Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #382 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

inuentinvent

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

Puritas changed it: 593 times in 296 works
Consistency: 98.1% (593 of 604)
Reach if approved: ~637 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: invent
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 606 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (593 changes in 296 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 593)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… But if a contentious person like to the Valentiniane heretikes, or such like, woulde inuentinvent monstruous names as those heretikes did, and proue by this place that there are …
With rule
… But if a contentious person like to the Valentiniane heretikes, or such like, woulde inuentinvent monstruous names as those heretikes did, and proue by this place that there are …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord. But these more incensed and insensible creatures haue no mercy; nor can they inuentinvent a cruelty, which they forbeare to execute.
With rule
… Lord. But these more incensed and insensible creatures haue no mercy; nor can they inuentinvent a cruelty, which they forbeare to execute.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… principall effect; as the ſoule is called reaſonable from the power it hath to inuentinvent, iudge and diſcourſe, not that theſe are her only faculties. In the Scriptures of …
With rule
… principall effect; as the ſoule is called reaſonable from the power it hath to inuentinvent, iudge and diſcourſe, not that theſe are her only faculties. In the Scriptures of …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his iuſtice wonderfull. His wiſedome (I ſay) for all the Art of man cannot inuentinvent ſo exquiſite a thing, cannot pen ſo faithfull a record as conſcience is. Prognoſticators …
With rule
… his iuſtice wonderfull. His wiſedome (I ſay) for all the Art of man cannot inuentinvent ſo exquiſite a thing, cannot pen ſo faithfull a record as conſcience is. Prognoſticators …
Thomas Barnes · The Court of Conscience · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
Quhilk did ydolatrye inuentinvent
With rule
Quhilk did ydolatrye inuentinvent
David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader
Printed
… tes, fyre, nor what so euer tyranny all the tyrauntes of the worlde can inuentinvent. It maketh y^e parson, whose hert it occupieth, to be so… flamed & set on …
With rule
… tes, fyre, nor what so euer tyranny all the tyrauntes of the worlde can inuentinvent. It maketh y^e parson, whose hert it occupieth, to be so… flamed & set on …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… that are vsed nowe a dayes? I thīke Satan studieth not so much to inuentinvent newe fasshyons to bryng christen men into his snare, as the Taylours nowe a …
With rule
… that are vsed nowe a dayes? I thīke Satan studieth not so much to inuentinvent newe fasshyons to bryng christen men into his snare, as the Taylours nowe a …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… your knowledge but folishnes so greate, that foly her selfe coulde not light lye inuentinvent a thyng more fond and foolyshe. But peraduenture your predictiōs, be they neuer so …
With rule
… your knowledge but folishnes so greate, that foly her selfe coulde not light lye inuentinvent a thyng more fond and foolyshe. But peraduenture your predictiōs, be they neuer so …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Trial of Private Devotions A17309

Printed
… Idolum & Simúlachrum, an Idol and Image were not all one. See Polyd. Virgil. de InuentInvent. rerum. Lib. 5. Cap. 13.
With rule
… Idolum & Simúlachrum, an Idol and Image were not all one. See Polyd. Virgil. de InuentInvent. rerum. Lib. 5. Cap. 13.
Henry Burton · A Trial of Private Devotions · Open in the reader

Petition Against the Oppressors of the Poor Commons of this Realm A19660

Printed
… paſſe and regarde thē not: be ye ſure the Lorde ſhal cōfoūd your, wiſdome. InuentInvent, Decre, Eſtabliſh and authoriſe what you cā: al ſhal come to nought. The wayes …
With rule
… paſſe and regarde thē not: be ye ſure the Lorde ſhal cōfoūd your, wiſdome. InuentInvent, Decre, Eſtabliſh and authoriſe what you cā: al ſhal come to nought. The wayes …
Robert Crowley · Petition Against the Oppressors of the Poor Commons of this Realm · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

Printed
… them make what ſtatutes they will, and as much holynes as they can deuiſe, InuentInvent as much Gods ſeruice as they can thinke, and lye that they haue receaued …
With rule
… them make what ſtatutes they will, and as much holynes as they can deuiſe, InuentInvent as much Gods ſeruice as they can thinke, and lye that they haue receaued …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 299 · Open in the reader