Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27246 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvidewide

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

Puritas changed it: 24 times in 19 works
Consistency: 100% (24 of 24)
Reach if approved: ~25 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wide
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 24 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (24 changes in 19 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 24)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… book of God vve vvill beleeve, the reſt of the vvorld is large and vvidewide, contract thither and we vvill hearken to you.
With rule
… book of God vve vvill beleeve, the reſt of the vvorld is large and vvidewide, contract thither and we vvill hearken to you.
Christopher Elderfield · Of Regeneration and Baptism · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
We cannot open the gates of hell too vvidewide for ſuch to ſhevv them the anger to come, a fit text for a …
With rule
We cannot open the gates of hell too vvidewide for ſuch to ſhevv them the anger to come, a fit text for a …
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinfull vvoman, but it was that Spirit of adoptiō that opened her mouth ſo vvidewide to crie vpon Him ſo, O thou ſonne of Dauid haue mercie on mee …
With rule
… ſinfull vvoman, but it was that Spirit of adoptiō that opened her mouth ſo vvidewide to crie vpon Him ſo, O thou ſonne of Dauid haue mercie on mee …
Robert Rollock · Sermons · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all together, shalt now find all scattered asunder: thy close congestion meets with a vvidewide dispersion. Euery one claimes his owne: the vvorld thy riches, the wormes thy carkase …
With rule
… all together, shalt now find all scattered asunder: thy close congestion meets with a vvidewide dispersion. Euery one claimes his owne: the vvorld thy riches, the wormes thy carkase …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 325 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paſſion. But what might be the reaſon (to paſſe more inſtances) of this ſo vvidewide a difference? vvhat might be the cauſe that theſe ſo vvorthy champions are thus …
With rule
… paſſion. But what might be the reaſon (to paſſe more inſtances) of this ſo vvidewide a difference? vvhat might be the cauſe that theſe ſo vvorthy champions are thus …
Robert Harris · Absoloms Funeral · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of thinges conſiſteth of ſuch actions which the whole church acknowledgeth diſperſed farre and vvidewide over the face of the world (to doubte to doe any of theſe as …
With rule
… of thinges conſiſteth of ſuch actions which the whole church acknowledgeth diſperſed farre and vvidewide over the face of the world (to doubte to doe any of theſe as …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
There Cerberus, infernall hound, with throates vvidewide open three,
With rule
There Cerberus, infernall hound, with throates vvidewide open three,
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvhen a man gapeth, men conſider not hovv deepe the mouth …s: but hovv vvidewide. In Zach. 14. …n the lxx. mount olevet ſhalbe parted into a great chaſma: half …
With rule
… vvhen a man gapeth, men conſider not hovv deepe the mouth …s: but hovv vvidewide. In Zach. 14. …n the lxx. mount olevet ſhalbe parted into a great chaſma: half …
Hugh Broughton · A Reply Upon Winton · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.