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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51034 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋsurieUsury

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

Puritas changed it
28 times in 9 works
Consistency
100% (28 of 28)
Reach if approved
~30 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
29 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (28 changes in 9 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 28)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Firſt in Generall, he was foreign Foenerator, an Uſurer: A difference is made betwixt ƲſurieUsury, and Faenorie. Ʋſura dicitur quod ſupra ſortem datur ex pacto, Faenus quod liberè datur …
    With rule
    Firſt in Generall, he was foreign Foenerator, an Uſurer: A difference is made betwixt ƲſurieUsury, and Faenorie. Ʋſura dicitur quod ſupra ſortem datur ex pacto, Faenus quod liberè datur …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … learned and iudicious Diuine. They are ſuch, as eat and deuoure vs vp with ƲſurieUsury; ſuch as ſpoile vs by monopolies, by engroſſing, by falſe wares, by ſubtile bargain …
    With rule
    … learned and iudicious Diuine. They are ſuch, as eat and deuoure vs vp with ƲſurieUsury; ſuch as ſpoile vs by monopolies, by engroſſing, by falſe wares, by ſubtile bargain …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … learned and iudicious Diuine. They are such, as eat and deuoure vs vp with ƲsurieUsury; such as spoile vs by monopolies, by engrossing, by false wares, by subtile bargaines …
    With rule
    … learned and iudicious Diuine. They are such, as eat and deuoure vs vp with ƲsurieUsury; such as spoile vs by monopolies, by engrossing, by false wares, by subtile bargaines …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Ergo, ƲſurieUsury is a breach of the moral law
    With rule
    Ergo, ƲſurieUsury is a breach of the moral law

    Gabriel Powel · Theological and Scholastical Positions Concerning Usury · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thou shalt not be an Ʋsurer vnto him; thou shalt not oppresse him with ƲsurieUsury. And againe. If thy brother be impouerished, or fallen into decay, &c. thou shalt …
    With rule
    … thou shalt not be an Ʋsurer vnto him; thou shalt not oppresse him with ƲsurieUsury. And againe. If thy brother be impouerished, or fallen into decay, &c. thou shalt …

    William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Spirituall ƲſurieUsury. Folio. 771.
    With rule
    Spirituall ƲſurieUsury. Folio. 771.

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    ƲsurieUsury unlawfull. 125
    With rule
    ƲsurieUsury unlawfull. 125

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Both Treaſures lent, both without ƲſurieUsury,
    With rule
    Both Treaſures lent, both without ƲſurieUsury,

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · 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.