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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19376 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diuedive

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

Puritas changed it
143 times in 101 works
Consistency
94.7% (143 of 151)
Reach if approved
~159 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: dive
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
151 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (143 changes in 101 works, 94.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 143)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … by a natural cause. The goose and the ducke, & diuers other water fowles, do diuedive and wash them and make a great sturre against raine. The crow he cryeth …
    With rule
    … by a natural cause. The goose and the ducke, & diuers other water fowles, do diuedive and wash them and make a great sturre against raine. The crow he cryeth …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a violent gulfe of troubles we knowe not whither, and are constrained oft to diuedive and plunge downe, the waters of affliction running over our head; yet the Lord …
    With rule
    … a violent gulfe of troubles we knowe not whither, and are constrained oft to diuedive and plunge downe, the waters of affliction running over our head; yet the Lord …

    Richard Greenham · Propositions Containing Answers in Divers Spiritual Matters · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … is elected alſo; Wherefore let vs ſtriue to make our election ſure. We will diuedive into the affections of men, we cannot be at reſt, till wee know how …
    With rule
    … is elected alſo; Wherefore let vs ſtriue to make our election ſure. We will diuedive into the affections of men, we cannot be at reſt, till wee know how …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and doe both together make vp one entire and round body. Neither doe wee diuedive into the bowels of the earth, and ente… into consideration of the naturall qualities …
    With rule
    … and doe both together make vp one entire and round body. Neither doe wee diuedive into the bowels of the earth, and ente… into consideration of the naturall qualities …

    William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … reuealed: First, because the reuealed, not the vayled will of God, which we cannot diuedive particularly into;) is the sole rule of our obedience, and the only obiect of …
    With rule
    … reuealed: First, because the reuealed, not the vayled will of God, which we cannot diuedive particularly into;) is the sole rule of our obedience, and the only obiect of …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    And made the Spaniard diuedive;
    With rule
    And made the Spaniard diuedive;

    John Wilson · A Song · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of all doubts & full manifestation of the truth, I will endeavour to search and diuedive fur…her into the words of the Originall Hebrew text, and to finde out …
    With rule
    … of all doubts & full manifestation of the truth, I will endeavour to search and diuedive fur…her into the words of the Originall Hebrew text, and to finde out …

    George Walker · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … beware of Curpurses, that themselues being truly so, may with lesse suspition and obseruation, diuedive into the pockets and purses of true men. Many there are, who being themselues …
    With rule
    … beware of Curpurses, that themselues being truly so, may with lesse suspition and obseruation, diuedive into the pockets and purses of true men. Many there are, who being themselues …

    Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 276 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

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

Exposition of Revelation 1-3 A09443

  • Printed
    … I…sabell abused her bed with fornication▪ & thither shee must bee cast with sicknesse: DiueDive… in his life time abused his tongue and tast by gluttonie, and therefore … now …
    With rule
    … I…sabell abused her bed with fornication▪ & thither shee must bee cast with sicknesse: DiueDive… in his life time abused his tongue and tast by gluttonie, and therefore … now …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 145 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

  • Printed
    … paym…nt: where note by the way, the Scriuener is the Instrument wherby the DiueDive…l worketh the frame of this wicked woorke of Usurie, hee beeing rewarded with …
    With rule
    … paym…nt: where note by the way, the Scriuener is the Instrument wherby the DiueDive…l worketh the frame of this wicked woorke of Usurie, hee beeing rewarded with …

    Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

  • Printed
    DiueDive if thou canst, til thou the bottome sound,
    With rule
    DiueDive if thou canst, til thou the bottome sound,

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader