Rules
All candidates
Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #312 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shauenshaven

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

Puritas changed it
319 times in 121 works
Consistency
98.1% (319 of 325)
Reach if approved
~341 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: shaven
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
325 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (319 changes in 121 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 319)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … raged also youre ranke rable of Romishe ruffelers in theyr syde swepynge gownes / theyr shauenshaven crownes / cappes / and typpettes / lyke the charminge channters of Bell. Speciallye wode Vvynchestre / lewde …
    With rule
    … raged also youre ranke rable of Romishe ruffelers in theyr syde swepynge gownes / theyr shauenshaven crownes / cappes / and typpettes / lyke the charminge channters of Bell. Speciallye wode Vvynchestre / lewde …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to stand like slaues with capp in hand till the seruantes of Satan the shauenshaven sort call them to counsil. This frute do they reape ād gather of their …
    With rule
    … to stand like slaues with capp in hand till the seruantes of Satan the shauenshaven sort call them to counsil. This frute do they reape ād gather of their …

    John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thinking that it is an vnworthie thinge that they ſhould labour, for they are ſhauenshaven, weare long gownes, and crie out in temples &c. Howbeit theſe ſhall not be …
    With rule
    … thinking that it is an vnworthie thinge that they ſhould labour, for they are ſhauenshaven, weare long gownes, and crie out in temples &c. Howbeit theſe ſhall not be …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 330 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … hand, being taken vpon susp…tion, his Kercheefe plucked off, his Balaams marke or shauenshaven Crowne appeared: the people wondred, rai…ed and spit on him, and drew him …
    With rule
    … hand, being taken vpon susp…tion, his Kercheefe plucked off, his Balaams marke or shauenshaven Crowne appeared: the people wondred, rai…ed and spit on him, and drew him …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ng, washing of hands: at Easter, confessiō ▪ … …irge, satisfaction, and in receauing with … …ew shauenshaven, to imagine a bodie where they … …nd though he were there present to bee …
    With rule
    … ng, washing of hands: at Easter, confessiō ▪ … …irge, satisfaction, and in receauing with … …ew shauenshaven, to imagine a bodie where they … …nd though he were there present to bee …

    William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 313 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſleepe vpon her knees, and cauſed the ſeuen locks of his head to be ſhauenshaven off, and that ſhee began to vex him by calling the Philiſtims when that …
    With rule
    … ſleepe vpon her knees, and cauſed the ſeuen locks of his head to be ſhauenshaven off, and that ſhee began to vex him by calling the Philiſtims when that …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 756 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … shorne on his poll with a number of crownes, that vnderstandeth this of a shauenshaven crowne. And I aske if there be any blocke so senselesse, to thinke that …
    With rule
    … shorne on his poll with a number of crownes, that vnderstandeth this of a shauenshaven crowne. And I aske if there be any blocke so senselesse, to thinke that …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to the Maſſe, your prayſing of the Pope, your flattring of your Quene, and ſhauenshaven Prieſts of Baal, that can defende you in that day: nether yet your licences …
    With rule
    … to the Maſſe, your prayſing of the Pope, your flattring of your Quene, and ſhauenshaven Prieſts of Baal, that can defende you in that day: nether yet your licences …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 101 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

  • Printed
    ShauenShaven crownes eadem
    With rule
    ShauenShaven crownes eadem

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith A06491

  • Printed
    … onely, muſt be taken & beleued by the Baptiſme, Sacramente, and worde, Mans doctrine, Ceremonies, ShauenShaven Crounes, longe gounes Byſſhops battes, & the hole popyſhe rablement doth leade farre wyde from …
    With rule
    … onely, muſt be taken & beleued by the Baptiſme, Sacramente, and worde, Mans doctrine, Ceremonies, ShauenShaven Crounes, longe gounes Byſſhops battes, & the hole popyſhe rablement doth leade farre wyde from …

    Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … these Morrice-daunces, Bonefires, Newyeeres-gifts, Newyeeres-dayes, Diuinations, Lotteries, Mummings, Dancings, Healthes, Tapers, ShauenShaven-crownd, and bare-chind Priests, together with all the other fore-recited Ceremonies, Customes …
    With rule
    … these Morrice-daunces, Bonefires, Newyeeres-gifts, Newyeeres-dayes, Diuinations, Lotteries, Mummings, Dancings, Healthes, Tapers, ShauenShaven-crownd, and bare-chind Priests, together with all the other fore-recited Ceremonies, Customes …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … gentlemen whom their Parents (hauing many children) for want of maintenance thrust into Cloisters; ShauenShaven (as you haue heard) and Shauers couetously pilling and polling the people of their …
    With rule
    … gentlemen whom their Parents (hauing many children) for want of maintenance thrust into Cloisters; ShauenShaven (as you haue heard) and Shauers couetously pilling and polling the people of their …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 442 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ShauenShaven Shauers. 443.444
    With rule
    ShauenShaven Shauers. 443.444

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    ShauenShaven crownes of Priestes vsed. 126.364
    With rule
    ShauenShaven crownes of Priestes vsed. 126.364

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader