Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #615 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

couetingcoveting

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

Puritas changed it: 240 times in 133 works
Consistency: 97.1% (240 of 247)
Reach if approved: ~260 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: coveting
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 247 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (240 changes in 133 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 240)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vaine in soothing, the young man vaine in sporting, the olde man vaine in couetingcoveting, the papist vaine in superstion, the protestant vaine in conuersation: euerie Vanitie is so …
With rule
… vaine in soothing, the young man vaine in sporting, the olde man vaine in couetingcoveting, the papist vaine in superstion, the protestant vaine in conuersation: euerie Vanitie is so …
Henry Smith · The Preachers Proclamation · Open in the reader
Printed
… néedfull for this my life, may be heartilie well content therewith, not desiring or couetingcoveting more. Withdrawe my heart, O Lord, from the loue of this vaine world, and …
With rule
… néedfull for this my life, may be heartilie well content therewith, not desiring or couetingcoveting more. Withdrawe my heart, O Lord, from the loue of this vaine world, and …
Philip Stubbes · A Perfect Pathway to Felicity · Open in the reader
Printed
… it. If not, yet surely my meaning was good, & to no mans offence: only couetingcoveting hereby to geue some satisfaction to them in England, especially to her maiestie & the …
With rule
… it. If not, yet surely my meaning was good, & to no mans offence: only couetingcoveting hereby to geue some satisfaction to them in England, especially to her maiestie & the …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he esteemeth of, this is the thing which we must alwaies couet, and couetingcoveting this, we may leaue all other things according to Gods pleasure.
With rule
… that he esteemeth of, this is the thing which we must alwaies couet, and couetingcoveting this, we may leaue all other things according to Gods pleasure.
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 522 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelues. For thoſe who haue no miſliking of them ſelues, for the luſting and couetingcoveting after the thinges of their neighbours, whiche they doe perceiue to be in their …
With rule
… ſelues. For thoſe who haue no miſliking of them ſelues, for the luſting and couetingcoveting after the thinges of their neighbours, whiche they doe perceiue to be in their …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… continuall warre and battayle, this is the caſtel which he goeth about to vndermine couetingcoveting to ouerthrowe it if he myght. At fewe worde the euerlaſting being of God …
With rule
… continuall warre and battayle, this is the caſtel which he goeth about to vndermine couetingcoveting to ouerthrowe it if he myght. At fewe worde the euerlaſting being of God …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. lxxxx · Open in the reader
Printed
… commandement, study to shew thy selfe approoued vnto God. 2. Tim. 2. 15. and his practise, in couetingcoveting alway to be acceptable vnto him. 2. Cor. 5. 9. This approouing of our works is a …
With rule
… commandement, study to shew thy selfe approoued vnto God. 2. Tim. 2. 15. and his practise, in couetingcoveting alway to be acceptable vnto him. 2. Cor. 5. 9. This approouing of our works is a …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 515 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Eſaus their prophaning; our Senacheribs their blaſpheming; our Achans their theeuing; our Nabals their couetingcoveting; our Iezabels their whoring; and all of vs our ſinning▪ and rebelling, we deceiue …
With rule
… Eſaus their prophaning; our Senacheribs their blaſpheming; our Achans their theeuing; our Nabals their couetingcoveting; our Iezabels their whoring; and all of vs our ſinning▪ and rebelling, we deceiue …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 241 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 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.

Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture A00415

Printed
CouetingCoveting, or deſiring, is naturall, or not naturall. Naturall I call that which was in …
With rule
CouetingCoveting, or deſiring, is naturall, or not naturall. Naturall I call that which was in …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 74 · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments A00416

Printed
… forbidden, is to couet the thing coueted house, wife, seruāt, &c. of ones neighbor. CouetingCoveting, or desiring is naturall, or not naturall: naturall I call it which was in …
With rule
… forbidden, is to couet the thing coueted house, wife, seruāt, &c. of ones neighbor. CouetingCoveting, or desiring is naturall, or not naturall: naturall I call it which was in …
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

The Isle of Man A09156

Printed
… made ſo much off, as they ſuffered him to ſet his loue vpon one CouetingCoveting, a very harlot, and withall the baſe daughter of Deſire, vpon which filthy harlotry …
With rule
… made ſo much off, as they ſuffered him to ſet his loue vpon one CouetingCoveting, a very harlot, and withall the baſe daughter of Deſire, vpon which filthy harlotry …
Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the helpe of their Parents, on both ſides, of his Parents Gaine and CouetingCoveting; and of her Parents Greedy & Money-loue, they did grow rich and very great …
With rule
… by the helpe of their Parents, on both ſides, of his Parents Gaine and CouetingCoveting; and of her Parents Greedy & Money-loue, they did grow rich and very great …
Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 248 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sabbath Day A16567

Printed
… is not abſolutly neceſſary that this 8th com. ſhould be retained among vs, ſince CouetingCoveting an other mans goods in heart, is forbidden in the 10th Com. now he …
With rule
… is not abſolutly neceſſary that this 8th com. ſhould be retained among vs, ſince CouetingCoveting an other mans goods in heart, is forbidden in the 10th Com. now he …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 528 · Open in the reader