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Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35716 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vpperhandupper hand

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
24 times in 18 works
Consistency
100% (24 of 24)
Reach if approved
~25 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
24 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (24 changes in 18 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 24)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    (Who thus the vpperhandupper hand hath woune)
    With rule
    (Who thus the vpperhandupper hand hath woune)

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … for vs, he generally prounounceth that the posteritie of the woman should get the vpperhandupper hand of the Deuell. Whereupon foloweth, that Christ issued of mankinde, bicause it was Gods …
    With rule
    … for vs, he generally prounounceth that the posteritie of the woman should get the vpperhandupper hand of the Deuell. Whereupon foloweth, that Christ issued of mankinde, bicause it was Gods …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … our ſtomacks and diſpayre, when we ſée wicked and naughtie men, to haue the vpperhandupper hand on vs, and to doo that cruelty to vs, that they ſéeme to treade …
    With rule
    … our ſtomacks and diſpayre, when we ſée wicked and naughtie men, to haue the vpperhandupper hand on vs, and to doo that cruelty to vs, that they ſéeme to treade …

    John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    A. Dignitie and praeeminence; in that the faithfull haue dominion and vpperhandupper hand ouer the wicked, their enemies, & are honorable in the eyes and hearts of men …
    With rule
    A. Dignitie and praeeminence; in that the faithfull haue dominion and vpperhandupper hand ouer the wicked, their enemies, & are honorable in the eyes and hearts of men …

    Samuel Crook · The Guide Unto True Blessedness · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … alteration in his nature, but that mercy and iustice striuing together, mercy gotte the vpperhandupper hand: or rather that mercy and iustice ioyning together for our redemption, hath brought to …
    With rule
    … alteration in his nature, but that mercy and iustice striuing together, mercy gotte the vpperhandupper hand: or rather that mercy and iustice ioyning together for our redemption, hath brought to …

    John Foxe · A Sermon of Christ Crucified · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … this tyme steirit vp preicheris amang vs, euin quhen darknes and ignorance had the vpperhandupper hand, he will not do sa heirefter seing we haue the ordinarie meane to prouyde …
    With rule
    … this tyme steirit vp preicheris amang vs, euin quhen darknes and ignorance had the vpperhandupper hand, he will not do sa heirefter seing we haue the ordinarie meane to prouyde …

    David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … an occaſion giuen them to reioyce, glorie, & boaſt, as men that haue gotten the vpperhandupper hand, as a cheefe matter which was obiected to Marcellinus was this, ſuper te in …
    With rule
    … an occaſion giuen them to reioyce, glorie, & boaſt, as men that haue gotten the vpperhandupper hand, as a cheefe matter which was obiected to Marcellinus was this, ſuper te in …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    The Arrians, in the dayes of Constantine, had no great vpperhandupper hand, except onely in the matter of Athanasius his banishment to Triere, and in the …
    With rule
    The Arrians, in the dayes of Constantine, had no great vpperhandupper hand, except onely in the matter of Athanasius his banishment to Triere, and in the …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 36 · Open in the reader

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None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.