Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19100 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obseruesobserves

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

Puritas changed it: 281 times in 139 works
Consistency: 98.9% (281 of 284)
Reach if approved: ~298 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: observes
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 284 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (281 changes in 139 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 281)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… drowſineſſe and dulneſſe to good duties. In Prayer, Hearing, euery religious Office, who, that obſeruesobserves himſelfe, finds it not? thoſe words of the wiſe, the Lord hath giuen vs …
With rule
… drowſineſſe and dulneſſe to good duties. In Prayer, Hearing, euery religious Office, who, that obſeruesobserves himſelfe, finds it not? thoſe words of the wiſe, the Lord hath giuen vs …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
Bellarmine answereth, that the difference which Saint Chrysostome obseruesobserves betweene the sacrifices of the old and new Testament was, that the sacrifice of …
With rule
Bellarmine answereth, that the difference which Saint Chrysostome obseruesobserves betweene the sacrifices of the old and new Testament was, that the sacrifice of …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their purses with money, hath proued the emptying their hearts of Charitie. As one obseruesobserves of Rome; that the declination of pietie, came at one instant with the multiplication …
With rule
… their purses with money, hath proued the emptying their hearts of Charitie. As one obseruesobserves of Rome; that the declination of pietie, came at one instant with the multiplication …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all into more acquaintance with his owne heart; he more and more ſees, and obſeruesobserves his own vileneſſe & vnworthineſſe, for the more grace, the more ſight of our corruption …
With rule
… all into more acquaintance with his owne heart; he more and more ſees, and obſeruesobserves his own vileneſſe & vnworthineſſe, for the more grace, the more ſight of our corruption …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the fifth and ſixth verſes hee preſcribes a remedy: in ſetting downe which, he obſeruesobserves this order: firſt, he ſets downe a double practice which would reſtore her, viZ …
With rule
… the fifth and ſixth verſes hee preſcribes a remedy: in ſetting downe which, he obſeruesobserves this order: firſt, he ſets downe a double practice which would reſtore her, viZ …
Paul Baynes · A Caveat for Cold Christians · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, here we may learne, that God rather obseruesobserves and regards good things in his children, then their faults and imperfections: he writes …
With rule
Secondly, here we may learne, that God rather obseruesobserves and regards good things in his children, then their faults and imperfections: he writes …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the progreſſe of his humiliation▪ going about & doing good. Being on his way, he obſeruesobserves great multitudes thronging & flocking after him, no doubt for various ends, and vpon various …
With rule
… the progreſſe of his humiliation▪ going about & doing good. Being on his way, he obſeruesobserves great multitudes thronging & flocking after him, no doubt for various ends, and vpon various …
William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… about the weight or purenes of ſubſtāce, as about the faſhion.) And this, Euſebius obſeruesobserves, was the policie of the ſubtill ſerpent, when perſecutions gaue the Church breathing ſpace …
With rule
… about the weight or purenes of ſubſtāce, as about the faſhion.) And this, Euſebius obſeruesobserves, was the policie of the ſubtill ſerpent, when perſecutions gaue the Church breathing ſpace …
Nehemiah Rogers · Christian Courtesy · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.