Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #854 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

positiuelypositively

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

Puritas changed it: 151 times in 88 works
Consistency: 100% (151 of 151)
Reach if approved: ~159 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: positively
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 151 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (151 changes in 88 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 151)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Affirmatiuely therefore he was forſaken: both poſitiuelypositively in that God the father powred vpon him the infinite ſea of his wrath …
With rule
Affirmatiuely therefore he was forſaken: both poſitiuelypositively in that God the father powred vpon him the infinite ſea of his wrath …
John Smyth · The Bright Morning Star · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more, the Romane separation maintayneth. And where they affirme and set downe any thing positiuelypositively, they affirme their owne fantasies (the doctrine of the Trinitie onely and some few …
With rule
… more, the Romane separation maintayneth. And where they affirme and set downe any thing positiuelypositively, they affirme their owne fantasies (the doctrine of the Trinitie onely and some few …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… law, as forbidding, and yet performes his act. Now the will of God is poſitiuelypositively carried vnto neither of both; but permiſſiuely to the creature, and accidentally to the …
With rule
… law, as forbidding, and yet performes his act. Now the will of God is poſitiuelypositively carried vnto neither of both; but permiſſiuely to the creature, and accidentally to the …
John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vsually worketh vpon mens affections, these must not overthrow Gods fundamentall truthes, laid downe positiuelypositively and expresly in his word, whereupon our judgements and faith must rest firme and …
With rule
… vsually worketh vpon mens affections, these must not overthrow Gods fundamentall truthes, laid downe positiuelypositively and expresly in his word, whereupon our judgements and faith must rest firme and …
Henry Burton · The Seven Vials · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… must bee declined by all those which would come to happinesse; in this, propounds positiuelypositively the path which without faile wil bring us to it, if we follow it …
With rule
… must bee declined by all those which would come to happinesse; in this, propounds positiuelypositively the path which without faile wil bring us to it, if we follow it …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… concerning the choise of Widowes. So as they cannot hereby maintaine, that all things positiuelypositively commanded concerning the affaires of the Church, were commanded for perpetuitie. And we do …
With rule
… concerning the choise of Widowes. So as they cannot hereby maintaine, that all things positiuelypositively commanded concerning the affaires of the Church, were commanded for perpetuitie. And we do …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they be offenſiue, not decent, not to Gods glory: deciding within themſelues, ſometimes poſitiuelypositively, that which an other makes diſputable, by conference with whom their former concluſion is …
With rule
… that they be offenſiue, not decent, not to Gods glory: deciding within themſelues, ſometimes poſitiuelypositively, that which an other makes diſputable, by conference with whom their former concluſion is …
Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 213 · Open in the reader
Printed
For first, the Scriptures doe positiuelypositively informe vs; that Righteousnesse… hath no fellowship with Vnrighteousnesse; nor Light with Darkenesse: that …
With rule
For first, the Scriptures doe positiuelypositively informe vs; that Righteousnesse… hath no fellowship with Vnrighteousnesse; nor Light with Darkenesse: that …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 25 · 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.