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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19217 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

resoluesresolves

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

Puritas changed it
198 times in 101 works
Consistency
99.0% (198 of 200)
Reach if approved
~210 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: resolves
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
200 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (198 changes in 101 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 198)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lasie life was of all other most tedious vnto him. And euery generous spirit resoluesresolves as Maximinus: Quo maior sum, eo magis laboro, & quo magis laboro, eo maior sum …
    With rule
    … lasie life was of all other most tedious vnto him. And euery generous spirit resoluesresolves as Maximinus: Quo maior sum, eo magis laboro, & quo magis laboro, eo maior sum …

    John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Mordecai's cap that hath put Haman out of his princely wits: and now hee resoluesresolves to trounce him: proud beggar! Hee will teach him to knowe his betters. O …
    With rule
    … Mordecai's cap that hath put Haman out of his princely wits: and now hee resoluesresolves to trounce him: proud beggar! Hee will teach him to knowe his betters. O …

    Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ready to deſtroy: What is now to be done? Surely nothing but this: He reſoluesresolves to keepe his ſtanding with his vtmoſt might his hold he determines not to …
    With rule
    … ready to deſtroy: What is now to be done? Surely nothing but this: He reſoluesresolves to keepe his ſtanding with his vtmoſt might his hold he determines not to …

    Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to conſider not what we haue done, but vvhat vve muſt doe, as Paule reſoluesresolves I preſſe tovvard the marke for the price of the high calling of god …
    With rule
    … to conſider not what we haue done, but vvhat vve muſt doe, as Paule reſoluesresolves I preſſe tovvard the marke for the price of the high calling of god …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … these things makes for his aduantage. Secondly, they sinne in keeping; for he that resoluesresolves to bee rich, will rather forsake the truth, then his wealth, in time of …
    With rule
    … these things makes for his aduantage. Secondly, they sinne in keeping; for he that resoluesresolves to bee rich, will rather forsake the truth, then his wealth, in time of …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … conſidered my wayes, and turned my feete vnto thy teſtimonies; he firſt conſiders, then reſoluesresolves and doth: this is the reaſon we are ſo often vrged to this, as …
    With rule
    … conſidered my wayes, and turned my feete vnto thy teſtimonies; he firſt conſiders, then reſoluesresolves and doth: this is the reaſon we are ſo often vrged to this, as …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Fourthly, he reſoluesresolves heereaf…er to come more prepared; as to …ee and acknowledge his want of …
    With rule
    Fourthly, he reſoluesresolves heereaf…er to come more prepared; as to …ee and acknowledge his want of …

    Samuel Smith · Christs Last Supper · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … loue, that lookes vpon God, reſts vpon his will, yeeldes to his Commaundement, and reſoluesresolves to obey it, cannot change it ſelfe, becauſe the cauſe thereof is vnchangeable. Thou …
    With rule
    … loue, that lookes vpon God, reſts vpon his will, yeeldes to his Commaundement, and reſoluesresolves to obey it, cannot change it ſelfe, becauſe the cauſe thereof is vnchangeable. Thou …

    William Whately · A Bride Bush · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.