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inuentedinvented

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

Puritas changed it
1,287 times in 402 works
Consistency
99.6% (1,287 of 1,291)
Reach if approved
~1,356 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: invented
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,291 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,287 changes in 402 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,287)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … as delightsome preparations for Warre. They are like to the Pyrrick dancing which was inuentedinvented by Pyrrhus, called armed dancing, because it was performed by men clad in armour …
    With rule
    … as delightsome preparations for Warre. They are like to the Pyrrick dancing which was inuentedinvented by Pyrrhus, called armed dancing, because it was performed by men clad in armour …

    William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … with Latine seruice, bell ringing, and Organ playinge. Than builded they monasteries, auaunced Images, inuentedinvented purgatorye, not without many strange reuelacions. Than came in that ceremony, & that, as sensing …
    With rule
    … with Latine seruice, bell ringing, and Organ playinge. Than builded they monasteries, auaunced Images, inuentedinvented purgatorye, not without many strange reuelacions. Than came in that ceremony, & that, as sensing …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Salomon speaketh, because Pro. 5. 11. It consumeth the flesh, and the body, but he hath inuentedinvented a plague proper, and peculiar to this sinne: euen that infectious, and loathsome disease …
    With rule
    … Salomon speaketh, because Pro. 5. 11. It consumeth the flesh, and the body, but he hath inuentedinvented a plague proper, and peculiar to this sinne: euen that infectious, and loathsome disease …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … howe ſhall I, moſt weake wretch, hope… ſuſteyne and ſuffer victoriouſlie the… dreadfull torments inuentedinvented for me, yea… know not whether Sathan peraduentu… withal will conflict with my coſ …
    With rule
    … howe ſhall I, moſt weake wretch, hope… ſuſteyne and ſuffer victoriouſlie the… dreadfull torments inuentedinvented for me, yea… know not whether Sathan peraduentu… withal will conflict with my coſ …

    Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … perdita, whence comes eruptio pestifera. Prouocatur libido, vbi deficit; reuocatur, vbi desinit. Medicines are inuentedinvented, not to qualifie, but to calefie; as if they intended to keepe aliue their …
    With rule
    … perdita, whence comes eruptio pestifera. Prouocatur libido, vbi deficit; reuocatur, vbi desinit. Medicines are inuentedinvented, not to qualifie, but to calefie; as if they intended to keepe aliue their …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … alway, that they which are most earnest in vpholding and defending traditions, and ceremonies, inuentedinvented by man, are most forgetfull in keeping the commandements of God. But this is …
    With rule
    … alway, that they which are most earnest in vpholding and defending traditions, and ceremonies, inuentedinvented by man, are most forgetfull in keeping the commandements of God. But this is …

    William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … oblations for the deade. And aske him where he had it (for surely he inuentedinvented it not him selfe) and he appointeth vs to his forefathers: he nameth the …
    With rule
    … oblations for the deade. And aske him where he had it (for surely he inuentedinvented it not him selfe) and he appointeth vs to his forefathers: he nameth the …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 391 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … are to be reformed. There are other things, which god neuer appoynted, but were inuentedinvented by men: & theſe can neuer be waſhed ſo clean, but there wil be ſome …
    With rule
    … are to be reformed. There are other things, which god neuer appoynted, but were inuentedinvented by men: & theſe can neuer be waſhed ſo clean, but there wil be ſome …

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

  • Printed
    2. InuentedInvented worſhip it ſelfe, when its not appointed by God, but inuentedinvented by man, which …
    With rule
    2. InuentedInvented worſhip it ſelfe, when its not appointed by God, but inuentedinvented by man, which …

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Of Relics A17729

  • Printed
    … as thei thought that their lie ſhuld be the more couered. They haue therfore InuentedInvented to ſhewe onely aſmuch therof as might be kept in a glaſſe to the …
    With rule
    … as thei thought that their lie ſhuld be the more couered. They haue therfore InuentedInvented to ſhewe onely aſmuch therof as might be kept in a glaſſe to the …

    John Calvin · Of Relics · Open in the reader