Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8283 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vglieugly

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

Puritas changed it: 80 times in 44 works
Consistency: 100% (80 of 80)
Reach if approved: ~84 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ugly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 80 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 44 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 80)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… feare, in the darke men take some litle cat or dog to be an vglieugly deuill. As not long since a rugged water Spaniell hauing a chaine, came to …
With rule
… feare, in the darke men take some litle cat or dog to be an vglieugly deuill. As not long since a rugged water Spaniell hauing a chaine, came to …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… is no man knowing it, can he so simple as not to see an vglieugly: shape thereof apparent many times in reiecting honours offered, then in the very exacting …
With rule
… is no man knowing it, can he so simple as not to see an vglieugly: shape thereof apparent many times in reiecting honours offered, then in the very exacting …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Nature of Pride · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
Than rais the re…k with vglieugly crakkis.
With rule
Than rais the re…k with vglieugly crakkis.
David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader
Printed
… He commends wickedneſſe with titles of goodneſſe: He puts a faire vizour ouer the vglieugly face of ſinne. Exceſſiue pride muſt be cleanely decency; no pompe. Filthy luſt, but …
With rule
… He commends wickedneſſe with titles of goodneſſe: He puts a faire vizour ouer the vglieugly face of ſinne. Exceſſiue pride muſt be cleanely decency; no pompe. Filthy luſt, but …
Richard Bernard · Contemplative Pictures with Wholesome Precepts Part 1 · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… driuels, his tongue faulters, his face flames, his handes tremble, hys feete reele? how vglieugly, how monſtrous, how loathſome doth he ſeeme to thee, ſo loathſome doſt thou ſeeme …
With rule
… driuels, his tongue faulters, his face flames, his handes tremble, hys feete reele? how vglieugly, how monſtrous, how loathſome doth he ſeeme to thee, ſo loathſome doſt thou ſeeme …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 583 · Open in the reader
Printed
… angels of light, do leade more soules to hell, then the feends of most vglieugly shape appearing in their owne proper colours. Man. p. 81. b.
With rule
… angels of light, do leade more soules to hell, then the feends of most vglieugly shape appearing in their owne proper colours. Man. p. 81. b.
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… little while agoe went bragging vp and downe in coſtly apparell, is now an vglieugly ſmell to the noſe: There the hardie Giant, is faine to play ſtoupe gallaunts …
With rule
… little while agoe went bragging vp and downe in coſtly apparell, is now an vglieugly ſmell to the noſe: There the hardie Giant, is faine to play ſtoupe gallaunts …
Miles Coverdale · Fruitful Lessons Upon the Passion Burial Resurrection Ascension · Open in the reader
Printed
… pleasing, that naturall; is in vs all. If thou haddest once seene what on vglieugly and deformed face thy heart hath, if thou knewest, what horrible filthinesse, and corruption …
With rule
… pleasing, that naturall; is in vs all. If thou haddest once seene what on vglieugly and deformed face thy heart hath, if thou knewest, what horrible filthinesse, and corruption …
Daniel Dyke · The Mystery of Self-Deceiving · p. 311 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.