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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #858 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

preuailingprevailing

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

Puritas changed it
457 times in 189 works
Consistency
99.7% (457 of 458)
Reach if approved
~481 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: prevailing
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
458 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (457 changes in 189 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 457)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Prince of God, or preuailingprevailing with God, Gen. 32. So is Christ that heauenly Prince preuailingprevailing at his Fathers hands by his intercession for all good things to his own …
    With rule
    … Prince of God, or preuailingprevailing with God, Gen. 32. So is Christ that heauenly Prince preuailingprevailing at his Fathers hands by his intercession for all good things to his own …

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … is ordinarilie puniſhed either with a not caring to ſeeke, or with a not preuailingprevailing to finde.
    With rule
    … is ordinarilie puniſhed either with a not caring to ſeeke, or with a not preuailingprevailing to finde.

    Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … refused. You haue bene long in bondage of the Deuil, blyndnes, errour and idolatrie, preuailingprevailing against the simple trueth of God in that your realme, in which God hath …
    With rule
    … refused. You haue bene long in bondage of the Deuil, blyndnes, errour and idolatrie, preuailingprevailing against the simple trueth of God in that your realme, in which God hath …

    John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The Danes thus preuailingprevailing, were so proud, they forced the Husbandmen to plo…, and sows their lands, and …
    With rule
    The Danes thus preuailingprevailing, were so proud, they forced the Husbandmen to plo…, and sows their lands, and …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Resistance of grace in Regenerat men whence it flowes 151 How the preuailingprevailing act of it is taken away 152 VVhy it preuailes many times 153
    With rule
    Resistance of grace in Regenerat men whence it flowes 151 How the preuailingprevailing act of it is taken away 152 VVhy it preuailes many times 153

    William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … not to giue to the poore; but yet pride desiring the praise of men preuailingprevailing in him, causeth him to giue to the poore: And so when couetousnes preuailes …
    With rule
    … not to giue to the poore; but yet pride desiring the praise of men preuailingprevailing in him, causeth him to giue to the poore: And so when couetousnes preuailes …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … budding. Strike therefore at the roots, as well as at the branches of these preuailingprevailing Factions, else all your lopping, will turne but into pruning: your launching into festring …
    With rule
    … budding. Strike therefore at the roots, as well as at the branches of these preuailingprevailing Factions, else all your lopping, will turne but into pruning: your launching into festring …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ye true church? I answere, if you can not put a difference betwene impugning & preuailingprevailing: you wil haue much to do to defend your Romish church to be the …
    With rule
    … ye true church? I answere, if you can not put a difference betwene impugning & preuailingprevailing: you wil haue much to do to defend your Romish church to be the …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 159 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Exposition Upon Colossians A17389

  • Printed
    2 PreuailingPrevailing of other ioies.
    With rule
    2 PreuailingPrevailing of other ioies.

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 183 · Open in the reader