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peruerseperverse

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

Puritas changed it
1,264 times in 441 works
Consistency
99.0% (1,264 of 1,276)
Reach if approved
~1,342 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: perverse
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,277 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,264 changes in 441 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,264)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … which were contradictorie. Againe, many things are feigned, euen in the Catholike Church by peruerseperverse zeale, to confirme truth, as ye historie of Paule and Tecla, confessed by a …
    With rule
    … which were contradictorie. Againe, many things are feigned, euen in the Catholike Church by peruerseperverse zeale, to confirme truth, as ye historie of Paule and Tecla, confessed by a …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 279 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … crookedneſſe as is vnſpeakeable. There is nothing ſtraight in him, all goeth crooked and peruerſeperverse, hée worketh vpon himſelfe, and can make no part ſtraight. For all the humane …
    With rule
    … crookedneſſe as is vnſpeakeable. There is nothing ſtraight in him, all goeth crooked and peruerſeperverse, hée worketh vpon himſelfe, and can make no part ſtraight. For all the humane …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    A people peruerſeperverse, repleate with diſdayne,
    With rule
    A people peruerſeperverse, repleate with diſdayne,

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … what is order? that the worst be subiect to the better. Then those are peruerseperverse, which place the worst aboue the best, which place them in great callings, which …
    With rule
    … what is order? that the worst be subiect to the better. Then those are peruerseperverse, which place the worst aboue the best, which place them in great callings, which …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 730 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … brethren the Tacianes, Eustachyanes, and Marcionistes, which vtterly detested marryage. I counte ye more peruerseperverse in opinion, than your great Doctour Iulyane. For he sayth, cha. viii. De bono …
    With rule
    … brethren the Tacianes, Eustachyanes, and Marcionistes, which vtterly detested marryage. I counte ye more peruerseperverse in opinion, than your great Doctour Iulyane. For he sayth, cha. viii. De bono …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … prayer, but yt his wyll be fulfilled, and that his predifined intentes againste the peruerseperverse multitude be finished at theyr conuenient times. None other is it to put into …
    With rule
    … prayer, but yt his wyll be fulfilled, and that his predifined intentes againste the peruerseperverse multitude be finished at theyr conuenient times. None other is it to put into …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that wee ascribe nothing vnto mans nature, but onely that which is euill and peruerseperverse.
    With rule
    … that wee ascribe nothing vnto mans nature, but onely that which is euill and peruerseperverse.

    Daniel Featley · A Parallel of New-Old Pelgiarminian Error · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … he would make no ſubmiſſion to the king. And in the ende being found peruerſeperverse and ſtubborne, and not able to iuſtifie himſelfe or his doings: after he had …
    With rule
    … he would make no ſubmiſſion to the king. And in the ende being found peruerſeperverse and ſtubborne, and not able to iuſtifie himſelfe or his doings: after he had …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 91 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

7 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.

Healths Sickness A10184

  • Printed
    … Resplendent lights, and Lampes of Holinesse in the midest of this our Riotous, Deboist, PeruersePerverse, and Crooked generation: not any wayes conforming, nor fashioning themselues vnto the Lusts, the …
    With rule
    … Resplendent lights, and Lampes of Holinesse in the midest of this our Riotous, Deboist, PeruersePerverse, and Crooked generation: not any wayes conforming, nor fashioning themselues vnto the Lusts, the …

    William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 66 · Open in the reader

Englands Hallelujah A14379

  • Printed
    But, Hee, the Paths of PeruersePerverse-Men reiecteth:
    With rule
    But, Hee, the Paths of PeruersePerverse-Men reiecteth:

    John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    PeruersePerverse. sig:
    With rule
    PeruersePerverse. sig:

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 358 · Open in the reader

The Marrow of the Oracles of God A17397

  • Printed
    … called in Scripture, The waies of the wicked; The waies of their owne hearts; PeruersePerverse waies; Darke and slipperie wayes; The way of iniquity. All meeting in that broad …
    With rule
    … called in Scripture, The waies of the wicked; The waies of their owne hearts; PeruersePerverse waies; Darke and slipperie wayes; The way of iniquity. All meeting in that broad …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Marrow of the Oracles of God · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

  • Printed
    PeruerſePerverse maners, a cauſe of good lawes.
    With rule
    PeruerſePerverse maners, a cauſe of good lawes.

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 538 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … doo cauſe the moſt effectuall medicines to bee made: So through the occaſion of PeruerſePerverse manners, good and lawdable lawes bee ordained.
    With rule
    … doo cauſe the moſt effectuall medicines to bee made: So through the occaſion of PeruerſePerverse manners, good and lawdable lawes bee ordained.

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 538 · Open in the reader

Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins A20760

  • Printed
    … libido, & dum ſeruitur libidini facta eſt conſuetudo, & dum conſuetudini non reſiſtitur facta eſt neceſſitas: PeruerſePerverse will turneth vnto vnbridled luſt, and while luſt is obeyed there groweth cuſtome, and …
    With rule
    … libido, & dum ſeruitur libidini facta eſt conſuetudo, & dum conſuetudini non reſiſtitur facta eſt neceſſitas: PeruerſePerverse will turneth vnto vnbridled luſt, and while luſt is obeyed there groweth cuſtome, and …

    John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · p. 164 · Open in the reader