Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19392 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reuersionreversion

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

Puritas changed it: 139 times in 34 works
Consistency: 94.5% (139 of 147)
Reach if approved: ~154 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: reversion
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 147 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (139 changes in 34 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 139)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Hee takes away one Dish more then he set downe; in stead of the reuersionreversion, the Feasters themselues, nay the Feast-maker too: for Diues is the founder, and …
With rule
… Hee takes away one Dish more then he set downe; in stead of the reuersionreversion, the Feasters themselues, nay the Feast-maker too: for Diues is the founder, and …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… enioy the promiſe, which now they hold by faith, as it we…e by reuerſionreversion, not in actuall poſſeſſion. But without confidence there can be no patience. Faith in …
With rule
… enioy the promiſe, which now they hold by faith, as it we…e by reuerſionreversion, not in actuall poſſeſſion. But without confidence there can be no patience. Faith in …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 325 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their houſes to keepe out the deuill, the Croſſe among Chriſtians taketh vp the reuerſionreversion of this office euen as we ſee him ouer many a countrey doore for …
With rule
… their houſes to keepe out the deuill, the Croſſe among Chriſtians taketh vp the reuerſionreversion of this office euen as we ſee him ouer many a countrey doore for …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the hooke before him, baited with ample rewards in hand, and great promotions in reuersionreversion, if he would come ouer to him and curse Israel; had both Couetousnesse and …
With rule
… the hooke before him, baited with ample rewards in hand, and great promotions in reuersionreversion, if he would come ouer to him and curse Israel; had both Couetousnesse and …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are likest to shift of all others, seeinge they can haue nothing but our reuersionreversion and leauinges: to the ende that they might also put that in practise which …
With rule
… are likest to shift of all others, seeinge they can haue nothing but our reuersionreversion and leauinges: to the ende that they might also put that in practise which …
John Udall · True Remedy Against Famine and Wars · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so are curbed with carnall that spirituall meditations take vp their heartes but at reuersionreversion by fitte and starts.
With rule
… so are curbed with carnall that spirituall meditations take vp their heartes but at reuersionreversion by fitte and starts.
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1003 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finite. Therefore we blesse God for our possession, but yet we expect a larger reuersionreversion. And the day intended in this Text, shall make that ReuersionReversion our Possession; which …
With rule
… finite. Therefore we blesse God for our possession, but yet we expect a larger reuersionreversion. And the day intended in this Text, shall make that ReuersionReversion our Possession; which …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… here, but hereafter. The Chriſtian hath not his happineſſe in preſent poſſeſſion, but in reuerſionreversion. In hope and expectation are they kept here, liuing by faith: as the Heyre …
With rule
… here, but hereafter. The Chriſtian hath not his happineſſe in preſent poſſeſſion, but in reuerſionreversion. In hope and expectation are they kept here, liuing by faith: as the Heyre …
Samuel Smith · A Pattern of Free Grace · p. 401 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

6 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.

Law A00741

Printed
ReuerſionReversion is a reſidue of the eſtate, not at the ſame time appointed ouer. As …
With rule
ReuerſionReversion is a reſidue of the eſtate, not at the ſame time appointed ouer. As …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 113 · Open in the reader

The Happiness of the Church A01956

Printed
… as the person that makes it. This indeed is not a Conuersion, but a ReuersionReversion, or meere refuse.
With rule
… as the person that makes it. This indeed is not a Conuersion, but a ReuersionReversion, or meere refuse.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 412 · Open in the reader

Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife A20648

Printed
… Wee expect; We blesse God for our Possession, but We looke for a greater ReuersionReversion; which ReuersionReversion (in the next roome) is, new Heauens, and new Earth; And (lastly …
With rule
… Wee expect; We blesse God for our Possession, but We looke for a greater ReuersionReversion; which ReuersionReversion (in the next roome) is, new Heauens, and new Earth; And (lastly …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… We blesse God for our Possession, but We looke for a greater ReuersionReversion; which ReuersionReversion (in the next roome) is, new Heauens, and new Earth; And (lastly) such Heauens …
With rule
… We blesse God for our Possession, but We looke for a greater ReuersionReversion; which ReuersionReversion (in the next roome) is, new Heauens, and new Earth; And (lastly) such Heauens …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… expect a larger reuersionreversion. And the day intended in this Text, shall make that ReuersionReversion our Possession; which is, the day of Iudgment.
With rule
… expect a larger reuersionreversion. And the day intended in this Text, shall make that ReuersionReversion our Possession; which is, the day of Iudgment.
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life; The whole world must die, before she come to a possession of this ReuersionReversion; which is a Glorified body in the Resurrection. In which expectation, she return's to …
With rule
… life; The whole world must die, before she come to a possession of this ReuersionReversion; which is a Glorified body in the Resurrection. In which expectation, she return's to …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 163 · Open in the reader