Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19328 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rouingroving

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

Puritas changed it: 152 times in 87 works
Consistency: 98.7% (152 of 154)
Reach if approved: ~162 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: roving
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 154 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (152 changes in 87 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vs to daily repentance; we goe ouer daily frailties, many yeelding to temptations, many rouingroving thoughts, idle speeches, many sinfull actions of bad and scandalous examples, many secret sins …
With rule
… vs to daily repentance; we goe ouer daily frailties, many yeelding to temptations, many rouingroving thoughts, idle speeches, many sinfull actions of bad and scandalous examples, many secret sins …
Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with this, but call for this doctours exposition: that doctours sense, and so foorth rouingroving and running at randon, if the worlde may not be iudge, yet I pray …
With rule
… with this, but call for this doctours exposition: that doctours sense, and so foorth rouingroving and running at randon, if the worlde may not be iudge, yet I pray …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whē I ſpeak thus, it is not mēt that our knowledge muſt be a rouingroving vnderſtāding, ſwimming in our brain, but our harts muſt by it be deadly wounded …
With rule
… whē I ſpeak thus, it is not mēt that our knowledge muſt be a rouingroving vnderſtāding, ſwimming in our brain, but our harts muſt by it be deadly wounded …
John Calvin · Sermon on the History of Melchizedek · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… where they haue no flock, is most hurtfull to both: and therefore all such rouingroving Pastors, are by cordes to be tied to their own people. As before, teaching …
With rule
… where they haue no flock, is most hurtfull to both: and therefore all such rouingroving Pastors, are by cordes to be tied to their own people. As before, teaching …
Laurence Chaderton · Sermon Upon Romans 12:3-8 · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the heart by the pulse, so wee by the eye. A rolling eye, a rouingroving heart. The good eye keepes minute-time, and strikes when i… should: the lustfull …
With rule
… the heart by the pulse, so wee by the eye. A rolling eye, a rouingroving heart. The good eye keepes minute-time, and strikes when i… should: the lustfull …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maſkd in ſutes and coloures, with impudēt face and hard fauour, not walking, but rouingroving: belche forth no meane matters, but w…rres, Princes, emperours, Cities, caſtels, realmes. And …
With rule
… maſkd in ſutes and coloures, with impudēt face and hard fauour, not walking, but rouingroving: belche forth no meane matters, but w…rres, Princes, emperours, Cities, caſtels, realmes. And …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Tartars and the Arabians in Asia, Africa, and Europe, at this day, roming, rouingroving, robbing.
With rule
… the Tartars and the Arabians in Asia, Africa, and Europe, at this day, roming, rouingroving, robbing.
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such, but wee count our fansies to bee wisedome: How many are dreaming and rouingroving all their dayes, and yet neither waken of their dreames, nor coole of their …
With rule
… such, but wee count our fansies to bee wisedome: How many are dreaming and rouingroving all their dayes, and yet neither waken of their dreames, nor coole of their …
William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 265 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

A Dangerous Plot Discovered A15734

Printed
Hee telleth vs of RouingRoving, Rowling, Rambling, I might adde, Ruffling, Scuffling, Schambling, Muffling, Buffling, Brangling, Shifting, Tricking, Shambling …
With rule
Hee telleth vs of RouingRoving, Rowling, Rambling, I might adde, Ruffling, Scuffling, Schambling, Muffling, Buffling, Brangling, Shifting, Tricking, Shambling …
Anthony Wotton · A Dangerous Plot Discovered · p. 161 · Open in the reader