Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27063 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvishwish

Two v's (or u's) for w: vvhich → which.

Puritas changed it: 105 times in 79 works
Consistency: 100% (105 of 105)
Reach if approved: ~110 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wish
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 105 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (105 changes in 79 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 105)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſuch errours might be buryed in oblivion, why did not his vvork follovv his vvishwish? Why did he dig up the untruths (if ſuch) againe, when he was not …
With rule
… ſuch errours might be buryed in oblivion, why did not his vvork follovv his vvishwish? Why did he dig up the untruths (if ſuch) againe, when he was not …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 380 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is, of our selues, as if our selues, 2 Cor. 3.5. A man in bolts can vvishwish for libertie, and thinke of going out: but our condition in the state of …
With rule
… is, of our selues, as if our selues, 2 Cor. 3.5. A man in bolts can vvishwish for libertie, and thinke of going out: but our condition in the state of …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
GEntlemen, I vviſhwish you vvell, I hope you doubt not; in my loue to you all I …
With rule
GEntlemen, I vviſhwish you vvell, I hope you doubt not; in my loue to you all I …
Richard Bernard · The Sinners Safety if Here He Look for Assurance · Open in the reader
Printed
… repeats this vvord teach mee, often; vvhereby hee acknowledges, that the chiefe leſſon hee vviſhwish…th to learne to make him wiſe, is to know how to ſerue God …
With rule
… repeats this vvord teach mee, often; vvhereby hee acknowledges, that the chiefe leſſon hee vviſhwish…th to learne to make him wiſe, is to know how to ſerue God …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Yea, that day in vvhich they do me the greatest vnkindnesses, I most earnestly vvishwish them well; & do thē feele my spirit striuing against my naturall corruption on their …
With rule
… Yea, that day in vvhich they do me the greatest vnkindnesses, I most earnestly vvishwish them well; & do thē feele my spirit striuing against my naturall corruption on their …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for in the same part vvhere the Doctor doth cite him: he doth twice vvishwish that all kinde of externall adoadoration vvere abolished, whether prostration of the body, or …
With rule
… for in the same part vvhere the Doctor doth cite him: he doth twice vvishwish that all kinde of externall adoadoration vvere abolished, whether prostration of the body, or …
David Calderwood · A Solution of Doctor Resolutus Resolutions for Kneeling · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which are made with theſe diſtractions, and how with ſorrow and late repentance vvee vviſhwish, that vvhat vvee haue done, had beene done othervviſe; and contrarivviſe, of the ioy …
With rule
… which are made with theſe diſtractions, and how with ſorrow and late repentance vvee vviſhwish, that vvhat vvee haue done, had beene done othervviſe; and contrarivviſe, of the ioy …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
The excellencie of this vvork, make's me vviſhwish mine ovvn Nation the honor of firſt undertaking and perfecting this deſign, And I …
With rule
The excellencie of this vvork, make's me vviſhwish mine ovvn Nation the honor of firſt undertaking and perfecting this deſign, And I …
John Dury · The Reformed Library Keeper · p. 41 · 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.