Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50779 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋsefulnessUsefulness

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

Puritas changed it: 65 times in 41 works
Consistency: 100% (65 of 65)
Reach if approved: ~70 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 67 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (65 changes in 41 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 65)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
CHAP. VII. Of the ƲſefulneſsUsefulness of Chronology.
With rule
CHAP. VII. Of the ƲſefulneſsUsefulness of Chronology.
Edward Reyner · Necessity of Human Learning for a Gospel Preacher · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… firſt, and moſt obviouſly to be Collected from what hath been ſaid, is the ƲſefulneſsUsefulness and Neceſſity of the Holy Scriptures. What excellent Knowledge may be found there, for …
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… firſt, and moſt obviouſly to be Collected from what hath been ſaid, is the ƲſefulneſsUsefulness and Neceſſity of the Holy Scriptures. What excellent Knowledge may be found there, for …
John Shower · Funeral Sermon of Richard Walter · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
Its Length, and ƲſefulneſsUsefulness, was Miracle.
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Its Length, and ƲſefulneſsUsefulness, was Miracle.
Nathanael Vincent · An Elegy Upon the Death of Richard Baxter · Open in the reader
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… Poems, entituled, Meat out of the Eater; or, Meditations concerning the Neceſſity, End, and ƲſefulneſsUsefulness of Afflictions unto Gods Children; All tending to prepare them for, and comfort them …
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… Poems, entituled, Meat out of the Eater; or, Meditations concerning the Neceſſity, End, and ƲſefulneſsUsefulness of Afflictions unto Gods Children; All tending to prepare them for, and comfort them …
Thomas Walley · Balm in Gilead to Heal Zions Wounds · Open in the reader
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… you; if you do not beſtir your ſelves to be exemplary for Piety and ƲſefulneſsUsefulness; good and bad will juſtly blame you; the good will mournfully bewail their diſappointment …
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… you; if you do not beſtir your ſelves to be exemplary for Piety and ƲſefulneſsUsefulness; good and bad will juſtly blame you; the good will mournfully bewail their diſappointment …
Samuel Annesley · The Life and Funeral Sermon of the Reverent Thomas Brand · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. The goodneſs of God to Creatures, is to be meaſured by their diſtinct ƲſefulneſsUsefulness to the Common End. It were better for a Toad or Serpent to be …
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2. The goodneſs of God to Creatures, is to be meaſured by their diſtinct ƲſefulneſsUsefulness to the Common End. It were better for a Toad or Serpent to be …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 595 · Open in the reader
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7. Church-members muſt ſhine in ƲſefulneſsUsefulness to men, or in Fruit-bearing. They ſhould all of them bear Twins, and …
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7. Church-members muſt ſhine in ƲſefulneſsUsefulness to men, or in Fruit-bearing. They ſhould all of them bear Twins, and …
Stephen Ford · A Gospel Church · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can be made against the Lawfulness? I think, None can be made against the ƲsefulnessUsefulness of such a thing? Truly, for my part, if the Fifth Chapter of the …
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… can be made against the Lawfulness? I think, None can be made against the ƲsefulnessUsefulness of such a thing? Truly, for my part, if the Fifth Chapter of the …
Cotton Mather · Blessed Unions · p. 61 · 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.