Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #210 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

captiuescaptives

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

Puritas changed it: 893 times in 350 works
Consistency: 100% (893 of 893)
Reach if approved: ~938 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: captives
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 893 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (893 changes in 350 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 893)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… consented to the pulling downe of the new. The king and his two felow captiuescaptives were caried hither & thither to the Princes to be gased and laughed at, by …
With rule
… consented to the pulling downe of the new. The king and his two felow captiuescaptives were caried hither & thither to the Princes to be gased and laughed at, by …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 440 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called the Law of libertie. So Christ is sent to preach libertie to the captiuescaptives.
With rule
… called the Law of libertie. So Christ is sent to preach libertie to the captiuescaptives.
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God with cruelty. Eternall captiuitie abideth for those which haue led the the saincts captiuescaptives. They which haue slaien the martyrs with the sword, shalbe killed with eternall death …
With rule
… God with cruelty. Eternall captiuitie abideth for those which haue led the the saincts captiuescaptives. They which haue slaien the martyrs with the sword, shalbe killed with eternall death …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… they be void of the power of grace to resist him, and are caried captiuescaptives by him vnto eternall damnation.
With rule
… they be void of the power of grace to resist him, and are caried captiuescaptives by him vnto eternall damnation.
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
Open] Of our ſelues and by nature we are held priſoners and captiuescaptives of Sathan, as it were vnder lock and key, till Chriſt open the dore …
With rule
Open] Of our ſelues and by nature we are held priſoners and captiuescaptives of Sathan, as it were vnder lock and key, till Chriſt open the dore …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paines you take, and time expend about him, the Preacher of deliuerance to all CaptiuesCaptives, Luke 4. 18. will one day moſt faithfully and richly reward.
With rule
… paines you take, and time expend about him, the Preacher of deliuerance to all CaptiuesCaptives, Luke 4. 18. will one day moſt faithfully and richly reward.
Henry Greenwood · The Jailors Jail · Open in the reader
Printed
… our owne countrimen. The Iewes whome they sought to destroy were their vnder-lings, captiuescaptives, and such as liued in their land but by courtesie: Those whome these Romish …
With rule
… our owne countrimen. The Iewes whome they sought to destroy were their vnder-lings, captiuescaptives, and such as liued in their land but by courtesie: Those whome these Romish …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtrumpet, bewitched Timothee: Lamia Demetrius: and other Nobles, other ſtrompets led and byledd, as captiuescaptives, at theyr wyl and becke. whicke ſlaunderous ſtayne of ſo Noble perſonages, hiſtoryes whiſt …
With rule
… ſtrumpet, bewitched Timothee: Lamia Demetrius: and other Nobles, other ſtrompets led and byledd, as captiuescaptives, at theyr wyl and becke. whicke ſlaunderous ſtayne of ſo Noble perſonages, hiſtoryes whiſt …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · 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.