Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #880 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swerueswerve

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

Puritas changed it: 118 times in 82 works
Consistency: 97.5% (118 of 121)
Reach if approved: ~127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swerve
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 121 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (118 changes in 82 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 118)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… world, and taketh care, that neither he erre in any of his opinions, nor ſwerueswerve from the law of God in any of his actions: wherefore alſo if he …
With rule
… world, and taketh care, that neither he erre in any of his opinions, nor ſwerueswerve from the law of God in any of his actions: wherefore alſo if he …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 344 · Open in the reader
Printed
… examine all things, and to conferre Scripture with Scripture, that ſo I may neuer ſwerueswerve from thy moſt pure, holy, and ſacred Truth.
With rule
… examine all things, and to conferre Scripture with Scripture, that ſo I may neuer ſwerueswerve from thy moſt pure, holy, and ſacred Truth.
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we haue done wickedly. Where the firſt word foreign to ſinne or to erre and ſwerueswerve from the marke, is not ſo much as the ſecond foreign, which is to doe …
With rule
… we haue done wickedly. Where the firſt word foreign to ſinne or to erre and ſwerueswerve from the marke, is not ſo much as the ſecond foreign, which is to doe …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was put to his othe only in the cauſes of faith, then now they ſwerueswerve from auncient practize, who put miniſters to ther othes ex levi cauſa, which the …
With rule
… was put to his othe only in the cauſes of faith, then now they ſwerueswerve from auncient practize, who put miniſters to ther othes ex levi cauſa, which the …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fully his owne rightnesse, makes himselfe a rule vnto others, & condemnes them when they swerueswerve from this Rule, or because viewing his owne crookednesse in a comparison with a …
With rule
… fully his owne rightnesse, makes himselfe a rule vnto others, & condemnes them when they swerueswerve from this Rule, or because viewing his owne crookednesse in a comparison with a …
Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 484 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Penance: but in ſuch ſenſe, as being well conſidered, it ſhal appeare they ſwerueswerve nothing at all from the generall iudgement, of the faith of all our Churches …
With rule
… and Penance: but in ſuch ſenſe, as being well conſidered, it ſhal appeare they ſwerueswerve nothing at all from the generall iudgement, of the faith of all our Churches …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nor swerueswerve from Truth a iot beside the way,
With rule
Nor swerueswerve from Truth a iot beside the way,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
… worke, giuing to Enosh that commendation, besides that in the first part they plainly swerueswerve from the original, in reading that Enosh did it, in the residue also they …
With rule
… worke, giuing to Enosh that commendation, besides that in the first part they plainly swerueswerve from the original, in reading that Enosh did it, in the residue also they …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 36 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies A09002

Printed
… walles, becauſe that place ſerueth for the preaching not for the painting of them. SwerueSwerve we from this, and ſuffer the Papiſt to ouerrunne vs, who hath choſen the …
With rule
… walles, becauſe that place ſerueth for the preaching not for the painting of them. SwerueSwerve we from this, and ſuffer the Papiſt to ouerrunne vs, who hath choſen the …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 108 · Open in the reader