of a Sunne of Righteouſnes which ſhould ariſe …
With rule
… Chriſt Ieſus. It ſeemeth that Zacharie had reference to the ancient Prophecies, touching a ſtarrestar that ſhould come of Iaacob , and of a Sunne of Righteouſnes which ſhould ariſe …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Kings, Emperours and Monarchs of the whole world. Was not Chriſt the bright morning ſtarrestar? how came it then to paſſe that he appeared not till the afternoone, if …
With rule
… Kings, Emperours and Monarchs of the whole world. Was not Chriſt the bright morning ſtarrestar? how came it then to paſſe that he appeared not till the afternoone, if …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 403 · Open in the reader
Printed
The purest starrestar deserues not heauen so well.
With rule
The purest starrestar deserues not heauen so well.
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Sacrifice of Thankfulness A02367

Printed
CHRIST HIS STARRESTAR: OR, The Wise-mens Oblation.
With rule
CHRIST HIS STARRESTAR: OR, The Wise-mens Oblation.
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 83 · Open in the reader

The Bright Morning Star A12551

Printed
THE BRIGHT MORNING STARRESTAR: OR, The Reſolution and Expoſition of the 22. Pſalme, preached publikely in foure ſermons at …
With rule
THE BRIGHT MORNING STARRESTAR: OR, The Reſolution and Expoſition of the 22. Pſalme, preached publikely in foure ſermons at …
John Smyth · The Bright Morning Star · Open in the reader