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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #435 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prouisionsprovisions

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

Puritas changed it
119 times in 55 works
Consistency
93.7% (119 of 127)
Reach if approved
~133 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: provisions
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
127 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (119 changes in 55 works, 93.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 119)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    It foloweth in your new othe, decrées, ordinaunces, ſentences, diſpoſions, reſeruations, prouiſionsprovisions, and commaundementes apoſtolike, with all my power I will obſerue, & ſhall and cauſe other …
    With rule
    It foloweth in your new othe, decrées, ordinaunces, ſentences, diſpoſions, reſeruations, prouiſionsprovisions, and commaundementes apoſtolike, with all my power I will obſerue, & ſhall and cauſe other …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 204 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Then he bryngeth in prouisionsprovisions of Kynge Henry the .v. Of whom I axe. M. More whether he were …
    With rule
    Then he bryngeth in prouisionsprovisions of Kynge Henry the .v. Of whom I axe. M. More whether he were …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … word, he sendeth a wynde, a strong hurlyng wynd, whiche blue away all their prouisionsprovisions, whiche was made for the buildyng of the temple, all the sande and morter …
    With rule
    … word, he sendeth a wynde, a strong hurlyng wynd, whiche blue away all their prouisionsprovisions, whiche was made for the buildyng of the temple, all the sande and morter …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … that such as make a trade of these superstitions are not by some seuere prouisionsprovisions rooted out of this, and euery other Christian Land. Let this first Rule be …
    With rule
    … that such as make a trade of these superstitions are not by some seuere prouisionsprovisions rooted out of this, and euery other Christian Land. Let this first Rule be …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 433 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … being both bound for Virginia. Of Captaine Iones wee furnished our selues of such prouisionsprovisions as we most needed, and he could best spare, who as hee vsed vs …
    With rule
    … being both bound for Virginia. Of Captaine Iones wee furnished our selues of such prouisionsprovisions as we most needed, and he could best spare, who as hee vsed vs …

    Edward Winslow · Good News from New England 2 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … they forgetfull of god cōmonly, and attribute to muche to theyr owne wyſedomes, policies, prouiſionsprovisions, & diligence: as thoughe they were the procurers of their own fortune, and the workers …
    With rule
    … they forgetfull of god cōmonly, and attribute to muche to theyr owne wyſedomes, policies, prouiſionsprovisions, & diligence: as thoughe they were the procurers of their own fortune, and the workers …

    John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Now this oppoſeth it ſelfe againſt all thoſe prouiſionsprovisions, wherin the children of the world doe put their truſt: for they are neuer …
    With rule
    Now this oppoſeth it ſelfe againſt all thoſe prouiſionsprovisions, wherin the children of the world doe put their truſt: for they are neuer …

    John Calvin · Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    27 The Franciscane Friar Giles, did so much abhorre all temporall prouisionsprovisions, that hee told Saint Francis, hee did not like the Antes, because they tooke …
    With rule
    27 The Franciscane Friar Giles, did so much abhorre all temporall prouisionsprovisions, that hee told Saint Francis, hee did not like the Antes, because they tooke …

    John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · p. 134 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pseudo-Martyr A20647

  • Printed
    … betweene our Kings, and the Popes, when so many capitall Lawes were made against ProuisionsProvisions and Appeales, (not to dispute yet whe…her de Iure or de facto only …
    With rule
    … betweene our Kings, and the Popes, when so many capitall Lawes were made against ProuisionsProvisions and Appeales, (not to dispute yet whe…her de Iure or de facto only …

    John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · p. 164 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    … heinous and vsurped authoritie of the bishop of Rome, through reseruations of ye Bishoprickes ProuisionsProvisions, Annuates, Dispensations, Pardones, Appellations, Bulles, and other cursed Marchaundice of Rome, was woont exceedingly …
    With rule
    … heinous and vsurped authoritie of the bishop of Rome, through reseruations of ye Bishoprickes ProuisionsProvisions, Annuates, Dispensations, Pardones, Appellations, Bulles, and other cursed Marchaundice of Rome, was woont exceedingly …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1882 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ProuisionsProvisions at Oxford. 329.
    With rule
    ProuisionsProvisions at Oxford. 329.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ProuisionsProvisions of the Pope restrayned 421.
    With rule
    ProuisionsProvisions of the Pope restrayned 421.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader