Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #577 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sauorsavor

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

Puritas changed it: 223 times in 130 works
Consistency: 98.6% (223 of 226)
Reach if approved: ~237 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: savour
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 226 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (223 changes in 130 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 223)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wel as bees, but waſpes make no hūny, & therfore there is no ſweetnes, no ſauorsavor, no taſt in this bragging & ſhew of auncient progenitors and titles without anſwerable dueties …
With rule
… wel as bees, but waſpes make no hūny, & therfore there is no ſweetnes, no ſauorsavor, no taſt in this bragging & ſhew of auncient progenitors and titles without anſwerable dueties …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
Euery Sin belcheth forth an euill ſauorsavor. 171
With rule
Euery Sin belcheth forth an euill ſauorsavor. 171
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinnes, to death eternall, for it neuer returnes in vaine, but is eyther the ſauorsavor of life vnto life, or the ſauorsavor of death vnto death.
With rule
… ſinnes, to death eternall, for it neuer returnes in vaine, but is eyther the ſauorsavor of life vnto life, or the ſauorsavor of death vnto death.
Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we alwaies triumph in Chriſt, & by vs in all places doth make manifeſt the ſauorsavor of his knowledge. For we are the good ſauour of Chriſt vnto God, in …
With rule
… we alwaies triumph in Chriſt, & by vs in all places doth make manifeſt the ſauorsavor of his knowledge. For we are the good ſauour of Chriſt vnto God, in …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Observation and Keeping of the Sabbath Day · Open in the reader
Printed
… becauſe the ſtinke, that is; damnation or guiltineſſe, was taken away, by the ſweet ſauorsavor of the breath of this LAMBE, thus offered once, for all.
With rule
… becauſe the ſtinke, that is; damnation or guiltineſſe, was taken away, by the ſweet ſauorsavor of the breath of this LAMBE, thus offered once, for all.
John Bradford · A Double Summons to Repentance and Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… therof is almost continually boyling & wallopping in vs, foming out such filthy froth & stinking sauorsavor into our mindes, that it is not only detestable to the minde regenerate and …
With rule
… therof is almost continually boyling & wallopping in vs, foming out such filthy froth & stinking sauorsavor into our mindes, that it is not only detestable to the minde regenerate and …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they wil seeke it out. So the people sought out Christ, they smelt his sauorsavor he was a swete smel to …. He is … ad …, the smel of life to …
With rule
… they wil seeke it out. So the people sought out Christ, they smelt his sauorsavor he was a swete smel to …. He is … ad …, the smel of life to …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſciences, is the Goſpell ſweet, but to them which are hardned, it hath no ſauorsavor. Poore ſoules! If a man in the ſtreet cry fire, fire, euery man runnes …
With rule
… conſciences, is the Goſpell ſweet, but to them which are hardned, it hath no ſauorsavor. Poore ſoules! If a man in the ſtreet cry fire, fire, euery man runnes …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 288 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Exposition Upon Colossians A17389

Printed
… two, yet not diuided; so is the Sun and the Beames of it, the SauorSavor & the Oyntment are together, and yet the Oyntment is not corrupted: but the principall …
With rule
… two, yet not diuided; so is the Sun and the Beames of it, the SauorSavor & the Oyntment are together, and yet the Oyntment is not corrupted: but the principall …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 113 · Open in the reader