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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27241 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvretcheswretches

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

Puritas changed it
25 times in 22 works
Consistency
100% (25 of 25)
Reach if approved
~26 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wretches
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
25 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (25 changes in 22 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 25)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … varletts, brutish drunkards hellish blasphemers, together vvith the accursed crevv of the most riotous vvretcheswretches; yea the Generation of Nevvtralists, morall formalists, ignorant sotts of all sorts, are so …
    With rule
    … varletts, brutish drunkards hellish blasphemers, together vvith the accursed crevv of the most riotous vvretcheswretches; yea the Generation of Nevvtralists, morall formalists, ignorant sotts of all sorts, are so …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … under the Lavv as a Covenant of Works, who are open prophane and ungodly vvretcheswretches, such as delight not only in sin, but also make their boast of the …
    With rule
    … under the Lavv as a Covenant of Works, who are open prophane and ungodly vvretcheswretches, such as delight not only in sin, but also make their boast of the …

    John Bunyan · The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    They like perfidious VVretchesWretches cut their throat,
    With rule
    They like perfidious VVretchesWretches cut their throat,

    Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 137 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of the outvvard ordinances of God purely adminiſtred; vvhen all knovv how theſe profane vvretcheswretches, made all vvho, ever knevv vvhat the ſervice of the true and living God …
    With rule
    … of the outvvard ordinances of God purely adminiſtred; vvhen all knovv how theſe profane vvretcheswretches, made all vvho, ever knevv vvhat the ſervice of the true and living God …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 348 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Self-murder; what Soul-killing working is in every Family and Town! VVhat cruel VVretchesWretches to themselves! Sins seem easie and pleasing now, can they be tormenting them? Fishes …
    With rule
    … Self-murder; what Soul-killing working is in every Family and Town! VVhat cruel VVretchesWretches to themselves! Sins seem easie and pleasing now, can they be tormenting them? Fishes …

    Samuel Hardy · A Second Guide to Heaven · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the villanies to which he himſelf tempted them, crying out on them as damned VVretchesWretches, and making them often cry out ſo of themſelves even in this life, and …
    With rule
    … the villanies to which he himſelf tempted them, crying out on them as damned VVretchesWretches, and making them often cry out ſo of themſelves even in this life, and …

    Thomas Taylor · Works · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a Pasport for Heauen. Nay, how doth this disgrace Purgatory! when none but beggerly vvretcheswretches shall bee in danger of drowning in that whirlepoole. Whence all their friends (being …
    With rule
    … a Pasport for Heauen. Nay, how doth this disgrace Purgatory! when none but beggerly vvretcheswretches shall bee in danger of drowning in that whirlepoole. Whence all their friends (being …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Spirit) of God: these men in comparison of Julian the Apostata, and other like vvretcheswretches, and Atheists, may be caled the people of God, and Christians: though in deed …
    With rule
    … Spirit) of God: these men in comparison of Julian the Apostata, and other like vvretcheswretches, and Atheists, may be caled the people of God, and Christians: though in deed …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 92 · 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.