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seueresevere

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

Puritas changed it: 1,380 times in 440 works
Consistency: 99.5% (1,380 of 1,387)
Reach if approved: ~1,457 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: severe
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,387 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,380 changes in 440 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,380)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… plaine with you, you are no guest for vs: our secure liues, and your seueresevere Lawes will neuer cotten.
With rule
… plaine with you, you are no guest for vs: our secure liues, and your seueresevere Lawes will neuer cotten.
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beleeue that the auncient fathers and holie men of the primitiue Church by their seueresevere life and voluntarie penaunce for their sinnes, and for the loue of Christe, didd …
With rule
… beleeue that the auncient fathers and holie men of the primitiue Church by their seueresevere life and voluntarie penaunce for their sinnes, and for the loue of Christe, didd …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 369 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be better then his word, and not so fierce in execution as he seemeth seueresevere in the sanction. That wee may see therefore that Gods threatnings and comminations in …
With rule
… be better then his word, and not so fierce in execution as he seemeth seueresevere in the sanction. That wee may see therefore that Gods threatnings and comminations in …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… confesse, Video meliora, probóque. The most rigid vsurer, if he should come before a seueresevere Iudge, would be glad of mercie; though himselfe will shew none to his poore …
With rule
… confesse, Video meliora, probóque. The most rigid vsurer, if he should come before a seueresevere Iudge, would be glad of mercie; though himselfe will shew none to his poore …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a pretty pleadable shelter of defence, and tel vs, That they doe not forsooth seueresevere themselues from our congregation as from the City: but from the plague that pestereth …
With rule
… a pretty pleadable shelter of defence, and tel vs, That they doe not forsooth seueresevere themselues from our congregation as from the City: but from the plague that pestereth …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
Hence our Pollicies in their positiue lawes, lay seueresevere punishments on the actuall breaches of the second Table, leauing most sinnes against the …
With rule
Hence our Pollicies in their positiue lawes, lay seueresevere punishments on the actuall breaches of the second Table, leauing most sinnes against the …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whyche others want, and the more God hath credited him, the ſtrayghter and more ſeueresevere accompte ſhall he render, of hys wordes and deedes. Wherfore dyſcretely, truly, and maruaylouſly …
With rule
… whyche others want, and the more God hath credited him, the ſtrayghter and more ſeueresevere accompte ſhall he render, of hys wordes and deedes. Wherfore dyſcretely, truly, and maruaylouſly …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… we do our deuties to gods glorie. … no mā thincke that I am more seueresevere, then necessitye requyreth. Na brerhren, I … coutain my affirmacions within the bondes of Gods …
With rule
… we do our deuties to gods glorie. … no mā thincke that I am more seueresevere, then necessitye requyreth. Na brerhren, I … coutain my affirmacions within the bondes of Gods …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians A11010

Printed
… them who hes taine the name of Chriſt vpon them, the children of darkneſſe. SeuereSevere not thou the popple from the wheet, the caffe from the corne, the goates …
With rule
… them who hes taine the name of Chriſt vpon them, the children of darkneſſe. SeuereSevere not thou the popple from the wheet, the caffe from the corne, the goates …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 249 · Open in the reader

The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered A17270

Printed
SeuereSevere executions are as much for terror to beholders, as for ſmart to the Malefactors …
With rule
SeuereSevere executions are as much for terror to beholders, as for ſmart to the Malefactors …
Cornelius Burges · The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered · p. 186 · Open in the reader

The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God A20720

Printed
SeuereSevere or cruell.
With rule
SeuereSevere or cruell.
George Downame · The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God · Open in the reader
Printed
SeuereSevere punishments to represse vncleannesse.
With rule
SeuereSevere punishments to represse vncleannesse.
George Downame · The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God · Open in the reader

Exposition of Proverbs 18-20 B12458

Printed
Verſe XXX. Doct. SeuereSevere corrections are ſometimes to be vſed as good medicines against great ſinnes.
With rule
Verſe XXX. Doct. SeuereSevere corrections are ſometimes to be vſed as good medicines against great ſinnes.
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 18-20 · Open in the reader
Printed
SeuereSevere corrections are ſometimes to be vſed, as good Doct. medicines againſt great ſinnes.
With rule
SeuereSevere corrections are ſometimes to be vſed, as good Doct. medicines againſt great ſinnes.
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 18-20 · p. 168 · Open in the reader