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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19588 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reuersereverse

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

Puritas changed it
86 times in 66 works
Consistency
97.7% (86 of 88)
Reach if approved
~92 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: reverse
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
88 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (86 changes in 66 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 86)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … for Doomes-day he is secure; for he hopes he has a tricke to reuersereverse iudgement.
    With rule
    … for Doomes-day he is secure; for he hopes he has a tricke to reuersereverse iudgement.

    John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the Almightie, that would not ſuffer ſuch faith to be fruſtrate, that would rather reuerſereverse the lawes of nature, in returning a gueſt from heauen, and raiſing a corps …
    With rule
    … the Almightie, that would not ſuffer ſuch faith to be fruſtrate, that would rather reuerſereverse the lawes of nature, in returning a gueſt from heauen, and raiſing a corps …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 7 · p. 426 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … definitiue should preuaile, till the same authoritie perceiuing such ouersight, might afterwardes correct or reuersereverse it, then that strifes should haue respit to growe, and not come speedily vnto …
    With rule
    … definitiue should preuaile, till the same authoritie perceiuing such ouersight, might afterwardes correct or reuersereverse it, then that strifes should haue respit to growe, and not come speedily vnto …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vp vnto themselues the creature, in the roome of the creator. The second they reuersereverse by worshipping God himselfe, and dead men, in images, & Christ himselfe in the crucifixe …
    With rule
    … vp vnto themselues the creature, in the roome of the creator. The second they reuersereverse by worshipping God himselfe, and dead men, in images, & Christ himselfe in the crucifixe …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 504 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … which hee euen giueth thankes; doth by that glorying, as much as hee dareth, reuersereverse his thankes. The Pharisee, who thanked God hee was not like other men; did …
    With rule
    … which hee euen giueth thankes; doth by that glorying, as much as hee dareth, reuersereverse his thankes. The Pharisee, who thanked God hee was not like other men; did …

    Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    And his vindicatiue Verdict reuersereverse,
    With rule
    And his vindicatiue Verdict reuersereverse,

    John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … irreuocable obsignation of the blessed Spirit, Eph. 1. 13, 14. & 4. 30. And who or what, can or dare, reuersereverse the Deede, or breake vp the Seale of the holy Ghost?
    With rule
    … irreuocable obsignation of the blessed Spirit, Eph. 1. 13, 14. & 4. 30. And who or what, can or dare, reuersereverse the Deede, or breake vp the Seale of the holy Ghost?

    Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is to be made. For it is a sore matter to al…er or reuersereverse a thing that hath passed by order of Lawe. And for the same cause …
    With rule
    … is to be made. For it is a sore matter to al…er or reuersereverse a thing that hath passed by order of Lawe. And for the same cause …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 705 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense A13248

  • Printed
    An other thruſt called a ReuerſeReverse.
    With rule
    An other thruſt called a ReuerſeReverse.

    Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    A ReuerſeReverse is to be made, when your enemie by gathering in vpon you, cauſeth you …
    With rule
    A ReuerſeReverse is to be made, when your enemie by gathering in vpon you, cauſeth you …

    Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 114 · Open in the reader