Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #781 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vppermostuppermost

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

Puritas changed it: 101 times in 69 works
Consistency: 95.2% (101 of 106)
Reach if approved: ~111 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: uppermost
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 106 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (101 changes in 69 works, 95.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 101)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… equall honor, dignitie, iuriſdiction, authoritie, degrée: ſaue onely that the patriark of Rome ſat vppermoſtuppermost in generall Synods, bicauſe of the old dignitie of old Rome: and that then …
With rule
… equall honor, dignitie, iuriſdiction, authoritie, degrée: ſaue onely that the patriark of Rome ſat vppermoſtuppermost in generall Synods, bicauſe of the old dignitie of old Rome: and that then …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when we come to powre forth our hearts to the Lord, that which lyes vppermostuppermost will be ready to be powred forth first; and that which is spirituall, it …
With rule
… when we come to powre forth our hearts to the Lord, that which lyes vppermostuppermost will be ready to be powred forth first; and that which is spirituall, it …
John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ramme. Dagon whome the Philistims worshipped, had the similitude of a man in the vppermostuppermost partes, but the similitude of a fish in the lower partes of his body …
With rule
… Ramme. Dagon whome the Philistims worshipped, had the similitude of a man in the vppermostuppermost partes, but the similitude of a fish in the lower partes of his body …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… things vpon the crosse, both celestiall, terrestriall, and infernall: vnto the first, applying the vppermostuppermost part of the crosse; to the next, that part where his hands were stretched …
With rule
… things vpon the crosse, both celestiall, terrestriall, and infernall: vnto the first, applying the vppermostuppermost part of the crosse; to the next, that part where his hands were stretched …
Andrew Willet · A Scourge for a Railer · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Pharisies of whō Christ speaketh in the gospel, saying: that they loue the vppermostuppermost …eates and to be reue…enced of men. But that they maye see me …
With rule
… the Pharisies of whō Christ speaketh in the gospel, saying: that they loue the vppermostuppermost …eates and to be reue…enced of men. But that they maye see me …
Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
ſuperficiall, belonging to the outſide and vppermoſtuppermost part.
With rule
ſuperficiall, belonging to the outſide and vppermoſtuppermost part.
Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader
Printed
And as they put vppon hym the Masse geare, so they began with the vppermostuppermost garment, in taking it away agayne, reading a thyng in Latine, accordyng to the …
With rule
And as they put vppon hym the Masse geare, so they began with the vppermostuppermost garment, in taking it away agayne, reading a thyng in Latine, accordyng to the …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1768 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dealing, and sinceritie, at your handes. Well, your Limbus patrum, the very brimme, or vppermostuppermost, or outmost part of hell, wherein all the Patriarches should rest, we haue now …
With rule
… dealing, and sinceritie, at your handes. Well, your Limbus patrum, the very brimme, or vppermostuppermost, or outmost part of hell, wherein all the Patriarches should rest, we haue now …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 214 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.