Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #664 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vsurersusurers

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

Puritas changed it: 430 times in 117 works
Consistency: 53.6% (430 of 802)
Reach if approved: ~843 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usurers
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 802 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: userers (372)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (430 changes in 117 works, 53.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 430)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Oh worthy example to all oppreſſors, or VſurersUsurers! with whom all is fiſh that commeth to net: and which (whoſoeuer ſmart for …
With rule
Oh worthy example to all oppreſſors, or VſurersUsurers! with whom all is fiſh that commeth to net: and which (whoſoeuer ſmart for …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rich, and VſurersUsurers will be welthy. But rich Publicans make poore princes, and wealthy VſurersUsurers make many beggers. In euery Prouince there were many Publicans, and therefore much poore …
With rule
… rich, and VſurersUsurers will be welthy. But rich Publicans make poore princes, and wealthy VſurersUsurers make many beggers. In euery Prouince there were many Publicans, and therefore much poore …
Henry Smith · The Sinners Conversion · Open in the reader
Printed
… sticke to the Law of the Land, which indeed allow it not, but supposing VsurersUsurers to be cruell, enacts a Law against their cruelty? What is the reason that …
With rule
… sticke to the Law of the Land, which indeed allow it not, but supposing VsurersUsurers to be cruell, enacts a Law against their cruelty? What is the reason that …
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of debt will doe more good with a hundreth, then a man vnder the VſurersUsurers chain with a thouſand pound a yeere, yea and much more chearefully. Let vs …
With rule
… of debt will doe more good with a hundreth, then a man vnder the VſurersUsurers chain with a thouſand pound a yeere, yea and much more chearefully. Let vs …
Henry Wilkinson Sr · The Debt Book · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… e is fed vvith the officious complements of obseruant Groomes. Extortion battens in the VsurersUsurers affections by the trolling in of his monies. Sacriledge thriues in the Church-robber …
With rule
… e is fed vvith the officious complements of obseruant Groomes. Extortion battens in the VsurersUsurers affections by the trolling in of his monies. Sacriledge thriues in the Church-robber …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but comparatiuely to be taken: that we ſhold be ſo farre from the cruell VſurersUsurers mind, who is reſolued to haue both principall and intereſt, or, rather then faile …
With rule
… but comparatiuely to be taken: that we ſhold be ſo farre from the cruell VſurersUsurers mind, who is reſolued to haue both principall and intereſt, or, rather then faile …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aſpidis venenatum. And that you may know what is foreign Neſhech, your friend (as the VſurersUsurers report, if any will beleeve them) Maſter Zanch. will ſhew. Neſhech, Morſus eſt, quo …
With rule
… aſpidis venenatum. And that you may know what is foreign Neſhech, your friend (as the VſurersUsurers report, if any will beleeve them) Maſter Zanch. will ſhew. Neſhech, Morſus eſt, quo …
Nathanael Homes · Usury is Injury Cleared · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… therefore Vsury was a finne onely in Nobles and Rulers; or that none were VsurersUsurers then but the Nobles and Rulers.
With rule
… therefore Vsury was a finne onely in Nobles and Rulers; or that none were VsurersUsurers then but the Nobles and Rulers.
William Pemble · The Period of the Persian Monarchy · p. 71 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.