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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19533 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deprauingdepraving

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

Puritas changed it
98 times in 72 works
Consistency
97.0% (98 of 101)
Reach if approved
~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: depraving
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (98 changes in 72 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 98)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … iudge whither he vſeth (as he ſaith off me) friuolous replies, childiſh collections, fraudulent deprauingdepraving off my boke. Beſide that he hath paſſed by diuers reaſons off mine vntowched …
    With rule
    … iudge whither he vſeth (as he ſaith off me) friuolous replies, childiſh collections, fraudulent deprauingdepraving off my boke. Beſide that he hath paſſed by diuers reaſons off mine vntowched …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … power thereof, are commonly moſt hurtfull ſeducers, corrupting mens hearts with hurtfull ſpeeches, either deprauingdepraving that which is good, or iuſtifying that which is euill, and ſo they infect …
    With rule
    … power thereof, are commonly moſt hurtfull ſeducers, corrupting mens hearts with hurtfull ſpeeches, either deprauingdepraving that which is good, or iuſtifying that which is euill, and ſo they infect …

    John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … are infinite, so are sayings: as bewraying of secrets, infirmities, scoffes, whisperings, backbitinges, bitternesse, deprauingdepraving thoughts: as enuy, suspitions: taking things in euill part, inuenting euill thinges, dissembling or …
    With rule
    … are infinite, so are sayings: as bewraying of secrets, infirmities, scoffes, whisperings, backbitinges, bitternesse, deprauingdepraving thoughts: as enuy, suspitions: taking things in euill part, inuenting euill thinges, dissembling or …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    An instruction, not to hang any thing vpon the report of a deprauingdepraving tongue. For, hee that is false to one, will betray another. And, who will …
    With rule
    An instruction, not to hang any thing vpon the report of a deprauingdepraving tongue. For, hee that is false to one, will betray another. And, who will …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sincerely, in the same manner in which he receiued it, not altering, changing, or deprauingdepraving his Fathers will.
    With rule
    … sincerely, in the same manner in which he receiued it, not altering, changing, or deprauingdepraving his Fathers will.

    William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … haue turned their zeale into luke-warmeneſſe, their reuerence into contempt, conceitedneſſe, worldlines, and deprauingdepraving of the Scriptures. And ſo like fooles, while they loath this wholeſome and ſweete …
    With rule
    … haue turned their zeale into luke-warmeneſſe, their reuerence into contempt, conceitedneſſe, worldlines, and deprauingdepraving of the Scriptures. And ſo like fooles, while they loath this wholeſome and ſweete …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … puniſhments) wiſely conſidered: That how ſoeuer wilfull vſing anie other forme or ceremonie, and deprauingdepraving either forme or ceremonie preſcribed were daūgerous in policy; Yet peaceable omiſſion only of …
    With rule
    … puniſhments) wiſely conſidered: That how ſoeuer wilfull vſing anie other forme or ceremonie, and deprauingdepraving either forme or ceremonie preſcribed were daūgerous in policy; Yet peaceable omiſſion only of …

    William Bradshaw · A Trial of Subscription · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … p. 9. Carlile, a Protestant, neither Papist, nor heretike, is burdened with hereticall dealing in deprauingdepraving Scripture. 1. testim. sect. 1. p. 2. But among all other, that are at rest in the …
    With rule
    … p. 9. Carlile, a Protestant, neither Papist, nor heretike, is burdened with hereticall dealing in deprauingdepraving Scripture. 1. testim. sect. 1. p. 2. But among all other, that are at rest in the …

    Andrew Willet · A Scourge for a Railer · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

A Trial of Subscription A13963

  • Printed
    … touching the booke of cōmon prayer, To wit, 1. Refuſing: 2. Wilful vſing anie other. And 3. DeprauingDepraving the ſame, expreſſeth rites & ceremonies in the 2. latter; but in the 1. ſpeaketh onely of …
    With rule
    … touching the booke of cōmon prayer, To wit, 1. Refuſing: 2. Wilful vſing anie other. And 3. DeprauingDepraving the ſame, expreſſeth rites & ceremonies in the 2. latter; but in the 1. ſpeaketh onely of …

    William Bradshaw · A Trial of Subscription · p. 26 · Open in the reader