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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19254 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deceiuesdeceives

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

Puritas changed it
179 times in 70 works
Consistency
100% (179 of 179)
Reach if approved
~188 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: deceives
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
179 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (179 changes in 70 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 179)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … continue a good opinion with good men, and giue satisfaction to those, whom he deceiuesdeceives by his seeming: but by much practise he makes this reasonable easie; for politicke …
    With rule
    … continue a good opinion with good men, and giue satisfaction to those, whom he deceiuesdeceives by his seeming: but by much practise he makes this reasonable easie; for politicke …

    Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … cause is, he is an vnsanctified man. Seest thou a Merchant or tradesman that deceiuesdeceives, a master, a father, a husband, a wife, childe, or seruant, that are negligent …
    With rule
    … cause is, he is an vnsanctified man. Seest thou a Merchant or tradesman that deceiuesdeceives, a master, a father, a husband, a wife, childe, or seruant, that are negligent …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached in London · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … couetous man hath many a one that gapes after his goods, but God often deceiuesdeceives and diſappoints them all; his goods are often gone before himſelfe. He hath ſwallowed …
    With rule
    … couetous man hath many a one that gapes after his goods, but God often deceiuesdeceives and diſappoints them all; his goods are often gone before himſelfe. He hath ſwallowed …

    Jeremiah Dyke · A Counterpoison Against Covetousness · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Before the committing of a ſinne, a mans hear… deceiuesdeceives and beguiles him foure wayes.
    With rule
    Before the committing of a ſinne, a mans hear… deceiuesdeceives and beguiles him foure wayes.

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … proue wiſe only to deceiue themſelues; whiles they truſt to their owne wiſdome, it deceiuesdeceives them; and as God taketh the wiſe in their owne craftineſſe, ſo doth the …
    With rule
    … proue wiſe only to deceiue themſelues; whiles they truſt to their owne wiſdome, it deceiuesdeceives them; and as God taketh the wiſe in their owne craftineſſe, ſo doth the …

    Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 314 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … blessing exhibited vnto vs by Christ. He that comes onely in a good meaning, deceiuesdeceives himselfe, & receiues to his condemnatiō. And yet alas, many euen of the ancient sort …
    With rule
    … blessing exhibited vnto vs by Christ. He that comes onely in a good meaning, deceiuesdeceives himselfe, & receiues to his condemnatiō. And yet alas, many euen of the ancient sort …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 436 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … sects and heresies: for incendiaries and disturbers of the whole world; for ( hypocrites and deceiuesdeceives: for () blasphemous persons and () … to Caesar? were they () not made a spectacle vnto the …
    With rule
    … sects and heresies: for incendiaries and disturbers of the whole world; for ( hypocrites and deceiuesdeceives: for () blasphemous persons and () … to Caesar? were they () not made a spectacle vnto the …

    William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to imitate another. Ill words are like a hooke couered with a bate, that deceiuesdeceives one fiſh among many. Ill examples are like nets that take farre more then …
    With rule
    … to imitate another. Ill words are like a hooke couered with a bate, that deceiuesdeceives one fiſh among many. Ill examples are like nets that take farre more then …

    Francis Taylor · Self-Satisfaction · 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.