Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #857 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

preseruespreserves

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

Puritas changed it: 179 times in 104 works
Consistency: 97.8% (179 of 183)
Reach if approved: ~192 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: preserves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 183 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (179 changes in 104 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 179)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they haue food and meanes to nourish and preserue them, not because the food preseruespreserves them, but because they are of an incorruptible and immortall nature: it is not …
With rule
… they haue food and meanes to nourish and preserue them, not because the food preseruespreserves them, but because they are of an incorruptible and immortall nature: it is not …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… here affoorded vs, is, Whom God beginnes to ſanctifie, he continues to ſanctifie, and preſeruespreserves euer in the ſtate of ſanctitie.
With rule
… here affoorded vs, is, Whom God beginnes to ſanctifie, he continues to ſanctifie, and preſeruespreserves euer in the ſtate of ſanctitie.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 566 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect of the manner, preseruation is either secret or manifest. Manifest, when he mightily preseruespreserves men in the sight of others, for the confirmation of the faithfull and confusion …
With rule
… respect of the manner, preseruation is either secret or manifest. Manifest, when he mightily preseruespreserves men in the sight of others, for the confirmation of the faithfull and confusion …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giuen vs together with the signes, this is a Sacramentall metonimie, the obseruing whereof preseruespreserves from Transubstantiation.
With rule
… giuen vs together with the signes, this is a Sacramentall metonimie, the obseruing whereof preseruespreserves from Transubstantiation.
Thomas Wilson · Theological Rules to Guide Us in the Understanding and Practice of Scripture · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perseuere to the end: your meditation and collection is good so long as it preseruespreserves you from the carelesnesse of your flesh: but it is euill, when it would …
With rule
… perseuere to the end: your meditation and collection is good so long as it preseruespreserves you from the carelesnesse of your flesh: but it is euill, when it would …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 856 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bread, Mat. 15.26. And he is eaten by faith ſpiritually, Ioh. 6.56. He alſo continues and preſeruespreserves life in vs, as bread, eaten by the ſame faith, ſacramentally.
With rule
… bread, Mat. 15.26. And he is eaten by faith ſpiritually, Ioh. 6.56. He alſo continues and preſeruespreserves life in vs, as bread, eaten by the ſame faith, ſacramentally.
Robert Jenison · The Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… kept vnder by moſt ſeuere lawes. It is not for nothing that God thus preſeruespreserves them, whereas in much ſhorter time many other nations are quite extirpated.
With rule
… kept vnder by moſt ſeuere lawes. It is not for nothing that God thus preſeruespreserves them, whereas in much ſhorter time many other nations are quite extirpated.
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… excellent fruits; grounded knowledge in the fundamentall points of religion begetteth right faith, and preſeruespreserves it from errour and hereſie, ſetleth iudgement without inconſtancie, ſatisfieth conſcience without ſcrupuloſitie: breedeth …
With rule
… excellent fruits; grounded knowledge in the fundamentall points of religion begetteth right faith, and preſeruespreserves it from errour and hereſie, ſetleth iudgement without inconſtancie, ſatisfieth conſcience without ſcrupuloſitie: breedeth …
Richard Bernard · Two Twins · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed A13547

Printed
… inward, and outward; which a godly heart is carefull not to diuorce: and therefore, 1. PreseruesPreserves the outward man from seruile workes of the calling, but specially from committing sinne …
With rule
… inward, and outward; which a godly heart is carefull not to diuorce: and therefore, 1. PreseruesPreserves the outward man from seruile workes of the calling, but specially from committing sinne …
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · p. 332 · Open in the reader