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vsuryusury

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

Puritas changed it
1,366 times in 286 works
Consistency
99.7% (1,366 of 1,369)
Reach if approved
~1,438 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: usury
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,369 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,366 changes in 286 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,366)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … with the Zidonian Merchants, by fraud or deceit, by oppreſſion and extortion, by biting vſuryusury, the Deuils brokery, or by any other vnlawfull and indirect courſe; that the Deuill …
    With rule
    … with the Zidonian Merchants, by fraud or deceit, by oppreſſion and extortion, by biting vſuryusury, the Deuils brokery, or by any other vnlawfull and indirect courſe; that the Deuill …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    XXII. To borrow on vſuryusury to conceale our wealth, and that others may not borrow of vs.
    With rule
    XXII. To borrow on vſuryusury to conceale our wealth, and that others may not borrow of vs.

    Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Divines ſett downe. For it is enough to them, that ſome godly Divines affirme VſuryUsury to be lawfull. O that Mr. Gataker had conſidered what he writeth, pag. 107. before …
    With rule
    … Divines ſett downe. For it is enough to them, that ſome godly Divines affirme VſuryUsury to be lawfull. O that Mr. Gataker had conſidered what he writeth, pag. 107. before …

    James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not haue reſpect to the recompence of reward? Hebr. 11.26. To lend vnto men vpon vſuryusury is forbidden, Pſal. 15.5. but to lend ſo to God, by giuing to his poore …
    With rule
    … not haue reſpect to the recompence of reward? Hebr. 11.26. To lend vnto men vpon vſuryusury is forbidden, Pſal. 15.5. but to lend ſo to God, by giuing to his poore …

    Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … uſed (as much as may be) for the mutuall good of both: and therefore VſuryUsury, wherein the common benefit of both is not regarded, is altogether unlawfull.
    With rule
    … uſed (as much as may be) for the mutuall good of both: and therefore VſuryUsury, wherein the common benefit of both is not regarded, is altogether unlawfull.

    Paul Baynes · Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … olotry, fayned holynes colored chastitye, that is to say, fylthy whoredom, stinking fornication, dyssoluteliuing, vsuryusury, & such lyke abhom…nable vyces causes hereof? God hold his holye hād ouer vs …
    With rule
    … olotry, fayned holynes colored chastitye, that is to say, fylthy whoredom, stinking fornication, dyssoluteliuing, vsuryusury, & such lyke abhom…nable vyces causes hereof? God hold his holye hād ouer vs …

    Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … them. For if not ſo; could deceit, could bribery, could oppreſſion, could rapine, could vſuryusury, could many more ſuch adverſaries of true loue bee ſo common among vs, as …
    With rule
    … them. For if not ſo; could deceit, could bribery, could oppreſſion, could rapine, could vſuryusury, could many more ſuch adverſaries of true loue bee ſo common among vs, as …

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hold plentie, wee with-hold not gluttony. Pride leaues off none of her vanities. VsuryUsury bates not a crosse of his Interest. The …ioter is still as drunken with …
    With rule
    … hold plentie, wee with-hold not gluttony. Pride leaues off none of her vanities. VsuryUsury bates not a crosse of his Interest. The …ioter is still as drunken with …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 246 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Exposition of the Moral Law A14909

  • Printed
    VSuryUsury is a coloured ſort of theft, and it is expreſſed by diverſe names in …
    With rule
    VSuryUsury is a coloured ſort of theft, and it is expreſſed by diverſe names in …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 204 · Open in the reader

Temptations A17936

  • Printed
    OF VSURYUSURY.
    With rule
    OF VSURYUSURY.

    Richard Capel · Temptations · p. 433 · Open in the reader

Usury Stated Overthrown A46740

  • Printed
    … King, in whoſe time, by an Act of Parliament, were condemned all kinds of VSURYUSURY, and meaſures of VſuryUsury, and it was confirmed, that VſuryUsury is BY THE WORD …
    With rule
    … King, in whoſe time, by an Act of Parliament, were condemned all kinds of VSURYUSURY, and meaſures of VſuryUsury, and it was confirmed, that VſuryUsury is BY THE WORD …

    Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 213 · Open in the reader