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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #940 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

belieuebelieve

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

Puritas changed it
1,972 times in 239 works
Consistency
100% (1,972 of 1,972)
Reach if approved
~2,072 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: believe
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,972 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,972 changes in 239 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,972)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … But, (that I may, yet once, make you more agast) in that, I doe belieuebelieve it, I, even therefore, deny Catholicke, or Vniversalitie, to bee a proper Marke of …
    With rule
    … But, (that I may, yet once, make you more agast) in that, I doe belieuebelieve it, I, even therefore, deny Catholicke, or Vniversalitie, to bee a proper Marke of …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … others. Whereas therefore in our Beliefe, in the ſingular number each one ſaith, I belieuebelieve, in Prayer each one ſaith in the plurall, Our Father, giue vs, forgiue vs …
    With rule
    … others. Whereas therefore in our Beliefe, in the ſingular number each one ſaith, I belieuebelieve, in Prayer each one ſaith in the plurall, Our Father, giue vs, forgiue vs …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that he ſhall riſe againe. So it is in this preſent matter; All that belieuebelieve ſh…ll bee ſaued: this propoſition is of faith becauſe it is immediately reuealed …
    With rule
    … that he ſhall riſe againe. So it is in this preſent matter; All that belieuebelieve ſh…ll bee ſaued: this propoſition is of faith becauſe it is immediately reuealed …

    John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Popery, tels vs that therefore God would send them strong delusions that they should belieuebelieve any lye, because they would not receiue the truth with loue when it was …
    With rule
    … Popery, tels vs that therefore God would send them strong delusions that they should belieuebelieve any lye, because they would not receiue the truth with loue when it was …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 313 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … continuance of times, or supportation of persons can preiudice the truth? If they wil belieuebelieve Tertulliā, their book of cōmon prayer, their Prelacy, Priesthood, crosse, surplice, and the like …
    With rule
    … continuance of times, or supportation of persons can preiudice the truth? If they wil belieuebelieve Tertulliā, their book of cōmon prayer, their Prelacy, Priesthood, crosse, surplice, and the like …

    Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſubtilty of Sathan, ſlyly leading vs into one of the extreams, to make vs belieuebelieve; either, that the day of the Lord ſhall never come, or elſe that it …
    With rule
    … ſubtilty of Sathan, ſlyly leading vs into one of the extreams, to make vs belieuebelieve; either, that the day of the Lord ſhall never come, or elſe that it …

    Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to fulfill the whole Law for their Iustification, to what end is it to belieuebelieve in Christ, vnto Righteousnesse and Iustification? If when all is doen we must be …
    With rule
    … to fulfill the whole Law for their Iustification, to what end is it to belieuebelieve in Christ, vnto Righteousnesse and Iustification? If when all is doen we must be …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that Christ liues in him: and this al men can say that repent and belieuebelieve, and are iustified & sanctified, & haue peace of conscience, with other gifts of Gods spirit …
    With rule
    … that Christ liues in him: and this al men can say that repent and belieuebelieve, and are iustified & sanctified, & haue peace of conscience, with other gifts of Gods spirit …

    William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 33 · 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.