Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #127 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

couetouscovetous

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

Puritas changed it: 2,906 times in 591 works
Consistency: 100% (2,906 of 2,906)
Reach if approved: ~3,053 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: covetous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,906 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,906 changes in 591 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,906)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… would you eſteeme him a ſinner. What I pray you ſaid the proud and couetouscovetous Phariſees of him? Hee is a glutton, a drinker, a common companion. Matthew 11 19. A …
With rule
… would you eſteeme him a ſinner. What I pray you ſaid the proud and couetouscovetous Phariſees of him? Hee is a glutton, a drinker, a common companion. Matthew 11 19. A …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, thou haſt reuealed vnto me from thy bleſſed word, that thou abhorreſt the couetouscovetous, and couetouſnes is ſo foule an euill, as it is called, Spiritual Idolatry: O …
With rule
… God, thou haſt reuealed vnto me from thy bleſſed word, that thou abhorreſt the couetouscovetous, and couetouſnes is ſo foule an euill, as it is called, Spiritual Idolatry: O …
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
Ob. But I am haled with luſts, now impure luſts, now couetouscovetous luſts, reuengefull luſts, and they make me weary of my life. So Paul, Rom …
With rule
Ob. But I am haled with luſts, now impure luſts, now couetouscovetous luſts, reuengefull luſts, and they make me weary of my life. So Paul, Rom …
Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſobedience, vnnaturall behauiours or affections. &c. 2. Tim. 3. 2. For men ſhalbe louers of them ſelues, couetouscovetous, boasters, proude, euill ſpeakers, diſobedient to parentes, vnthankefull, prophane. Coloſ. 3. 20. Children, hearken vnto your …
With rule
… diſobedience, vnnaturall behauiours or affections. &c. 2. Tim. 3. 2. For men ſhalbe louers of them ſelues, couetouscovetous, boasters, proude, euill ſpeakers, diſobedient to parentes, vnthankefull, prophane. Coloſ. 3. 20. Children, hearken vnto your …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… common swearers; as wilful prophaners of the Lords day; as malicious, as proud and couetouscovetous, as filthy talkers, as very lyers, slanderers, tale-carryers, Alehouse-haunters, and the like …
With rule
… common swearers; as wilful prophaners of the Lords day; as malicious, as proud and couetouscovetous, as filthy talkers, as very lyers, slanderers, tale-carryers, Alehouse-haunters, and the like …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of their hearts, then shut and locke the dore after it: for the couetouscovetous heart is none of them that God chuseth.
With rule
… out of their hearts, then shut and locke the dore after it: for the couetouscovetous heart is none of them that God chuseth.
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… done? Is it not found by common experience, that neuer any haue bene more couetouscovetous, or more loued money, or haue ſought riches and worldly pomp… more then ſome …
With rule
… done? Is it not found by common experience, that neuer any haue bene more couetouscovetous, or more loued money, or haue ſought riches and worldly pomp… more then ſome …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
This ſo on the one ſide reprooues vnthrifty and couetouscovetous husdands, and on the other idle wiues.
With rule
This ſo on the one ſide reprooues vnthrifty and couetouscovetous husdands, and on the other idle wiues.
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 12 · 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.