Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #552 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deuouringdevouring

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

Puritas changed it: 497 times in 255 works
Consistency: 99.0% (497 of 502)
Reach if approved: ~527 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devouring
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 502 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (497 changes in 255 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 497)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wolues in ſuch a kingdome, hauing the place of ſhepheards, but the nature of deuouringdevouring beaſtes, ſpoyle, oppreſſe, and eate vp the ſilly lambes and ſheepe. Thirdly, the people …
With rule
… wolues in ſuch a kingdome, hauing the place of ſhepheards, but the nature of deuouringdevouring beaſtes, ſpoyle, oppreſſe, and eate vp the ſilly lambes and ſheepe. Thirdly, the people …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thought fitter to compare it with the dog-like appetite; which cannot refrain from deuouringdevouring meat without measure; which the stomake not able to beare, they fall to vomiting …
With rule
… thought fitter to compare it with the dog-like appetite; which cannot refrain from deuouringdevouring meat without measure; which the stomake not able to beare, they fall to vomiting …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wicked Prince is ſet vpon the throne? If the king himſelfe be as a deuouringdevouring Lion, what wil his of…icers and miniſters be? This did Solomon vew throughlie …
With rule
… wicked Prince is ſet vpon the throne? If the king himſelfe be as a deuouringdevouring Lion, what wil his of…icers and miniſters be? This did Solomon vew throughlie …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… luſt of the body, which is in theſe dayes like the fire of hell, deuouringdevouring vp all things, firing men and women of all ſorts out of their poſſeſſions …
With rule
… luſt of the body, which is in theſe dayes like the fire of hell, deuouringdevouring vp all things, firing men and women of all ſorts out of their poſſeſſions …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… entertayner, the tongue, and there is lying: the receiuer, the throat, and there is deuouringdevouring.
With rule
… entertayner, the tongue, and there is lying: the receiuer, the throat, and there is deuouringdevouring.
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the world be terrible. Therefore, Eſay crieth out: Who can dwell with the deuouringdevouring fire? who can dwell with the euerlaſting burning? Eſa. 33.14. As if he had ſaid …
With rule
… in the world be terrible. Therefore, Eſay crieth out: Who can dwell with the deuouringdevouring fire? who can dwell with the euerlaſting burning? Eſa. 33.14. As if he had ſaid …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we see cause moste iust why that his fierce wrath shuld burne as a deuouringdevouring fire. The other is, that when calamities before pronounced fal vpon vs, then begin …
With rule
… we see cause moste iust why that his fierce wrath shuld burne as a deuouringdevouring fire. The other is, that when calamities before pronounced fal vpon vs, then begin …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not digeſt him, it was enforced to yeeld him vp againe, yea and this deuouringdevouring was an vtter diſcommoditie to death, for the caſe being quite altered, Chriſt deuoured …
With rule
… not digeſt him, it was enforced to yeeld him vp againe, yea and this deuouringdevouring was an vtter diſcommoditie to death, for the caſe being quite altered, Chriſt deuoured …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 449 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… Leopard made of Marble, the spots not borrowed, but Natures handy-worke. But alas, DeuouringDevouring Time, that swalloweth his owne off-spring, was not content to haue inglutted his …
With rule
… Leopard made of Marble, the spots not borrowed, but Natures handy-worke. But alas, DeuouringDevouring Time, that swalloweth his owne off-spring, was not content to haue inglutted his …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 521 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… gulfe. Burning? he ſees the three Children in the hot walke of the Furnace. DeuouringDevouring? he ſees Daniel in the ſealed denne amids his terrible companions. Stoning? hee ſees …
With rule
… gulfe. Burning? he ſees the three Children in the hot walke of the Furnace. DeuouringDevouring? he ſees Daniel in the ſealed denne amids his terrible companions. Stoning? hee ſees …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 174 · Open in the reader