Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #362 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

knauesknaves

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

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 82 works
Consistency: 91.4% (161 of 176)
Reach if approved: ~185 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: knaves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 176 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 82 works, 91.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… damnable side, your deuilish rabble, your congregation of reprobates, your Turkish doctrine. As craftie knauesknaves in a comedie, they are Apes, they are Asses, with such like, Iewel. prefat …
With rule
… damnable side, your deuilish rabble, your congregation of reprobates, your Turkish doctrine. As craftie knauesknaves in a comedie, they are Apes, they are Asses, with such like, Iewel. prefat …
Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all his dayes hath beene a boisterous reueller, the chiefe of a knot of knauesknaves.
With rule
… all his dayes hath beene a boisterous reueller, the chiefe of a knot of knauesknaves.
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1195 · Open in the reader
Printed
… visible to the mortall eye, and yet wyll they make him appere at euerye knauesknaves requeste that wyll do as other men do, I meane paye theyr ordinarye shote …
With rule
… visible to the mortall eye, and yet wyll they make him appere at euerye knauesknaves requeste that wyll do as other men do, I meane paye theyr ordinarye shote …
John Calvin · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
But soche romyshe knauesknaves
With rule
But soche romyshe knauesknaves
John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… least warmth or sparke of honesty. Whether B. Latimer cōpared the Bishops to the knauesknaves of Clubs, as the fellow interprets him, I knowe not: I am sure Parsons …
With rule
… least warmth or sparke of honesty. Whether B. Latimer cōpared the Bishops to the knauesknaves of Clubs, as the fellow interprets him, I knowe not: I am sure Parsons …
Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue y^e vſe of Princes goods, in princes Courts? Souldiours, wryters, braggers, & other gay knauesknaves. Therefore to gather riches together, is to gather together many waſters and conſumers. Why …
With rule
… haue y^e vſe of Princes goods, in princes Courts? Souldiours, wryters, braggers, & other gay knauesknaves. Therefore to gather riches together, is to gather together many waſters and conſumers. Why …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… be concredite to euery knaue: it is too precious a jewell to deliuer to knauesknaves: let them deliuer it to them that are able to teach others: let the …
With rule
… be concredite to euery knaue: it is too precious a jewell to deliuer to knauesknaves: let them deliuer it to them that are able to teach others: let the …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
… carrie many times more money then they are woorth, for their defence againſt falſe knauesknaves, to carry a Staffe in their iournies, whether it be on horſe backe or …
With rule
… carrie many times more money then they are woorth, for their defence againſt falſe knauesknaves, to carry a Staffe in their iournies, whether it be on horſe backe or …
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

Printed
… Robert Peniman, and Thomas Bishop Gent. were drawne from the Castle of Yorke to KnauesKnaves…er…, and there hanged and quartered.
With rule
… Robert Peniman, and Thomas Bishop Gent. were drawne from the Castle of Yorke to KnauesKnaves…er…, and there hanged and quartered.
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 393 · Open in the reader

The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ A11012

Printed
… not taken out of y^e barneyard of Ieſus, it is poyſon he giues you. KnauesKnaves haue deceiued y^e world long: the Pope & his ſhauelings haue propined poyſon to y^e …
With rule
… not taken out of y^e barneyard of Ieſus, it is poyſon he giues you. KnauesKnaves haue deceiued y^e world long: the Pope & his ſhauelings haue propined poyſon to y^e …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 504 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

Printed
… bawdrie, cosenage, flattery, whordome, adulterie: the Persons or agēts, whores, queanes, bawdes, scul…lions, KnauesKnaves, Curtezans, lecherous old men… amorous yong men, with such like of infinit varietie: If …
With rule
… bawdrie, cosenage, flattery, whordome, adulterie: the Persons or agēts, whores, queanes, bawdes, scul…lions, KnauesKnaves, Curtezans, lecherous old men… amorous yong men, with such like of infinit varietie: If …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

Printed
KnauesKnaves thou maist say they are and not belie them,
With rule
KnauesKnaves thou maist say they are and not belie them,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Baseness A19444

Printed
tell them they 're KnauesKnaves theyle ſmile and ſay ſo too;
With rule
tell them they 're KnauesKnaves theyle ſmile and ſay ſo too;
John Andrewes · The Anatomy of Baseness · Open in the reader

Collection of Poems A68914

Printed
What make KnauesKnaves and Fooles of them.
With rule
What make KnauesKnaves and Fooles of them.
George Wither · Collection of Poems · Open in the reader