Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #318 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deuourdevour

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

Puritas changed it: 497 times in 220 works
Consistency: 99.6% (497 of 499)
Reach if approved: ~524 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devour
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 499 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (497 changes in 220 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 497)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and the hiest seates in the Sinagoges, and the chiefe roumes at feastes, and deuourdevour widdowes houses vnder the pretence of long praier, &c: yet see, that ye neither …
With rule
… and the hiest seates in the Sinagoges, and the chiefe roumes at feastes, and deuourdevour widdowes houses vnder the pretence of long praier, &c: yet see, that ye neither …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… and compassion towarde the poore people, as they be at thys presente tyme, they deuourdevour the people as it were a morcell of breade.
With rule
… and compassion towarde the poore people, as they be at thys presente tyme, they deuourdevour the people as it were a morcell of breade.
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… as beares, or liōs, or wolues, & ſuch beaſts, who hauing ſharpe and ſtrong teeth, deuourdevour the ſilly ſheepe and lambes. By theſe compariſons the cutthroate dealing of the wicked …
With rule
… as beares, or liōs, or wolues, & ſuch beaſts, who hauing ſharpe and ſtrong teeth, deuourdevour the ſilly ſheepe and lambes. By theſe compariſons the cutthroate dealing of the wicked …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… first entrance, but dwell among them, lest wild beasts did grow vp which would deuourdevour them: & so the wicked must dwell among the godly to exercise Gods graces in …
With rule
… first entrance, but dwell among them, lest wild beasts did grow vp which would deuourdevour them: & so the wicked must dwell among the godly to exercise Gods graces in …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelues, hee will find a thouſand meanes vtterly to ſpoyle vs: hee wil euen deuourdevour vs as his praie, and wee ſhall not perceiue it, for there in lieth …
With rule
… ſelues, hee will find a thouſand meanes vtterly to ſpoyle vs: hee wil euen deuourdevour vs as his praie, and wee ſhall not perceiue it, for there in lieth …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rauine. But I will bee against thee, sayth the Lord: and the sword shall deuourdevour thy young Lyons. The father playes the Lyon for his whelps, oppresseth and consumeth …
With rule
… rauine. But I will bee against thee, sayth the Lord: and the sword shall deuourdevour thy young Lyons. The father playes the Lyon for his whelps, oppresseth and consumeth …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and by all his artes ſeeketh to circumuent vs, to vnderprie vs, 2. Cor. 2.10.11. & to deuourdevour vs (as here we ſee) by all the meanes he can, 1. Peter 5.8. Therefore let …
With rule
… and by all his artes ſeeketh to circumuent vs, to vnderprie vs, 2. Cor. 2.10.11. & to deuourdevour vs (as here we ſee) by all the meanes he can, 1. Peter 5.8. Therefore let …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they go away them selues. Out vpon …. The Woulfe commeth vpon thy flocke to deuourdevour …, and when they haue most nede of thee, thou run nest away from them …
With rule
… they go away them selues. Out vpon …. The Woulfe commeth vpon thy flocke to deuourdevour …, and when they haue most nede of thee, thou run nest away from them …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
to DeuourDevour. sig: pro
With rule
to DeuourDevour. sig: pro
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the first age of the Church. Reuel. 12, 4. The Dragon stood before the Woman to DeuourDevour the Child.
With rule
… the first age of the Church. Reuel. 12, 4. The Dragon stood before the Woman to DeuourDevour the Child.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 36 · Open in the reader