Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #875 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sleeuessleeves

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

Puritas changed it: 70 times in 52 works
Consistency: 100% (70 of 70)
Reach if approved: ~74 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sleeves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 70 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (70 changes in 52 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 70)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… scholler. Secondly, because it is not good to hang our knowledge on other mēs sleeuessleeves, therfore we must reade. Thirdly, many reade bookes, but they are but book-learned …
With rule
… scholler. Secondly, because it is not good to hang our knowledge on other mēs sleeuessleeves, therfore we must reade. Thirdly, many reade bookes, but they are but book-learned …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 845 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wonder to obserue their mixt compositure, (which doubtlesse, they themselues smile at in their sleeuessleeves;) as namely, that the Popes should wash the feete of the poore, and yet …
With rule
… wonder to obserue their mixt compositure, (which doubtlesse, they themselues smile at in their sleeuessleeves;) as namely, that the Popes should wash the feete of the poore, and yet …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giue too good proofe of) haue not God his grace ſo pinned to their ſleeuessleeves, but that they may poſſibly fall either into this, or other reprochfull and foule …
With rule
… giue too good proofe of) haue not God his grace ſo pinned to their ſleeuessleeves, but that they may poſſibly fall either into this, or other reprochfull and foule …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 728 · Open in the reader
Printed
… downe the back, some with flappes ouer the brest, some without▪ some with great sleeuessleeves, some with small, and some with non at all, some pleated and crested behind …
With rule
… downe the back, some with flappes ouer the brest, some without▪ some with great sleeuessleeves, some with small, and some with non at all, some pleated and crested behind …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… so to beleeue: see I pray you, these mennes fayth is pinned vpon Popes sleeuessleeves. Why masters, the rule of fayth is certaine, you cannot make new articles of …
With rule
… so to beleeue: see I pray you, these mennes fayth is pinned vpon Popes sleeuessleeves. Why masters, the rule of fayth is certaine, you cannot make new articles of …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them: For ye ſhall haue them alwayes to haue anſweares ready coyned in their ſleeuessleeves. There are then which woulde be accounted great Clarkes, who notwithſtanding ſhewe them ſelues …
With rule
… them: For ye ſhall haue them alwayes to haue anſweares ready coyned in their ſleeuessleeves. There are then which woulde be accounted great Clarkes, who notwithſtanding ſhewe them ſelues …
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Papistes should dreame of their Altare portatiue, that their hedge priestes carrie in their sleeuessleeves to say Masse in corners, the same Augustine writing to Bonifacius Ep. 50. sheweth in …
With rule
… Papistes should dreame of their Altare portatiue, that their hedge priestes carrie in their sleeuessleeves to say Masse in corners, the same Augustine writing to Bonifacius Ep. 50. sheweth in …
William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 402 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may lift vs vp: for many going quietly away, and ſleeping ſecurelie in their ſleeuessleeves, notwithſtanding the ſinnes of their youth; and neglecting to make conſcience of their ſins …
With rule
… may lift vs vp: for many going quietly away, and ſleeping ſecurelie in their ſleeuessleeves, notwithſtanding the ſinnes of their youth; and neglecting to make conſcience of their ſins …
Richard Greenham · Sermon for the Reformation of our Sinful and Wicked Lives · p. 9 · 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.