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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #56 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gouernmentgovernment

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

Puritas changed it
6,074 times in 680 works
Consistency
100% (6,074 of 6,074)
Reach if approved
~6,382 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: government
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
6,074 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,074 changes in 680 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,074)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … permitted in Englād, for feare of ouerthrowing your Bishops office and the Queenes supreame gouernmentgovernment in all spiritual things and causes. Is not this to followe the humour of …
    With rule
    … permitted in Englād, for feare of ouerthrowing your Bishops office and the Queenes supreame gouernmentgovernment in all spiritual things and causes. Is not this to followe the humour of …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 172 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Magistracie bee not exposed to contempt. B…t Magistratus, non vestitus, indicat virum: Wise gouernmentgovernment, not rich garment, shewes an able man. It was not riches, that they regarded.
    With rule
    … Magistracie bee not exposed to contempt. B…t Magistratus, non vestitus, indicat virum: Wise gouernmentgovernment, not rich garment, shewes an able man. It was not riches, that they regarded.

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … muſt ſhew that the Catholike Church, ſhoulde at anye tyme be without a viſible gouernmentgovernment.
    With rule
    … muſt ſhew that the Catholike Church, ſhoulde at anye tyme be without a viſible gouernmentgovernment.

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Iob 31.15. 1 Cor. 7.22. Whence it followes, That howſoeuer for orders ſake and good of outward gouernmentgovernment, there is a difference betweene maſters and ſerua…ts, yet in reſpect of God …
    With rule
    … Iob 31.15. 1 Cor. 7.22. Whence it followes, That howſoeuer for orders ſake and good of outward gouernmentgovernment, there is a difference betweene maſters and ſerua…ts, yet in reſpect of God …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of CHRIST by outward profession / but in bondage to a false and Antichristian ministery / gouernmentgovernment / worship etc. and the bond woeman and her sonne must be cast out. Furder …
    With rule
    … of CHRIST by outward profession / but in bondage to a false and Antichristian ministery / gouernmentgovernment / worship etc. and the bond woeman and her sonne must be cast out. Furder …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſafetie of Germanicus. While we conſider the bleſſings which we enioy by his gracious GouernmentGovernment; that the eſtates we haue gotten with honeſt induſtry, may be ſafely conueyed to …
    With rule
    … ſafetie of Germanicus. While we conſider the bleſſings which we enioy by his gracious GouernmentGovernment; that the eſtates we haue gotten with honeſt induſtry, may be ſafely conueyed to …

    Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … wherein your familie is alreadie reformed, and a direction for that perfecting of the gouernmentgovernment thereof, whollie according vnto the word. And to this purpoſe it is, that I …
    With rule
    … wherein your familie is alreadie reformed, and a direction for that perfecting of the gouernmentgovernment thereof, whollie according vnto the word. And to this purpoſe it is, that I …

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … redd Rose here, and the white there. We are not shuffled into a popular gouernmentgovernment, nor cut into Cantons, by a headles, headstrong Aristocracie: but Henricus Rosas, Regna Iacobus …
    With rule
    … redd Rose here, and the white there. We are not shuffled into a popular gouernmentgovernment, nor cut into Cantons, by a headles, headstrong Aristocracie: but Henricus Rosas, Regna Iacobus …

    Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 123 · 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.