Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19445 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cauilcavil

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 54 works
Consistency: 96.7% (120 of 124)
Reach if approved: ~130 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cavil
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 124 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 54 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Vnto this his cauilcavil he receiues also Abrahams answer most peremptorily set downe, which is this: If they …
With rule
Vnto this his cauilcavil he receiues also Abrahams answer most peremptorily set downe, which is this: If they …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for there is nothing can be ſo wel ſpoken, but he and his can cauilcavil at it: for mine owne part, I ſtriue with my ſelf to ſpeake vnpartially …
With rule
… for there is nothing can be ſo wel ſpoken, but he and his can cauilcavil at it: for mine owne part, I ſtriue with my ſelf to ſpeake vnpartially …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
But you perhaps will cauilcavil, either at the persons, or at the spéeches of the Fathers, and thinke that …
With rule
But you perhaps will cauilcavil, either at the persons, or at the spéeches of the Fathers, and thinke that …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 471 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you heere, betwixt the ſpirit of the Caluiniſts and the Lutherans? Yet ſtill you cauilcavil at this iudgement of the ſpirit, which of all other is moſt certeine and …
With rule
… you heere, betwixt the ſpirit of the Caluiniſts and the Lutherans? Yet ſtill you cauilcavil at this iudgement of the ſpirit, which of all other is moſt certeine and …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they will seeme to make great account of: if they cannot readily finde some cauilcavil or other to shift it off, they wil not stick boldly to refuse and …
With rule
… they will seeme to make great account of: if they cannot readily finde some cauilcavil or other to shift it off, they wil not stick boldly to refuse and …
Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Scribes had their minds infected with diuelish poyson, which were not afraid to cauilcavil at this so excellent a worke of God. But the frute of the myracle …
With rule
… the Scribes had their minds infected with diuelish poyson, which were not afraid to cauilcavil at this so excellent a worke of God. But the frute of the myracle …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 325 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nowadais there ar a sort of skoffers, who to make al things doubtful, wil cauilcavil after this maner; Is it possible y^t in so short a space of time …
With rule
… Nowadais there ar a sort of skoffers, who to make al things doubtful, wil cauilcavil after this maner; Is it possible y^t in so short a space of time …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 453 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meant the perfect holineſſe and puritie of Chriſt his humane nature. And they that cauilcavil and except againſt that expoſition, do it without ground. That that was impoſſible to …
With rule
… meant the perfect holineſſe and puritie of Chriſt his humane nature. And they that cauilcavil and except againſt that expoſition, do it without ground. That that was impoſſible to …
Edward Elton · The Triumph of a True Christian Described · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.