Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #428 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

drouedrove

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

Puritas changed it: 226 times in 145 works
Consistency: 98.6% (226 of 229)
Reach if approved: ~241 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: drove
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 229 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (226 changes in 145 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 226)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bleared; and Seneca saith in his booke of the blessed life: We follow the drouedrove like the beasts of the field; when we thinke we goe to the pasture …
With rule
… bleared; and Seneca saith in his booke of the blessed life: We follow the drouedrove like the beasts of the field; when we thinke we goe to the pasture …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 666 · Open in the reader
Printed
… weather, nor perill by that long way could hinder them: for, with Abraham, they drouedrove away al vncleane fowles of exception, that might fall vpon the carkaſſes that were …
With rule
… weather, nor perill by that long way could hinder them: for, with Abraham, they drouedrove away al vncleane fowles of exception, that might fall vpon the carkaſſes that were …
Robert Horne · A Caveat to Prevent Future Judgments · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Citie next to the ſlayne man, muſt take a Heyfer out of the drouedrove, and bring it into a ſtony valley, and ſtrike of the Heyfers necke: and …
With rule
… the Citie next to the ſlayne man, muſt take a Heyfer out of the drouedrove, and bring it into a ſtony valley, and ſtrike of the Heyfers necke: and …
John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by prayer drew them againe aliue out of the Wolues bellies: How Saint Patricke drouedrove with his ſtaffe all the venemous beaſts out of Ireland, and cauſed a ſtollen …
With rule
… by prayer drew them againe aliue out of the Wolues bellies: How Saint Patricke drouedrove with his ſtaffe all the venemous beaſts out of Ireland, and cauſed a ſtollen …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 308 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then after he became an exorcist or Coniurer, when he drouedrove seuen diuels out of Marie Magdalene: & when he did rub the mouth & eares of …
With rule
Then after he became an exorcist or Coniurer, when he drouedrove seuen diuels out of Marie Magdalene: & when he did rub the mouth & eares of …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… hindred more then the vnhappy and wretched ceremonies: loth to parte companie from this drouedrove of their owne countrey cattell, for that euer ſince they came foorth of Rome …
With rule
… hindred more then the vnhappy and wretched ceremonies: loth to parte companie from this drouedrove of their owne countrey cattell, for that euer ſince they came foorth of Rome …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stickinge only to theyr inwarde reuelations. Such rasshe contempte of the worde / prouoked and drouedrove S. Augustine into that excessiue vehemence. In the which / after the bare sownd of …
With rule
… stickinge only to theyr inwarde reuelations. Such rasshe contempte of the worde / prouoked and drouedrove S. Augustine into that excessiue vehemence. In the which / after the bare sownd of …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader
Printed
… warrant for their owne, eſpecially when multitudes, great men, or Saints go in the drouedrove, blindely they follow though in praecipitia.
With rule
… warrant for their owne, eſpecially when multitudes, great men, or Saints go in the drouedrove, blindely they follow though in praecipitia.
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 274 · 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.

The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families A03694

Printed
… it …areth with such (oftentimes) as with Beasts, who …istrusting nothing, and following the DroueDrove, whiles they suppose they are go…ng to the Pasture to be fed, are …
With rule
… it …areth with such (oftentimes) as with Beasts, who …istrusting nothing, and following the DroueDrove, whiles they suppose they are go…ng to the Pasture to be fed, are …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

Printed
… we count demonſtratiue for goodneſſe, and thinke our ſelues ſafe if wee follow the DroueDrove, though it be in praecipitia. Great men, ſaid ELIHV, are not alwayes wiſe: yet …
With rule
… we count demonſtratiue for goodneſſe, and thinke our ſelues ſafe if wee follow the DroueDrove, though it be in praecipitia. Great men, ſaid ELIHV, are not alwayes wiſe: yet …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 48 · Open in the reader