Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #652 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vglyugly

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

Puritas changed it: 393 times in 191 works
Consistency: 99.2% (393 of 396)
Reach if approved: ~416 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ugly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 396 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (393 changes in 191 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 393)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the ſchooles of diuines earneſtly occupied. Mark heere good reader, and conſider what an vglyugly and fearefull monſter this would haue beene, if God had not come downe and …
With rule
… the ſchooles of diuines earneſtly occupied. Mark heere good reader, and conſider what an vglyugly and fearefull monſter this would haue beene, if God had not come downe and …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wilt bee nice in wearing a bad shoo, yet carest not to carry an vglyugly & betattered soule! Alas, doe not thou set so light by that Iewell, which thy …
With rule
… wilt bee nice in wearing a bad shoo, yet carest not to carry an vglyugly & betattered soule! Alas, doe not thou set so light by that Iewell, which thy …
William Perkins · Deaths Knell · Open in the reader
Printed
… it growe incurable. I know there be many, otherwiſe good Chriſtians, that entertaine this vglyugly monſter, who would not doe it to gaine all the worlde, if they knewe …
With rule
… it growe incurable. I know there be many, otherwiſe good Chriſtians, that entertaine this vglyugly monſter, who would not doe it to gaine all the worlde, if they knewe …
Gabriel Powel · Theological and Scholastical Positions Concerning Usury · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lombarde, out of the which you may bee able too cayne vnto vs this vglyugly counterfaite transubstantiation? First, Iesus tooke bread, and brake it: Here as yet yee see …
With rule
… Lombarde, out of the which you may bee able too cayne vnto vs this vglyugly counterfaite transubstantiation? First, Iesus tooke bread, and brake it: Here as yet yee see …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… at any ſignes of the preſence of diuels; if he ſhew himſelfe in any vglyugly forme, they be terrified: and yet neuertheleſſe moſt careleſlie make their owne mindes drunken …
With rule
… at any ſignes of the preſence of diuels; if he ſhew himſelfe in any vglyugly forme, they be terrified: and yet neuertheleſſe moſt careleſlie make their owne mindes drunken …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his doome, yet I must; Hee is already condemned. Hee that embraceth the second vglyugly Hagge, Despaire, barres vp against himselfe the possibility of all comfort: because hee offends …
With rule
… his doome, yet I must; Hee is already condemned. Hee that embraceth the second vglyugly Hagge, Despaire, barres vp against himselfe the possibility of all comfort: because hee offends …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the world, as long as the Romaine Empire monarchically ruled & triumphed, repreſēted by that vglyugly beaſt which had …rō teeth prophecied of in the 7. Daniell, & held the ſterne of …
With rule
… the world, as long as the Romaine Empire monarchically ruled & triumphed, repreſēted by that vglyugly beaſt which had …rō teeth prophecied of in the 7. Daniell, & held the ſterne of …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so in the eye of God his maker, and iudge. Sinne is a monstrous, vglyugly, defiling thing: for none can possibly wash away that filth which it draweth vpon …
With rule
… so in the eye of God his maker, and iudge. Sinne is a monstrous, vglyugly, defiling thing: for none can possibly wash away that filth which it draweth vpon …
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 120 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

Printed
… nothing else to make him famous, (I should say infamous,) but an Effeminate, Ruffianly, VglyUgly, and d…formed Locke. And is not this a sure Badge, and Character, of …
With rule
… nothing else to make him famous, (I should say infamous,) but an Effeminate, Ruffianly, VglyUgly, and d…formed Locke. And is not this a sure Badge, and Character, of …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they can finde no spare, nor leasure time, to Dresse, Adorne, or Beautifie, their VglyUgly, Filthy, Naked, Poore, and vnadorned Soules, (which lye Rotting, and stinking in the dregg …
With rule
… they can finde no spare, nor leasure time, to Dresse, Adorne, or Beautifie, their VglyUgly, Filthy, Naked, Poore, and vnadorned Soules, (which lye Rotting, and stinking in the dregg …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 59 · Open in the reader