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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #10987 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vertuevirtue

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it
45,200 times in 4,376 works
Consistency
99.9% (45,200 of 45,227)
Reach if approved
~47,531 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: virtue
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
45,237 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
uertue (1)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (45,200 changes in 4,376 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 45,200)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of life, and all good things: from whose fulnesse, aboundantly floweth sufficient grace and vertuevirtue, for the perpetuall satisfying, and refreshing of all such as hunger and thirst after …
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    … of life, and all good things: from whose fulnesse, aboundantly floweth sufficient grace and vertuevirtue, for the perpetuall satisfying, and refreshing of all such as hunger and thirst after …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 291 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … as Alcibiades is discribed of ye Greciās, & Marius of the Romanes. But his chiefest vertuevirtue was valiancie & courage, yet in his example he is noted by the holy ghost …
    With rule
    … as Alcibiades is discribed of ye Greciās, & Marius of the Romanes. But his chiefest vertuevirtue was valiancie & courage, yet in his example he is noted by the holy ghost …

    William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Church might serve the worshippers of the same God: But the Venetians by the vertuevirtue of an ancient agreement betwixt them and King Baldwine for their service in winning …
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    … Church might serve the worshippers of the same God: But the Venetians by the vertuevirtue of an ancient agreement betwixt them and King Baldwine for their service in winning …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 209 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    1 Neuer meddle with any without vertuevirtue of thy calling. Anger most commonly ariseth when men are out of their callings …
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    1 Neuer meddle with any without vertuevirtue of thy calling. Anger most commonly ariseth when men are out of their callings …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … first, bare words as they are words, have no operative power, much lesse a vertuevirtue to worke miracles, which cannot be effected without the imployment of the divine Omnipotencie.
    With rule
    … first, bare words as they are words, have no operative power, much lesse a vertuevirtue to worke miracles, which cannot be effected without the imployment of the divine Omnipotencie.

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to him, and to repoſe our whole truſt and confidence in his ſtrength and vertuevirtue. For when the helpe of man doth moſt faile, then is his helpe moſt …
    With rule
    … to him, and to repoſe our whole truſt and confidence in his ſtrength and vertuevirtue. For when the helpe of man doth moſt faile, then is his helpe moſt …

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 124 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … bring food out of the earth. Herbs thē are food, and haue an alimentall vertuevirtue. So we may both with the herbes of charitie feed mens bodies, and with …
    With rule
    … bring food out of the earth. Herbs thē are food, and haue an alimentall vertuevirtue. So we may both with the herbes of charitie feed mens bodies, and with …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … be a proper Marke of CHRIST HIS true Church. For, that, by the restrayning VertueVirtue of GOD HIS Spirite of Administration, even Heathen men, and Infideles, will appeare, in …
    With rule
    … be a proper Marke of CHRIST HIS true Church. For, that, by the restrayning VertueVirtue of GOD HIS Spirite of Administration, even Heathen men, and Infideles, will appeare, in …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 99 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Drunkards Character A15845

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue and vice can never accord, 409.
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    VErtueVirtue and vice can never accord, 409.

    Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · Open in the reader

Sin Stigmatized A15847

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue and vice can never accord, 409.
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    VErtueVirtue and vice can never accord, 409.

    Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · Open in the reader

The Whole Duty of Man A23775

  • Printed
    16. A second VERTUEVIRTUE is MEEKNES, That is a calmness and quietness of spirit, contrary to the Rages …
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    16. A second VERTUEVIRTUE is MEEKNES, That is a calmness and quietness of spirit, contrary to the Rages …

    Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Man · p. 150 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Divine Raptures A28161

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue alas! is look'd upon of late,
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    VErtueVirtue alas! is look'd upon of late,

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 85 · Open in the reader

Practical Divinity A41120

  • Printed
    THE SOVERAIGNE VERTUEVIRTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON
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    THE SOVERAIGNE VERTUEVIRTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON

    William Fenner · Practical Divinity · Open in the reader

Twenty-Nine Sermons A41140

  • Printed
    THE SOVERAIGNE VERTUEVIRTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON By that laborious and faithful Meſſenger of CHRIST …
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    THE SOVERAIGNE VERTUEVIRTUE OF THE GOSPEL. In a SERMON By that laborious and faithful Meſſenger of CHRIST …

    William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE SOVERAIGNE VERTUEVIRTUE OF THE GOSPEL.
    With rule
    THE SOVERAIGNE VERTUEVIRTUE OF THE GOSPEL.

    William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 223 · Open in the reader

The Faith of Dying Jacob A41635

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue is no Natural Excellency propagated by Blood, or bequeathed by Will, but receives its …
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    VErtueVirtue is no Natural Excellency propagated by Blood, or bequeathed by Will, but receives its …

    Robert Gouge · The Faith of Dying Jacob · p. 181 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues A45744

  • Printed
    Secondly, VERTUEVIRTUE tends to the Peace of our Minds; therefore the Wiſe man declares, that her …
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    Secondly, VERTUEVIRTUE tends to the Peace of our Minds; therefore the Wiſe man declares, that her …

    John Hartcliffe · Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues · p. 392 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Secondly, VERTUEVIRTUE frees us from the anxiouſneſs of Guilt and the fears of divine Wrath, whereby …
    With rule
    Secondly, VERTUEVIRTUE frees us from the anxiouſneſs of Guilt and the fears of divine Wrath, whereby …

    John Hartcliffe · Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues · p. 393 · Open in the reader

Right Thoughts in Sad Hours A50157

  • Printed
    … against you, are the things by which the most High designs to promote your VERTUEVIRTUE also.
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    … against you, are the things by which the most High designs to promote your VERTUEVIRTUE also.

