Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #945 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

breuitybrevity

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

Puritas changed it: 119 times in 74 works
Consistency: 99.1% (119 of 120)
Reach if approved: ~126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: brevity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 120 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (119 changes in 74 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 119)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… City of Niniuie alſo found fauour with God, as did many other, which for breuitybrevity I will omit, and wil bring forth one or two out of the new …
With rule
… City of Niniuie alſo found fauour with God, as did many other, which for breuitybrevity I will omit, and wil bring forth one or two out of the new …
John Bradford · A Double Summons to Repentance and Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
ALthough hee had ſufficiently (as in ſuch breuitybrevity it could be) vnfolded the queſtion of the abrogation of y^e lawe: yet becauſe …
With rule
ALthough hee had ſufficiently (as in ſuch breuitybrevity it could be) vnfolded the queſtion of the abrogation of y^e lawe: yet becauſe …
John Calvin · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… and agreement about counterfeyting: wherein as ther be diuers other abſurd things (…hich for breuitybrevity ſa…e & partli for that they are vnworthy the anſwering I omyt) … this is …
With rule
… and agreement about counterfeyting: wherein as ther be diuers other abſurd things (…hich for breuitybrevity ſa…e & partli for that they are vnworthy the anſwering I omyt) … this is …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will challenge this demonstration. I haue been somewhat copious in the first word; the breuitybrevity of the rest shall recompence it. The operatiue cause, that worketh the good earth …
With rule
… will challenge this demonstration. I haue been somewhat copious in the first word; the breuitybrevity of the rest shall recompence it. The operatiue cause, that worketh the good earth …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
Anſwer. Your many other Arguments which for breuitybrevity ſake (as you ſay) or rather for leuity ſake (as I conceiue) you omit …
With rule
Anſwer. Your many other Arguments which for breuitybrevity ſake (as you ſay) or rather for leuity ſake (as I conceiue) you omit …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all things to be prayed for: if order; the method is diuine: if perſpicuous breuitybrevity; ſo much could not by any onely-created vnderſtanding be compacted into ſo little …
With rule
… all things to be prayed for: if order; the method is diuine: if perſpicuous breuitybrevity; ſo much could not by any onely-created vnderſtanding be compacted into ſo little …
Elnathan Parr · Abba Father · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I could produce more testimonies from this ancient, holy, and learned Father, which for breuitybrevity sake I will omit, but these are sufficient to manifest his assent to our …
With rule
… I could produce more testimonies from this ancient, holy, and learned Father, which for breuitybrevity sake I will omit, but these are sufficient to manifest his assent to our …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reason of his earnest request, drawne from the acknowledgement of the frailty, vanity, and breuitybrevity of his life, laid downe by a comparison taken from strangers or Pilgrims, of …
With rule
… reason of his earnest request, drawne from the acknowledgement of the frailty, vanity, and breuitybrevity of his life, laid downe by a comparison taken from strangers or Pilgrims, of …
Thomas Taylor · Three Treatises · p. 102 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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