Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #956 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

controuertedcontroverted

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

Puritas changed it: 117 times in 70 works
Consistency: 92.1% (117 of 127)
Reach if approved: ~133 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: controverted
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 127 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (117 changes in 70 works, 92.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 117)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by our want of peace. Indeed this is euentually one good effect of many controuertedcontroverted poynts; the way is cleansed for others, though not for themselues. Theeues falling out …
With rule
… by our want of peace. Indeed this is euentually one good effect of many controuertedcontroverted poynts; the way is cleansed for others, though not for themselues. Theeues falling out …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Plantine, agreeing alſo with the great concordances of Robert Stephane. In other textes not controuertedcontroverted, the Engliſh text, it alone is ſufficient in a Scottiſh or Engliſh tretiſe, & therfore …
With rule
… Plantine, agreeing alſo with the great concordances of Robert Stephane. In other textes not controuertedcontroverted, the Engliſh text, it alone is ſufficient in a Scottiſh or Engliſh tretiſe, & therfore …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · Open in the reader
Printed
… this question of a totall & finall fall from grace, was not so much as controuertedcontroverted there, neither are there any of those Scriptures, grounds, and Fathers which Mr. Mountague …
With rule
… this question of a totall & finall fall from grace, was not so much as controuertedcontroverted there, neither are there any of those Scriptures, grounds, and Fathers which Mr. Mountague …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good vnto thē is regard of thē to remoue, or better to ſmoth the controuertedcontroverted changable things, they moſt take offence at, but onely in the meane time, whileſt …
With rule
… good vnto thē is regard of thē to remoue, or better to ſmoth the controuertedcontroverted changable things, they moſt take offence at, but onely in the meane time, whileſt …
Thomas Sparke · Brotherly Persuasion to Unity and Uniformity · Open in the reader
Printed
… enemies to all Christianitie: But these latter Martyrs suffered for matters of religion, euen controuertedcontroverted among Christians, and their persecutors themselues pretending to be Christians.
With rule
… enemies to all Christianitie: But these latter Martyrs suffered for matters of religion, euen controuertedcontroverted among Christians, and their persecutors themselues pretending to be Christians.
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 453 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not admit the old scripture, but vpon the point coine a new: for in controuertedcontroverted places, either they suppresse the words, or else not expresse the sense: as if …
With rule
… not admit the old scripture, but vpon the point coine a new: for in controuertedcontroverted places, either they suppresse the words, or else not expresse the sense: as if …
John Boys · Exposition of the Dominical Epistles and Gospels · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
Concerning the power of Christ many things are controuertedcontroverted in other Churches: and I haue spoken of it before, more then men of …
With rule
Concerning the power of Christ many things are controuertedcontroverted in other Churches: and I haue spoken of it before, more then men of …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other workes of mercie, as well as the husband; the which becauſe it is controuertedcontroverted, I will indeauour to proue. And for the better clearing of this point, two …
With rule
… other workes of mercie, as well as the husband; the which becauſe it is controuertedcontroverted, I will indeauour to proue. And for the better clearing of this point, two …
John Downame · The Plea of the Poor · p. 107 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pseudo-Martyr A20647

Printed
… So that they haue abandoned the stale, and obsolete names, of positiue Diuinity, or ControuertedControverted, or Schoole Diuinitie; and haue reduced all to Crowne Diuinity.
With rule
… So that they haue abandoned the stale, and obsolete names, of positiue Diuinity, or ControuertedControverted, or Schoole Diuinitie; and haue reduced all to Crowne Diuinity.
John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · p. 144 · Open in the reader