Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #420 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

waueswaves

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

Puritas changed it: 1,014 times in 372 works
Consistency: 100% (1,014 of 1,014)
Reach if approved: ~1,065 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: waves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,014 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,014 changes in 372 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,014)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… very leaſt circumſtance of our troubles. Hence it is that they are called the waueswaves of God, and the arrowes of God; yea, God doth afflict his own, that …
With rule
… very leaſt circumſtance of our troubles. Hence it is that they are called the waueswaves of God, and the arrowes of God; yea, God doth afflict his own, that …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 259 · Open in the reader
Printed
Glaucus findes neither waueswaves nor hearbes to ease him
With rule
Glaucus findes neither waueswaves nor hearbes to ease him
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… coasts, the raging sea would soone determine the controuersie, and by force of her waueswaves take it from them both. There is a contestation betwixt vs and the Pontificians …
With rule
… coasts, the raging sea would soone determine the controuersie, and by force of her waueswaves take it from them both. There is a contestation betwixt vs and the Pontificians …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſcattered ſandes able inoughe to ſtay the raging Seas: ſo ſhall your proude waueswaves of your boyling ſtomacks and ouer buſie heades, be broken and brought full lowe …
With rule
… the ſcattered ſandes able inoughe to ſtay the raging Seas: ſo ſhall your proude waueswaves of your boyling ſtomacks and ouer buſie heades, be broken and brought full lowe …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… and as Dauid saith, into the deepe waters, so that all the surges, and waueswaves doe passe and flow ouer him. Now wee know what danger it is for …
With rule
… and as Dauid saith, into the deepe waters, so that all the surges, and waueswaves doe passe and flow ouer him. Now wee know what danger it is for …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cruelty, and he reaped cruelty. He committed the males of Israel to the mercilesse waueswaves, and himselfe with all his hoast were swallowed vp by the red sea: He …
With rule
… cruelty, and he reaped cruelty. He committed the males of Israel to the mercilesse waueswaves, and himselfe with all his hoast were swallowed vp by the red sea: He …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hauen is heauen, and Chriſt is our Pilot, When the ſea can continue without waueswaves, the ſhip without toſſings, and paſſengers not be ſick vpon the water, thou ſhal …
With rule
… hauen is heauen, and Chriſt is our Pilot, When the ſea can continue without waueswaves, the ſhip without toſſings, and paſſengers not be ſick vpon the water, thou ſhal …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 238 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blaſts of his temptations vpon ſuch, whom he ſees to be as Reeds, & as waueswaves of the Sea, through inconſtancie, hee hereupon labours to ſet his feete firmely on …
With rule
… blaſts of his temptations vpon ſuch, whom he ſees to be as Reeds, & as waueswaves of the Sea, through inconſtancie, hee hereupon labours to ſet his feete firmely on …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 307 · 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.