Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #254 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

conuinceconvince

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

Puritas changed it: 1,226 times in 430 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,226 of 1,230)
Reach if approved: ~1,292 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: convince
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,230 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,226 changes in 430 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,226)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is set downe, is so far from being a demonstration (whose propertie is, To conuinceconvince the vnderstanding) as it is not a probable or morall perswasion: for, I am …
With rule
… is set downe, is so far from being a demonstration (whose propertie is, To conuinceconvince the vnderstanding) as it is not a probable or morall perswasion: for, I am …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prophesie: to wit, that no one sentence throughout the whole Scriptures, doeth more manifestly conuinceconvince your errour touching your Messhias, and more substauncially establish our fayth, then this one …
With rule
… prophesie: to wit, that no one sentence throughout the whole Scriptures, doeth more manifestly conuinceconvince your errour touching your Messhias, and more substauncially establish our fayth, then this one …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… nor Epiphanius that count it for an errour, can by the word of God conuinceconvince to be so. The fourth is Iouiniaans opinion▪ making marriage equall with virginitie, which …
With rule
… nor Epiphanius that count it for an errour, can by the word of God conuinceconvince to be so. The fourth is Iouiniaans opinion▪ making marriage equall with virginitie, which …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… firſt of theſe, both the example of Abraham, and alſo of Rahab, doe manifeſtly conuinceconvince them, becauſe the fruites of their faith or the workes whereby they were iuſtified …
With rule
… firſt of theſe, both the example of Abraham, and alſo of Rahab, doe manifeſtly conuinceconvince them, becauſe the fruites of their faith or the workes whereby they were iuſtified …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moue you to accord vnto the trueth; though by manifeſt teſtimonie of Scripture they conuinceconvince your hereſie: and moſt of all, that God hath left you to beleeue that …
With rule
… moue you to accord vnto the trueth; though by manifeſt teſtimonie of Scripture they conuinceconvince your hereſie: and moſt of all, that God hath left you to beleeue that …
Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is like you knowe, to be some reason of waight, that should so apparantly conuinceconvince a man of so grosse an error: My reason is (saith he) that the …
With rule
… is like you knowe, to be some reason of waight, that should so apparantly conuinceconvince a man of so grosse an error: My reason is (saith he) that the …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of them, and the iudgement he receiued; in all which if you can either conuinceconvince me of vntruth, or iustlie condemn me for vncharitably censuring the speech, and his …
With rule
… of them, and the iudgement he receiued; in all which if you can either conuinceconvince me of vntruth, or iustlie condemn me for vncharitably censuring the speech, and his …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For this is a speciall gift required of the Minister to be able to conuinceconvince the Aduersary, Tit. 1. 9. And to stop his mouth, verse 11. Yea it may doe hurt …
With rule
… For this is a speciall gift required of the Minister to be able to conuinceconvince the Aduersary, Tit. 1. 9. And to stop his mouth, verse 11. Yea it may doe hurt …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 136 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

Works A02178

Printed
… that could not consider of this? where was my wit? how was I besotted? ConuinceConvince a naturall man of his reason, and he wil be ashamed of his purpose …
With rule
… that could not consider of this? where was my wit? how was I besotted? ConuinceConvince a naturall man of his reason, and he wil be ashamed of his purpose …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 467 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

Printed
… I vvil pardon thee. And the ſame counſaile hee giueth to his friend Lucilius: ConuinceConvince thy ſelfe (ſaith hee) as much as thou canſt, ſearch into thy ſelfe. Firſt …
With rule
… I vvil pardon thee. And the ſame counſaile hee giueth to his friend Lucilius: ConuinceConvince thy ſelfe (ſaith hee) as much as thou canſt, ſearch into thy ſelfe. Firſt …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 366 · Open in the reader