Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7867 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vpholdeuphold

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 309 times in 144 works
Consistency: 99.3% (309 of 311)
Reach if approved: ~327 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: uphold
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 311 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (309 changes in 144 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 309)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be mercyfull vnto vs, neyther do we alſo repente, but will moreouer maynteyne and vpholdeuphold all abhomination.
With rule
… be mercyfull vnto vs, neyther do we alſo repente, but will moreouer maynteyne and vpholdeuphold all abhomination.
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… as a man may ſay, the Porters, who in oppreſſing the poore ſoules, doe vpholdeuphold and mayneteine the Popes kingdome. Theſe are the Doctours in Decrées, the Doctours made …
With rule
… as a man may ſay, the Porters, who in oppreſſing the poore ſoules, doe vpholdeuphold and mayneteine the Popes kingdome. Theſe are the Doctours in Decrées, the Doctours made …
Philipp Melanchthon · Of Two Popish Monsters – A Popish Ass and a Monkish Calf · Open in the reader
Printed
… is one of the last proppes, which Sathan hath lent the Pope, wherewith to vpholdeuphold his declining kingdome) and the Lord grant we may be euer free from it …
With rule
… is one of the last proppes, which Sathan hath lent the Pope, wherewith to vpholdeuphold his declining kingdome) and the Lord grant we may be euer free from it …
William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for him, which God did trie him with. Ioſeph had no other thing to vpholdeuphold him when he was ſolde, put in priſon, and his feet pinned in the …
With rule
… for him, which God did trie him with. Ioſeph had no other thing to vpholdeuphold him when he was ſolde, put in priſon, and his feet pinned in the …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 541 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of power and might, without vpholding anye thing: except y^e foundation did beare and vpholdeuphold them, and that they did not beare and holde vppe the whole building and …
With rule
… of power and might, without vpholding anye thing: except y^e foundation did beare and vpholdeuphold them, and that they did not beare and holde vppe the whole building and …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 295 · Open in the reader
Printed
… void of his ſpirit, but the bondſlaues of ſinne and Sathan, whoſe kingdome they vpholdeuphold, with tooth and naile: and that maketh them, euen as thoſe which are of …
With rule
… void of his ſpirit, but the bondſlaues of ſinne and Sathan, whoſe kingdome they vpholdeuphold, with tooth and naile: and that maketh them, euen as thoſe which are of …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
If christen gouerners, do not these lawes vpholdeuphold,
With rule
If christen gouerners, do not these lawes vpholdeuphold,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… turne all to allye. A blinde rēnaunt of peple muſt ye alwayes deceyue to vpholdeuphold ye ſtill in your miſchefes. And they be thoſe duſtye dreamers that Eſaye ſpeaketh …
With rule
… turne all to allye. A blinde rēnaunt of peple muſt ye alwayes deceyue to vpholdeuphold ye ſtill in your miſchefes. And they be thoſe duſtye dreamers that Eſaye ſpeaketh …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 59 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 A17724

Printed
… hee? It is moſte ſure, that he neuer ſpake it hypocritically. When he ſaith, VpholdeUphold me, or eſtabliſh me in thy word: this is not too make a ſhewe …
With rule
… hee? It is moſte ſure, that he neuer ſpake it hypocritically. When he ſaith, VpholdeUphold me, or eſtabliſh me in thy word: this is not too make a ſhewe …
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · Open in the reader