vsus
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In early modern print v and u are one letter in two shapes: v at the start of a word, u inside it, whichever sound is meant. Initial v here is the vowel; no English word is spelled vs.
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About 12,779 places across the Puritan corpus, estimated: 12,779 in a random sample of 70 of 7,722 works.
Drawn Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PM against rule-set version 2 · 1 sample drawn · no exact count yet (the overnight batch count is not built). Shown in original spelling.
What Dauids flight in the Perſecution of Saul, teacheth vsus. [3] 29….b, 292. 293.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…tam tenet, quam tenetur) the comparison is sufficient to astonish vsus.
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 18 · Open in the reader
…others, if they be repugnant to the word of God. But go to, let vsus cite Auguſtine, which to the ſelfe-ſame effect ſpeaketh euen of that…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 180 · Open in the reader
…manner, wee are not to thinke that it will more gentlie handle vsus. Therefore when the wife of Zebede had deſired him that he woulde…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 141 · Open in the reader
…which are not receiued through our owne fault, but are brought vnto vsus outwardlie. Albeit that neither thoſe in verie déed doo belong all…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 271 · Open in the reader
Ouer this, the holie ſcripture dooth record to vsus no more but two commings of Chriſt. The firſt, an humble forme to…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 231 · Open in the reader
…From another mans house, we say, after some small tarrying, Let vsus saue our credites, and go before we are bidden: but from the Lord…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 407 · Open in the reader
…all one: but the Hebrues call it Mirmah, or Remijah. Further, let vsus vnderſtand that guile is there forbidden, where anie thing lieth…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 534 · Open in the reader
I anſwer: Chriſt is God; and now the ſpeach betwéene vsus is as concerning the bodie, which hath the Godhead ioined therewith.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Now if any obstructions of sinne seeme to oppresse this Zeale in vsus, this Balme of Gods word is the onely soueraigne remedy to cleanse…
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 304 · Open in the reader
…periſh in it the continuall iuriſdiction, which it obteineth againſt vsus. For ſéeing the naturall power hereof is ſuch, as what it hath once…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 636 · Open in the reader
…be doone. But by this means we haue two redemptions: Chriſt redéemed vsus from the fault, and men from the puniſhments. They inioine not…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 224 · Open in the reader
…it little enough for him to giue, though it bee too much for vsus (as we are our ſelues) to receiue. Hence is it that Dauid cryeth…
Robert Abbot · Be Thankful London and Her Sisters · p. 29 · Open in the reader
…There is but one Truth, but innumerable errors. Which should teach vsus
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 76 · Open in the reader
…after it: yet while wee are diſclaiming it, it will bee diſquieting vsus; and while wee are mourning for it, it will ſtill be marring vs.
John Abernethy · The Dignity and Duty of a Christian · p. 136 · Open in the reader
…Games by ciuill lawes are aboliſhable [4] 309.b, Reaſons diſſuading vsus frō them. [2] 527.b, In what things loſt are recouerable by law.…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…be verie neceſſarie to adde what profit the ſame may bring vnto vsus; whereby alſo we ſhall vnderſtand, vnto what vſe we ought to referre…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 623 · Open in the reader
…that to make the better shew both in your text & margēt, you bring vsus the same things & quotatiōs againe, out of Causaeus & Luther, which…
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 375 · Open in the reader
…yea though it were to the cruſhing of that which is moſt deare vnto vsus. Thus Leui is ſaid to ſay to his father and mother, I haue not ſeene…
Robert Abbot · A Hand of Fellowship to Help Keep Out Sin and Antichrist · p. 92 · Open in the reader
…of the waie, and ſlue. Of theſe men there were ten that ſaid; Slaie vsus not, we haue honie, oile, and graine; if thou wilt pardon vs our…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 305 · Open in the reader
…whiles he sees the vnreconcileable opposition of Rome and vsus, which he fondly labours to atone, he forsakes both, and will now be…
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 9 · Open in the reader
…Church ſhoulde be priuie and conſenting to the ſame. Ouer this let vsus imagine that there is ſome ſtewarde which gouerneth the goods and…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 33 · Open in the reader
But doth true religion altogether make vsus to approue our ſelues to God? Principally it doth: yet withall it…
Robert Abbot · A Hand of Fellowship to Help Keep Out Sin and Antichrist · p. 244 · Open in the reader
20 But let vsus ſée what mooued theſe men to ſaie, that works foreſéene are the…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 15 · Open in the reader
It is prooued that Gods grace is the Fauour which hee beareth vsus. [3] 49.b.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…ground. But if we will be so head-strong, that nothing can reclaime vsus, let vs consider other folkes, and not onely our selues, and griefe…
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 631 · Open in the reader
3 It is a matter of great force, to make vsus proficients in the schoole of God, to haue the rodde going as well…
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 360 · Open in the reader
…now it hath béene ſaid) touching the precept, which is giuen vnto vsus for the louing of God with all the hart, with all the mind, and with…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 232 · Open in the reader
…will; now ought not he, to whom we haue ſworne, to exact the ſame of vsus: which if perhaps he ſhall doo, his right ſhall be accounted no…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 370 · Open in the reader
…we haue in our speech, when we are most deiected, may in deede be in vsus, when we are erected againe. But it is otherwise, and we beare our…
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 361 · Open in the reader
…men of Israel against the Syrians. Be of good courage, and let vsus play the men, for our People, and for the Cities of our God.
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Our loue; Walke in loue, as Christ loued vsus. Where As is not onely similitudinary, but causall. Loue because…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 156 · Open in the reader
…Which wee doe being warranted by the word of God, which teacheth vsus that if an Angell come from heaven, and preach otherwise then the…
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 418 · Open in the reader
…Hadrian a thing méete for his profeſſion, who therefore putteth vsus to buſineſſe, becauſe that children and madde men haue ſaluation…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 133 · Open in the reader
…the lawe of God. And of all theſe things the lawe hath inſtructed vsus. But ſinne in generall, is to ſtraie from the ordinance of the lawe.…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 576 · Open in the reader
2. This should moue vsus: was all this done for vs, and shall we not be stirred? Haue ye no…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 179 · Open in the reader
…may vſe wine temperatelie and moderatelie; and that it is giuen to vsus by God, to make vs merrie in due time by a right vſe thereof.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 498 · Open in the reader
…1 letter⟧nne of Alteration shine on their faces, they will repay vsus tenne blowes for one vpon our Burgonets: meane time (our Prayses to…
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Faith foreſéene mooueth not God to predeſtinate vsus. [3] 16a
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…Let us make man in …ur Image, Faciamus, let VsUs make; there is a Pluralitie of Perſon. Ad imaginem noſtram, to our…
Thomas Adams · Commentary on 2 Peter · p. 307 · Open in the reader
Exceptions
None. Where the rule is wrong in one place, except it there (“Not here”) from a sampled match above or from the word in the reader; where a book's printer used the form on purpose, except the whole book.
Timeline
- Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PMversion 3
- Approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PMversion 21
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