Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #460 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diuinesdivines

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

Puritas changed it: 2,033 times in 462 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,033 of 2,034)
Reach if approved: ~2,137 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: divines
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,034 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,033 changes in 462 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,033)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… table, should guild ouer the monstrous breaches of the first. Yet I haue heard DiuinesDivines (reasoning this point) attribute this priuiledge to the first Table aboue the second; that …
With rule
… table, should guild ouer the monstrous breaches of the first. Yet I haue heard DiuinesDivines (reasoning this point) attribute this priuiledge to the first Table aboue the second; that …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proſpered, and why it did not ſooner wee may well gueſſe. For (ſay our DiuinesDivines) it is probable, that they had not throughly denied themſelues, but ſomething was defectiue …
With rule
… proſpered, and why it did not ſooner wee may well gueſſe. For (ſay our DiuinesDivines) it is probable, that they had not throughly denied themſelues, but ſomething was defectiue …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to bee true which I haue read, viz. that A Decree was made by DiuinesDivines in Geneua, defining it lawfull to lie for the honour or credit of the …
With rule
… to bee true which I haue read, viz. that A Decree was made by DiuinesDivines in Geneua, defining it lawfull to lie for the honour or credit of the …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as great aspyring ambition to beare a Princely port, as in any other: among DiuinesDivines, and Scholemen obstinacie, and frowardnesse altogether bent, & sworne to sectes, and fashions, schismes, and …
With rule
… as great aspyring ambition to beare a Princely port, as in any other: among DiuinesDivines, and Scholemen obstinacie, and frowardnesse altogether bent, & sworne to sectes, and fashions, schismes, and …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pope against Pope, coūcel against coūcell, Doctors against Doctors, orders against orders, Canonists against DiuinesDivines, dissēting in articles of faith, as of the Popes supremacy, of original sinne, of …
With rule
… Pope against Pope, coūcel against coūcell, Doctors against Doctors, orders against orders, Canonists against DiuinesDivines, dissēting in articles of faith, as of the Popes supremacy, of original sinne, of …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or three of them bee ſuch as haue beene ſhewne to our beſt Proteſtant DiuinesDivines in England, who haue acknowledged that that they cannot be anſwered. Another when he …
With rule
… or three of them bee ſuch as haue beene ſhewne to our beſt Proteſtant DiuinesDivines in England, who haue acknowledged that that they cannot be anſwered. Another when he …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and began to publish it much, & to blaze abroad the matter. I know, diuerse DiuinesDivines, by curious distinctions, haue gone about to excuse the matter; by making this an …
With rule
… and began to publish it much, & to blaze abroad the matter. I know, diuerse DiuinesDivines, by curious distinctions, haue gone about to excuse the matter; by making this an …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in bestowing his mercies and ioyes, hee euer stretcheth forth his hand, & semper, say DiuinesDivines, praemiat vltracondignum; He filleth our cup full, and maketh it to runne ouer. Isai …
With rule
… in bestowing his mercies and ioyes, hee euer stretcheth forth his hand, & semper, say DiuinesDivines, praemiat vltracondignum; He filleth our cup full, and maketh it to runne ouer. Isai …
Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 95 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Epigrams A08687

Printed
DIuinesDivines are doubtfull, Lawyers lew'd and ill,
With rule
DIuinesDivines are doubtfull, Lawyers lew'd and ill,
John Owen · Epigrams · Open in the reader