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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27186 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bovvbow

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

Puritas changed it
34 times in 21 works
Consistency
100% (34 of 34)
Reach if approved
~36 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bow
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
34 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (34 changes in 21 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 34)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … stand (because of the joy of the festivity,) and at the most doe but bovvbow or incline their heads at prayer; yet in presentia corporis & sanguinis Christi, in presence …
    With rule
    … stand (because of the joy of the festivity,) and at the most doe but bovvbow or incline their heads at prayer; yet in presentia corporis & sanguinis Christi, in presence …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a Church? or to turne their faces to the East? or to cap and bovvbow at …he name of Iesus? As for that text vvhich is often abused in …
    With rule
    … a Church? or to turne their faces to the East? or to cap and bovvbow at …he name of Iesus? As for that text vvhich is often abused in …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … great deale higher then hath been a…customed. The common standing of the Raine-bovvbow is thus…. But this stood this…, with the head dovvneward and the feete as …
    With rule
    … great deale higher then hath been a…customed. The common standing of the Raine-bovvbow is thus…. But this stood this…, with the head dovvneward and the feete as …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 318 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … he hath mist thus, or thus much of the marke; but giue them the BovvBow, & it vvill soone appeare that they are better at finding fault vvith others, then …
    With rule
    … he hath mist thus, or thus much of the marke; but giue them the BovvBow, & it vvill soone appeare that they are better at finding fault vvith others, then …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … bowe, that he might remember the couenant (which vvas the thing ſignifyed by the bovvbow) v. 16. The Paſſeouer vvas a ſigne or token Exod. 12.13. vvhich when the Angell of …
    With rule
    … bowe, that he might remember the couenant (which vvas the thing ſignifyed by the bovvbow) v. 16. The Paſſeouer vvas a ſigne or token Exod. 12.13. vvhich when the Angell of …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Discourse Upon the Sabbath Day · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the vvord Enopion to that purpose. David or Daniel may be justly sayd to bovvbow toward the Temple, they being farre removed from the sight of it▪ or toward …
    With rule
    … the vvord Enopion to that purpose. David or Daniel may be justly sayd to bovvbow toward the Temple, they being farre removed from the sight of it▪ or toward …

    David Calderwood · A Solution of Doctor Resolutus Resolutions for Kneeling · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … evident to the vvorld vvhat an other ſpirit is in theſe, vvho do not bovvbow vvith the ſpeate of every time▪ nor yeeld to men becauſe of their outvvard …
    With rule
    … evident to the vvorld vvhat an other ſpirit is in theſe, vvho do not bovvbow vvith the ſpeate of every time▪ nor yeeld to men becauſe of their outvvard …

    Robert Flemming · The Fulfilling of the Scripture · p. 142 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … enact and put to execution the act, vvhen made; That all vvho vvill not bovvbow and burn incenſe to an idol should be brunt quick, I ſee not, vvhy …
    With rule
    … enact and put to execution the act, vvhen made; That all vvho vvill not bovvbow and burn incenſe to an idol should be brunt quick, I ſee not, vvhy …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 401 · 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.