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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #925 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abortiueabortive

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

Puritas changed it
77 times in 52 works
Consistency
100% (77 of 77)
Reach if approved
~81 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abortive
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
77 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (77 changes in 52 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 77)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that rable of obscure Heretiques, whome I compared in the treatise of heresies to abortiueabortive births, such as Opbitae, Caiani, Sethiani and such like: of whom notwithstanding EPIPHANIVS vouchsafeth …
    With rule
    … that rable of obscure Heretiques, whome I compared in the treatise of heresies to abortiueabortive births, such as Opbitae, Caiani, Sethiani and such like: of whom notwithstanding EPIPHANIVS vouchsafeth …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … gaine of the Romish Craftsmen for their Diana, was endangered. So that this their AbortiueAbortive was a hatching for seuen moneths; so long was this Babylonish Ra… wherewith they …
    With rule
    … gaine of the Romish Craftsmen for their Diana, was endangered. So that this their AbortiueAbortive was a hatching for seuen moneths; so long was this Babylonish Ra… wherewith they …

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of ſuch monſtrous deuiſes, ſo ignorant, ſo erroneous, ſo ſlaunderons, ſo impious, had bene abortiueabortive, vntimely, and too ſoon. For this cauſe I haue dealt more roundly and freely …
    With rule
    … of ſuch monſtrous deuiſes, ſo ignorant, ſo erroneous, ſo ſlaunderons, ſo impious, had bene abortiueabortive, vntimely, and too ſoon. For this cauſe I haue dealt more roundly and freely …

    John Darrell · Reply to John Deacon · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their deliberations, and ſo their counſayles and deſignes prooue imperfect and without lyfe, lyke abortiueabortive byrthes which are borne before theyr time.
    With rule
    … their deliberations, and ſo their counſayles and deſignes prooue imperfect and without lyfe, lyke abortiueabortive byrthes which are borne before theyr time.

    John Downame · Spiritual Physic to Cure the Diseases of the Soul · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    16 Or as an abortiueabortive being hidden, had neuer bene: like vnto those little ones which neuer see light.
    With rule
    16 Or as an abortiueabortive being hidden, had neuer bene: like vnto those little ones which neuer see light.

    Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and can finde no intermiſſion of painefull throwes, till ſhee haue brought forth her abortiueabortive deſires: How happy were we, if our affectation could be ſo eager of ſpiritual …
    With rule
    … and can finde no intermiſſion of painefull throwes, till ſhee haue brought forth her abortiueabortive deſires: How happy were we, if our affectation could be ſo eager of ſpiritual …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 317 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … meete with, no not by death it selfe. Andreas: Those are found to be abortiueabortive or vntimely borne children, who haue departed from the true light, which is Christ …
    With rule
    … meete with, no not by death it selfe. Andreas: Those are found to be abortiueabortive or vntimely borne children, who haue departed from the true light, which is Christ …

    William Perkins · Predestination · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … all the women in Rome, (foure hundred miles from thence) for verie horrour proued abortiueabortive: and when hee came an hundred miles neerer, his terrible noise shooke the teeth …
    With rule
    … all the women in Rome, (foure hundred miles from thence) for verie horrour proued abortiueabortive: and when hee came an hundred miles neerer, his terrible noise shooke the teeth …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 182 · 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.