Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #837 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mischieuousmischievous

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

Puritas changed it: 367 times in 193 works
Consistency: 100% (367 of 367)
Reach if approved: ~386 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mischievous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 367 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (367 changes in 193 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 367)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Babylon your mother, in whose name you threaten vs, as one priuy of her mischieuousmischievous and malitious deuises, shall neuer bring to passe that pestilent plat forme which was …
With rule
… Babylon your mother, in whose name you threaten vs, as one priuy of her mischieuousmischievous and malitious deuises, shall neuer bring to passe that pestilent plat forme which was …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his Plots; which because hee gaue disastrous, the angry Duke begun to his mischieuousmischievous intendments, in the Fate-tellers blood. Can they read other mens Fates in the …
With rule
… of his Plots; which because hee gaue disastrous, the angry Duke begun to his mischieuousmischievous intendments, in the Fate-tellers blood. Can they read other mens Fates in the …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… force. Not raunſome, or mayntayne his fanly, with the deſtruction & death of bys countrey. MiſchieuousMischievous is this pol…e…e, with the loſſe and ruyne of the Realine, to …
With rule
… force. Not raunſome, or mayntayne his fanly, with the deſtruction & death of bys countrey. MiſchieuousMischievous is this pol…e…e, with the loſſe and ruyne of the Realine, to …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… whiche ye haue ſoundly learned: take ye heede therfore, for they be ſuche a miſchieuousmischievous and flye generation, that thei will ſuttlie and ſodainly ſteale a waye mens conſciences …
With rule
… whiche ye haue ſoundly learned: take ye heede therfore, for they be ſuche a miſchieuousmischievous and flye generation, that thei will ſuttlie and ſodainly ſteale a waye mens conſciences …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is done by ſinne againſt euery party offending. Who could euer endure the miſchieuousmischievous working of ſuch a ſpitefull enemie and malitious make-bate, as will be ſure …
With rule
… which is done by ſinne againſt euery party offending. Who could euer endure the miſchieuousmischievous working of ſuch a ſpitefull enemie and malitious make-bate, as will be ſure …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 302 · Open in the reader
Printed
… followeth death, or at least some mischiefe. For VVitches are wont to practise their mischieuousmischievous facts by cursing and banning. This also is a sufficient matter of Examination, not …
With rule
… followeth death, or at least some mischiefe. For VVitches are wont to practise their mischieuousmischievous facts by cursing and banning. This also is a sufficient matter of Examination, not …
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very conuenient and behoofefull, both for Christian souldiers to be well practised, against the mischieuousmischievous attempts of their enemies; and the golde of Christian truth to be throughly clensed …
With rule
… very conuenient and behoofefull, both for Christian souldiers to be well practised, against the mischieuousmischievous attempts of their enemies; and the golde of Christian truth to be throughly clensed …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 706 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at insensible things: as Xerxes wrote a defying letter to Athos a Thracian mountaine. MischieuousMischievous Athos, lifted vp to heauen, make thy quarries passable to my trauell, or I …
With rule
… at insensible things: as Xerxes wrote a defying letter to Athos a Thracian mountaine. MischieuousMischievous Athos, lifted vp to heauen, make thy quarries passable to my trauell, or I …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 12 · 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.