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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27214 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hovvbeithowbeit

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

Puritas changed it
30 times in 15 works
Consistency
100% (30 of 30)
Reach if approved
~32 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: howbeit
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
30 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (30 changes in 15 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 30)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … tying themſelues faſter vnto the vulgar, then the vulgar did tye himſelf vnto th'originall. HovvbeitHowbeit in retayning of the Hebrevv vvords, vvhich the originall doth vſe, they ſhould (for …
    With rule
    … tying themſelues faſter vnto the vulgar, then the vulgar did tye himſelf vnto th'originall. HovvbeitHowbeit in retayning of the Hebrevv vvords, vvhich the originall doth vſe, they ſhould (for …

    Thomas Cartwright · The Answer to the Preface of the Rhemish Testament · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … protract it, for I was ready and vvilling both to live and to die, HovvbeitHowbeit their came a Reprive for eight days but I had no hand in it …
    With rule
    … protract it, for I was ready and vvilling both to live and to die, HovvbeitHowbeit their came a Reprive for eight days but I had no hand in it …

    James Renwick · The Dying Testimony of James Renwick · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a Covenanted vvork of Reformation, ſvvorne-to by all rankes and degrees of people; hovvbeithowbeit men of corrupt principles, and of another ſpirit, should lurk under theſe pretences. Is …
    With rule
    … a Covenanted vvork of Reformation, ſvvorne-to by all rankes and degrees of people; hovvbeithowbeit men of corrupt principles, and of another ſpirit, should lurk under theſe pretences. Is …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 308 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … they marrie togeather, and this marriage if ſelfe they vſe not ſoberly, nor temperatly. HovvbeitHowbeit for all this, I profeſſe theſe tvvo are truly man and vvife notvvithſtanding: Novv …
    With rule
    … they marrie togeather, and this marriage if ſelfe they vſe not ſoberly, nor temperatly. HovvbeitHowbeit for all this, I profeſſe theſe tvvo are truly man and vvife notvvithſtanding: Novv …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … for albeit euery Marchant is a mā yet euery mā is not a Marchāt. HovvbeitHowbeit reall Marchāts principally in all their negotiations & affaires doe not only attend, but intēd …
    With rule
    … for albeit euery Marchant is a mā yet euery mā is not a Marchāt. HovvbeitHowbeit reall Marchāts principally in all their negotiations & affaires doe not only attend, but intēd …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … reſt there, ſeeking no farther, and to cloſe their eyes at all their reaſones; hovvbeithowbeit the thing that is injoyned to them, ſhould ſeeme to be an impoſſibilitie. The …
    With rule
    … reſt there, ſeeking no farther, and to cloſe their eyes at all their reaſones; hovvbeithowbeit the thing that is injoyned to them, ſhould ſeeme to be an impoſſibilitie. The …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 178 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … meat that vve do. And yet the people of God in gathering the manna, hovvbeithowbeit not ministred to them by the hand of men, did not kneele. The Paschall …
    With rule
    … meat that vve do. And yet the people of God in gathering the manna, hovvbeithowbeit not ministred to them by the hand of men, did not kneele. The Paschall …

    David Calderwood · A Solution of Doctor Resolutus Resolutions for Kneeling · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    17 They be ielous ouer you, [hovvbeithowbeit] not for [any] good. Nay rather they meene to ſhet you out, too the …
    With rule
    17 They be ielous ouer you, [hovvbeithowbeit] not for [any] good. Nay rather they meene to ſhet you out, too the …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · 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.