Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7868 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vsurieusury

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

Puritas changed it: 2,620 times in 222 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,620 of 2,622)
Reach if approved: ~2,758 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usury
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,625 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,620 changes in 222 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,620)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… common mothers bellie. Let vs learne to eschue avarice, greedines of landes and geare, vsurieusury, oppression, and all vther vnlawfull meanes customablie vsed, for attaining to ritches and honors …
With rule
… common mothers bellie. Let vs learne to eschue avarice, greedines of landes and geare, vsurieusury, oppression, and all vther vnlawfull meanes customablie vsed, for attaining to ritches and honors …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on the head of his poore tenant? Why behold we in our cities biting vſurieusury, violence, oppreſsion, falſe dealing? Certainely God is even now pleaſed to afflict men by …
With rule
… on the head of his poore tenant? Why behold we in our cities biting vſurieusury, violence, oppreſsion, falſe dealing? Certainely God is even now pleaſed to afflict men by …
Sebastian Benefield · The Haven of the Afflicted · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
First, such as are content to grow in wealth either by oppression, as vsurieusury or extortion; or by craft and dissembling, or by any other such indirect course …
With rule
First, such as are content to grow in wealth either by oppression, as vsurieusury or extortion; or by craft and dissembling, or by any other such indirect course …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 178 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is to be found; where much preaching is, yet sinne abounds, as adultery, blasphemie, vsurieusury, and cruelty: and the cause is for that this seuere execution of gouernment in …
With rule
… is to be found; where much preaching is, yet sinne abounds, as adultery, blasphemie, vsurieusury, and cruelty: and the cause is for that this seuere execution of gouernment in …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
VſurieUsury, that is, the gaine which a man either by couenant or without couenant, doth …
With rule
VſurieUsury, that is, the gaine which a man either by couenant or without couenant, doth …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
66 Againſt couetouſnes and vſurieusury.
With rule
66 Againſt couetouſnes and vſurieusury.
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brethren poſſeſsions of Lands? Were they not moſt vngodlie and wicked, which with multiplying vſurieusury did increaſe their gaine? But Cyprian did waſh his hands with innocents, and compaſſed …
With rule
… brethren poſſeſsions of Lands? Were they not moſt vngodlie and wicked, which with multiplying vſurieusury did increaſe their gaine? But Cyprian did waſh his hands with innocents, and compaſſed …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fire shall decide the question. I haue no other trade to liue on, but vsurieusury: only the Deuill first made vsury a trade. But can this plea in the …
With rule
… fire shall decide the question. I haue no other trade to liue on, but vsurieusury: only the Deuill first made vsury a trade. But can this plea in the …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 50 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Works A02178

Printed
1 VSurieUsury is the diuels Alchymistrie to turne siluer into golde; it is lucre by lending …
With rule
1 VSurieUsury is the diuels Alchymistrie to turne siluer into golde; it is lucre by lending …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 41 · Open in the reader