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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #823 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

impouerishimpoverish

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

Puritas changed it
80 times in 60 works
Consistency
98.7% (80 of 81)
Reach if approved
~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: impoverish
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (80 changes in 60 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 80)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Perhaps, some wil not take so much: but most will take some; enough to impouerishimpoverish the Church, to enrich their owne purses, to damne their soules.
    With rule
    … Perhaps, some wil not take so much: but most will take some; enough to impouerishimpoverish the Church, to enrich their owne purses, to damne their soules.

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 134 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … proverbially: I owe him nothing but loue. The communication of this riches doth not impouerishimpoverish the proprietary: the more hee spends of his stocke, the more hee hath. There …
    With rule
    … proverbially: I owe him nothing but loue. The communication of this riches doth not impouerishimpoverish the proprietary: the more hee spends of his stocke, the more hee hath. There …

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … folly and ſottiſhneſſe of all Perſecutors, who thinke it neceſſarie for their peace, to impoueriſhimpoverish, ſpoile, and torment, the Ambaſſadours of Ieſus Chriſt and ſeruants of God, and then …
    With rule
    … folly and ſottiſhneſſe of all Perſecutors, who thinke it neceſſarie for their peace, to impoueriſhimpoverish, ſpoile, and torment, the Ambaſſadours of Ieſus Chriſt and ſeruants of God, and then …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 299 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and vexeth, Matth. 4.24. and also in his estate, which he doth often endammage and impouerishimpoverish, as we see in Iob.
    With rule
    … and vexeth, Matth. 4.24. and also in his estate, which he doth often endammage and impouerishimpoverish, as we see in Iob.

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 332 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ho…, I doe now accept of my present trouble, that outwardly is like to impouerishimpoverish me. And the tyme thereof, drawes me the more heedfully to consider it, being …
    With rule
    … ho…, I doe now accept of my present trouble, that outwardly is like to impouerishimpoverish me. And the tyme thereof, drawes me the more heedfully to consider it, being …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ariſe in the third place, and leaue all your ſins, that you may not impoueriſhimpoverish your owne perſons, and bring your ſelues and your poſterity to meere beggery, eſpecially …
    With rule
    … ariſe in the third place, and leaue all your ſins, that you may not impoueriſhimpoverish your owne perſons, and bring your ſelues and your poſterity to meere beggery, eſpecially …

    Robert Cleaver · Four Sermons · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſecret obiection which might hinder them in their liberality, namely that hereby they ſhould impoueriſhimpoverish their eſtates, and bring themſelues to want: aſſuring them that there was no cauſe …
    With rule
    … ſecret obiection which might hinder them in their liberality, namely that hereby they ſhould impoueriſhimpoverish their eſtates, and bring themſelues to want: aſſuring them that there was no cauſe …

    John Downame · The Plea of the Poor · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … whereof commeth that, but bycauſe God diſfurniſheth them of all wit and reaſon, to impoueriſhimpoverish them after that ſorte? Thus yee ſee what wee haue to marke in the …
    With rule
    … whereof commeth that, but bycauſe God diſfurniſheth them of all wit and reaſon, to impoueriſhimpoverish them after that ſorte? Thus yee ſee what wee haue to marke in the …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 797 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Heaven and Earth Reconciled A02054

  • Printed
    3. ImpouerishImpoverish not: I doe not say, make vs rich by your owne pouertie, as your …
    With rule
    3. ImpouerishImpoverish not: I doe not say, make vs rich by your owne pouertie, as your …

    Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 20 · Open in the reader