Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #495 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

friuolousfrivolous

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

Puritas changed it: 849 times in 284 works
Consistency: 99.0% (849 of 857)
Reach if approved: ~900 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: frivolous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 857 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (849 changes in 284 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 849)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Royall breſt) but not thinking good to lend an eare any longer to the friuolousfrivolous arguments of ſuch as haue ſought your auerſion from the Truth, your MAIESTIE hath …
With rule
… Royall breſt) but not thinking good to lend an eare any longer to the friuolousfrivolous arguments of ſuch as haue ſought your auerſion from the Truth, your MAIESTIE hath …
John Mayer · Antidote Against Popery · Open in the reader
Printed
… in a Raigne he inuites his neighbors to dinner, he whiles the times with friuolousfrivolous discourses, to hinder feeding; sets away the best dish, affirming it will bee better …
With rule
… in a Raigne he inuites his neighbors to dinner, he whiles the times with friuolousfrivolous discourses, to hinder feeding; sets away the best dish, affirming it will bee better …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ioyned with seruice, which is peculier to the ministery ecclesiasticall. Secondly he maketh sixe friuolousfrivolous differences, which either are false or else make no diuersitie in the sence of …
With rule
… ioyned with seruice, which is peculier to the ministery ecclesiasticall. Secondly he maketh sixe friuolousfrivolous differences, which either are false or else make no diuersitie in the sence of …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other meanes that haue beene deuiſed to put diuels to flight, are vaine and friuolousfrivolous, yea meere illuſions of Satans owne deuiſing, which wickedlie deface the power of God …
With rule
… other meanes that haue beene deuiſed to put diuels to flight, are vaine and friuolousfrivolous, yea meere illuſions of Satans owne deuiſing, which wickedlie deface the power of God …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the soule of a beast was entered in the roome. But this is a friuolousfrivolous conceit: indeed God had bereft him of cō mon reason, yet he had still …
With rule
… the soule of a beast was entered in the roome. But this is a friuolousfrivolous conceit: indeed God had bereft him of cō mon reason, yet he had still …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… friuolousfrivolous, where I appeale to all mens consciences, for the weight therof. It is friuolousfrivolous, you say, except I can proue that a man cannot pray by the spirit …
With rule
… friuolousfrivolous, where I appeale to all mens consciences, for the weight therof. It is friuolousfrivolous, you say, except I can proue that a man cannot pray by the spirit …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… curſe is nothing, but a brutiſh thunderbolt of the Romane papacie, whoſe force is friuolousfrivolous, vain, and of none account: & that principally for fower cauſes: namely, for the incompetencie …
With rule
… curſe is nothing, but a brutiſh thunderbolt of the Romane papacie, whoſe force is friuolousfrivolous, vain, and of none account: & that principally for fower cauſes: namely, for the incompetencie …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that diſtinction of the word vniuerſall, deuiſed by the Ieſuites, is both vaine and friuolousfrivolous, when they ſay, that it either ſignifieth ſingularitie, and ſo to be vniuerſall, is …
With rule
… that diſtinction of the word vniuerſall, deuiſed by the Ieſuites, is both vaine and friuolousfrivolous, when they ſay, that it either ſignifieth ſingularitie, and ſo to be vniuerſall, is …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abrahams Faith A08201

Printed
… the Diuines of thoſe times made great adooe about both friuolousfrivolous and wicked queſtions. FriuolousFrivolous, as whether the grace wherewith God doth loue and draw vs, and wherewith wee …
With rule
… the Diuines of thoſe times made great adooe about both friuolousfrivolous and wicked queſtions. FriuolousFrivolous, as whether the grace wherewith God doth loue and draw vs, and wherewith wee …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 275 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… by GOD himselfe, as to all creatures) is the remembrance of that sanctification vrged. FriuolousFrivolous are their reasons who would renew the Iewish Sabbath amongst Christians, tying and tyring …
With rule
… by GOD himselfe, as to all creatures) is the remembrance of that sanctification vrged. FriuolousFrivolous are their reasons who would renew the Iewish Sabbath amongst Christians, tying and tyring …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed A10250

Printed
FriuolousFrivolous therefore is that objection of ſome, who to the end they might aboliſh the …
With rule
FriuolousFrivolous therefore is that objection of ſome, who to the end they might aboliſh the …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 258 · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

Printed
… heare the same, which desire came only from the feare and reuerence of God. FriuolousFrivolous curiositie doth moue many, to enquire after new things greedilie, but questionlesse religion and …
With rule
… heare the same, which desire came only from the feare and reuerence of God. FriuolousFrivolous curiositie doth moue many, to enquire after new things greedilie, but questionlesse religion and …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 56 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Acts A17642

Printed
FriuolousFrivolous Queſtions muſt be let alone. 20. 21.
With rule
FriuolousFrivolous Queſtions muſt be let alone. 20. 21.
John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · Open in the reader

A Treatise of the Church A19858

Printed
… for any wicked in the viſible Church, whether they be openly, or ſecretly wicked. FriuolousFrivolous therfore and vntrue is this your anſwer to the premiſes: We confeſſe there are …
With rule
… for any wicked in the viſible Church, whether they be openly, or ſecretly wicked. FriuolousFrivolous therfore and vntrue is this your anſwer to the premiſes: We confeſſe there are …
John Darrell · A Treatise of the Church · p. 97 · Open in the reader