Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #610 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ciuilitycivility

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

Puritas changed it: 115 times in 76 works
Consistency: 86.4% (115 of 133)
Reach if approved: ~140 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: civility
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 133 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (115 changes in 76 works, 86.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to enjoyn an omiſſion of the practice of thoſe duties of common curteſie and ciuilitycivility, ſo farre forth as they are a hinderance of the performance of waightier affairs …
With rule
… to enjoyn an omiſſion of the practice of thoſe duties of common curteſie and ciuilitycivility, ſo farre forth as they are a hinderance of the performance of waightier affairs …
Nehemiah Rogers · Christian Courtesy · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the 5. commandement, and Rom. 13.1.7. neither doth the Gospel and Christianitie take away, but teach ciuilitycivility. And performed by the godly, both in speach, as Daniel said, O King; and …
With rule
… the 5. commandement, and Rom. 13.1.7. neither doth the Gospel and Christianitie take away, but teach ciuilitycivility. And performed by the godly, both in speach, as Daniel said, O King; and …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
For the carriage of youth, according to the ciuilitycivility vsed in our time, and for the whole course of framing their manners in …
With rule
For the carriage of youth, according to the ciuilitycivility vsed in our time, and for the whole course of framing their manners in …
John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 261 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and to a people inclinable (as we see by some experience already) first to ciuilitycivility, and so to religion: and to such a land and such a people as …
With rule
… and to a people inclinable (as we see by some experience already) first to ciuilitycivility, and so to religion: and to such a land and such a people as …
William Crashaw · Sermon Preached in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… and pampered in the pastures of prosperity, breake all the bounds of humanity and ciuilitycivility, and are ready in our pride and insolency to bea…e downe all that …
With rule
… and pampered in the pastures of prosperity, breake all the bounds of humanity and ciuilitycivility, and are ready in our pride and insolency to bea…e downe all that …
John Downame · Consolations for the Afflicted · p. 526 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of cards, or tables, or ſome honeſt recreation, it ſhould be nowe no good ciuilitycivility to part companie when friends are met togither, this is the ſureſt way if …
With rule
… of cards, or tables, or ſome honeſt recreation, it ſhould be nowe no good ciuilitycivility to part companie when friends are met togither, this is the ſureſt way if …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… actes and honourable histories, which (he saith) Spaniards and others doe recount of our ciuilitycivility, &c. If the Spaniardes speake so euill of our Nation, as it would make …
With rule
… actes and honourable histories, which (he saith) Spaniards and others doe recount of our ciuilitycivility, &c. If the Spaniardes speake so euill of our Nation, as it would make …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his minde onely vertuous men, and thinketh the vicious moſt baſe, though in ciuilitycivility, as he is bound, he giueth outward reuerence to him as his place doth …
With rule
… in his minde onely vertuous men, and thinketh the vicious moſt baſe, though in ciuilitycivility, as he is bound, he giueth outward reuerence to him as his place doth …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 23 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Way to True Happiness A02723

Printed
… ciuill man, or a tame man, hee cannot possibly see the kingdome of God. CiuilityCivility, (though plausible in the world) will not reach out here, and yet there be …
With rule
… ciuill man, or a tame man, hee cannot possibly see the kingdome of God. CiuilityCivility, (though plausible in the world) will not reach out here, and yet there be …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
First, CiuilityCivility (concerning which something hath beene said before.) A new nature is another thing thē …
With rule
First, CiuilityCivility (concerning which something hath beene said before.) A new nature is another thing thē …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 13 · Open in the reader

A Touch-Stone of Grace A02746

Printed
… beginning) ſome other thing may for a while keepe it out of thy hand: CiuilityCivility and hypocriſie may a little ſnib ſin, or bid it for a while to …
With rule
… beginning) ſome other thing may for a while keepe it out of thy hand: CiuilityCivility and hypocriſie may a little ſnib ſin, or bid it for a while to …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 147 · Open in the reader