Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #852 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pensiuepensive

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

Puritas changed it: 135 times in 92 works
Consistency: 98.5% (135 of 137)
Reach if approved: ~144 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pensive
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 137 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (135 changes in 92 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 135)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… any one of theſe were cauſe ſufficient to make the children of God heauy, penſiuepensive and ſorrowfull, for their ſtrength is not the ſtrength of ſtones, nor their fleſh …
With rule
… any one of theſe were cauſe ſufficient to make the children of God heauy, penſiuepensive and ſorrowfull, for their ſtrength is not the ſtrength of ſtones, nor their fleſh …
Richard Rogers · Sermons · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blessed him, and knoweth not how to beginne to bee thankfull: Hee is more pensiuepensive how to pay the debt of gratitude to God, than puft vp in taking …
With rule
… blessed him, and knoweth not how to beginne to bee thankfull: Hee is more pensiuepensive how to pay the debt of gratitude to God, than puft vp in taking …
William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… therefore first naturally allayed Sauls melancholy passions, and cheared and reuiued his dead and pensiuepensive spirits, which were the instruments of Sathans working. Pellican. 4. And beside this, Dauid by …
With rule
… therefore first naturally allayed Sauls melancholy passions, and cheared and reuiued his dead and pensiuepensive spirits, which were the instruments of Sathans working. Pellican. 4. And beside this, Dauid by …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his Wife, the possibility of Issue in reason extinct, and such like doubtfull and pensiuepensive thoughtes, might in the meane season passe too and fro in his troubled heart …
With rule
… his Wife, the possibility of Issue in reason extinct, and such like doubtfull and pensiuepensive thoughtes, might in the meane season passe too and fro in his troubled heart …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
§ penſiuepensive, ſorrowfull.
With rule
§ penſiuepensive, ſorrowfull.
Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the liuing; but when they fal into some sinne, and become vnthankfull or pensiuepensive, there comes a dulnes and deadnes of heart, they are not able to see …
With rule
… of the liuing; but when they fal into some sinne, and become vnthankfull or pensiuepensive, there comes a dulnes and deadnes of heart, they are not able to see …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 497 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our common and his peculiar imperfection, whom this cause should not haue made so pensiuepensive. To grieue at this is to grieue where we should not, because this griefe …
With rule
… our common and his peculiar imperfection, whom this cause should not haue made so pensiuepensive. To grieue at this is to grieue where we should not, because this griefe …
Richard Hooker · A Remedy Against Sorrow and Fear · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other thynge gathered. Wherfore this sermon is belongynge to Christians, that they be not pensiuepensive, nor saye: what shall we eate or drinke, or what clothynge shall we weare …
With rule
… other thynge gathered. Wherfore this sermon is belongynge to Christians, that they be not pensiuepensive, nor saye: what shall we eate or drinke, or what clothynge shall we weare …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… precious a relique, I ſee him take it vp, and caſt it about him: PenſiuePensive and maſterleſſe doth hee now come backe to the bankes of Iordan, whoſe ſtreame …
With rule
… precious a relique, I ſee him take it vp, and caſt it about him: PenſiuePensive and maſterleſſe doth hee now come backe to the bankes of Iordan, whoſe ſtreame …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1372 · Open in the reader

History of the Old Testament Volume 7 B13857

Printed
… precious a relique, I ſee him take it vp, and caſt it about him; PenſiuePensive and maſterleſſe doth hee now come backe to the bankes of Iordan, whoſe ſtreame …
With rule
… precious a relique, I ſee him take it vp, and caſt it about him; PenſiuePensive and maſterleſſe doth hee now come backe to the bankes of Iordan, whoſe ſtreame …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 7 · p. 358 · Open in the reader