Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11521 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

giuēgiven

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

Puritas changed it: 666 times in 267 works
Consistency: 99.7% (666 of 668)
Reach if approved: ~763 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 726 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: give (1), giuē (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (666 changes in 267 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 666)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… so to be vsed / nor never so vsed. My proof was this / they are giuēgiven by the holy Ghost for other vses / as singing / reading / etc. ād not comaunded …
With rule
… so to be vsed / nor never so vsed. My proof was this / they are giuēgiven by the holy Ghost for other vses / as singing / reading / etc. ād not comaunded …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall bee giuēgiven to al Gods Saints. And in this ſence that honor is giuēgiven to the faithfull to iudge and to condemne according to this iudgment of approbatiō …
With rule
… ſhall bee giuēgiven to al Gods Saints. And in this ſence that honor is giuēgiven to the faithfull to iudge and to condemne according to this iudgment of approbatiō …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… labors, and to defraud me of that honor, which God, of his mercie hath giuēgiven vnto me ye list deny, that ether ye receaued Christ Iesus, ether yet that …
With rule
… labors, and to defraud me of that honor, which God, of his mercie hath giuēgiven vnto me ye list deny, that ether ye receaued Christ Iesus, ether yet that …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
Wherby moſt greate & precious promiſes are giuēgiven vnto vs, that by thē ye ſhould be partakers of the godly nature, in …
With rule
Wherby moſt greate & precious promiſes are giuēgiven vnto vs, that by thē ye ſhould be partakers of the godly nature, in …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnto you? Be faythfull vnto the deathe, that the crowne of lyfe maye be giuēgiven vnto you. For he that continuethe vnto the ende, he shall be safe. And …
With rule
… vnto you? Be faythfull vnto the deathe, that the crowne of lyfe maye be giuēgiven vnto you. For he that continuethe vnto the ende, he shall be safe. And …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
Lands giuēgiven to the church. ea.
With rule
Lands giuēgiven to the church. ea.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Hypocrites, which abuse this couenant in seeking to be iustified therby, which was giuēgiven to direct vs to the couenant of mercy: Now must we consider Sara the …
With rule
… of Hypocrites, which abuse this couenant in seeking to be iustified therby, which was giuēgiven to direct vs to the couenant of mercy: Now must we consider Sara the …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we are forced thervnto, we cā not but grant y^e the holy ghoſt hath giuēgiven a perfect touchſtone, then I am to exhort you in the name of God …
With rule
… we are forced thervnto, we cā not but grant y^e the holy ghoſt hath giuēgiven a perfect touchſtone, then I am to exhort you in the name of God …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · 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.