Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #304 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deuidedevide

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

Puritas changed it: 560 times in 238 works
Consistency: 99.1% (560 of 565)
Reach if approved: ~594 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: divide
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 565 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (560 changes in 238 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 560)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… gracious presence is euer with vs: that no sea is so broad, as to deuidedevide vs from his fauour: that wheresoeuer we feed, he is our host: wheresoeuer we …
With rule
… gracious presence is euer with vs: that no sea is so broad, as to deuidedevide vs from his fauour: that wheresoeuer we feed, he is our host: wheresoeuer we …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnto the printing) to be farre to much for one volume. I thought to deuidedevide it by equall porcions into three smal bookes, as I haue now done in …
With rule
… vnto the printing) to be farre to much for one volume. I thought to deuidedevide it by equall porcions into three smal bookes, as I haue now done in …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
This text doeth deuidedevide it ſelfe into foure principall partes, The firſte parte commendeth a Teacher vnto vs …
With rule
This text doeth deuidedevide it ſelfe into foure principall partes, The firſte parte commendeth a Teacher vnto vs …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
Printed
… conspire in counsell, and choose a murtherer rather then the Lord of life. Souldiers deuidedevide his vestures. 6. His owne seruants flie from him, Iudas betraies him, Peter denies him …
With rule
… conspire in counsell, and choose a murtherer rather then the Lord of life. Souldiers deuidedevide his vestures. 6. His owne seruants flie from him, Iudas betraies him, Peter denies him …
William Loe · Come and See the Bliss of Brightest Beauty · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
Wherfore, that it may be the better perceiued, what the matter is, we will deuidedevide it after this sorte: Fyrste, we wyl entreate as touching the crosse and affliction …
With rule
Wherfore, that it may be the better perceiued, what the matter is, we will deuidedevide it after this sorte: Fyrste, we wyl entreate as touching the crosse and affliction …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Bread of life, yet the Miniſters of Gods word are his Stewards to deuidedevide it: and though the ſame Word be the Water of Life, yet they are …
With rule
… the Bread of life, yet the Miniſters of Gods word are his Stewards to deuidedevide it: and though the ſame Word be the Water of Life, yet they are …
Thomas Newhouse · Sermon in Norwich · Open in the reader
Printed
… it not Artificiall and inartificiall, but firste and ariſing of the firſte, and after deuidedevide the latter into more artificiall, and leſſe artificiall. At which none neede greatly to …
With rule
… it not Artificiall and inartificiall, but firste and ariſing of the firſte, and after deuidedevide the latter into more artificiall, and leſſe artificiall. At which none neede greatly to …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… is in our lippes onely, The sword of the Spirit; and though it can deuidedevide the Marrow and the bones, of an awaked Conscience, alas it moues not the …
With rule
… is in our lippes onely, The sword of the Spirit; and though it can deuidedevide the Marrow and the bones, of an awaked Conscience, alas it moues not the …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Way to True Peace and Rest A17051

Printed
… be a faithtull interpreter, so he must be a skilfull applier: for he must DeuideDevide the word aright. It is not ynough that he apply, except he apply it …
With rule
… be a faithtull interpreter, so he must be a skilfull applier: for he must DeuideDevide the word aright. It is not ynough that he apply, except he apply it …
Robert Bruce · The Way to True Peace and Rest · p. 364 · Open in the reader

Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation A19563

Printed
… eate it, and sayd: This is my body: and of the wine he said: DeuideDevide it among you, drinke it, this is my bloud. No man that was there …
With rule
… eate it, and sayd: This is my body: and of the wine he said: DeuideDevide it among you, drinke it, this is my bloud. No man that was there …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before Christ deliuered the cup of wine to his disciples, he sayd vnto them: DeuideDevide this among you.
With rule
… before Christ deliuered the cup of wine to his disciples, he sayd vnto them: DeuideDevide this among you.
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 254 · Open in the reader

Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A19571

Printed
… before Christ deliuered the cuppe of wyne to his disciples, he sayd vnto them: DeuideDevide this among you.
With rule
… before Christ deliuered the cuppe of wyne to his disciples, he sayd vnto them: DeuideDevide this among you.
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader