Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #247 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

louerlover

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

Puritas changed it: 465 times in 244 works
Consistency: 100% (465 of 465)
Reach if approved: ~489 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lover
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 465 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (465 changes in 244 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 465)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… make the… a trew and perfect Irenie, that is to ſay, peaceable and a louerlover of peace.
With rule
… make the… a trew and perfect Irenie, that is to ſay, peaceable and a louerlover of peace.
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… from his owne perſon, open to me; not your enemy, but your friend, your louerlover, one that ſeekes your good.
With rule
… from his owne perſon, open to me; not your enemy, but your friend, your louerlover, one that ſeekes your good.
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… contracted with an other in mariage, rather then he should be called the blaite louerlover, be sclandereth the damisel. Yet am I not lytle conforted in this, that ye …
With rule
… contracted with an other in mariage, rather then he should be called the blaite louerlover, be sclandereth the damisel. Yet am I not lytle conforted in this, that ye …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… valourous knight, beeing a man of no reſolution, or repreſenteth a chaſt and modeſt louerlover, when his owne life is a practiſe of vncleanes: This is properly an Hypocrite …
With rule
… valourous knight, beeing a man of no reſolution, or repreſenteth a chaſt and modeſt louerlover, when his owne life is a practiſe of vncleanes: This is properly an Hypocrite …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… admittinge all indifferently to conference: anſwered godly as a good man, wyſelye as a louerlover of wyſedome. He would enſtructe euen beaſtes, yf they vnderſtoode the talke that tendeth …
With rule
… admittinge all indifferently to conference: anſwered godly as a good man, wyſelye as a louerlover of wyſedome. He would enſtructe euen beaſtes, yf they vnderſtoode the talke that tendeth …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… proud; his charitie, and turne if not a bloudie oppressor, yet a vile self-louerlover; his diligence, and proue secure; his thankfulnesse, and shew himselfe both forgetfull of, and …
With rule
… proud; his charitie, and turne if not a bloudie oppressor, yet a vile self-louerlover; his diligence, and proue secure; his thankfulnesse, and shew himselfe both forgetfull of, and …
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mercy. Where it muſt be well marked, that God is ſayd to be a louerlover of men, not of this or that nature onely, not held with loue of …
With rule
… mercy. Where it muſt be well marked, that God is ſayd to be a louerlover of men, not of this or that nature onely, not held with loue of …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… might-be plucked out of the powre of deuels. How gētle and kinde a louerlover of man was thy sōne our God who thought it not enough to humble …
With rule
… might-be plucked out of the powre of deuels. How gētle and kinde a louerlover of man was thy sōne our God who thought it not enough to humble …
Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · 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.