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ʋsurersUsurers

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

Puritas changed it
44 times in 17 works
Consistency
100% (44 of 44)
Reach if approved
~46 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
44 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (44 changes in 17 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 44)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … poor, but the wo…ſt robbers of the poor; we may rank them with ƲſurersUsurers, Incloſers, Ingroſſers, and oppreſſing Land-lords: For this is the reaſon why the poor …
    With rule
    … poor, but the wo…ſt robbers of the poor; we may rank them with ƲſurersUsurers, Incloſers, Ingroſſers, and oppreſſing Land-lords: For this is the reaſon why the poor …

    Richard Younge · The Poors Advocate · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    4 ƲſurersUsurers, who may well be compared to the Timber-worme, which to touch is as …
    With rule
    4 ƲſurersUsurers, who may well be compared to the Timber-worme, which to touch is as …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … not only perswade the good people, but even compelled (as it were) many covetous ƲsurersUsurers to be bountiful; as the Prophet Nehemiah did, Nehem. 5. 13. The case of the Prophet …
    With rule
    … not only perswade the good people, but even compelled (as it were) many covetous ƲsurersUsurers to be bountiful; as the Prophet Nehemiah did, Nehem. 5. 13. The case of the Prophet …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … devouring others, it feeds it ſelfe. Chryſ. ſuper illud, Math. 5. volenti mutuare, ſaith, the ƲſurersUsurers money is like the biting of the Aſpe. A man bitten by the Aſp …
    With rule
    … devouring others, it feeds it ſelfe. Chryſ. ſuper illud, Math. 5. volenti mutuare, ſaith, the ƲſurersUsurers money is like the biting of the Aſpe. A man bitten by the Aſp …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 493 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … belongs to other men without any reſpect to common Juſtice; Such as theſe are ƲſurersUsurers, and all that make gain of ſordid and illiberal Arts, keepers of the Stews …
    With rule
    … belongs to other men without any reſpect to common Juſtice; Such as theſe are ƲſurersUsurers, and all that make gain of ſordid and illiberal Arts, keepers of the Stews …

    John Hartcliffe · Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Such was Nehemiah's Majeſty and Elegancy of Speech, that he even melted down the ƲſurersUsurers minds to Reſtore their Extorted Money that very Day, making them Swear to do …
    With rule
    … Such was Nehemiah's Majeſty and Elegancy of Speech, that he even melted down the ƲſurersUsurers minds to Reſtore their Extorted Money that very Day, making them Swear to do …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 712 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to cure the lame, the blind, and others of their diſeaſes. That Harlots and ƲſurersUsurers, were by his preaching taken off from their lewd courſes. That hee foretold the …
    With rule
    … to cure the lame, the blind, and others of their diſeaſes. That Harlots and ƲſurersUsurers, were by his preaching taken off from their lewd courſes. That hee foretold the …

    William Twisse · The Christian Sabbath Defended · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is no Remission. (A cutting conclusion, saith Mr. R. Bolton, to all cut-throat ƲsurersUsurers.)
    With rule
    … is no Remission. (A cutting conclusion, saith Mr. R. Bolton, to all cut-throat ƲsurersUsurers.)

    Richard Baxter · Confession of His Faith · p. 302 · 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.