Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27172 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvitcheswitches

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

Puritas changed it: 38 times in 20 works
Consistency: 100% (38 of 38)
Reach if approved: ~40 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: witches
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 38 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (38 changes in 20 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 38)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the outward eare, as he did to Eve and doth now to many VVitchesWitches, then without doubt he being a spirit can much more by a mans phantasie …
With rule
… of the outward eare, as he did to Eve and doth now to many VVitchesWitches, then without doubt he being a spirit can much more by a mans phantasie …
John Preston · The Saints Submission and Satans Overthrow · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… termed in the Land, to your Church Papiſts, to the adulterers, Th…eves, Murtherers, VVitchesWitches, Conjurers, Vſurers, Atheiſts, Swaggerers, Dronkards, Blaſphemers, & infinite ſorts of ſinners impenitent in your Churches …
With rule
… termed in the Land, to your Church Papiſts, to the adulterers, Th…eves, Murtherers, VVitchesWitches, Conjurers, Vſurers, Atheiſts, Swaggerers, Dronkards, Blaſphemers, & infinite ſorts of ſinners impenitent in your Churches …
John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… destroy their own souls in a way quite against their own knowledg; and as VVitchesWitches will make a man dance naked, or do the most unseemly, unreasonable actions; so …
With rule
… destroy their own souls in a way quite against their own knowledg; and as VVitchesWitches will make a man dance naked, or do the most unseemly, unreasonable actions; so …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as that the Papists themselves in deriving their Call through many Diabolical Popes, even VVitchesWitches and Devils incarnate by their own Confession, make but a lamentable succession of it …
With rule
… as that the Papists themselves in deriving their Call through many Diabolical Popes, even VVitchesWitches and Devils incarnate by their own Confession, make but a lamentable succession of it …
Thomas Grantham · The Ancient Christian Religion · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. They are in their Fits tempted to be VVitchesWitches, are ſhewed the Liſt of the Names of others, and are tortured, becauſe they …
With rule
1. They are in their Fits tempted to be VVitchesWitches, are ſhewed the Liſt of the Names of others, and are tortured, becauſe they …
Increase Mather · Further Account of the Trials of New England Witches · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
SELECT Caſes of Conſcience TOUCHING VVitchesWitches and VVitchcrafts.
With rule
SELECT Caſes of Conſcience TOUCHING VVitchesWitches and VVitchcrafts.
John Gaule · Select Cases Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
A Discourse of the subtill Practises of Deuilles by VVitchesWitches and Sorcerers. By which men are and haue bin greatly deluded: the antiquitie of …
With rule
A Discourse of the subtill Practises of Deuilles by VVitchesWitches and Sorcerers. By which men are and haue bin greatly deluded: the antiquitie of …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… world. They ſay that when wicked ſpirits are rayſed vp, and called for by vvitcheswitches, or ſuch like; that their maner is to aſcend with their feet vpward and …
With rule
… world. They ſay that when wicked ſpirits are rayſed vp, and called for by vvitcheswitches, or ſuch like; that their maner is to aſcend with their feet vpward and …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 342 · 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.