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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #725 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obseruableobservable

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

Puritas changed it
181 times in 90 works
Consistency
98.3% (181 of 184)
Reach if approved
~193 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: observable
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
184 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (181 changes in 90 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 181)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … giue me leaue to trauerse them once againe, since repetition will make them more obseruableobservable. First, it is euident by this Letter, that the Articles of Lambheth are no …
    With rule
    … giue me leaue to trauerse them once againe, since repetition will make them more obseruableobservable. First, it is euident by this Letter, that the Articles of Lambheth are no …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … his brothers ill-will in the reſt. In the former theſe three things are obſeruableobservable. Firſt, his Fathers readineſſe to receiue him, verſe 20. Secondly, the entertainment hee gaue him …
    With rule
    … his brothers ill-will in the reſt. In the former theſe three things are obſeruableobservable. Firſt, his Fathers readineſſe to receiue him, verſe 20. Secondly, the entertainment hee gaue him …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 221 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Wherein are obſeruableobservable,
    With rule
    Wherein are obſeruableobservable,

    Samuel Smith · The Admirable Convert · p. 414 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … God and nature maketh a man a Magistrate in his owne case. It is obseruableobservable that Abishai might not by priuate reuenge defend the publicke and supreame Magistrate, nor …
    With rule
    … God and nature maketh a man a Magistrate in his owne case. It is obseruableobservable that Abishai might not by priuate reuenge defend the publicke and supreame Magistrate, nor …

    Thomas Taylor · The Value of True Valor · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    In Christs ascension 3. points obseruableobservable:
    With rule
    In Christs ascension 3. points obseruableobservable:

    John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … not in meates and drinkes, neither in feasting or fasting: and Tertullian's censure is obseruableobservable. Hee that worshippeth God by meates, or placeth worship in them, is not farre …
    With rule
    … not in meates and drinkes, neither in feasting or fasting: and Tertullian's censure is obseruableobservable. Hee that worshippeth God by meates, or placeth worship in them, is not farre …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 260 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of Sanctification: euery blot in vs, is so much more dangerous, as tiis more obseruableobservable: euery Learner is apt to taxe his precedent, if faultie: he hath need to …
    With rule
    … of Sanctification: euery blot in vs, is so much more dangerous, as tiis more obseruableobservable: euery Learner is apt to taxe his precedent, if faultie: he hath need to …

    Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … comfortable reason, which vpon reading I could not but muse on. His words are obseruableobservable, and they are these. It is questionable why this Prophecie is written among the …
    With rule
    … comfortable reason, which vpon reading I could not but muse on. His words are obseruableobservable, and they are these. It is questionable why this Prophecie is written among the …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

The Scholars Purgatory Discovered A15655

  • Printed
    Others againe buze in the peoples eares that the Hymnes for the ObseruableObservable tymes are popish, and tending to the maintenance of superstition.
    With rule
    Others againe buze in the peoples eares that the Hymnes for the ObseruableObservable tymes are popish, and tending to the maintenance of superstition.

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and me the greatest iniury: and that is in pretending my Hymnes for the ObseruableObservable tymes, to be furtherances to Popery and superstition. When they cannot bring men to …
    With rule
    … and me the greatest iniury: and that is in pretending my Hymnes for the ObseruableObservable tymes, to be furtherances to Popery and superstition. When they cannot bring men to …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … layd on my Booke, Many haue confessed vnto me that my Hymnes for the ObseruableObservable Tymes and their Prefaces, haue made them more reverently affected towards that Discipline then …
    With rule
    … layd on my Booke, Many haue confessed vnto me that my Hymnes for the ObseruableObservable Tymes and their Prefaces, haue made them more reverently affected towards that Discipline then …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 67 · Open in the reader