Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50229 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋsuryUsury

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 285 times in 52 works
Consistency: 100% (285 of 285)
Reach if approved: ~304 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 289 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (285 changes in 52 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 285)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… man ſhall increaſe, he ſhall have more abundantly. This is that honeſt and honorable ƲſuryUsury, by which we may lawfully put out, not Money, but the Grace of God …
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… man ſhall increaſe, he ſhall have more abundantly. This is that honeſt and honorable ƲſuryUsury, by which we may lawfully put out, not Money, but the Grace of God …
Matthew Lawrence · The Use and Practice of Faith · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as that 13. Chapter to the Romans, against resisting the higher Powers, the 15. Psalme against ƲsuryUsury, the Epistles of Peter and Jude against mocking, proud, empty, disobedient Sectaries) it is …
With rule
… as that 13. Chapter to the Romans, against resisting the higher Powers, the 15. Psalme against ƲsuryUsury, the Epistles of Peter and Jude against mocking, proud, empty, disobedient Sectaries) it is …
William Lyford · The Plain Mans Senses Exercised to Discern Good and Evil · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
Qu. What ƲſuryUsury is it which Chriſt by this Parable ſeemeth to countenance? Anſ. Such as God …
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Qu. What ƲſuryUsury is it which Chriſt by this Parable ſeemeth to countenance? Anſ. Such as God …
Richard Baxter · A Paraphrase on the New Testament · Open in the reader
Printed
… near Forty years together; and he never put out a Farthing of money to ƲsuryUsury. He never sued any man in his Life: He had great advantages of growing …
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… near Forty years together; and he never put out a Farthing of money to ƲsuryUsury. He never sued any man in his Life: He had great advantages of growing …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 182 · Open in the reader
Printed
§. 2. The Heathens by the light of Nature, hated ƲsuryUsury.
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§. 2. The Heathens by the light of Nature, hated ƲsuryUsury.
Thomas Grantham · The Ancient Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Cato thus, That being asked what it was to lend out mony upon ƲſuryUsury; he anſwered it is no better than to kill a man; which (as ſaith …
With rule
… in Cato thus, That being asked what it was to lend out mony upon ƲſuryUsury; he anſwered it is no better than to kill a man; which (as ſaith …
Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… E. 1. both by the King and Parliament, and that principally for their infidelity not ƲſuryUsury, and other fore-alleged reaſons; and commanded under pain of hanging by a ſpecial …
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… E. 1. both by the King and Parliament, and that principally for their infidelity not ƲſuryUsury, and other fore-alleged reaſons; and commanded under pain of hanging by a ſpecial …
William Prynne · Demurrer to the Jews · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… couſenages, and all corruptions of contracts, among which uſury hath not the loweſt place. 4. ƲſuryUsury, is that which is taken above the principall, in regard of the loane onely …
With rule
… couſenages, and all corruptions of contracts, among which uſury hath not the loweſt place. 4. ƲſuryUsury, is that which is taken above the principall, in regard of the loane onely …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 607 · 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.