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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27392 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

drovvneddrowned

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

Puritas changed it
12 times in 12 works
Consistency
100% (12 of 12)
Reach if approved
~13 places (estimated)
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Agrees: drowned
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 12 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 12)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … you shall be at your pleaſant recreation, it vvil admonish you not to be drovvneddrowned therein, nor to loue it aboue meaſure. VVhē your reuenues and riches shall come …
    With rule
    … you shall be at your pleaſant recreation, it vvil admonish you not to be drovvneddrowned therein, nor to loue it aboue meaſure. VVhē your reuenues and riches shall come …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ignorance, and want of the ſound knovvledge of God in Chriſte? hovv many are drovvneddrowned, to the hazarding of their ovvne ſoules, vvith horrible erroures and hereſies? And what …
    With rule
    … ignorance, and want of the ſound knovvledge of God in Chriſte? hovv many are drovvneddrowned, to the hazarding of their ovvne ſoules, vvith horrible erroures and hereſies? And what …

    Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and ſhall abide continuallie: And if it ſhould be burnt in the fyre, or, drovvneddrowned in the vvatter, the diſſolution of the bodie in the graue ſhall not deſtroye …
    With rule
    … and ſhall abide continuallie: And if it ſhould be burnt in the fyre, or, drovvneddrowned in the vvatter, the diſſolution of the bodie in the graue ſhall not deſtroye …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 207 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The old vvorld vvas drovvneddrowned, the people of God often giuen vp into theyr enemies handes, and in the …
    With rule
    The old vvorld vvas drovvneddrowned, the people of God often giuen vp into theyr enemies handes, and in the …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … for passage, in reguard of broken ships, filled also vvith the sad spectacle of drovvneddrowned men, driving to and fro in it, the land overflovved, houses, beasts and men …
    With rule
    … for passage, in reguard of broken ships, filled also vvith the sad spectacle of drovvneddrowned men, driving to and fro in it, the land overflovved, houses, beasts and men …

    Robert McWard · The English Balance · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    4 That the vvaters came together upon their conſultation to return, and drovvneddrowned them all, before all the children of Iſrael, had recovered the further ſhore.
    With rule
    4 That the vvaters came together upon their conſultation to return, and drovvneddrowned them all, before all the children of Iſrael, had recovered the further ſhore.

    Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will hedg up her way with thorns, &c. We ſhould ſoon grovv vvorldly, and drovvneddrowned in carnal buſineſſes and projects, if God did not come novv and then and …
    With rule
    … will hedg up her way with thorns, &c. We ſhould ſoon grovv vvorldly, and drovvneddrowned in carnal buſineſſes and projects, if God did not come novv and then and …

    Thomas Manton · Commentary on Jude · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of a Dunkirk, and they comming to buy powder, whereof ſome vvere hanged, ſome drovvneddrowned, and three of the chiefe taken priſoners, one of them Dermon Mac-Carti, who …
    With rule
    … of a Dunkirk, and they comming to buy powder, whereof ſome vvere hanged, ſome drovvneddrowned, and three of the chiefe taken priſoners, one of them Dermon Mac-Carti, who …

    Hugh Peters · Gods Providence in a Voyage for Ireland · p. 10 · 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.