Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #505 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

offensiueoffensive

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

Puritas changed it: 728 times in 336 works
Consistency: 99.0% (728 of 735)
Reach if approved: ~772 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: offensive
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 735 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (728 changes in 336 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 728)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Beast so dying, can not chuse but be noysome and vnsauoury: the smell is offensiueoffensive vnto euery one that passeth by, and the sight vnpleasing. So is the dying …
With rule
… Beast so dying, can not chuse but be noysome and vnsauoury: the smell is offensiueoffensive vnto euery one that passeth by, and the sight vnpleasing. So is the dying …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who abuse the eares of persons in authoritie, or of brethren in amitie with offensiueoffensive and siding tales, yea, though there be some truth in the reporters words, hee …
With rule
… who abuse the eares of persons in authoritie, or of brethren in amitie with offensiueoffensive and siding tales, yea, though there be some truth in the reporters words, hee …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… beare me record now writing the truth, or els note vnto me the sentences offensiueoffensive then by me pronounced, & now ommitted in writting, for in Gods presence I protest …
With rule
… beare me record now writing the truth, or els note vnto me the sentences offensiueoffensive then by me pronounced, & now ommitted in writting, for in Gods presence I protest …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · Open in the reader
Printed
We may also on this Anuil shape an offensiueoffensive weapon in this manner:
With rule
We may also on this Anuil shape an offensiueoffensive weapon in this manner:
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… had translated out of Hebrew, as he did out of Greeke, had not bene offensiueoffensive, nor vntrue, as I haue shewed in aunswere to your Preface, sect. 46. and of …
With rule
… had translated out of Hebrew, as he did out of Greeke, had not bene offensiueoffensive, nor vntrue, as I haue shewed in aunswere to your Preface, sect. 46. and of …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they did. But now the whole matter lyeth in this: it is vncomely and offenſiueoffensive before men. Who cannot here ſee the diſtinction betweene the ciuill courte, that is …
With rule
… they did. But now the whole matter lyeth in this: it is vncomely and offenſiueoffensive before men. Who cannot here ſee the diſtinction betweene the ciuill courte, that is …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… answere nothing: For these and such like slight instances (though they may be otherwise offensiueoffensive to god) be not yet the things a quibus dennoiantur tales, though I confesse …
With rule
… answere nothing: For these and such like slight instances (though they may be otherwise offensiueoffensive to god) be not yet the things a quibus dennoiantur tales, though I confesse …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poyſon? If Moſes ioyned with Chriſt, the ceremoniall Law with the Goſpell, were ſo offenſiueoffensive to him; how would hee haue brooked Chriſt and Belial, light and darknes, righteouſnes …
With rule
… poyſon? If Moſes ioyned with Chriſt, the ceremoniall Law with the Goſpell, were ſo offenſiueoffensive to him; how would hee haue brooked Chriſt and Belial, light and darknes, righteouſnes …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 30 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Looking Glass of the Holy War A05289

Printed
Chap. 13. War muſt be as well OffenſiueOffensive as Defenſiue. page 50.
With rule
Chap. 13. War muſt be as well OffenſiueOffensive as Defenſiue. page 50.
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · Open in the reader
Printed
CHAP. XIII. War muſt be as well OffenſiueOffensive as Defenſiue.
With rule
CHAP. XIII. War muſt be as well OffenſiueOffensive as Defenſiue.
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… war, according to the nature of war (as you know) is either Defenſiue or OffenſiueOffensive (taking the denomination from the chiefeſt part) otherwiſe a pure unmixt war, eſpecially if …
With rule
… war, according to the nature of war (as you know) is either Defenſiue or OffenſiueOffensive (taking the denomination from the chiefeſt part) otherwiſe a pure unmixt war, eſpecially if …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 133 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Romans 8-11 A09031

Printed
… Iohn ſaith; that Faith is the victory that ouercommeth. It is a weapon both OffenſiueOffensive and Defenſiue.
With rule
… Iohn ſaith; that Faith is the victory that ouercommeth. It is a weapon both OffenſiueOffensive and Defenſiue.
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Showing the Necessity of Conformity A12800

Printed
… Acts 16. 4. Which conformitie in our Ceremonies in the caſe of depriuation would alſo do. 9. OffenſiueOffensive many waies:] For firſt they might offend and grieue the beleeuing Gentiles, which neuer …
With rule
… Acts 16. 4. Which conformitie in our Ceremonies in the caſe of depriuation would alſo do. 9. OffenſiueOffensive many waies:] For firſt they might offend and grieue the beleeuing Gentiles, which neuer …
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 9 · Open in the reader

The Bible Battles A68550

Printed
OffenſiueOffensive warre vpon iuſt and neceſſarie grounds is lawfull both from command from God, and …
With rule
OffenſiueOffensive warre vpon iuſt and neceſſarie grounds is lawfull both from command from God, and …
Richard Bernard · The Bible Battles · p. 53 · Open in the reader