Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #528 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vpwardupward

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

Puritas changed it: 604 times in 280 works
Consistency: 99.5% (604 of 607)
Reach if approved: ~638 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: upward
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 607 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (604 changes in 280 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 604)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hath a naturall power to be caried vpwardupward. For as a stone is caried vpwardupward by a power that is without it: so all creatures are moued and applied …
With rule
… hath a naturall power to be caried vpwardupward. For as a stone is caried vpwardupward by a power that is without it: so all creatures are moued and applied …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heauenly mind, euen as thoſe things which are ready vpon all occaſions to fly vpwardupward appeare to be of a light aerial or fiery nature, not earthly, heauy, & weighty.
With rule
… heauenly mind, euen as thoſe things which are ready vpon all occaſions to fly vpwardupward appeare to be of a light aerial or fiery nature, not earthly, heauy, & weighty.
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 423 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his reigne: of whom he was crucified, his head being downe, and his feete vpwardupward, him selfe so requiring, because (sayd he) he was vnworthy to be crucified after …
With rule
… his reigne: of whom he was crucified, his head being downe, and his feete vpwardupward, him selfe so requiring, because (sayd he) he was vnworthy to be crucified after …
Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath a naturall power to be carried vpwardupward. For as a ſtone is carried vpwardupward by a power; that is without it: ſo all creatures are mooved, & applied to …
With rule
… hath a naturall power to be carried vpwardupward. For as a ſtone is carried vpwardupward by a power; that is without it: ſo all creatures are mooved, & applied to …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
Learne to be sad, silent, sober, and sanctified: hauing thy …ind eder lifted vpwardupward, and pausing on heauenlie things, and not on cartblie and base things.
With rule
Learne to be sad, silent, sober, and sanctified: hauing thy …ind eder lifted vpwardupward, and pausing on heauenlie things, and not on cartblie and base things.
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my owne particular. You cannot be ignorant, that for theſe three ſcore yeares and vpwardupward there haue been thouſands, that haue writ with all maner of grauity and humble …
With rule
… my owne particular. You cannot be ignorant, that for theſe three ſcore yeares and vpwardupward there haue been thouſands, that haue writ with all maner of grauity and humble …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all the high hils, that were vnder the whole Heauen, were couered. Fifteene Cubites vpwardupward did the waters preuaile, and the Mountaines were couered. As a Poet according with …
With rule
… all the high hils, that were vnder the whole Heauen, were couered. Fifteene Cubites vpwardupward did the waters preuaile, and the Mountaines were couered. As a Poet according with …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his bedde, and caſting out many horrible blaſphemies, lying vpon pillowes with his héeles vpwardupward, and head downwarde, voyded ſo much bloud at his mouth, that in fewe houres …
With rule
… his bedde, and caſting out many horrible blaſphemies, lying vpon pillowes with his héeles vpwardupward, and head downwarde, voyded ſo much bloud at his mouth, that in fewe houres …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 288 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.