Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #1016 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

kniuesknives

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 126 times in 80 works
Consistency: 96.1% (126 of 131)
Reach if approved: ~138 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: knives
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 131 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (126 changes in 80 works, 96.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 126)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… him an Author of euill things. True it is as children long ſometimes for kniuesknives and other things harmefull, ſo doe wee: but this is a ſinnefull weakeneſſe, and …
With rule
… him an Author of euill things. True it is as children long ſometimes for kniuesknives and other things harmefull, ſo doe wee: but this is a ſinnefull weakeneſſe, and …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 369 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their men also. There they went to their manner of Games for skins and kniuesknives. There we challenged them to shoote with them for skins: but they durst not …
With rule
… their men also. There they went to their manner of Games for skins and kniuesknives. There we challenged them to shoote with them for skins: but they durst not …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as children, whom we will not ſuffer to handle, much leſſe to play with kniuesknives: and as people diſtracted are kept in from water for feare of hurting themſelues …
With rule
… as children, whom we will not ſuffer to handle, much leſſe to play with kniuesknives: and as people diſtracted are kept in from water for feare of hurting themſelues …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and astonishment; Acts 9. 6. As also with them, Acts 2. 37. whose soule-horrors, as daggers or kniuesknives, pricked their hearts. Now on the other side, some there bee which at their …
With rule
… and astonishment; Acts 9. 6. As also with them, Acts 2. 37. whose soule-horrors, as daggers or kniuesknives, pricked their hearts. Now on the other side, some there bee which at their …
Thomas Wilson · Saints by Calling · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lorde doth in expreſſe wordes commaund to circumciſe the ſonnes of Iſrael with kniuesknives of ſtone. But it is manifeſt by the rites, of the ſacraments that God …
With rule
… the Lorde doth in expreſſe wordes commaund to circumciſe the ſonnes of Iſrael with kniuesknives of ſtone. But it is manifeſt by the rites, of the ſacraments that God …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 358 · Open in the reader
Printed
… muſt be alwaies blowne; vnto dull horſes, that muſt be alwaies ſpurd; vnto blunt kniuesknives, that muſt be alwaies whet; and vnto lame beaſts, that muſt be alwaies driuen …
With rule
… muſt be alwaies blowne; vnto dull horſes, that muſt be alwaies ſpurd; vnto blunt kniuesknives, that muſt be alwaies whet; and vnto lame beaſts, that muſt be alwaies driuen …
Robert Cleaver · Four Sermons · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in apparell, we then alſo cut off this our Peacockes tayle. Thus we take kniuesknives from children when they cannot vſe them without hurting themſelues. Timothy but liuing amongſt …
With rule
… in apparell, we then alſo cut off this our Peacockes tayle. Thus we take kniuesknives from children when they cannot vſe them without hurting themſelues. Timothy but liuing amongſt …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises 2 · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one more then of another: Or for a man that carieth a paire of kniuesknives about him, it is indifferent to draw and vse either when occasion requireth. And …
With rule
… one more then of another: Or for a man that carieth a paire of kniuesknives about him, it is indifferent to draw and vse either when occasion requireth. And …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 96 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

A Guide to Go to God A01975

Printed
… bereaued of their wits, or poſſeſſed with a deuill, care not to thruſt Pins, KniuesKnives, Daggers, and ſuch like ſharpe inſtruments into their fleſh, and to ſtrike themſelues with …
With rule
… bereaued of their wits, or poſſeſſed with a deuill, care not to thruſt Pins, KniuesKnives, Daggers, and ſuch like ſharpe inſtruments into their fleſh, and to ſtrike themſelues with …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 122 · Open in the reader

Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth A09810

Printed
… haue trading and peace with him. We sent to the King a payre of KniuesKnives, and a Copper Chayne, with a Iewell at it. To Quadequina we sent likewise …
With rule
… haue trading and peace with him. We sent to the King a payre of KniuesKnives, and a Copper Chayne, with a Iewell at it. To Quadequina we sent likewise …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 35 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… all men, &c. And ſoone after, they compare the Scriptures to Fire, Water, Candles, KniuesKnives, Swords, which are indeede needfull, &c. but would marre all, if they were at …
With rule
… all men, &c. And ſoone after, they compare the Scriptures to Fire, Water, Candles, KniuesKnives, Swords, which are indeede needfull, &c. but would marre all, if they were at …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 618 · Open in the reader