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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27257 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ansvveringanswering

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

Puritas changed it
22 times in 16 works
Consistency
100% (22 of 22)
Reach if approved
~23 places (estimated)
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Agrees: answering
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
22 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (22 changes in 16 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 22)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … are you? Ariſe! And we ſhall ſtart out of the Duſt, as it were, anſvveringanswering, Lord! I come! This the Departed Soul is to keep waiting for. It ſeems …
    With rule
    … are you? Ariſe! And we ſhall ſtart out of the Duſt, as it were, anſvveringanswering, Lord! I come! This the Departed Soul is to keep waiting for. It ſeems …

    Cotton Mather · Early Piety Exemplified · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    For ansvveringanswering, I shall a Foole bee deemeed.
    With rule
    For ansvveringanswering, I shall a Foole bee deemeed.

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    For not ansvveringanswering his letter by vvriting, I had good reason: as may appeare by that which …
    With rule
    For not ansvveringanswering his letter by vvriting, I had good reason: as may appeare by that which …

    Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … it doth in theſe verie flatterers at this time appeare verie plainly. For in anſvveringanswering whether it be expedient in theſe daies to excommunicate Kings, and vvhether it be …
    With rule
    … it doth in theſe verie flatterers at this time appeare verie plainly. For in anſvveringanswering whether it be expedient in theſe daies to excommunicate Kings, and vvhether it be …

    Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 174 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … enjoyns this practice: supposing no sinne to be in the vvay; of vvhich in ansvveringanswering the former objections (to vvhich I suppose all other of vvait or couller may …
    With rule
    … enjoyns this practice: supposing no sinne to be in the vvay; of vvhich in ansvveringanswering the former objections (to vvhich I suppose all other of vvait or couller may …

    John Robinson · The Lawfulness of Hearing of the Ministers of the Church of England · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the preſeruacion of the churche. The anſwer which his gloſſe aſketh for / towching churliſhe anſvveringanswering (althowghe yt deſerued none) is page 177. and he coulde not be ignorante / but I …
    With rule
    … the preſeruacion of the churche. The anſwer which his gloſſe aſketh for / towching churliſhe anſvveringanswering (althowghe yt deſerued none) is page 177. and he coulde not be ignorante / but I …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. XLI · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in the ſuchneſs of the betvveen-lyers, begetting a change in my nearneſs as anſvveringanswering that ſuchneſs: ſo a change of the vvorld in the whole of the betvveen …
    With rule
    … in the ſuchneſs of the betvveen-lyers, begetting a change in my nearneſs as anſvveringanswering that ſuchneſs: ſo a change of the vvorld in the whole of the betvveen …

    Nathaniel Fairfax · Bulk and Selvage of the World · p. 92 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vvhere, Lex Rex can ſend out good and ſvveet vvaters? 2. Lex Rex is there anſvveringanswering this quaeſtion: whether any paſſive ſubjection at all be commanded as due to ſuperiours …
    With rule
    … vvhere, Lex Rex can ſend out good and ſvveet vvaters? 2. Lex Rex is there anſvveringanswering this quaeſtion: whether any paſſive ſubjection at all be commanded as due to ſuperiours …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 288 · 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.