Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #419 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

waueringwavering

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

Puritas changed it: 766 times in 301 works
Consistency: 99.6% (766 of 769)
Reach if approved: ~808 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wavering
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 769 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (766 changes in 301 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 766)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the loue of Christ. When this is not taught, all thinges are vncertaine, waueringwavering, & of no strength, that are eyther taught, or imagined of god. For they can …
With rule
… of the loue of Christ. When this is not taught, all thinges are vncertaine, waueringwavering, & of no strength, that are eyther taught, or imagined of god. For they can …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 281 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it were) vnder feet the moone of mans inconſtancie, or rather mans vaine and waueringwavering imaginations and deuiſes, is crowned with the crowne of conſtant truth & adorned with the …
With rule
… it were) vnder feet the moone of mans inconſtancie, or rather mans vaine and waueringwavering imaginations and deuiſes, is crowned with the crowne of conſtant truth & adorned with the …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · Open in the reader
Printed
… him with importunity, till a peremptory answere hath put him out of hart. The waueringwavering and weakely-resisting spirit cannot sleepe in the Chamber of quiet: whiles innumerable lusts …
With rule
… him with importunity, till a peremptory answere hath put him out of hart. The waueringwavering and weakely-resisting spirit cannot sleepe in the Chamber of quiet: whiles innumerable lusts …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ioy. For although without this, men ſeeme to beleeue, yet it is but a waueringwavering fantaſie, to doe many good things, yet they proceede but from a ſeruile minde …
With rule
… ioy. For although without this, men ſeeme to beleeue, yet it is but a waueringwavering fantaſie, to doe many good things, yet they proceede but from a ſeruile minde …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from an vnpurged, and ill diſpoſed heart, nor thy words from vncompoſed, vnconſtant, wandring, waueringwavering thoughts. For God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth. Theſe words are an …
With rule
… from an vnpurged, and ill diſpoſed heart, nor thy words from vncompoſed, vnconſtant, wandring, waueringwavering thoughts. For God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth. Theſe words are an …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… floud of the Assirians or of Babilon, betokening in misterye the pleasaunt possessions and waueringwavering delights of the Papisticall cleargye, with suche lyke.
With rule
… floud of the Assirians or of Babilon, betokening in misterye the pleasaunt possessions and waueringwavering delights of the Papisticall cleargye, with suche lyke.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… the woundit conscience is sa waik that the lest vnseemly word, wrang luke, or waueringwavering thocht quhilk man can vse, wil hurt and trouble it, and make it to …
With rule
… the woundit conscience is sa waik that the lest vnseemly word, wrang luke, or waueringwavering thocht quhilk man can vse, wil hurt and trouble it, and make it to …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Tower, and there to loke dayly for death, then to be found a waueringwavering reede, or to deceane hys Prynce. For they (sayd he) that doo allow any …
With rule
… the Tower, and there to loke dayly for death, then to be found a waueringwavering reede, or to deceane hys Prynce. For they (sayd he) that doo allow any …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
2 WaueringWavering, and vncertainty of mind. 1. Tim. 2, 8. Lift vp pure handes without Doubting. Iames 1, 6.
With rule
2 WaueringWavering, and vncertainty of mind. 1. Tim. 2, 8. Lift vp pure handes without Doubting. Iames 1, 6.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 109 · Open in the reader

Epistles Volume 2 B13862

Printed
… to the vse of others. Vpon your charge I haue written it for the WaueringWavering: If it seeme worthy, communicate it; els, it is but a dash of your …
With rule
… to the vse of others. Vpon your charge I haue written it for the WaueringWavering: If it seeme worthy, communicate it; els, it is but a dash of your …
Joseph Hall · Epistles Volume 2 · p. 21 · Open in the reader