Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2267 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

usurpeusurp

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 525 times in 268 works
Consistency: 99.6% (525 of 527)
Reach if approved: ~554 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usurp
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 527 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (525 changes in 268 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 525)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be subject to the Pope is of necessitie to salvation: nay doth he not usurpeusurp, and with all tyrannie maintaine a Monarchicall Omnipotencie? Surely that judgment mentioned by Tertullian …
With rule
… be subject to the Pope is of necessitie to salvation: nay doth he not usurpeusurp, and with all tyrannie maintaine a Monarchicall Omnipotencie? Surely that judgment mentioned by Tertullian …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… about religion: to as alvvaies it be provided, that they doe not challenge or uſurpeusurp any unlavvfull juriſdiction or power over the particular churches, or their paſtours and governours …
With rule
… about religion: to as alvvaies it be provided, that they doe not challenge or uſurpeusurp any unlavvfull juriſdiction or power over the particular churches, or their paſtours and governours …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christ unto the office of Priesthood, as before of King. verse 1. He did not usurpeusurp this honour to himselfe as Nadab and Abihu did, when of their owne heads …
With rule
… Christ unto the office of Priesthood, as before of King. verse 1. He did not usurpeusurp this honour to himselfe as Nadab and Abihu did, when of their owne heads …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they would come, for so wee give certaine strength to an uncertaine crosse, and usurpeusurp upon God, by anticipating th… which may never come to passe. It was rashnesse …
With rule
… they would come, for so wee give certaine strength to an uncertaine crosse, and usurpeusurp upon God, by anticipating th… which may never come to passe. It was rashnesse …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to bee? and may not I by the same liberty of argumentation, which you usurpeusurp unto your selfe, conclude, therefore God most certainely knowes that it shall not bee …
With rule
… to bee? and may not I by the same liberty of argumentation, which you usurpeusurp unto your selfe, conclude, therefore God most certainely knowes that it shall not bee …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 319 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that power by divine right as they pretend, the other may in no case usurpeusurp it. Further, seeing nature giveth not faculties in vaine, wee must not thinke that …
With rule
… that power by divine right as they pretend, the other may in no case usurpeusurp it. Further, seeing nature giveth not faculties in vaine, wee must not thinke that …
David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brought me to this, that laying aſide the reſpect of mine Oath, I ſhould uſurpeusurp an honour not due to me. But what is now come of it? In …
With rule
… brought me to this, that laying aſide the reſpect of mine Oath, I ſhould uſurpeusurp an honour not due to me. But what is now come of it? In …
Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or till Rome was advanced to the dignity and titles which it doth now uſurpeusurp. I deſire no better iſſue then this of our difference: Let any Papiſts living …
With rule
… or till Rome was advanced to the dignity and titles which it doth now uſurpeusurp. I deſire no better iſſue then this of our difference: Let any Papiſts living …
Richard Baxter · The Safe Religion · p. 118 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

Printed
… life, as it becometh the true servant and the Ambassadour of the Lord Jesus. UsurpeUsurp not dominion nor tyrannicall authority over thy brethren, be not discouraged in adversity, but …
With rule
… life, as it becometh the true servant and the Ambassadour of the Lord Jesus. UsurpeUsurp not dominion nor tyrannicall authority over thy brethren, be not discouraged in adversity, but …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 288 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

Printed
UſurpeUsurp the body, 'our ſoule, which ſubject is
With rule
UſurpeUsurp the body, 'our ſoule, which ſubject is
John Donne · Poems · p. 67 · Open in the reader