Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #81 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

proueprove

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

Puritas changed it: 15,769 times in 1,115 works
Consistency: 100% (15,769 of 15,769)
Reach if approved: ~16,569 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: prove
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 15,769 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (15,769 changes in 1,115 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 15,769)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be said more fully to expresse the perfection of the holy scriptures, or to proueprove that all true doctrine is contained in them. Tush say the Papistes: this is …
With rule
… be said more fully to expresse the perfection of the holy scriptures, or to proueprove that all true doctrine is contained in them. Tush say the Papistes: this is …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any other conuersion, and wee will yeeld vnto them. But they will as soone proueprove that Christ turned the children that hee blessed into bread, as that he turned …
With rule
… any other conuersion, and wee will yeeld vnto them. But they will as soone proueprove that Christ turned the children that hee blessed into bread, as that he turned …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe nothing to ſaue vs. This is a moſt plaine and forcible reaſon to proueprove, that the faith of a carnall and worldly Goſpeller, is but a dead ſhew …
With rule
… doe nothing to ſaue vs. This is a moſt plaine and forcible reaſon to proueprove, that the faith of a carnall and worldly Goſpeller, is but a dead ſhew …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
You ought to proueprove the truth of your Church à posteriori, for that is to the question, and …
With rule
You ought to proueprove the truth of your Church à posteriori, for that is to the question, and …
Daniel Featley · The Fisher Catched in his Own Net · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the circumſtance and cōference of Scriptures, as alſo the Fathers their interpretation, to proueprove the Trinitie of perſons in one God, becauſe euerie one is God, becauſe we …
With rule
… with the circumſtance and cōference of Scriptures, as alſo the Fathers their interpretation, to proueprove the Trinitie of perſons in one God, becauſe euerie one is God, becauſe we …
Dudley Fenner · The Whole Doctrine of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
Prethee let me see't: shouldst thou this liquor proueprove,
With rule
Prethee let me see't: shouldst thou this liquor proueprove,
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… that could not be prooued, that the councels haue erred: but Luther promiſed to proueprove it: and now night approching, the Lordes aroſe, and departed. Vpon Friday following, the …
With rule
… that could not be prooued, that the councels haue erred: but Luther promiſed to proueprove it: and now night approching, the Lordes aroſe, and departed. Vpon Friday following, the …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 419 · Open in the reader
Printed
You are not able to proueprove, that any suche order was established, in the primitiue Churche, that the Sacrament of …
With rule
You are not able to proueprove, that any suche order was established, in the primitiue Churche, that the Sacrament of …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · 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.