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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #442 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stauesstaves

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

Puritas changed it
221 times in 136 works
Consistency
96.5% (221 of 229)
Reach if approved
~241 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: staves
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 (221 changes in 136 works, 96.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 221)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … hee as a Captaine to them, and they as a guarde with ſwordes and ſtauesstaves enter within the Garden to take the LORD IESVS.
    With rule
    … hee as a Captaine to them, and they as a guarde with ſwordes and ſtauesstaves enter within the Garden to take the LORD IESVS.

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … vnto vs as vayles, that keepe downe our ſight vppon the earth, and as ſtauesstaves for vs to leane vpon. Now, our God takeing away theſe vayles and carnall …
    With rule
    … vnto vs as vayles, that keepe downe our ſight vppon the earth, and as ſtauesstaves for vs to leane vpon. Now, our God takeing away theſe vayles and carnall …

    Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … in the wilderneſſe of this world, vntill hauing caſt away, either weapons or walking ſtauesstaves, we ſhall ſet vs downe in th'endles peace and reſt of our God. A …
    With rule
    … in the wilderneſſe of this world, vntill hauing caſt away, either weapons or walking ſtauesstaves, we ſhall ſet vs downe in th'endles peace and reſt of our God. A …

    Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … many places what reuell their circumcellions made, which in companies walking with clubbes and ſtauesstaves did ſpoile, and beate ſuch as light into their handes, vſing moreouer a ſauage …
    With rule
    … many places what reuell their circumcellions made, which in companies walking with clubbes and ſtauesstaves did ſpoile, and beate ſuch as light into their handes, vſing moreouer a ſauage …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and Chambers. All shrines, Images, churchscooles, & pews that are well payed for. All Banner stauesstaves, Pater noster scores, and péeces of the holy crosse.
    With rule
    … and Chambers. All shrines, Images, churchscooles, & pews that are well payed for. All Banner stauesstaves, Pater noster scores, and péeces of the holy crosse.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    2 They beat him with ſtauesstaves, Mat. 27.30.
    With rule
    2 They beat him with ſtauesstaves, Mat. 27.30.

    Edmund Littleton · A Brief Catechism · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Lewen, S. Rombold, S. Iames of Cōpostell, with all your scallop shelles, and pilgrims stauesstaves: helpe all you sweet men and women Saints, whose relikes are deuoutly prayed vnto …
    With rule
    … Lewen, S. Rombold, S. Iames of Cōpostell, with all your scallop shelles, and pilgrims stauesstaves: helpe all you sweet men and women Saints, whose relikes are deuoutly prayed vnto …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … euery person receiued the passe-ouer in haste, with shooes on their feete, with stauesstaves in their hands, and their clothes girt vp, Exod. 12.11: yet this we must vnderstand …
    With rule
    … euery person receiued the passe-ouer in haste, with shooes on their feete, with stauesstaves in their hands, and their clothes girt vp, Exod. 12.11: yet this we must vnderstand …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 441 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

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

Exposition on John 5 A01972

  • Printed
    3. StauesStaves in your hands.] StauesStaves, we know, ſerues to helpe men in their iourney, and …
    With rule
    3. StauesStaves in your hands.] StauesStaves, we know, ſerues to helpe men in their iourney, and …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    3. StauesStaves in your hands.] StauesStaves, we know, ſerues to helpe men in their iourney, and to reſt themſelues vpon …
    With rule
    3. StauesStaves in your hands.] StauesStaves, we know, ſerues to helpe men in their iourney, and to reſt themſelues vpon …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 181 · Open in the reader

The Bee Hive of the Romish Church A07026

  • Printed
    … ashes, holy Paceegges, and flanes, palmes and palme boughes, Albes, Copes, Maniples, Vestmēts, Miters, StauesStaves, fooles hoods, Shelles, and Belles, Paxes, licking of rotten bones, carying of the Pixe …
    With rule
    … ashes, holy Paceegges, and flanes, palmes and palme boughes, Albes, Copes, Maniples, Vestmēts, Miters, StauesStaves, fooles hoods, Shelles, and Belles, Paxes, licking of rotten bones, carying of the Pixe …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Or if so be likewise, that they doe not passe for all their Myters, StauesStaves, Hattes, Crownes, Cowles Capes, and Liripippes: yet must they needes remember them selues, that …
    With rule
    … Or if so be likewise, that they doe not passe for all their Myters, StauesStaves, Hattes, Crownes, Cowles Capes, and Liripippes: yet must they needes remember them selues, that …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … they might not bee discerned asunder but by the sight of the names. These StauesStaves were laid before God in ye Sanctuary: & when they were taken thence againe, Aarons …
    With rule
    … they might not bee discerned asunder but by the sight of the names. These StauesStaves were laid before God in ye Sanctuary: & when they were taken thence againe, Aarons …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 458 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

  • Printed
    … Witneſſes, who albeit they ſtand not by the high-way ſide with Swordes, or StauesStaves, or Rapiers, or other Weapons, yet are indeede no better then Theeues and Robbers …
    With rule
    … Witneſſes, who albeit they ſtand not by the high-way ſide with Swordes, or StauesStaves, or Rapiers, or other Weapons, yet are indeede no better then Theeues and Robbers …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 389 · Open in the reader