Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #314 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vpperupper

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

Puritas changed it: 1,024 times in 361 works
Consistency: 95.1% (1,024 of 1,076)
Reach if approved: ~1,131 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: upper
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,076 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,024 changes in 361 works, 95.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,024)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the graue, moderate, and mature conſiderations of the moſt honourable & high part of the vpperupper houſe, as the ſage ſpirit of melancthon, and a refrigeratiue conſtellation: whoſe operations and …
With rule
… the graue, moderate, and mature conſiderations of the moſt honourable & high part of the vpperupper houſe, as the ſage ſpirit of melancthon, and a refrigeratiue conſtellation: whoſe operations and …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſpirit and fleſh within him, though the fleſh ſeeme to haue gotten the vpperupper hand. Wherfore, this is a full comfort, which is ſealed vp vnto Chriſtians in …
With rule
… the ſpirit and fleſh within him, though the fleſh ſeeme to haue gotten the vpperupper hand. Wherfore, this is a full comfort, which is ſealed vp vnto Chriſtians in …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſire: yet neuertheleſſe wee muſt goe on ſtill further, that God may winne the vpperupper hand of vs. We muſt learn to hate our ſelues, to take diſpleaſure againſt …
With rule
… deſire: yet neuertheleſſe wee muſt goe on ſtill further, that God may winne the vpperupper hand of vs. We muſt learn to hate our ſelues, to take diſpleaſure againſt …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 313 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cloudes, one aboue an other, if lightninge or any other inflammatiō be in y^e vpperupper part of these clouds, the lyght of them perceth through the lower partes, as …
With rule
… cloudes, one aboue an other, if lightninge or any other inflammatiō be in y^e vpperupper part of these clouds, the lyght of them perceth through the lower partes, as …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader
Printed
… likely that they were aboue three in all, a shirt, an inner, and an vpperupper coate) being rent into 4. quarters (which many obserue not, and yet Marke euidently saith …
With rule
… likely that they were aboue three in all, a shirt, an inner, and an vpperupper coate) being rent into 4. quarters (which many obserue not, and yet Marke euidently saith …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and his doctours dyd teache ſo euer ſence he ga…e the primamacie and vpperupper hāde of kinges & emperours theſe. viii. C. yeres, as you name it. If the …
With rule
… and his doctours dyd teache ſo euer ſence he ga…e the primamacie and vpperupper hāde of kinges & emperours theſe. viii. C. yeres, as you name it. If the …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… flesh and spirite, and therin by practise the powe… of the spirite gettinge the vpperupper hand.
With rule
… flesh and spirite, and therin by practise the powe… of the spirite gettinge the vpperupper hand.
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… intreat of: and therefore, as in a ladder there is no comming to the vpperupper ſteppe, but by the nethermoſt, ſo there is no dwelling with Chriſt which is …
With rule
… intreat of: and therefore, as in a ladder there is no comming to the vpperupper ſteppe, but by the nethermoſt, ſo there is no dwelling with Chriſt which is …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (52)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 49 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Song A12600

Printed
(VpperUpper and lower Houſe,)
With rule
(VpperUpper and lower Houſe,)
John Wilson · A Song · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 1 A20641

Printed
… giuen him Glorie, and not taken away our Peace, That hath exalted him to VpperUpper-roomes, and not ſhaked any Foundations of ours, To this Lambe of God, the …
With rule
… giuen him Glorie, and not taken away our Peace, That hath exalted him to VpperUpper-roomes, and not ſhaked any Foundations of ours, To this Lambe of God, the …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 54 · Open in the reader

The First Sermon Preached to King Charles 3 April 1625 A73848

Printed
… giuen him Glorie, and not taken away our Peace, That hath exalted him to VpperUpper-roomes, and not ſhaked any Foundations of ours, To this Lambe of God, the …
With rule
… giuen him Glorie, and not taken away our Peace, That hath exalted him to VpperUpper-roomes, and not ſhaked any Foundations of ours, To this Lambe of God, the …
John Donne · The First Sermon Preached to King Charles 3 April 1625 · p. 54 · Open in the reader