Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #450 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

auariceavarice

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

Puritas changed it: 406 times in 159 works
Consistency: 100% (406 of 406)
Reach if approved: ~427 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: avarice
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 406 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (406 changes in 159 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 406)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… which thy heauenly father hath not planted, be rooted owt at once, let not auariceavarice blind the, neither yet wordlie wisdome discourage thy hearte, let none beare the name …
With rule
… which thy heauenly father hath not planted, be rooted owt at once, let not auariceavarice blind the, neither yet wordlie wisdome discourage thy hearte, let none beare the name …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thy pryde, auariceavarice, and immundicite.
With rule
Thy pryde, auariceavarice, and immundicite.
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader
Printed
… pull them out of their clawes, for the Canons do ſerue to their inſatiable auariceavarice. This deadly Harpy hath deuoured all the world: ſhe hath taken away all the …
With rule
… pull them out of their clawes, for the Canons do ſerue to their inſatiable auariceavarice. This deadly Harpy hath deuoured all the world: ſhe hath taken away all the …
Philipp Melanchthon · Of Two Popish Monsters – A Popish Ass and a Monkish Calf · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… behauiour, when they are reprooued for their sinnes: Tell the couetous man of his auariceavarice, the swearer of his blasphemy, & the drūkard of his drunkennes, &c. will he humble …
With rule
… behauiour, when they are reprooued for their sinnes: Tell the couetous man of his auariceavarice, the swearer of his blasphemy, & the drūkard of his drunkennes, &c. will he humble …
William Perkins · Mans Imaginations · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as we finde after mentioned in this Chapter by the Prophet; Iniustice, Oppreſſion, Couetouſneſſe, AuariceAvarice, and the like; which fruit was loathſome and vnſauoury to Gods ſmell and taſte …
With rule
… as we finde after mentioned in this Chapter by the Prophet; Iniustice, Oppreſſion, Couetouſneſſe, AuariceAvarice, and the like; which fruit was loathſome and vnſauoury to Gods ſmell and taſte …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Horse leech, sucking the blood of the Church, to feede her owne sacrilegious auariceavarice; you will say her Cup is too full. When wee thinke of her prosperitie …
With rule
… a Horse leech, sucking the blood of the Church, to feede her owne sacrilegious auariceavarice; you will say her Cup is too full. When wee thinke of her prosperitie …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… full, and perfect satisfaction of Christs, with humane satisfactions in an imaginary fire, which AuariceAvarice hath hatched, Ignorance fosters, and Crueltie with fire and faggot maintaines: Loe here, Courteous …
With rule
… full, and perfect satisfaction of Christs, with humane satisfactions in an imaginary fire, which AuariceAvarice hath hatched, Ignorance fosters, and Crueltie with fire and faggot maintaines: Loe here, Courteous …
William Guild · The Elf-Fire of Purgatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… his bretherne in the captiuite of Babylon. Or els frō Anticrist to auariceavarice frō auariceavarice to symonye / & frō symonye to heresye in that veyne. And in so doynge / he …
With rule
… his bretherne in the captiuite of Babylon. Or els frō Anticrist to auariceavarice frō auariceavarice to symonye / & frō symonye to heresye in that veyne. And in so doynge / he …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.