Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #5 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

seluesselves

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

Puritas changed it: 58,940 times in 1,369 works
Consistency: 100% (58,940 of 58,940)
Reach if approved: ~69,970 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: selves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 66,593 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 7,651 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (58,940 changes in 1,369 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 58,940)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eternall life. VVe ſhall heare here after vvhat need vve haue to vveane our ſeluesselves from the cares of this vvorld, and of earthly things: becauſe it is the …
With rule
… eternall life. VVe ſhall heare here after vvhat need vve haue to vveane our ſeluesselves from the cares of this vvorld, and of earthly things: becauſe it is the …
John Forbes · Preparative Sermon to the Lords Table · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than in the vse of his benefites, when as wee apply them too our seluesselves, for our speciall comfort, with thankesgeuyng: neither am I able to say, whether he …
With rule
… than in the vse of his benefites, when as wee apply them too our seluesselves, for our speciall comfort, with thankesgeuyng: neither am I able to say, whether he …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… found: when we sée our seluesselves destroyed, we are saued: when we heare our seluesselves cō demned, we are iustified, onely in beleuyng these wordes: The sonne of man …
With rule
… found: when we sée our seluesselves destroyed, we are saued: when we heare our seluesselves cō demned, we are iustified, onely in beleuyng these wordes: The sonne of man …
William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader
Printed
… manifestly against that seate, yea and so many other Bishoppes thereof, whom they them seluesselves confesse to be damned in hell for their wicked life: we neede not greatly …
With rule
… manifestly against that seate, yea and so many other Bishoppes thereof, whom they them seluesselves confesse to be damned in hell for their wicked life: we neede not greatly …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
Therefore let vs all visite our seluesselves, that wee may saue God the labour. This is a dutie to which wee …
With rule
Therefore let vs all visite our seluesselves, that wee may saue God the labour. This is a dutie to which wee …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would haue vs ſo to doe our owne worke, as not to buſie our ſeluesselves with his worke: What now is our worke? To be induſtrious and diligent in …
With rule
… would haue vs ſo to doe our owne worke, as not to buſie our ſeluesselves with his worke: What now is our worke? To be induſtrious and diligent in …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is their duetie in their own priuate faſte to doo this by them ſeluesselves, ſo to directe others in the ſame, when they doo it with them. Contrarie …
With rule
… it is their duetie in their own priuate faſte to doo this by them ſeluesselves, ſo to directe others in the ſame, when they doo it with them. Contrarie …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… eyes, our handes, and all our partes, from being inſtrumēts of vncleannes: carrying our ſeluesselves in all modeſtie and temperance, and (where neede is) vſing the remedie of holie …
With rule
… eyes, our handes, and all our partes, from being inſtrumēts of vncleannes: carrying our ſeluesselves in all modeſtie and temperance, and (where neede is) vſing the remedie of holie …
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · p. 27 · 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.