Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50269 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋsesUses

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

Puritas changed it: 249 times in 133 works
Consistency: 100% (249 of 249)
Reach if approved: ~286 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 272 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (249 changes in 133 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 249)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
CHAP. X. Of the ƲſesUses to be made of the Life of this Man of God, in certain Reflections …
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CHAP. X. Of the ƲſesUses to be made of the Life of this Man of God, in certain Reflections …
Robert Porter · The Life of Mr John Hieron · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the maintenance of a Popiſh Miniſtry, they ought to be put to civil ƲſesUses, and not to the maintenance of Chriſts Miniſtry.
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… to the maintenance of a Popiſh Miniſtry, they ought to be put to civil ƲſesUses, and not to the maintenance of Chriſts Miniſtry.
Robert Baillie · A Dissuasive from the Errors of the time · p. 44 · Open in the reader
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Direct. IV. Acquaint your ſelves well with the Ends and ƲſesUses of the Word. Read Books, and ask Miniſters, and know as well as they …
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Direct. IV. Acquaint your ſelves well with the Ends and ƲſesUses of the Word. Read Books, and ask Miniſters, and know as well as they …
Daniel Burgess · Rules for Hearing the Word of God · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
ƲſesUses.
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ƲſesUses.
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 472 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Equitable part is by Bills, Anſwers, and Decrees, to Examin Frauds, Combinations, Trusts, Secret ƲſesUses, &c. To moderate the Rigour of the Laws, and Reſcue Men out of the …
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… Equitable part is by Bills, Anſwers, and Decrees, to Examin Frauds, Combinations, Trusts, Secret ƲſesUses, &c. To moderate the Rigour of the Laws, and Reſcue Men out of the …
Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 128 · Open in the reader
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… ſome Improvements of what hath been laid down, both by Corollaries, and more practic ƲſesUses. As for Corollaries, various great truths may be deduced from the precedent Explication of …
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… ſome Improvements of what hath been laid down, both by Corollaries, and more practic ƲſesUses. As for Corollaries, various great truths may be deduced from the precedent Explication of …
Theophilus Gale · The Anatomy of Infidelity · p. 194 · Open in the reader
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… eaſier under Charles the Firſt his Reign to raiſe an hundred pound to Pious ƲſesUses than now ten pounds: So ſome obſerve that in the Primitive Church Charity ebb'd …
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… eaſier under Charles the Firſt his Reign to raiſe an hundred pound to Pious ƲſesUses than now ten pounds: So ſome obſerve that in the Primitive Church Charity ebb'd …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. xxxv · Open in the reader
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… Ʋdal, who, as Musculus first brought in the manner of preaching with Doctrines and ƲsesUses, was the first that added Reasons thereunto; a learned Man, blameless for his Life …
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… Ʋdal, who, as Musculus first brought in the manner of preaching with Doctrines and ƲsesUses, was the first that added Reasons thereunto; a learned Man, blameless for his Life …
Cotton Mather · An Idea of the Reformation in England and History of Non-Conformity · p. 51 · 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.