Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #581 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

strouestrove

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

Puritas changed it: 273 times in 172 works
Consistency: 100% (273 of 273)
Reach if approved: ~287 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: strove
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 273 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (273 changes in 172 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 273)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but too well, and farre better than his Absolom loued him. And though hee strouestrove to conceale it, yet he could not but discouer it. Ioab wisely discerned it …
With rule
… but too well, and farre better than his Absolom loued him. And though hee strouestrove to conceale it, yet he could not but discouer it. Ioab wisely discerned it …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
WHen those three Goddesses, say the Poets, strouestrove for the golden ball, Paris adiudged it to the Queen of Loue. Heere are …
With rule
WHen those three Goddesses, say the Poets, strouestrove for the golden ball, Paris adiudged it to the Queen of Loue. Heere are …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The firſt 6. hundreth yeares, (as the ſtories of the Church doe teſtifie) Sathans inſtruments ſtrouestrove mightily to infect the Church with ſuperſtition and hereſies, but the ſeruants of Chriſt …
With rule
… The firſt 6. hundreth yeares, (as the ſtories of the Church doe teſtifie) Sathans inſtruments ſtrouestrove mightily to infect the Church with ſuperſtition and hereſies, but the ſeruants of Chriſt …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was not allowed in Saint Auguſtines time; for hee thus writeth againſt Vrbicus, that ſtrouestrove for the Saturdayes faſt: I read in deed that wee are commanded to faſt …
With rule
… was not allowed in Saint Auguſtines time; for hee thus writeth againſt Vrbicus, that ſtrouestrove for the Saturdayes faſt: I read in deed that wee are commanded to faſt …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 392 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being ſhut, and teeth ſet. But breath being perceiued to be in her, they ſtrouestrove to reuiue her, which was a great trouble vnto her: Yet through the mercy …
With rule
… being ſhut, and teeth ſet. But breath being perceiued to be in her, they ſtrouestrove to reuiue her, which was a great trouble vnto her: Yet through the mercy …
John Mayer · A Pattern for Women · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the dead? to the law and to the testimony. Rebecca, when the two twinnes strouestrove in her womb, what did she? the text saith she sent to aske the …
With rule
… the dead? to the law and to the testimony. Rebecca, when the two twinnes strouestrove in her womb, what did she? the text saith she sent to aske the …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 348 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him, The Lord reproue thee Satan: And in Iude verſe 9. when Michael the Archangell ſtrouestrove with the Diuell about the Body of Moſes, he durſt not blame him with …
With rule
… him, The Lord reproue thee Satan: And in Iude verſe 9. when Michael the Archangell ſtrouestrove with the Diuell about the Body of Moſes, he durſt not blame him with …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and other Chriſtians merited the ſtile of the ſons of peace: ſo vnanimouſly they ſtrouestrove for the faith once giuen to Saints, reſisting againſt ſin to the ſhedding of …
With rule
… and other Chriſtians merited the ſtile of the ſons of peace: ſo vnanimouſly they ſtrouestrove for the faith once giuen to Saints, reſisting againſt ſin to the ſhedding of …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 299 · 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.