Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19405 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prouokesprovokes

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

Puritas changed it: 128 times in 83 works
Consistency: 100% (128 of 128)
Reach if approved: ~134 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: provokes
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 128 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (128 changes in 83 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 128)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… on. Humility is a gracious herbe, and allayes the wrath of God; whereas pride prouokesprovokes it. It is recorded of an english king, Edward the first, that being exceeding …
With rule
… on. Humility is a gracious herbe, and allayes the wrath of God; whereas pride prouokesprovokes it. It is recorded of an english king, Edward the first, that being exceeding …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… her; she sees it faire to looke on, and the lust of the eye prouokesprovokes her; and she perceiues it will make her wise, and the pride of life …
With rule
… her; she sees it faire to looke on, and the lust of the eye prouokesprovokes her; and she perceiues it will make her wise, and the pride of life …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hypocrites, triumphs in the excommunicate, commands the world, and hath them in a ſtring, prouokesprovokes the fleſh, inticeth to ſinne, he imployes all and euery one of them buſily …
With rule
… hypocrites, triumphs in the excommunicate, commands the world, and hath them in a ſtring, prouokesprovokes the fleſh, inticeth to ſinne, he imployes all and euery one of them buſily …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… minetur; nedum admoneat: ſpecially in faults of lighter nature. Yet contumacie iuſtly exaſperates, and prouokesprovokes to wholeſome ſeueritie: It argues not violation onely, but contempt of authoritie, and comely …
With rule
… minetur; nedum admoneat: ſpecially in faults of lighter nature. Yet contumacie iuſtly exaſperates, and prouokesprovokes to wholeſome ſeueritie: It argues not violation onely, but contempt of authoritie, and comely …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
He prompts, prouokesprovokes, The Earth to vndermine,
With rule
He prompts, prouokesprovokes, The Earth to vndermine,
John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader
Printed
Popiſh confeſſion rather prouokesprovokes men to ſinne, then reſtraines them from it. 342. 343.
With rule
Popiſh confeſſion rather prouokesprovokes men to ſinne, then reſtraines them from it. 342. 343.
Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… good duties. 6. It is vsually barren in the very disposition to doe good. 7. It prouokesprovokes God to anger, Deut. 28.47.
With rule
… good duties. 6. It is vsually barren in the very disposition to doe good. 7. It prouokesprovokes God to anger, Deut. 28.47.
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And therefore if the Ministerie should not haue a set maintenance, seeing it necessarily prouokesprovokes enmitie, and maintaynes such opposition against the world, little voluntary deuotion would appeare.
With rule
… And therefore if the Ministerie should not haue a set maintenance, seeing it necessarily prouokesprovokes enmitie, and maintaynes such opposition against the world, little voluntary deuotion would appeare.
Thomas Cooper · The Art of Giving · p. 60 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.