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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #851 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

peeuishpeevish

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

Puritas changed it
162 times in 101 works
Consistency
98.1% (162 of 165)
Reach if approved
~173 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: peevish
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
165 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (162 changes in 101 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 162)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … learne of King Dauid, the man after Gods owne heart (& wiſer then the moſt peeuiſhpeevish ſchiſmaticke, or opinionaries) who ſaith: Lord, I do not exerciſe my ſelfe in great …
    With rule
    … learne of King Dauid, the man after Gods owne heart (& wiſer then the moſt peeuiſhpeevish ſchiſmaticke, or opinionaries) who ſaith: Lord, I do not exerciſe my ſelfe in great …

    William Whately · The View and Downfall of Pride · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … goe further forwarde then is mere: and partly we are withholden and restrained with peeuishpeevish fearfulnesse: and wofull experience sheweth that we are destitute of the grace of God …
    With rule
    … goe further forwarde then is mere: and partly we are withholden and restrained with peeuishpeevish fearfulnesse: and wofull experience sheweth that we are destitute of the grace of God …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 638 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that Ieſabell ſlew y• iuſte man Naboth with ye Lords Prophets. Or elſe by peeuiſhpeevish pitie and fooliſh clemencie do let them eſcape ſkotte frée, whom the Lord commaunded …
    With rule
    … that Ieſabell ſlew y• iuſte man Naboth with ye Lords Prophets. Or elſe by peeuiſhpeevish pitie and fooliſh clemencie do let them eſcape ſkotte frée, whom the Lord commaunded …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Christe, which the Scripture doeth affirme, as well as the other, none but a peeuishpeevish wrangler, woulde take exceptions to our termes. Of the two natures in one person …
    With rule
    … Christe, which the Scripture doeth affirme, as well as the other, none but a peeuishpeevish wrangler, woulde take exceptions to our termes. Of the two natures in one person …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 469 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … quality, they that dwel therein cannot be very sound. And if the Pilot be peeuishpeevish, the passengers may be in great hazard. Besides, inferiours are mutable: If the Abbot …
    With rule
    … quality, they that dwel therein cannot be very sound. And if the Pilot be peeuishpeevish, the passengers may be in great hazard. Besides, inferiours are mutable: If the Abbot …

    William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our Creatour and Redeemer, yea what other contrivance may there be to worke ſuch peeuiſhpeevish wretches, ſuch froward rebels out of one extreame into another, out of deadly hatred …
    With rule
    … our Creatour and Redeemer, yea what other contrivance may there be to worke ſuch peeuiſhpeevish wretches, ſuch froward rebels out of one extreame into another, out of deadly hatred …

    William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the meanes he vſed were ſufficient, had not this people been of ſuch a peeuiſhpeevish and froward diſpoſition.
    With rule
    … the meanes he vſed were ſufficient, had not this people been of ſuch a peeuiſhpeevish and froward diſpoſition.

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 191 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Surpleſſe or the like thing, where wiſe men cry out vpon vs, that with peeuiſhpeevish way wardneſſe and obſtinacy we croſſe our gouerners, and nouriſh diſſentions, Melancth. concil. part …
    With rule
    … Surpleſſe or the like thing, where wiſe men cry out vpon vs, that with peeuiſhpeevish way wardneſſe and obſtinacy we croſſe our gouerners, and nouriſh diſſentions, Melancth. concil. part …

    John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 165 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Galatians A10111

  • Printed
    … who are free, and freed in chriſt. She is too Ceremonious, too Slauiſh, too PeeuiſhPeevish in her Ceremonies, and God which hath aboliſhed his owne rites, muſt needes abhor …
    With rule
    … who are free, and freed in chriſt. She is too Ceremonious, too Slauiſh, too PeeuiſhPeevish in her Ceremonies, and God which hath aboliſhed his owne rites, muſt needes abhor …

    John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 201 · Open in the reader