Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19284 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wauewave

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

Puritas changed it: 170 times in 118 works
Consistency: 98.2% (170 of 173)
Reach if approved: ~182 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wave
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 173 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (170 changes in 118 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 170)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the ſheafe of the wauewave offering: ſeven weekes ſhall be complete. In the Hebrew it is, ſeven Sabbaths ſhall …
With rule
… morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the ſheafe of the wauewave offering: ſeven weekes ſhall be complete. In the Hebrew it is, ſeven Sabbaths ſhall …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gone before vs, ſome accompany vs and ſome come after vs, like wauewave after wauewave are we daſht againſt the hard and cold ſtone Death, Serius aut citius, metam …
With rule
… gone before vs, ſome accompany vs and ſome come after vs, like wauewave after wauewave are we daſht againſt the hard and cold ſtone Death, Serius aut citius, metam …
John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… touch it and to lay hold vpon it, a guſt commeth, or ſome ſtronger wauewave, and carieth him into the maine in deſpight: Nay, it may be when againe …
With rule
… touch it and to lay hold vpon it, a guſt commeth, or ſome ſtronger wauewave, and carieth him into the maine in deſpight: Nay, it may be when againe …
Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… l will be curious to prie and search into the secrets therof, and to wauewave this Cunning, albeit it be the Counterplea of some brabbling Lawyer; yet it may …
With rule
… l will be curious to prie and search into the secrets therof, and to wauewave this Cunning, albeit it be the Counterplea of some brabbling Lawyer; yet it may …
William Loe · The Kings Shoe · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him aske in faith, and wauer not: for he that wauereth is like a wauewave of the sea, …ust of the wind, and carried away. Rom. 4.20. Neither did be …
With rule
… him aske in faith, and wauer not: for he that wauereth is like a wauewave of the sea, …ust of the wind, and carried away. Rom. 4.20. Neither did be …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 873 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Sea: that is, sometimes in his prayer, hee is very earnest as a wauewave that swells high, sometimes againe, he will be nothing at all; yea, saith the …
With rule
… the Sea: that is, sometimes in his prayer, hee is very earnest as a wauewave that swells high, sometimes againe, he will be nothing at all; yea, saith the …
John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aske in faith and wauer not, for he that wauereth is like to a wauewave of the ſea toſt with the winde and carried away, neither let that man …
With rule
… aske in faith and wauer not, for he that wauereth is like to a wauewave of the ſea toſt with the winde and carried away, neither let that man …
Thomas Sampson · Warning to Take Heed of Fowlers Psalter · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… let him aske in faith nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wauewave of the ſea driven with the wind and toſſed, let not that man thinke …
With rule
… let him aske in faith nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wauewave of the ſea driven with the wind and toſſed, let not that man thinke …
Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · p. 68 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
2 Vnstable men, of vnconstant minds. Iames 1, 6. He that wauereth like a WaueWave of the Sea, shal receiue nothing.
With rule
2 Vnstable men, of vnconstant minds. Iames 1, 6. He that wauereth like a WaueWave of the Sea, shal receiue nothing.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 526 · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

Printed
… moued: Shall this bee mans felicitie, which daylie is in reuerence of Winde, and WaueWave, Pyrats, and Perrels.
With rule
… moued: Shall this bee mans felicitie, which daylie is in reuerence of Winde, and WaueWave, Pyrats, and Perrels.
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 502 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
… ſtand in doubt? and wherefore are our minds wauering in his mercies, As a WaueWave of the Sea toſſed by the violence of the Windes? Let vs enter into …
With rule
… ſtand in doubt? and wherefore are our minds wauering in his mercies, As a WaueWave of the Sea toſſed by the violence of the Windes? Let vs enter into …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 414 · Open in the reader