Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #453 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cauecave

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

Puritas changed it: 400 times in 163 works
Consistency: 100% (400 of 400)
Reach if approved: ~420 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cave
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 400 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (400 changes in 163 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 400)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and practice righteousnesse: yea, when Saul was fallen into his hands both in the CaueCave and asleepe in the campe, 1. Samuel chapter 24. verses 5, 6. &c. and chapter 26. verses 7, 8: he would …
With rule
… and practice righteousnesse: yea, when Saul was fallen into his hands both in the CaueCave and asleepe in the campe, 1. Samuel chapter 24. verses 5, 6. &c. and chapter 26. verses 7, 8: he would …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 505 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iaakob in Aegypt by Ioſeph, Elimelech and Naomi in Moab, the Prophets in the CaueCave by Obadiah, Eliah by the Rauen, and the Widow by Eliah. Though the Lyons …
With rule
… Iaakob in Aegypt by Ioſeph, Elimelech and Naomi in Moab, the Prophets in the CaueCave by Obadiah, Eliah by the Rauen, and the Widow by Eliah. Though the Lyons …
Archibald Simson · The Seven Days · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he was something, as it wa…e about branding a huge stone in a cauecave, in a goate skinne with Polypheme … when the fire-brand was asleepe.
With rule
… he was something, as it wa…e about branding a huge stone in a cauecave, in a goate skinne with Polypheme … when the fire-brand was asleepe.
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
Iurat, non iurat? hostis ab hoste cauecave.
With rule
Iurat, non iurat? hostis ab hoste cauecave.
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as a scrole & the mountaines moue as frighted men out of their places, what CaueCave shall receaue them? what mountaine or rocke shall they get by intreatie to fall …
With rule
… as a scrole & the mountaines moue as frighted men out of their places, what CaueCave shall receaue them? what mountaine or rocke shall they get by intreatie to fall …
Richard Hooker · A Remedy Against Sorrow and Fear · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with out any man. Dauid and his men sitting by the sydes of the cauecave, yea and Dauids men mouing hym to kill Saull, Dauid made answer & sayd vnto …
With rule
… with out any man. Dauid and his men sitting by the sydes of the cauecave, yea and Dauids men mouing hym to kill Saull, Dauid made answer & sayd vnto …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, toke an hū dred of them, and hyd them, fyfti in one cauecave, and fyftye in a nother, & prouided bread and water for thē: suche and so …
With rule
… of God, toke an hū dred of them, and hyd them, fyfti in one cauecave, and fyftye in a nother, & prouided bread and water for thē: suche and so …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… Vespaſian the Roman Generall tooke, being aſſembled with diuers of his ſouldiers in a cauecave, where for a while they lay hid from the fury of the Enemie, when …
With rule
… Vespaſian the Roman Generall tooke, being aſſembled with diuers of his ſouldiers in a cauecave, where for a while they lay hid from the fury of the Enemie, when …
Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 186 · 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.