Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7768 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vsurpeusurp

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 639 times in 270 works
Consistency: 99.5% (639 of 642)
Reach if approved: ~675 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usurp
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 642 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (639 changes in 270 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 639)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for being often, of mens free accords conſulted withall, he beganne at length, to vſurpeusurp dominion, as if nothing were firme or to be ratified without his priuity and …
With rule
… for being often, of mens free accords conſulted withall, he beganne at length, to vſurpeusurp dominion, as if nothing were firme or to be ratified without his priuity and …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before is proued, of speakinge in the congregation, and hath expreslie forbidden them to vsurpeusurp any kinde of authoritie aboue man. Howe then will he suffer them to reigne …
With rule
… before is proued, of speakinge in the congregation, and hath expreslie forbidden them to vsurpeusurp any kinde of authoritie aboue man. Howe then will he suffer them to reigne …
John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · Open in the reader
Printed
… doo that: or at the leaſt doo it very coldely, and yet notwithſtanding we vſurpeusurp the cuſtody that he hath ouer vs, as if he (after he had made …
With rule
… doo that: or at the leaſt doo it very coldely, and yet notwithſtanding we vſurpeusurp the cuſtody that he hath ouer vs, as if he (after he had made …
Martin Luther · Certain Meditations of Perfect Consolation · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is, that we keepe not the authoritie and chiefedome in all matters: that women vſurpeusurp anie parte of it: that they be giuen to gadding and to meddle with …
With rule
… is, that we keepe not the authoritie and chiefedome in all matters: that women vſurpeusurp anie parte of it: that they be giuen to gadding and to meddle with …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… their wealth, their lands and goods are none of their owne before God; they vsurpeusurp, and possesse the same wrongfully, and for it, one day shall giue an account …
With rule
… their wealth, their lands and goods are none of their owne before God; they vsurpeusurp, and possesse the same wrongfully, and for it, one day shall giue an account …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to receiue the comforts of saluation; that suffers his reason, will, and affections, to vsurpeusurp vpon his faith.
With rule
… to receiue the comforts of saluation; that suffers his reason, will, and affections, to vsurpeusurp vpon his faith.
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpeaches, as their deedes, make manifeſt. And ſo conſequentlie, That his pretended Succeſſours wrongfullie vſurpeusurp the ſame.
With rule
… ſpeaches, as their deedes, make manifeſt. And ſo conſequentlie, That his pretended Succeſſours wrongfullie vſurpeusurp the ſame.
William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be content to doe so: but it is high sacriledge for any man to vsurpeusurp this piuiledge of God; all men may and oftentimes doe erre. So that we …
With rule
… be content to doe so: but it is high sacriledge for any man to vsurpeusurp this piuiledge of God; all men may and oftentimes doe erre. So that we …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 150 · 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.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
VsurpeUsurp.
With rule
VsurpeUsurp.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
That no man ought to VsurpeUsurp vppon that which is not permitted him.
With rule
That no man ought to VsurpeUsurp vppon that which is not permitted him.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader