Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #331 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

caluescalves

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

Puritas changed it: 748 times in 340 works
Consistency: 100% (748 of 748)
Reach if approved: ~786 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: calves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 748 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (748 changes in 340 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 748)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… worshippe God by them, as the Israelites did in the calfe Ex. 32. & in Ieroboams caluescalves, & in the brasen serpent, & the wiser sort of the Gentils and Papists pretend to …
With rule
… worshippe God by them, as the Israelites did in the calfe Ex. 32. & in Ieroboams caluescalves, & in the brasen serpent, & the wiser sort of the Gentils and Papists pretend to …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… townes & tēples as is towched .iiii. Kynges .xvii. They dyd take away their golden caluescalves. Hoſea .viii. wherby the lying Lord would vtter the weakenes of thoſe fayned gods …
With rule
… townes & tēples as is towched .iiii. Kynges .xvii. They dyd take away their golden caluescalves. Hoſea .viii. wherby the lying Lord would vtter the weakenes of thoſe fayned gods …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… Know also, God can cause wolues lions, leopards, &c. to dwell louingly with lambes, caluescalves and kids, &c. & that which is vnpossible to men, is possible with God, euen …
With rule
… Know also, God can cause wolues lions, leopards, &c. to dwell louingly with lambes, caluescalves and kids, &c. & that which is vnpossible to men, is possible with God, euen …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue not the ſhape of caluescalves, they haue the ſenſe and meaning of thoſe caluescalves: and to fill the Temple full of CaluesCalves, what is it but to make …
With rule
… haue not the ſhape of caluescalves, they haue the ſenſe and meaning of thoſe caluescalves: and to fill the Temple full of CaluesCalves, what is it but to make …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… streich themselues vpon their beds, and eate the Lambs of the flocke, and the caluescalves out of the folde, and sing to the sounds of the viole, and drinke …
With rule
… streich themselues vpon their beds, and eate the Lambs of the flocke, and the caluescalves out of the folde, and sing to the sounds of the viole, and drinke …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of caluescalves and rowting ky.
With rule
Of caluescalves and rowting ky.
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pharao did resist Moises of purpose to be plagued, nether did Ieroboam erect the caluescalves that Israel should be destroied, but yet becaus God had so before pronounced ineuitably …
With rule
… Pharao did resist Moises of purpose to be plagued, nether did Ieroboam erect the caluescalves that Israel should be destroied, but yet becaus God had so before pronounced ineuitably …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee vndoubtedly looked …; but it vvas a meanes to bring many of those Romish caluescalves to a iust …, though many ventured but to late vpon his absolution, … they tooke …
With rule
… hee vndoubtedly looked …; but it vvas a meanes to bring many of those Romish caluescalves to a iust …, though many ventured but to late vpon his absolution, … they tooke …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · 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.