Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #291 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prouincesprovinces

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

Puritas changed it: 731 times in 218 works
Consistency: 100% (731 of 731)
Reach if approved: ~769 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: provinces
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 732 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (731 changes in 218 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 731)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not of that, with all the appertinent comforts. They that haue trauelled the Belgicke ProuincesProvinces, can witnesse the miserable footsteps of warre, and the tyrannie of desolation. Churches and …
With rule
… not of that, with all the appertinent comforts. They that haue trauelled the Belgicke ProuincesProvinces, can witnesse the miserable footsteps of warre, and the tyrannie of desolation. Churches and …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… way for your purpose to giue a glaunce at battels, murders, destruction of Countries, ProuincesProvinces, Townes, Cities, Houses, and particular men that haue beene in Scotland within these fortie …
With rule
… way for your purpose to giue a glaunce at battels, murders, destruction of Countries, ProuincesProvinces, Townes, Cities, Houses, and particular men that haue beene in Scotland within these fortie …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… father and enſtaller, him ſelfe lord of lordes, hath placed them ouer ſo manye prouincesprovinces. For who doubtes, but in ſetling theſe in ſo many realmes, & kingdomes, he ſought …
With rule
… father and enſtaller, him ſelfe lord of lordes, hath placed them ouer ſo manye prouincesprovinces. For who doubtes, but in ſetling theſe in ſo many realmes, & kingdomes, he ſought …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… it be (according to the Egyptian and Platonicall deuises seuerally limited ouer particular Countries, ProuincesProvinces, & cities, whose number whether it be deuided into three Hierarchies, and into nine orders …
With rule
… it be (according to the Egyptian and Platonicall deuises seuerally limited ouer particular Countries, ProuincesProvinces, & cities, whose number whether it be deuided into three Hierarchies, and into nine orders …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we come to the Kings of seuerall Nations, and from them to vnderkings of ProuincesProvinces and of Shyres, and afterwards to Kings of Townes, Cities, and Uillages, and finally …
With rule
… we come to the Kings of seuerall Nations, and from them to vnderkings of ProuincesProvinces and of Shyres, and afterwards to Kings of Townes, Cities, and Uillages, and finally …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this deſolation of our Churche, the moſt of our people within all our prouincesprovinces, wandering as blinde men in the darke, know no means eyther how to yeeld …
With rule
… of this deſolation of our Churche, the moſt of our people within all our prouincesprovinces, wandering as blinde men in the darke, know no means eyther how to yeeld …
John Penry · Reformation Unjustly Charged as Enemies · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Letters that Mordecai wrote to all the Iewes which were in the ProuincesProvinces of King Aſſuerus farre and neere, appointing them to celebrate that day, Eſter 9. 20. 21. they …
With rule
… in the Letters that Mordecai wrote to all the Iewes which were in the ProuincesProvinces of King Aſſuerus farre and neere, appointing them to celebrate that day, Eſter 9. 20. 21. they …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against lawfull Princes and Magistrates, namely in Scotland, France, Flanders, Swisserland Sueuia, Polonia, seuerall ProuincesProvinces of Germany, Geneua it selfe and other Protestant territories.
With rule
… against lawfull Princes and Magistrates, namely in Scotland, France, Flanders, Swisserland Sueuia, Polonia, seuerall ProuincesProvinces of Germany, Geneua it selfe and other Protestant territories.
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 197 · 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.