Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #308 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ourseluesourselves

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

Puritas changed it: 1,670 times in 291 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,670 of 1,672)
Reach if approved: ~1,757 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ourselves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,672 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,670 changes in 291 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,670)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… make of the knowledge of ourſeluesourselves, and of our owne duties. And firſt touching ourſeluesourselves: what may this ſerue vs inſtead to know, that we were once made ſo …
With rule
… make of the knowledge of ourſeluesourselves, and of our owne duties. And firſt touching ourſeluesourselves: what may this ſerue vs inſtead to know, that we were once made ſo …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · Open in the reader
Printed
… base, and despicable condition, and are there any meanes offered to rise, and prefer ourseluesourselves? who doth not instantly apprehend and pursue them, be they difficult, be they dangerous …
With rule
… base, and despicable condition, and are there any meanes offered to rise, and prefer ourseluesourselves? who doth not instantly apprehend and pursue them, be they difficult, be they dangerous …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or else he holds vs to serue our selues, not him. Shall we make ourseluesourselves wiser then our Maker, as if he did not best know what would best …
With rule
… or else he holds vs to serue our selues, not him. Shall we make ourseluesourselves wiser then our Maker, as if he did not best know what would best …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
We must then prepare ourseluesourselves for euill words, not only of the cōmon sort, but also of the chiefest …
With rule
We must then prepare ourseluesourselves for euill words, not only of the cōmon sort, but also of the chiefest …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 407 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. That by all good meanes wee further the outward eſtate of ourſeluesourselves, and of our neighbours.
With rule
A. That by all good meanes wee further the outward eſtate of ourſeluesourselves, and of our neighbours.
John Ball · A Short Catechism · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cast downe, as were the Publicans, Luk. 18.13. or if we thinke other… better then ourseluesourselves (and it is our dutie to be so minded, Rom. 12.10.) wee will striue to …
With rule
… cast downe, as were the Publicans, Luk. 18.13. or if we thinke other… better then ourseluesourselves (and it is our dutie to be so minded, Rom. 12.10.) wee will striue to …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… a new profeſſiō. For he gaue him ſelfe for vs, that we might giue ourſeluesourselves vnto him, a peculiar people zelous of good works. Let vs marke it then …
With rule
… a new profeſſiō. For he gaue him ſelfe for vs, that we might giue ourſeluesourselves vnto him, a peculiar people zelous of good works. Let vs marke it then …
John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we giue all vnto God, rather then if we commit our ſelues partly to ourſeluesourselves, and partly vnto God: we will but it is God that worketh in vs …
With rule
… we giue all vnto God, rather then if we commit our ſelues partly to ourſeluesourselves, and partly vnto God: we will but it is God that worketh in vs …
Humphrey Lynde · The Safe Way Leading All Christians · p. 249 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

Printed
2. OurſeluesOurselves.
With rule
2. OurſeluesOurselves.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 181 · Open in the reader