    Cotton Mather · Right Thoughts in Sad Hours · p. 32 · Open in the reader

Jesus and the Resurrection Justified by Witnesses in Heaven and Earth A56675

  • Printed
    … words (ver. 4.) are ſtill more pertinent to my purpoſe, foreign, or by which, (GLORY and VERTUEVIRTUE) are given unto us exceeding great and precious promiſes. We are ſo ſure to …
    With rule
    … words (ver. 4.) are ſtill more pertinent to my purpoſe, foreign, or by which, (GLORY and VERTUEVIRTUE) are given unto us exceeding great and precious promiſes. We are ſo ſure to …

    Simon Patrick · Jesus and the Resurrection Justified by Witnesses in Heaven and Earth · p. 431 · Open in the reader

A Christian Library A67744

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    VErtueVirtue is distributive, and loves not to bury benefits, but to pleasure all she can …
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    VErtueVirtue is distributive, and loves not to bury benefits, but to pleasure all she can …

    Richard Younge · A Christian Library · Open in the reader

The Prevention of Poverty A67765

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue is distributive, and loves not to bury benefits, but to pleasure all she can …
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    VErtueVirtue is distributive, and loves not to bury benefits, but to pleasure all she can …

    Richard Younge · The Prevention of Poverty · Open in the reader

The Virtue and Value of Baptism A80854

  • Printed
    THE VERTUEVIRTUE AND VALUE OF BAPTISM: In which the
    With rule
    THE VERTUEVIRTUE AND VALUE OF BAPTISM: In which the

    Zachary Crofton · The Virtue and Value of Baptism · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    A SHORT CATECHISM, BRIEFLY Propounding, and plainly ſhewing the VERTUEVIRTUE AND Value of BAPTISM.
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    A SHORT CATECHISM, BRIEFLY Propounding, and plainly ſhewing the VERTUEVIRTUE AND Value of BAPTISM.

    Zachary Crofton · The Virtue and Value of Baptism · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Self-Denial A90811

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue lyes in the middle betwixt two extreames. 339
    With rule
    VErtueVirtue lyes in the middle betwixt two extreames. 339

    Theophilus Polwheile · A Treatise of Self-Denial · Open in the reader

Historical Vindication Part 2 A91269

  • Printed
    … HE PRESENTLY FALLETH FROM, AND LOSETH ALL PRINCELY POWER AND DIGNITY; and that BY VERTUEVIRTUE AND POWER OF THE LAW IT SELF, BOTH DIVINE AND HUMANE, EVEN BEFORE ANY …
    With rule
    … HE PRESENTLY FALLETH FROM, AND LOSETH ALL PRINCELY POWER AND DIGNITY; and that BY VERTUEVIRTUE AND POWER OF THE LAW IT SELF, BOTH DIVINE AND HUMANE, EVEN BEFORE ANY …

    William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 2 · Open in the reader

Works A97360

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue of Chriſts death applyed two waies. 334
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    VErtueVirtue of Chriſts death applyed two waies. 334

    Thomas Taylor · Works · Open in the reader

Job Expounded B11451

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue beeing commended doth increase, saith one: but I would rather feare, least happilie it …
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    VErtueVirtue beeing commended doth increase, saith one: but I would rather feare, least happilie it …

    Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader

A Sum of Moral Philosophy B15223

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue is effected by 3. things
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    VErtueVirtue is effected by 3. things

    William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 57 · Open in the reader

Funeral Sermon of Samuel Willard N01116

  • Printed
    VERTUEVIRTUE ſhall live: ſee bloated Fiend, & burſt!
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    VERTUEVIRTUE ſhall live: ſee bloated Fiend, & burſt!

    Ebenezer Pemberton · Funeral Sermon of Samuel Willard · p. 6 · Open in the reader

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

  • Printed
    2. VERTUEVIRTUE or Conſcience. He ought to be a Perſon of approved Morality; and here peculiarly …
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    2. VERTUEVIRTUE or Conſcience. He ought to be a Perſon of approved Morality; and here peculiarly …

    Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 728 · Open in the reader

Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will N05663

  • Printed
    … whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians hold, be necessary to MORAL AGENCY, VERTUEVIRTUE and VICE, PRAISE, and DISPRAISE, &c.
    With rule
    … whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians hold, be necessary to MORAL AGENCY, VERTUEVIRTUE and VICE, PRAISE, and DISPRAISE, &c.

    Jonathan Edwards · Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    VErtueVirtue and Vice, the Being of neither of 'em consistent with Arminian Principles; See Arminian …
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    VErtueVirtue and Vice, the Being of neither of 'em consistent with Arminian Principles; See Arminian …

    Jonathan Edwards · Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will · Open in the reader