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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #334 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

louelylovely

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

Puritas changed it
437 times in 219 works
Consistency
97.3% (437 of 449)
Reach if approved
~472 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lovely
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
449 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (437 changes in 219 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 437)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … iustifie vs, but hee haeth made vs acceptable in Christe, amiable, and beautiful, and louelylovely to the Angels: some effect of which grace, also appeareth in our life and …
    With rule
    … iustifie vs, but hee haeth made vs acceptable in Christe, amiable, and beautiful, and louelylovely to the Angels: some effect of which grace, also appeareth in our life and …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 338 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Theſe louelylovely flowers that giue a ſmel, & about our gates all precious things, new, and alſo …
    With rule
    Theſe louelylovely flowers that giue a ſmel, & about our gates all precious things, new, and alſo …

    Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    3 This woman the church (as Salomōs canticles specifie, is fair, louelylovely, pleasaunt, sweet, holsome, delectable, vndefiled as the M…ne, excelent in clearnesse as the …
    With rule
    3 This woman the church (as Salomōs canticles specifie, is fair, louelylovely, pleasaunt, sweet, holsome, delectable, vndefiled as the M…ne, excelent in clearnesse as the …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … can it promiſe or giue, when the beſt end of it is bitterneſſe? The louelylovely lookes of wine, when the pleaſant eye of it is in the cuppe, and …
    With rule
    … can it promiſe or giue, when the beſt end of it is bitterneſſe? The louelylovely lookes of wine, when the pleaſant eye of it is in the cuppe, and …

    Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vvhatſoeuer things are honeſt. Whatſouer things are iuſt, vvhatſoeuer things pure, vvhatſoeuer things are louelylovely, vvhatſoeuer things are of good report, if there be any vertue, & if there be …
    With rule
    … vvhatſoeuer things are honeſt. Whatſouer things are iuſt, vvhatſoeuer things pure, vvhatſoeuer things are louelylovely, vvhatſoeuer things are of good report, if there be any vertue, & if there be …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … hath firſt matched with thee and linked vnto thee. Let her be a moſt louelylovely hind and a moſt amiable Roe. Euen as the Hart being moſt fond of …
    With rule
    … hath firſt matched with thee and linked vnto thee. Let her be a moſt louelylovely hind and a moſt amiable Roe. Euen as the Hart being moſt fond of …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Cōsider him in his graces, cōsider him in his glory never any person more louelylovely & amiable. 1 For his graces, he is enriched with all the beauty of holynesse, he …
    With rule
    … Cōsider him in his graces, cōsider him in his glory never any person more louelylovely & amiable. 1 For his graces, he is enriched with all the beauty of holynesse, he …

    William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … odiouſneſſe; of vvhich if he vvere rid, he vvere a more excellent, glorious, and louelylovely creature than any mortall man. Moreouer, ſo much doeth God deteſt ſinne, that to …
    With rule
    … odiouſneſſe; of vvhich if he vvere rid, he vvere a more excellent, glorious, and louelylovely creature than any mortall man. Moreouer, ſo much doeth God deteſt ſinne, that to …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 162 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

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

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

  • Printed
    … from this conclusion; that they eleuate, and enhaunce their Beautie, and make them more LouelyLovely in their owne, and others eyes? Whence is it, that our Immodest, Impudent, and …
    With rule
    … from this conclusion; that they eleuate, and enhaunce their Beautie, and make them more LouelyLovely in their owne, and others eyes? Whence is it, that our Immodest, Impudent, and …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … respect and praise, from Carnall, Gracelesse, and iniudicious persons, by seeming more Beautifull, and LouelyLovely to their sensuall eyes, then in themselues they are. Or out of a Worldly …
    With rule
    … respect and praise, from Carnall, Gracelesse, and iniudicious persons, by seeming more Beautifull, and LouelyLovely to their sensuall eyes, then in themselues they are. Or out of a Worldly …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 55 · Open in the reader

A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven A14380

  • Printed
    Now vn-diuorceable, LouelyLovely and sweet,
    With rule
    Now vn-diuorceable, LouelyLovely and sweet,

    John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    LouelyLovely to looke on like the skarlet Whore,
    With rule
    LouelyLovely to looke on like the skarlet Whore,

    John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

Nuptial Poems A15635

  • Printed
    LouelyLovely gestures addeth graces,
    With rule
    LouelyLovely gestures addeth graces,

    George Wither · Nuptial Poems · Open in the reader

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

  • Printed
    LouelyLovely Laura, Stella, Delia,
    With rule
    LouelyLovely Laura, Stella, Delia,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    LouelyLovely are some other where,
    With rule
    LouelyLovely are some other where,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity A16554

  • Printed
    … when we would not, loue him. Ipse dilexit nos & tantus & tautùm, & gratis tantillos & tales. LouelyLovely, being indeed the center of all our loue; for wee must loue nothing but …
    With rule
    … when we would not, loue him. Ipse dilexit nos & tantus & tautùm, & gratis tantillos & tales. LouelyLovely, being indeed the center of all our loue; for wee must loue nothing but …

    John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 38 · Open in the reader

Collection of Poems A68914

  • Printed
    LouelyLovely geſtures addeth graces,
    With rule
    LouelyLovely geſtures addeth graces,

    George Wither · Collection of Poems · Open in the reader