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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27358 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bovvedbowed

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

Puritas changed it
14 times in 10 works
Consistency
100% (14 of 14)
Reach if approved
~15 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bowed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
14 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (14 changes in 10 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 14)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … or Lords Tables… & as certain that they kneeled not at the Sacrament, much lesse bovvedbowed their he…ds or knees at the naming of Iesus, as some ignorant shallovv …
    With rule
    … or Lords Tables… & as certain that they kneeled not at the Sacrament, much lesse bovvedbowed their he…ds or knees at the naming of Iesus, as some ignorant shallovv …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … after this lyfe. Therefore this is the ſecond thing vve ſhould craue to the bovvedbowed hart that he vvould ſet it ſtraight vpon the hope of life; and as …
    With rule
    … after this lyfe. Therefore this is the ſecond thing vve ſhould craue to the bovvedbowed hart that he vvould ſet it ſtraight vpon the hope of life; and as …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … quite ouerthrowne: God answered vnto him, saying: I haue seuen thousand men vvhich neuer bovvedbowed their knees vnto Baal. It is therefore withoute all doubte, that Christe hathe his …
    With rule
    … quite ouerthrowne: God answered vnto him, saying: I haue seuen thousand men vvhich neuer bovvedbowed their knees vnto Baal. It is therefore withoute all doubte, that Christe hathe his …

    Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vvronged not ſo much his nation as his religion, and profeſſion as to haue bovvedbowed to him What made Abraham that hee vvould not take any thing that was …
    With rule
    … vvronged not ſo much his nation as his religion, and profeſſion as to haue bovvedbowed to him What made Abraham that hee vvould not take any thing that was …

    Jeremiah Dyke · The Mischief and Misery of Scandals · p. 225 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … hid in Caves by fifties and good Obediah, and 7000. that had not kiſſed nor bovvedbowed their knees to Ba….
    With rule
    … hid in Caves by fifties and good Obediah, and 7000. that had not kiſſed nor bovvedbowed their knees to Ba….

    William Guild · Loves Intercourse Between the Lamb and His Bride · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … feete they bowed and fell, at our feete they bowed and fell; Where they bovvedbowed, there they fell dovvne dead; All our enemies (like Adam in his ſinne) ſhall …
    With rule
    … feete they bowed and fell, at our feete they bowed and fell; Where they bovvedbowed, there they fell dovvne dead; All our enemies (like Adam in his ſinne) ſhall …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … alone, and God anſvveres him, that hee had reſerued ſeauen thouſand, that had not bovvedbowed their knee to Baal. VVhich Hiſtorie according to the Apoſtle ovvne interpretation, ſhevves vs …
    With rule
    … alone, and God anſvveres him, that hee had reſerued ſeauen thouſand, that had not bovvedbowed their knee to Baal. VVhich Hiſtorie according to the Apoſtle ovvne interpretation, ſhevves vs …

    John Forbes · Sermon on 1 Timothy 2:4 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Prophecy not at all, neyther teach this people: ſeeing they endure not to be bovvedbowed) expoundeth the 7 and 8 verſes after this maner, Is it thus right, ſay the children …
    With rule
    … Prophecy not at all, neyther teach this people: ſeeing they endure not to be bovvedbowed) expoundeth the 7 and 8 verſes after this maner, Is it thus right, ſay the children …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 108 · 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.