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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #554 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

discoueringdiscovering

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

Puritas changed it
418 times in 220 works
Consistency
97.8% (418 of 427)
Reach if approved
~449 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: discovering
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
427 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (418 changes in 220 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 418)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … spies which were sent to search the land, lodged them in her house without discoueringdiscovering them. And when by accident they were made knowne, hid them secretly vpon the …
    With rule
    … spies which were sent to search the land, lodged them in her house without discoueringdiscovering them. And when by accident they were made knowne, hid them secretly vpon the …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 213 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … taken roote in their harts, whereby they are ledd to betray their neighbors, in diſcoueringdiscovering that which they ought to keepe ſecret. Moreouer, if we be not ledde by …
    With rule
    … taken roote in their harts, whereby they are ledd to betray their neighbors, in diſcoueringdiscovering that which they ought to keepe ſecret. Moreouer, if we be not ledde by …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of Gods Spirit; and the Lot it selfe not meerely diuisory, but manifestly diuinatory, discoueringdiscovering Gods secret counsell and choise in that busines, as by the praier conceiued before …
    With rule
    … of Gods Spirit; and the Lot it selfe not meerely diuisory, but manifestly diuinatory, discoueringdiscovering Gods secret counsell and choise in that busines, as by the praier conceiued before …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 275 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … with oyle, but pierced with the two-edged sword of Gods word, to the discoueringdiscovering of the secret corruption of the heart.
    With rule
    … with oyle, but pierced with the two-edged sword of Gods word, to the discoueringdiscovering of the secret corruption of the heart.

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 715 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … wiſedome hath appointed for the gathering of his Church, and for the opening and diſcoueringdiscovering vnto the ſonnes of men, the hid treaſure: But that is called an Addition …
    With rule
    … wiſedome hath appointed for the gathering of his Church, and for the opening and diſcoueringdiscovering vnto the ſonnes of men, the hid treaſure: But that is called an Addition …

    Samuel Hieron · The Dignity of the Scripture · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … good manner of vttering them: neither abhorring in themselues, nor reproouing in others the discoueringdiscovering of a secret, to the touch of their absent neighbour in his name, when …
    With rule
    … good manner of vttering them: neither abhorring in themselues, nor reproouing in others the discoueringdiscovering of a secret, to the touch of their absent neighbour in his name, when …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … England, which though it came not to that effect they deſired, (God in mercy diſcoueringdiscovering their helliſh deſigne the night before the blow ſhould haue beene giuen,) yet in …
    With rule
    … England, which though it came not to that effect they deſired, (God in mercy diſcoueringdiscovering their helliſh deſigne the night before the blow ſhould haue beene giuen,) yet in …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 215 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … glorifie God thereby, and to profit thee, O Reader, in repelling of errours, and diſcoueringdiscovering the trueth, without partial loue to Proteſtant, or hatred to Papiſt, as to this …
    With rule
    … glorifie God thereby, and to profit thee, O Reader, in repelling of errours, and diſcoueringdiscovering the trueth, without partial loue to Proteſtant, or hatred to Papiſt, as to this …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

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

A Touch-Stone of Grace A02746

  • Printed
    DiſcoueringDiscovering the differences betweene true and counterfeit Grace: Laying downe infallible Euidences and markes of …
    With rule
    DiſcoueringDiscovering the differences betweene true and counterfeit Grace: Laying downe infallible Euidences and markes of …

    Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · Open in the reader

Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light A19294

  • Printed
    DiscoueringDiscovering, The seuerall Vses of this Doctrine of WITCH-CRAFT.
    With rule
    DiscoueringDiscovering, The seuerall Vses of this Doctrine of WITCH-CRAFT.

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · Open in the reader

The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature A19295

  • Printed
    THE MYSTERY OF WITCH-CRAFT. DiscoueringDiscovering, The Truth, Nature, Occasions, Growth and Power therof. TOGETHER With the Detection and Punishment …
    With rule
    THE MYSTERY OF WITCH-CRAFT. DiscoueringDiscovering, The Truth, Nature, Occasions, Growth and Power therof. TOGETHER With the Detection and Punishment …

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DiscoueringDiscovering. The seuerall Vses of this Doctrine of WITCH-CRAFT.
    With rule
    DiscoueringDiscovering. The seuerall Vses of this Doctrine of WITCH-CRAFT.

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · Open in the reader

The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts B12199

  • Printed
    … caſt them as oyle into the flame, to make it more vehement, and dangerous: DiſcoueringDiscovering herein, as the ſubtilty of Sathan, who knows in what ground to ſow his …
    With rule
    … caſt them as oyle into the flame, to make it more vehement, and dangerous: DiſcoueringDiscovering herein, as the ſubtilty of Sathan, who knows in what ground to ſow his …

    Thomas Cooper · The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DiſcoueringDiscovering herein as the diuers kinds of euil thoghts, from the diuers Grounds of them …
    With rule
    DiſcoueringDiscovering herein as the diuers kinds of euil thoghts, from the diuers Grounds of them …

    Thomas Cooper · The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DiſcoueringDiscovering therein, firſt; the deſperat corruption of nature which hath in it ſelf the ſeedes …
    With rule
    DiſcoueringDiscovering therein, firſt; the deſperat corruption of nature which hath in it ſelf the ſeedes …

    Thomas Cooper · The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts · p. 32 · Open in the reader