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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11475 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vaileveil

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

Puritas changed it
2,152 times in 731 works
Consistency
91.4% (2,152 of 2,353)
Reach if approved
~2,472 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: veil
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,353 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
vail (201)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,152 changes in 731 works, 91.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … impudently bold. So sinne at the first modestly insinuateth herselfe vnto vs, vnder the vaileveil of things lawfull, which no man can denie, vntill hauing by little and little …
    With rule
    … impudently bold. So sinne at the first modestly insinuateth herselfe vnto vs, vnder the vaileveil of things lawfull, which no man can denie, vntill hauing by little and little …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 672 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … by the new and liuing way which he hath conſecrated for vs, through the vaileveil, that is to ſay, His fleſh. For this cauſe hee is the Mediatour of …
    With rule
    … by the new and liuing way which he hath conſecrated for vs, through the vaileveil, that is to ſay, His fleſh. For this cauſe hee is the Mediatour of …

    John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 256 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … for my selfe, by opening of the words, that having taken away all the vaileveil from them, you may more clearely see the truth delivered.
    With rule
    … for my selfe, by opening of the words, that having taken away all the vaileveil from them, you may more clearely see the truth delivered.

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … away with Chriſt now in his humilitie, and when he comes clouded in the vaileveil of his Word, how will they indure him in his glory, and when he …
    With rule
    … away with Chriſt now in his humilitie, and when he comes clouded in the vaileveil of his Word, how will they indure him in his glory, and when he …

    Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 185 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … perfectly know who he was; which when our Sauiour perceiued, he tooke away the vaileveil, or impediment from their eyes, and shewed his natiue countenance more manifestly vnto them …
    With rule
    … perfectly know who he was; which when our Sauiour perceiued, he tooke away the vaileveil, or impediment from their eyes, and shewed his natiue countenance more manifestly vnto them …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 159 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vvhich vvall by the death of Chriſt vvas declared by the renting of the vaileveil of the temple from the top to the bottome, and therfore it is not …
    With rule
    … vvhich vvall by the death of Chriſt vvas declared by the renting of the vaileveil of the temple from the top to the bottome, and therfore it is not …

    John Forbes · Sermon on 1 Timothy 2:4 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … heresie. Suche a babe was Epiphanius, that finding the image of Christ painted in vaileveil hanging in a Church at Anablatha, he iudged it to be contrarie to the …
    With rule
    … heresie. Suche a babe was Epiphanius, that finding the image of Christ painted in vaileveil hanging in a Church at Anablatha, he iudged it to be contrarie to the …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … women thicker and longer haire, then to men, that it might be as a vaileveil to adorne and cover them. The reason whereof, Nature hath hid in the complexion …
    With rule
    … women thicker and longer haire, then to men, that it might be as a vaileveil to adorne and cover them. The reason whereof, Nature hath hid in the complexion …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.