Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51117 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋsefulUseful

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

Puritas changed it: 20 times in 18 works
Consistency: 100% (20 of 20)
Reach if approved: ~23 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 22 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (20 changes in 18 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 20)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… juſtified by Philoſophy, which was then Neceſſary for them whereas it is now only ƲſefulUseful unto them; and that this Philoſophy was tho… choolmiſter of …he Gentiles, which brought …
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… juſtified by Philoſophy, which was then Neceſſary for them whereas it is now only ƲſefulUseful unto them; and that this Philoſophy was tho… choolmiſter of …he Gentiles, which brought …
Jean Daille · Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before we paſſe on to the remaining Queſtions, it wil be not a little ƲſefulUseful, that we make ſome Improvements of what hath been laid down, both by Corollaries …
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… before we paſſe on to the remaining Queſtions, it wil be not a little ƲſefulUseful, that we make ſome Improvements of what hath been laid down, both by Corollaries …
Theophilus Gale · Christs Tears for Jerusalems Unbelief · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Canis ad Nilum, only one lap and be gone] then improve them in ſome ƲſefulUseful Inferences.
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… Canis ad Nilum, only one lap and be gone] then improve them in ſome ƲſefulUseful Inferences.
Christopher Ness · A Spiritual Legacy · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
10. A good Conſcience will make you ƲſefulUseful in your Generations: 'twill make you Merciful to the Bodies of others, giving them …
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10. A good Conſcience will make you ƲſefulUseful in your Generations: 'twill make you Merciful to the Bodies of others, giving them …
Nathanael Vincent · A Heaven or Hell Upon Earth · p. 302 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bleſſe your Colledge with his choiceſt bleſsings, and grant that Reall Piety, and all ƲſefulUseful Learning may flouriſh within your wals from Generation to Generation, This is the earneſt …
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… bleſſe your Colledge with his choiceſt bleſsings, and grant that Reall Piety, and all ƲſefulUseful Learning may flouriſh within your wals from Generation to Generation, This is the earneſt …
Samuel Cradock · Knowledge and Practice · Open in the reader
Printed
… Angels in Heaven. (4) In what reſpects Heaven is called a Reward or Recompence. Some ƲſefulUseful and Neceſſary Inferences from the Conſideration of that Happineſs the Saints ſhall enjoy in …
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… Angels in Heaven. (4) In what reſpects Heaven is called a Reward or Recompence. Some ƲſefulUseful and Neceſſary Inferences from the Conſideration of that Happineſs the Saints ſhall enjoy in …
Nathanael Ranew · The Glory and Happiness of the Saints in Heaven · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not so much in the Knowledge of many things, as in the knowledge of ƲsefulUseful ones. Now this is the Wisdom of a Woman that has the fear of …
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… not so much in the Knowledge of many things, as in the knowledge of ƲsefulUseful ones. Now this is the Wisdom of a Woman that has the fear of …
Cotton Mather · Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Divine Providence! in what Honour and Eſteem wou'd they paſs through the World? How ƲſefulUseful and what ſingular Bleſſings would they be in it? how pleaſant, eaſie and chearful …
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… Divine Providence! in what Honour and Eſteem wou'd they paſs through the World? How ƲſefulUseful and what ſingular Bleſſings would they be in it? how pleaſant, eaſie and chearful …
Benjamin Colman · Divine Providence in the Early Death of Pious and Lovely Children · p. vi · 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.