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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #1046 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prouerprover

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

Puritas changed it
153 times in 67 works
Consistency
88.9% (153 of 172)
Reach if approved
~181 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: prover
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
172 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (153 changes in 67 works, 88.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 153)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … dissembleth hatred with lying lippes, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole, &c. ProuerProver. 10. 18. It is possible to bring some examples of imprisoning, whipping, and burning too, of …
    With rule
    … dissembleth hatred with lying lippes, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole, &c. ProuerProver. 10. 18. It is possible to bring some examples of imprisoning, whipping, and burning too, of …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and alſo profitable: and for all things that might further you this way. Pſal. 127.1. ProuerProver. 31.13. &c. 2. Tbeſ. 3.10. &c. Gen. 24.12.
    With rule
    … and alſo profitable: and for all things that might further you this way. Pſal. 127.1. ProuerProver. 31.13. &c. 2. Tbeſ. 3.10. &c. Gen. 24.12.

    Nicholas Bownd · The Holy Exercise of Fasting · p. 358 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … matter before hee heare it, it is folly and shame to him. Secondly, Praier ProuerProver. 16.1. Hab. 2 1. 3 Faith in Gods fauour and promise Math. 10.19. Psal. 119.41.42. 4 Discretion considering persons, time, place …
    With rule
    … matter before hee heare it, it is folly and shame to him. Secondly, Praier ProuerProver. 16.1. Hab. 2 1. 3 Faith in Gods fauour and promise Math. 10.19. Psal. 119.41.42. 4 Discretion considering persons, time, place …

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … conferre and meditate of things pertayning to the life to come. And in the ProuerProver. it is ſaid, He that is merciful to the poore rewards his own ſoule …
    With rule
    … conferre and meditate of things pertayning to the life to come. And in the ProuerProver. it is ſaid, He that is merciful to the poore rewards his own ſoule …

    John Dod · A Bright Star which Leadeth Wise Men to our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … heart beeing vtterly expelled and rooted out. Remembring yet further, that when Salomon saith. ProuerProver. 6. That the Lord hateth sixe thinges, and that his Soule abhorreth seauen. The first …
    With rule
    … heart beeing vtterly expelled and rooted out. Remembring yet further, that when Salomon saith. ProuerProver. 6. That the Lord hateth sixe thinges, and that his Soule abhorreth seauen. The first …

    John Frewen · Sermons Upon Romans 11:2-8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    2 Vult & non vult piger. ProuerProver. 13.
    With rule
    2 Vult & non vult piger. ProuerProver. 13.

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    ProuerProver. 21.
    With rule
    ProuerProver. 21.

    Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vprightly, walke ſafely: but he that peruerteth his waies, God will finde him out, ProuerProver. 10.9. For whereas many of Gods beloued ones procure ſore wounds in their liues, and …
    With rule
    … vprightly, walke ſafely: but he that peruerteth his waies, God will finde him out, ProuerProver. 10.9. For whereas many of Gods beloued ones procure ſore wounds in their liues, and …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 136 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Gods Husbandry A68877

  • Printed
    … checks thereof. Thus Iudas would neuer leaue purloyning and licking his fingers (as the prouerprover be hath it) after once the bag was committed to his cuſtodie. The true …
    With rule
    … checks thereof. Thus Iudas would neuer leaue purloyning and licking his fingers (as the prouerprover be hath it) after once the bag was committed to his cuſtodie. The true …

    William Whately · Gods Husbandry · p. 54 · Open in the reader