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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #502 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mouermover

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

Puritas changed it
133 times in 78 works
Consistency
100% (133 of 133)
Reach if approved
~141 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mover
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
134 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 78 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … seeing that the diuine spéech is vnknowne to vs) which is the beginner and mouermover of al things. And in euery of his workes, wee see a singular cunning …
    With rule
    … seeing that the diuine spéech is vnknowne to vs) which is the beginner and mouermover of al things. And in euery of his workes, wee see a singular cunning …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to be their mouermover; the Church hath grace and the ſpirit to be their mouermover: And ſo they haue contrary wills, the one ſet vpon good, the other wholly …
    With rule
    … to be their mouermover; the Church hath grace and the ſpirit to be their mouermover: And ſo they haue contrary wills, the one ſet vpon good, the other wholly …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    1. The mouermover of prayer is not nature in the godly, as it is in the wicked …
    With rule
    1. The mouermover of prayer is not nature in the godly, as it is in the wicked …

    Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · p. 302 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and moderates the world, when he ſtrikes me? Either muſt I blame the firſt mouermover, or diſcharge the meanes, though the men may be iuſtly blamed. I know the …
    With rule
    … and moderates the world, when he ſtrikes me? Either muſt I blame the firſt mouermover, or diſcharge the meanes, though the men may be iuſtly blamed. I know the …

    John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of sedition & contentiō. And Paul is accused by Tertullus to be not only a mouermover of sedition among the Iewes, but euen therefore calleth him also a pestilent fellow …
    With rule
    … of sedition & contentiō. And Paul is accused by Tertullus to be not only a mouermover of sedition among the Iewes, but euen therefore calleth him also a pestilent fellow …

    William Burton · Ten Sermons Upon Matthew 6:1-4 · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is the principall efficient. For in ſupernaturall workes it muſt needes be the principall mouermover ſhould be ſupernaturall in regard of that worke. And therefore ſeeing the wicked ſpirit …
    With rule
    … is the principall efficient. For in ſupernaturall workes it muſt needes be the principall mouermover ſhould be ſupernaturall in regard of that worke. And therefore ſeeing the wicked ſpirit …

    John Darrell · A Survey of Dialogical Discourses · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … hurt him but from the hand that threw it. Looke vp to the first mouermover, O mad man, and discharge the meanes. The Instrument may be vniust in thy …
    With rule
    … hurt him but from the hand that threw it. Looke vp to the first mouermover, O mad man, and discharge the meanes. The Instrument may be vniust in thy …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 359 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to God and to the partie whoſe thought it is: to God, being the mouermover of the heart to embrace or refuſe ſuch an obiect, and who onely is …
    With rule
    … to God and to the partie whoſe thought it is: to God, being the mouermover of the heart to embrace or refuſe ſuch an obiect, and who onely is …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 35 · 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.