Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #529 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vreure

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

Puritas changed it: 387 times in 103 works
Consistency: 97.4% (387 of 397)
Reach if approved: ~417 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ure
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 397 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (387 changes in 103 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 387)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… holy Sacramentes. Not for that he nedeth any ſuch matter for the putting in vreure of his ſaid power, he being almightie: but for that it pleaſeth him to …
With rule
… holy Sacramentes. Not for that he nedeth any ſuch matter for the putting in vreure of his ſaid power, he being almightie: but for that it pleaſeth him to …
Theodore Beza · An Oration · Open in the reader
Printed
… perſwaſion whoſo carryes, & is acquainted with his foule ſinnes, willingly prayes with AVSTINE: Hic vreure, hic ſica, vt in aeternum parcas.
With rule
… perſwaſion whoſo carryes, & is acquainted with his foule ſinnes, willingly prayes with AVSTINE: Hic vreure, hic ſica, vt in aeternum parcas.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the great workes of this day. That these Babylonians might keepe their hands in vreure, what foule and desperate designes haue they attempted against the life of the Kings …
With rule
… the great workes of this day. That these Babylonians might keepe their hands in vreure, what foule and desperate designes haue they attempted against the life of the Kings …
Thomas Taylor · A Map of Rome · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feeling passages of sanctification, are occasions to put Gods Children out of vse and vreure with the language of Canaan, from the embracement of many ioyfull considerations, and exercise …
With rule
… feeling passages of sanctification, are occasions to put Gods Children out of vse and vreure with the language of Canaan, from the embracement of many ioyfull considerations, and exercise …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Herod a yeerely returne for the same, to keepe his fingers in vse and vreure. Vnde facile conijci potest quàm nihil pietatis habuerint, multum autem arrogantiae & vanae gloriae: Whence …
With rule
… Herod a yeerely returne for the same, to keepe his fingers in vse and vreure. Vnde facile conijci potest quàm nihil pietatis habuerint, multum autem arrogantiae & vanae gloriae: Whence …
Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is a great ſlouth in nature, which hindreth men from putting their loue in vreure, for loue is labourſome and paineful as Saint Paule ſetteth it forth 1. Theſ. 1. when …
With rule
… is a great ſlouth in nature, which hindreth men from putting their loue in vreure, for loue is labourſome and paineful as Saint Paule ſetteth it forth 1. Theſ. 1. when …
George Gifford · Four Sermons Upon the Seven Chief Virtues · Open in the reader
Printed
… mans conscience to builde such proceedinges vpon, as haue beene and are put in vreure for the stablishment of that cause? But to conclude, I would gladly vnderstand how …
With rule
… mans conscience to builde such proceedinges vpon, as haue beene and are put in vreure for the stablishment of that cause? But to conclude, I would gladly vnderstand how …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Viper, to abolish the deadly venome thereof: What losse is there in the vreure cast in the fornace, when be the fire out of the moules of the …
With rule
… the Viper, to abolish the deadly venome thereof: What losse is there in the vreure cast in the fornace, when be the fire out of the moules of the …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 48 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02186

Printed
… glorious Goſpell of IESVS: yea, this was their conſtant anſwere to ther bloudy Butcherers: VreUre, tunde, diuelle, lan…a, ſeca: Idolatua non adorabimus: potes corpora iſta (O Caeſar) cruci …
With rule
… glorious Goſpell of IESVS: yea, this was their conſtant anſwere to ther bloudy Butcherers: VreUre, tunde, diuelle, lan…a, ſeca: Idolatua non adorabimus: potes corpora iſta (O Caeſar) cruci …
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 47 · Open in the reader