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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #950 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cauillingcavilling

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

Puritas changed it
176 times in 101 works
Consistency
98.8% (176 of 178)
Reach if approved
~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cavilling
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (176 changes in 101 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    BVt ſee wee here other cauillingcavilling inferences from the ſame grounds: The Apoſtle brings in the cauiller thus yet inferring …
    With rule
    BVt ſee wee here other cauillingcavilling inferences from the ſame grounds: The Apoſtle brings in the cauiller thus yet inferring …

    William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 305 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … haue determined to do no right to their contrarie partie, but ſeeke onely by cauillingcavilling, how to ſhift out the matter, bycauſe that they will neuer be enforced to …
    With rule
    … haue determined to do no right to their contrarie partie, but ſeeke onely by cauillingcavilling, how to ſhift out the matter, bycauſe that they will neuer be enforced to …

    Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    5. Barbinel, an other cauillingcavilling Iew, obiecteth, non debuisse auferri prophetiae donum, that the gift of prophesie might not …
    With rule
    5. Barbinel, an other cauillingcavilling Iew, obiecteth, non debuisse auferri prophetiae donum, that the gift of prophesie might not …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 292 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of God; Now I know that thou louest me: and to conuince all obstinate cauillingcavilling, is it not said that his faith did in this very fact cooperate with …
    With rule
    … of God; Now I know that thou louest me: and to conuince all obstinate cauillingcavilling, is it not said that his faith did in this very fact cooperate with …

    Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 253 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Christians made a fonde excuse, let him not play the foole so magnifically, in cauillingcavilling vppon Master Calfhils interpretation, when he cannot otherwise reasonably defende the authors meaning.
    With rule
    … Christians made a fonde excuse, let him not play the foole so magnifically, in cauillingcavilling vppon Master Calfhils interpretation, when he cannot otherwise reasonably defende the authors meaning.

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … etc. for the reliques of sinne remayning. I answere that therfore your former absurd cauillingcavilling where you said / if we hold it Idolatrie etc. ys by your owne mouth …
    With rule
    … etc. for the reliques of sinne remayning. I answere that therfore your former absurd cauillingcavilling where you said / if we hold it Idolatrie etc. ys by your owne mouth …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Neuer were any ſo iuſtly to bee taxed for cauillingcavilling, as you: for what can it elſe bee, when all your points, in that …
    With rule
    Neuer were any ſo iuſtly to bee taxed for cauillingcavilling, as you: for what can it elſe bee, when all your points, in that …

    John Mayer · Antidote Against Popery · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in this matter, that even the younger sort might have something to oppose against cauillingcavilling gainsayers of the truth and crafty seducers of the uninstructed.
    With rule
    … in this matter, that even the younger sort might have something to oppose against cauillingcavilling gainsayers of the truth and crafty seducers of the uninstructed.

    William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 50 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

Exposition on John 5 A01972

  • Printed
    … wee handle the Defence; wee haue to conſider how Chriſt knew of this their CauillingCavilling.
    With rule
    … wee handle the Defence; wee haue to conſider how Chriſt knew of this their CauillingCavilling.

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 154 · Open in the reader