Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19271 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

genitiuegenitive

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

Puritas changed it: 201 times in 10 works
Consistency: 85.1% (201 of 236)
Reach if approved: ~248 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: genitive
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 236 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (201 changes in 10 works, 85.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 201)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… knowledge of God. Theſe wordes we may thus vnderſtand, as though by theſe thrée genitiuegenitive caſes were ſhewed thrée diſtinct proprieties of God, namely, his riches, wiſdome and knowledge …
With rule
… knowledge of God. Theſe wordes we may thus vnderſtand, as though by theſe thrée genitiuegenitive caſes were ſhewed thrée diſtinct proprieties of God, namely, his riches, wiſdome and knowledge …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… man: for the Greeke preposition foreign, with an accusatiue case signifieth according, but with a genitiuegenitive, against: and so he would ioyne it to the former words, is God vnrighteous …
With rule
… man: for the Greeke preposition foreign, with an accusatiue case signifieth according, but with a genitiuegenitive, against: and so he would ioyne it to the former words, is God vnrighteous …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhalt die ignominiouſly. It is better to tranſlate the Hebrew word Gaber, in the genitiuegenitive; namely, thou ſhalt be driuen hence with the caſting out of a man. Now …
With rule
… ſhalt die ignominiouſly. It is better to tranſlate the Hebrew word Gaber, in the genitiuegenitive; namely, thou ſhalt be driuen hence with the caſting out of a man. Now …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… churches that is to ſay the clergy, &c taking the nominatiue plurall / for the genitiuegenitive ſyngular. Which although in the latin toung / if one take not heed vnto the …
With rule
… churches that is to ſay the clergy, &c taking the nominatiue plurall / for the genitiuegenitive ſyngular. Which although in the latin toung / if one take not heed vnto the …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCLXXX · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſunt Chriſti, in the nominatiue plurall, not as it is vulgarly taken in the genitiuegenitive ſingular: As if hee ſhould obſerue, that ſo manie Chriſtians, are ſo many Chriſts …
With rule
… ſunt Chriſti, in the nominatiue plurall, not as it is vulgarly taken in the genitiuegenitive ſingular: As if hee ſhould obſerue, that ſo manie Chriſtians, are ſo many Chriſts …
William Loe · The Joy of Jerusalem and Woe of the Worldlings · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the mountaine were expelled by him, ſo that thys woord Hahar is the genitiuegenitive caſe, as is this woord Haamak, that is, of the valley. The conquering of …
With rule
… of the mountaine were expelled by him, ſo that thys woord Hahar is the genitiuegenitive caſe, as is this woord Haamak, that is, of the valley. The conquering of …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
MART. 5. And if foreign with a genitiuegenitive case signifie a comparison, and them selues so translate it in all their Bibles …
With rule
MART. 5. And if foreign with a genitiuegenitive case signifie a comparison, and them selues so translate it in all their Bibles …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by this rule. Where note that many adiectiues ſignifieng likenes do ſomtimes gouerne a genitiuegenitive caſe.
With rule
… by this rule. Where note that many adiectiues ſignifieng likenes do ſomtimes gouerne a genitiuegenitive caſe.
John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · p. 46 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (35)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 30 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

Printed
… But the Greeke phrase (you say) is otherwise, for foreign is not ioyned with a GenitiueGenitive case, but with an Accusatiue, and a Preposition: In deede this later construction of …
With rule
… But the Greeke phrase (you say) is otherwise, for foreign is not ioyned with a GenitiueGenitive case, but with an Accusatiue, and a Preposition: In deede this later construction of …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 266 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fully set foorth the comparison, but the same also is set foorth by the GenitiueGenitive case, as you your selfe can not deny. Now our Englishe phrase would not …
With rule
… fully set foorth the comparison, but the same also is set foorth by the GenitiueGenitive case, as you your selfe can not deny. Now our Englishe phrase would not …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 266 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Greeke phrase thereof, and muche more proper for this purpose, than by foreign, and a GenitiueGenitive case. Which notwithstanding is often so vsed in Scriptures by way of comparison, as …
With rule
… Greeke phrase thereof, and muche more proper for this purpose, than by foreign, and a GenitiueGenitive case. Which notwithstanding is often so vsed in Scriptures by way of comparison, as …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vse the word foreign, but it will include a comparison, whether it be with a GenitiueGenitive case, as in the examples you bring, or with an Accusatiue, as in this …
With rule
… vse the word foreign, but it will include a comparison, whether it be with a GenitiueGenitive case, as in the examples you bring, or with an Accusatiue, as in this …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 268 · Open in the reader

The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary A19670

Printed
The Tranſlatour that you folow, knewe not bylyke, that foreign being ioyned with the GenitiueGenitive caſe, doth not ſignifie ſuper, or ſupra, aboue, but Pro, for: neyther coulde he …
With rule
The Tranſlatour that you folow, knewe not bylyke, that foreign being ioyned with the GenitiueGenitive caſe, doth not ſignifie ſuper, or ſupra, aboue, but Pro, for: neyther coulde he …
Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · p. 55 · Open in the reader