Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #703 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

excessiuelyexcessively

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

Puritas changed it: 174 times in 118 works
Consistency: 98.8% (174 of 176)
Reach if approved: ~185 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: excessively
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 176 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (174 changes in 118 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 174)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… two yeeres old and vnder. The ſecond kind of crueltie conſiſteth in puniſhing tranſgreſsions exceſsiuelyexcessively, and wyth greater rigour than they deſerue. I call thoſe men cruell, ſayth Seneca …
With rule
… two yeeres old and vnder. The ſecond kind of crueltie conſiſteth in puniſhing tranſgreſsions exceſsiuelyexcessively, and wyth greater rigour than they deſerue. I call thoſe men cruell, ſayth Seneca …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 357 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heate, if vnto him be geuen cold fruites, and alſo cold drinke, whereof he exceſſiuelyexcessively taketh, theſe things are corrupted in his ſtomack, the choler is encreaſed, and is …
With rule
… heate, if vnto him be geuen cold fruites, and alſo cold drinke, whereof he exceſſiuelyexcessively taketh, theſe things are corrupted in his ſtomack, the choler is encreaſed, and is …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his deliuerance was neere at hand. 2. Dauid weepeth together with the rest, and that excessiuelyexcessively, but they for their present losse, that their wiues and children were caried away …
With rule
… his deliuerance was neere at hand. 2. Dauid weepeth together with the rest, and that excessiuelyexcessively, but they for their present losse, that their wiues and children were caried away …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hardened to fall away from the liuing God. For if we loue a thing excessiuelyexcessively, our loue groweth to lust, and our lust drawes on to the often vse …
With rule
… hardened to fall away from the liuing God. For if we loue a thing excessiuelyexcessively, our loue groweth to lust, and our lust drawes on to the often vse …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 672 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they marry, and giue in marriage. That is, they who doe theſe things, are exceſſiuelyexcessively and aboue meaſure, giuen ouer vnto them: or, they doe them ſecurely, ſinfully, and …
With rule
… they marry, and giue in marriage. That is, they who doe theſe things, are exceſſiuelyexcessively and aboue meaſure, giuen ouer vnto them: or, they doe them ſecurely, ſinfully, and …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… on the faſting dayes, or abſtaine from fleſh, or inure themſelues to certaine prayers, exceſſiuelyexcessively vaunting the traditions of the Church, and of the fathers, yet otherwiſe not eſtéeming …
With rule
… on the faſting dayes, or abſtaine from fleſh, or inure themſelues to certaine prayers, exceſſiuelyexcessively vaunting the traditions of the Church, and of the fathers, yet otherwiſe not eſtéeming …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… verse: If any man will bee rich, &c. that is, when a man desireth excessiuelyexcessively, when he desireth more then food, and rayment convenient for him; now the naturall …
With rule
… verse: If any man will bee rich, &c. that is, when a man desireth excessiuelyexcessively, when he desireth more then food, and rayment convenient for him; now the naturall …
John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and departure of their kinſ-folke and friendes whom they loued well, they mourned exceſſiuelyexcessively, as though there eſtate had beene miſerable: as though after this world there ſhould …
With rule
… and departure of their kinſ-folke and friendes whom they loued well, they mourned exceſſiuelyexcessively, as though there eſtate had beene miſerable: as though after this world there ſhould …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 217 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

Printed
1. ExceſſiuelyExcessively for matter, aboue the nature of the fault, or ſtrength of the ſufferer.
With rule
1. ExceſſiuelyExcessively for matter, aboue the nature of the fault, or ſtrength of the ſufferer.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. ExceſſiuelyExcessively admire them, ſo as to take all things on their word, and neglect others …
With rule
1. ExceſſiuelyExcessively admire them, ſo as to take all things on their word, and neglect others …
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 139 · Open in the reader