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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27390 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

borrovvborrow

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

Puritas changed it
12 times in 7 works
Consistency
100% (12 of 12)
Reach if approved
~13 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: borrow
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
12 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (12 changes in 7 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 12)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … apprehend yt inacceſſible light. It is true, the great God hath no neede to borrovvborrow either light from the fire-flaſh, or vvhitenes frō ye ſnovv, or hue, or …
    With rule
    … apprehend yt inacceſſible light. It is true, the great God hath no neede to borrovvborrow either light from the fire-flaſh, or vvhitenes frō ye ſnovv, or hue, or …

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 272 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thy selfe, that according to the proportion of thy fault, thou maist hence also borrovvborrow some helpe of recouering thy health. Is it a great and grieuous offence? it …
    With rule
    … thy selfe, that according to the proportion of thy fault, thou maist hence also borrovvborrow some helpe of recouering thy health. Is it a great and grieuous offence? it …

    Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 394 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vs to the vnwritten Laws, vvhich are found among Heathen people, and Infideles, to borrovvborrow lig…t from them: It ſeemes then, that vve ſhall borrovvborrow light from darkneſſe …
    With rule
    … vs to the vnwritten Laws, vvhich are found among Heathen people, and Infideles, to borrovvborrow lig…t from them: It ſeemes then, that vve ſhall borrovvborrow light from darkneſſe …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 562 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … borrovvers, 1 Thoſe that have no means of repaying you again; if theſe come to borrovvborrow we are not bound to lend to theſe, but to give them, as duty …
    With rule
    … borrovvers, 1 Thoſe that have no means of repaying you again; if theſe come to borrovvborrow we are not bound to lend to theſe, but to give them, as duty …

    Christopher Blackwood · Expositions Upon Matthew 1-10 · p. 296 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … he be not in vvant through his ovvn fault, is no ſin, and to borrovvborrow vvhat he vvants, ſo he repay vvhat he borrovvs, is no ſin: but to …
    With rule
    … he be not in vvant through his ovvn fault, is no ſin, and to borrovvborrow vvhat he vvants, ſo he repay vvhat he borrovvs, is no ſin: but to …

    Benjamin Hinton · Eighteen Choice and Useful Sermons · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … pay vvhat a man ovveth, Pſal. 37.21. the wicked borroweth and payeth not again. To borrovvborrow money, or to buy a Commodity, is all one; it is the Character of …
    With rule
    … pay vvhat a man ovveth, Pſal. 37.21. the wicked borroweth and payeth not again. To borrovvborrow money, or to buy a Commodity, is all one; it is the Character of …

    Christopher Love · The Combat Between the Flesh and Spirit · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … can never stray or straggle from the right vvay, neither have they need to borrovvborrow the candle of the Fathers to be directed by, so long as the glorious …
    With rule
    … can never stray or straggle from the right vvay, neither have they need to borrovvborrow the candle of the Fathers to be directed by, so long as the glorious …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … this day muſt be our new Sabbath: or, if they vvill imitate God, and borrovvborrow any light from him, then muſt they thinke that the day after all is …
    With rule
    … this day muſt be our new Sabbath: or, if they vvill imitate God, and borrovvborrow any light from him, then muſt they thinke that the day after all is …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 248 · 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.