Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #250 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

staruestarve

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

Puritas changed it: 363 times in 196 works
Consistency: 99.4% (363 of 365)
Reach if approved: ~384 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: starve
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 365 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (363 changes in 196 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 363)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were better to releeue them in their wandring course, then to suffer them to staruestarve: for so dealt Christ & his disciples with the poore, when good order failed among …
With rule
… were better to releeue them in their wandring course, then to suffer them to staruestarve: for so dealt Christ & his disciples with the poore, when good order failed among …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… because they speake against Pluralities, Nonresidents, and lazie, or good-fellow Pastors, who either staruestarve and quite neglect, or else mislead their flockes. If all men would be prophane …
With rule
… because they speake against Pluralities, Nonresidents, and lazie, or good-fellow Pastors, who either staruestarve and quite neglect, or else mislead their flockes. If all men would be prophane …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… but that for loue of a peeuish humour we should neglect it? Shall we staruestarve our consciences, to feed our misbegotten passions? What is then to be done in …
With rule
… but that for loue of a peeuish humour we should neglect it? Shall we staruestarve our consciences, to feed our misbegotten passions? What is then to be done in …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſea and by land, winter and ſommer, wearing out their bodies, almoſt pine and ſtaruestarve themſelues with hunger and beating their braines with as great diligence as can be …
With rule
… ſea and by land, winter and ſommer, wearing out their bodies, almoſt pine and ſtaruestarve themſelues with hunger and beating their braines with as great diligence as can be …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kindred, is worſe than an Infidell. What cares the rich if his poore kinſman ſtaruestarve? We haue a precept, Husbands loue your wiues: What conſcience is made of this …
With rule
… kindred, is worſe than an Infidell. What cares the rich if his poore kinſman ſtaruestarve? We haue a precept, Husbands loue your wiues: What conſcience is made of this …
Robert Harris · Pauls Confidence · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maintenance of his enimies; as they who feede the bellies of the wicked, and ſtaruestarve his poore. Sixthly, that we plucke not vp his quicheſets, and ioine land to …
With rule
… maintenance of his enimies; as they who feede the bellies of the wicked, and ſtaruestarve his poore. Sixthly, that we plucke not vp his quicheſets, and ioine land to …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… father: yea, with such horrible and vnnaturall malice, that he let him (most pitifullie) staruestarve in the prison at Luek: which happened in the yeere of our Lorde 1108. Neither …
With rule
… father: yea, with such horrible and vnnaturall malice, that he let him (most pitifullie) staruestarve in the prison at Luek: which happened in the yeere of our Lorde 1108. Neither …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… declare the wonders, that he hath done, & doth for vs. Rather then Eliah ſhall ſtaruestarve, the ravens ſhall feed him, 1. King. 17.6. Rather then Ionah ſhall be drowned, the fiſh …
With rule
… declare the wonders, that he hath done, & doth for vs. Rather then Eliah ſhall ſtaruestarve, the ravens ſhall feed him, 1. King. 17.6. Rather then Ionah ſhall be drowned, the fiſh …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.