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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27337 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

svvearingswearing

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

Puritas changed it
16 times in 13 works
Consistency
100% (16 of 16)
Reach if approved
~17 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: swearing
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
16 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (16 changes in 13 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 16)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … thereof, and demoliſhed the ſtones thereof. Zach. 5.4. May then the horrid ſins of lying, ſvvearingswearing, and forſwearing, be buried as it vvere in London's ruines, ſo as never to …
    With rule
    … thereof, and demoliſhed the ſtones thereof. Zach. 5.4. May then the horrid ſins of lying, ſvvearingswearing, and forſwearing, be buried as it vvere in London's ruines, ſo as never to …

    Samuel Rolle · The Burning of London · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    A SERMON CONCERNING SVVEARINGSWEARING, Preached before the King's MAIESTY, In Christ-Church Oxon; May the 12. 1644.
    With rule
    A SERMON CONCERNING SVVEARINGSWEARING, Preached before the King's MAIESTY, In Christ-Church Oxon; May the 12. 1644.

    William Strode · Sermon Concerning Swearing · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſhevving hovv they vvere ſtrangers in Chanaan; & loked for an heauenly countrey. So Ioſeph, ſvvearingswearing his brethren to bring his bones from Egypt, ſhevved that he folovved Abrahams hope …
    With rule
    … ſhevving hovv they vvere ſtrangers in Chanaan; & loked for an heauenly countrey. So Ioſeph, ſvvearingswearing his brethren to bring his bones from Egypt, ſhevved that he folovved Abrahams hope …

    Hugh Broughton · Our Lords Family · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … for grieving the holie Spirit of God: sometimes also of an vncontrolled custome in svvearingswearing; all vvhich circumstances encrease or diminish the vveight of this sinne. And all these …
    With rule
    … for grieving the holie Spirit of God: sometimes also of an vncontrolled custome in svvearingswearing; all vvhich circumstances encrease or diminish the vveight of this sinne. And all these …

    Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in the Oath, to be that vvhich vvas practised in this Realme, before the svvearingswearing of the same?
    With rule
    … in the Oath, to be that vvhich vvas practised in this Realme, before the svvearingswearing of the same?

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … manner of excesse the basest in the vvhole land, …ho make no conscience of svvearingswearing in their open assemblies, and are to speake the trueth… more like a company …
    With rule
    … manner of excesse the basest in the vvhole land, …ho make no conscience of svvearingswearing in their open assemblies, and are to speake the trueth… more like a company …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … be vviſe to ſalvation, make not vvith Salomons foole a ſport of ſinne, of ſvvearingswearing of defiling our ſelves and others, ſeeing God threatneth damnation unto ſuch.
    With rule
    … be vviſe to ſalvation, make not vvith Salomons foole a ſport of ſinne, of ſvvearingswearing of defiling our ſelves and others, ſeeing God threatneth damnation unto ſuch.

    Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 368 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Common-Prayer-WORSHIP; AND OF Laying the HAND on AND Kissing the BOOK IN SVVEARINGSWEARING.
    With rule
    … Common-Prayer-WORSHIP; AND OF Laying the HAND on AND Kissing the BOOK IN SVVEARINGSWEARING.

    Increase Mather · Concerning the Unlawfulness of Common Prayer Worship · 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.