Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #569 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rauenousravenous

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

Puritas changed it: 197 times in 121 works
Consistency: 98.0% (197 of 201)
Reach if approved: ~211 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ravenous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 201 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (197 changes in 121 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 197)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… holy woorke of God: in reſpect of the Aſſyrians, who were both wicked, cruell, rauenousravenous, and bent not vpon the will of God, which they were ignorant of, but …
With rule
… holy woorke of God: in reſpect of the Aſſyrians, who were both wicked, cruell, rauenousravenous, and bent not vpon the will of God, which they were ignorant of, but …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 411 · Open in the reader
Printed
Are rauenousravenous, fierce and cruell euen by kind,
With rule
Are rauenousravenous, fierce and cruell euen by kind,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
… poore lambes of God with out all comforte, to be deuoured of the wilde rauenousravenous beaſtes▪ ſome alſo in playng on both partes with the halting Iſraelites, thinke to …
With rule
… poore lambes of God with out all comforte, to be deuoured of the wilde rauenousravenous beaſtes▪ ſome alſo in playng on both partes with the halting Iſraelites, thinke to …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the soule compounded of all the malignities of all the creatures, for he is rauenousravenous, as the woolfe; sauage, as the beare; fell, as the lion; fierce, as the …
With rule
… the soule compounded of all the malignities of all the creatures, for he is rauenousravenous, as the woolfe; sauage, as the beare; fell, as the lion; fierce, as the …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ouerthrowe them. The flocke thei feede nothyng at all, but are rather themſelues the rauenousravenous Wolues, that deuoure and eate vp the Sheepe. Thei are Cloudes that are caried …
With rule
… ouerthrowe them. The flocke thei feede nothyng at all, but are rather themſelues the rauenousravenous Wolues, that deuoure and eate vp the Sheepe. Thei are Cloudes that are caried …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… lesse abhorre the pronnesse of man to offend him: then wee doe abhorre the rauenousravenous disposition of a Wolfe, though it be a Cubb, not yet vsed to the …
With rule
… lesse abhorre the pronnesse of man to offend him: then wee doe abhorre the rauenousravenous disposition of a Wolfe, though it be a Cubb, not yet vsed to the …
William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
No beaſt of the field doth ſhew it ſelfe more raging or rauenousravenous, than doe the wicked, when God ſuffers them to breake into his Vineyard for …
With rule
No beaſt of the field doth ſhew it ſelfe more raging or rauenousravenous, than doe the wicked, when God ſuffers them to breake into his Vineyard for …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 254 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of prison, and fled to Damasus bishop of Rome. Lucius like vnto a rauenousravenous wolfe, not onely banished the Homousians out of Al…xandria and Aegypt, but also …
With rule
… out of prison, and fled to Damasus bishop of Rome. Lucius like vnto a rauenousravenous wolfe, not onely banished the Homousians out of Al…xandria and Aegypt, but also …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

Whole Works A68831

Printed
RauenousRavenous Wolues. 242. a
With rule
RauenousRavenous Wolues. 242. a
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader