Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27289 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvatchfulwatchful

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

Puritas changed it: 20 times in 6 works
Consistency: 100% (20 of 20)
Reach if approved: ~21 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: watchful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 20 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (20 changes in 6 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 20)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… alone, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful; and vvhen vve are in Company, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful, for the Divel, and our ovvn ſouls, plot a great deal of miſchief againſt …
With rule
… alone, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful; and vvhen vve are in Company, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful, for the Divel, and our ovvn ſouls, plot a great deal of miſchief againſt …
William Fenner · Four Profitable Treatises · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alone, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful; and vvhen vve are in Company, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful, for the Divel, and our ovvn ſouls, plot a great deal of miſchief againſt …
With rule
… alone, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful; and vvhen vve are in Company, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful, for the Divel, and our ovvn ſouls, plot a great deal of miſchief againſt …
William Fenner · Remains · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rome, and Rome Emulating Carthage, both of them became mutually more Induſtrious; likewiſe, more VVatchfulWatchful, and more Valorous. But ſure I am, that God ſo Orders the Sufferings of …
With rule
… Rome, and Rome Emulating Carthage, both of them became mutually more Induſtrious; likewiſe, more VVatchfulWatchful, and more Valorous. But ſure I am, that God ſo Orders the Sufferings of …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Two Treatises · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
To make me vvatchfulwatchful, and conſider vvell
With rule
To make me vvatchfulwatchful, and conſider vvell
George Wither · Salt Upon Salt · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alone, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful; and vvhen vve are in Company, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful, for the Divel, and our ovvn ſouls, plot a great deal of miſchief againſt …
With rule
… alone, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful; and vvhen vve are in Company, vve ſhould be vvatchfulwatchful, for the Divel, and our ovvn ſouls, plot a great deal of miſchief againſt …
William Fenner · The Continuation of Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the thunderings of his Justice; this made me, vvith ca…eful heart and vvatchfulwatchful eye, vvith great seriousness to turn over every leaf, and with much diligence mixt …
With rule
… by the thunderings of his Justice; this made me, vvith ca…eful heart and vvatchfulwatchful eye, vvith great seriousness to turn over every leaf, and with much diligence mixt …
John Bunyan · Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man hath no Activity to do any good, yet God vvill have him be vvatchfulwatchful; if he mean to purifie a man, he vvill make him purifie himſelf; if …
With rule
… man hath no Activity to do any good, yet God vvill have him be vvatchfulwatchful; if he mean to purifie a man, he vvill make him purifie himſelf; if …
William Fenner · Four Profitable Treatises · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvill be deaded again, as the Apoſtle ſaith, 1 Pet. 5.8. A man had need be vvatchfulwatchful, elſe he can never preſerve himſelfe from the temptations of Satan; when a City …
With rule
… vvill be deaded again, as the Apoſtle ſaith, 1 Pet. 5.8. A man had need be vvatchfulwatchful, elſe he can never preſerve himſelfe from the temptations of Satan; when a City …
William Fenner · Remains · p. 30 · 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.