Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #501 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

grouelinggroveling

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

Puritas changed it: 158 times in 108 works
Consistency: 100% (158 of 158)
Reach if approved: ~166 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: groveling
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 158 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (158 changes in 108 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 158)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that hath seene a drunkard before, swelling and puffing, and foming, and spuing, and grouelinggroveling like a beast; for who would be like a beast for all the world …
With rule
… that hath seene a drunkard before, swelling and puffing, and foming, and spuing, and grouelinggroveling like a beast; for who would be like a beast for all the world …
Henry Smith · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue ſet before our eyes, the liues of wicked men. For they beeing here grouelinggroveling on the earth, and in loue with their bodies, and chained with the innumerable …
With rule
… haue ſet before our eyes, the liues of wicked men. For they beeing here grouelinggroveling on the earth, and in loue with their bodies, and chained with the innumerable …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be inflamed toward the attaining of this happie estate, we should be still grouelinggroveling vpon the earth, but eleuate our hearts to heauen, and to haue our conuersation …
With rule
… to be inflamed toward the attaining of this happie estate, we should be still grouelinggroveling vpon the earth, but eleuate our hearts to heauen, and to haue our conuersation …
Andrew Willet · The Treasure of the Church · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bow downe is of gesture, and as I take it signifieth to fall down grouelinggroveling in token of honour, and is put, for any outward signe of bowing the …
With rule
… bow downe is of gesture, and as I take it signifieth to fall down grouelinggroveling in token of honour, and is put, for any outward signe of bowing the …
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
… Freewill ſee how they can reconcile theſe things, namely, that man ſhould naturally lie grouelinggroveling in a thicke miſt of ſpirituall darkneſſe, and yet ſhould haue power in himſelfe …
With rule
… Freewill ſee how they can reconcile theſe things, namely, that man ſhould naturally lie grouelinggroveling in a thicke miſt of ſpirituall darkneſſe, and yet ſhould haue power in himſelfe …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this for a man, being but duſt and aſhes, yea a worme creeping and grouelinggroveling vpon the earth, to haue communion with the moſt great and glorious God, who …
With rule
… this for a man, being but duſt and aſhes, yea a worme creeping and grouelinggroveling vpon the earth, to haue communion with the moſt great and glorious God, who …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… affoord any certain direction. Our Sauiour & his Disciples praied in diuers gestures, kneling, standing, grouelinggroveling, looking to heauen, looking downe to the earth, sitting, lying, &c. Luk. 11. 41. Act. 7 God …
With rule
… affoord any certain direction. Our Sauiour & his Disciples praied in diuers gestures, kneling, standing, grouelinggroveling, looking to heauen, looking downe to the earth, sitting, lying, &c. Luk. 11. 41. Act. 7 God …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… as light as a feather; hoping thereby to haue helpe. They made signes, lying grouelinggroveling with their faces vpon the ground, making a noise downeward, that they worship the …
With rule
… as light as a feather; hoping thereby to haue helpe. They made signes, lying grouelinggroveling with their faces vpon the ground, making a noise downeward, that they worship the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 623 · 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.