Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27103 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvarswars

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

Puritas changed it: 64 times in 41 works
Consistency: 100% (64 of 64)
Reach if approved: ~67 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wars
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 64 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (64 changes in 41 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 64)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that we are justly silenced for our being for the Parliament in the late VVarsWars, 1. Is that the meaning of the Act of Ob…ivion? Are they friends to …
With rule
… that we are justly silenced for our being for the Parliament in the late VVarsWars, 1. Is that the meaning of the Act of Ob…ivion? Are they friends to …
Richard Baxter · The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
And with the salt Gods of it waging VVarsWars.
With rule
And with the salt Gods of it waging VVarsWars.
John Donne · Paradoxes Problems Essays Characters · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
To fight with thee, and in these VVarsWars,
With rule
To fight with thee, and in these VVarsWars,
Benjamin Keach · The Banqueting House · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… particularly to enumerate all the fatal and memorable accidents which hapned by reason of VVarsWars in many Countries Our English Chronologers, say, that this Blazing Star was portentous of …
With rule
… particularly to enumerate all the fatal and memorable accidents which hapned by reason of VVarsWars in many Countries Our English Chronologers, say, that this Blazing Star was portentous of …
Increase Mather · Concerning Comets · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… defiled vvith ſin, and this luſt and the other luſt ſtirs, and vvorks, and vvarswars vvithin thee; but vvhen death comes, that vvill purge avvay all: Death is the …
With rule
… defiled vvith ſin, and this luſt and the other luſt ſtirs, and vvorks, and vvarswars vvithin thee; but vvhen death comes, that vvill purge avvay all: Death is the …
Edward Pearse · The Great Concern · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
VI. CHAPTER. Of neceſsary VVarsWars.
With rule
VI. CHAPTER. Of neceſsary VVarsWars.
Richard Bernard · The Bible Battles · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at, tollerated: robbing, rifeling and plundering of houſes, rapes and murthers, bloody and cruel vvarswars, all vvas out of courſe, in State, in Church. Micah vvas a private man …
With rule
… at, tollerated: robbing, rifeling and plundering of houſes, rapes and murthers, bloody and cruel vvarswars, all vvas out of courſe, in State, in Church. Micah vvas a private man …
Richard Heyrick · Sermon 23 April 1661 · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… should haue by our Queen, two sons or moe: it must needes breed forrain vvarswars and ciuill partaking thorough disagreement of the brethren, vvhyle the younger looking back to …
With rule
… should haue by our Queen, two sons or moe: it must needes breed forrain vvarswars and ciuill partaking thorough disagreement of the brethren, vvhyle the younger looking back to …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · 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.