Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #284 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

auoidedavoided

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

Puritas changed it: 891 times in 295 works
Consistency: 100% (891 of 891)
Reach if approved: ~936 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: avoided
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 891 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (891 changes in 295 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 891)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… A fact that lookes at the first blush horrid and intollerable, is presently either auoidedavoided, or within some modest limits restrained: but another Dum paruum creditur, securius in vsu …
With rule
… A fact that lookes at the first blush horrid and intollerable, is presently either auoidedavoided, or within some modest limits restrained: but another Dum paruum creditur, securius in vsu …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
… grow worſe and worſe, deceiuing, and being deceiued. Now as theſe euils muſt be auoidedavoided, ſo (if you would grow in grace) good things muſt be practiſed; as the …
With rule
… grow worſe and worſe, deceiuing, and being deceiued. Now as theſe euils muſt be auoidedavoided, ſo (if you would grow in grace) good things muſt be practiſed; as the …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be happy, and ſafe in dangers: and that other folly and madnes would be auoidedavoided in out race of religion, as the apparent loſſe of our crowne of glory …
With rule
… be happy, and ſafe in dangers: and that other folly and madnes would be auoidedavoided in out race of religion, as the apparent loſſe of our crowne of glory …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neuer bene tempted to denie Christe? Yes I am sure as well as Dauid auoidedavoided Keyla.
With rule
… neuer bene tempted to denie Christe? Yes I am sure as well as Dauid auoidedavoided Keyla.
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and nice ſorte then is conuenient: that all ſuperfinitie of Apparaile and brauerie be auoidedavoided: and that no man goe more pompouſlie and gorgeouſlie then is meete, or ſtandeth …
With rule
… and nice ſorte then is conuenient: that all ſuperfinitie of Apparaile and brauerie be auoidedavoided: and that no man goe more pompouſlie and gorgeouſlie then is meete, or ſtandeth …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of ſinne, who is the diuell, whoſe ſocietie is by all meanes to bee auoidedavoided, verſ. 8. Fifthly, from the efficient cauſe of holineſſe, that is, regeneration, verſ. 9. wherein are …
With rule
… of ſinne, who is the diuell, whoſe ſocietie is by all meanes to bee auoidedavoided, verſ. 8. Fifthly, from the efficient cauſe of holineſſe, that is, regeneration, verſ. 9. wherein are …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respects: and when M. Sweet propounded that condition, that all bitter speeches should be auoidedavoided, D. Featly with the rest, most willingly accepted of it, and commended M. Sweet …
With rule
… respects: and when M. Sweet propounded that condition, that all bitter speeches should be auoidedavoided, D. Featly with the rest, most willingly accepted of it, and commended M. Sweet …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… reuerence before sacred images (which you call worshipping of images) are more to be auoidedavoided than the Pagan idolaters. Whereas the Apostle speaking of Pagans and Christians that committed …
With rule
… reuerence before sacred images (which you call worshipping of images) are more to be auoidedavoided than the Pagan idolaters. Whereas the Apostle speaking of Pagans and Christians that committed …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 98 · 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.