Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27359 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bovvingbowing

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

Puritas changed it: 14 times in 8 works
Consistency: 100% (14 of 14)
Reach if approved: ~15 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bowing
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 8 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 14)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it ſeems they endeavoured in the beſt manner they could vvith ſome devotion and bovvingbowing of their bodies to vvorſhip the Lord: for ſo it is ſaid alſo of …
With rule
… it ſeems they endeavoured in the beſt manner they could vvith ſome devotion and bovvingbowing of their bodies to vvorſhip the Lord: for ſo it is ſaid alſo of …
Arthur Jackson · A Help for the Understanding of the Holy Scriptures · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Surplice the attire of the Mass… preist, the garment of Baals preists, the abominable bovvingbowing to altars of tree is comeing upon you: hate & keep your selves from idols …
With rule
… Surplice the attire of the Mass… preist, the garment of Baals preists, the abominable bovvingbowing to altars of tree is comeing upon you: hate & keep your selves from idols …
Samuel Rutherford · Letters in Two Parts · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and infinitely glorious: but ſo he did Idolize that Name there, and every where, bovvingbowing the knee at the hearing of it, and, in the meane Time, mocking Him …
With rule
… and infinitely glorious: but ſo he did Idolize that Name there, and every where, bovvingbowing the knee at the hearing of it, and, in the meane Time, mocking Him …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… euery day to become penetentiaries. God the holy ghoſt dvvells in the Will, by bovvingbowing it to the obedience of god lavves ſoe affecting, and cleanſing it by the …
With rule
… euery day to become penetentiaries. God the holy ghoſt dvvells in the Will, by bovvingbowing it to the obedience of god lavves ſoe affecting, and cleanſing it by the …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Antiquity of this bovvingbowing.
With rule
The Antiquity of this bovvingbowing.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtraight thy crooked hart, and ſay, Lord I finde my hart crooked vvithin me, bovvingbowing avvay from thee, Lord put in day holy Spirit in it, and ſtraighten it …
With rule
… ſtraight thy crooked hart, and ſay, Lord I finde my hart crooked vvithin me, bovvingbowing avvay from thee, Lord put in day holy Spirit in it, and ſtraighten it …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reade it ſeldomer to keepe it from their mouthes. GIDEONS valiāt ſouldiers drinking vvithout bovvingbowing dovvne, is alluded vnto in phraſe. Pſa. 110 He ſhall drynke of the brooke in …
With rule
… reade it ſeldomer to keepe it from their mouthes. GIDEONS valiāt ſouldiers drinking vvithout bovvingbowing dovvne, is alluded vnto in phraſe. Pſa. 110 He ſhall drynke of the brooke in …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… on, and strenghthen their hands, to strike harder? lastly, is not Cringing at Altars, bovvingbowing at the name of Iesus, like to be brought in, & practised vvith great forvvardnes …
With rule
… on, and strenghthen their hands, to strike harder? lastly, is not Cringing at Altars, bovvingbowing at the name of Iesus, like to be brought in, & practised vvith great forvvardnes …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods 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.