Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27233 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvitswits

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

Puritas changed it: 26 times in 25 works
Consistency: 100% (26 of 26)
Reach if approved: ~27 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wits
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 26 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (26 changes in 25 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 26)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Ouerweening VVitsWits deſpiſe Gods wiſdome. Folio. 857.
With rule
Ouerweening VVitsWits deſpiſe Gods wiſdome. Folio. 857.
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Image. (6) VVhen proud men tear the Church by the Engines of their domineering VVitsWits and VVills, these humble Pastors as the servants of all, will labour to heal …
With rule
… or Image. (6) VVhen proud men tear the Church by the Engines of their domineering VVitsWits and VVills, these humble Pastors as the servants of all, will labour to heal …
Richard Baxter · Compassionate Counsel to All Young Men · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Paradise, in Gods Garden, in his Book, and in such as exercised their VVitsWits in that Field, especially in Divine Poetry, in which kind she took an excessive …
With rule
… in Paradise, in Gods Garden, in his Book, and in such as exercised their VVitsWits in that Field, especially in Divine Poetry, in which kind she took an excessive …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… i. e. all sorts and degrees of Persecutors, in horrour and despaire at their vvitswits ends, by reason of Gods judgements coming upon them from Christ so terribly, as …
With rule
… i. e. all sorts and degrees of Persecutors, in horrour and despaire at their vvitswits ends, by reason of Gods judgements coming upon them from Christ so terribly, as …
Francis Roberts · The Key of the Bible · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
God will puniſh ſuch as apply their VVitsWits to naughtie purpoſes. 522. a 16.
With rule
God will puniſh ſuch as apply their VVitsWits to naughtie purpoſes. 522. a 16.
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Counſels of God, which he has lockt up in his own Boſome. Great VVitsWits they are for the moſt part full of curioſitie; they are ſubject now and …
With rule
… and Counſels of God, which he has lockt up in his own Boſome. Great VVitsWits they are for the moſt part full of curioſitie; they are ſubject now and …
Thomas Horton · Wisdoms Judgment of Folly · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… change that vvrong opinion vvhich ye haue conceiued of me, returne to your right vvitswits, be better aduised, and deale more iustlie and indifferentlie vvith me. For I doe …
With rule
… change that vvrong opinion vvhich ye haue conceiued of me, returne to your right vvitswits, be better aduised, and deale more iustlie and indifferentlie vvith me. For I doe …
Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader
Printed
… they did it not? Or that they were ſo vvholy given and bent theyr vvitswits and mynds ſo much, to look into the eſtate of other men and other …
With rule
… they did it not? Or that they were ſo vvholy given and bent theyr vvitswits and mynds ſo much, to look into the eſtate of other men and other …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · 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.