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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27422 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

flovversflowers

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

Puritas changed it
11 times in 7 works
Consistency
100% (11 of 11)
Reach if approved
~12 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: flowers
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
11 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11 changes in 7 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the full vessels, his cheekes are as a bed of spices, and as svveet flovversflowers, and his lips like lillies dropping dovvne pure myrrhe. Yea she goeth forward to …
    With rule
    … the full vessels, his cheekes are as a bed of spices, and as svveet flovversflowers, and his lips like lillies dropping dovvne pure myrrhe. Yea she goeth forward to …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 255 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Verſ. 12. The flovversflowers appeare in the earth, the time of the ſinging of Birds is come, and …
    With rule
    Verſ. 12. The flovversflowers appeare in the earth, the time of the ſinging of Birds is come, and …

    Thomas Brightman · A Commentary on the Song of Solomon · p. 1002 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    ORNITHO-LOGIE OR, The Speech of BIRDS, ALSO, The Speech of FLOVVERSFLOWERS Partly Moral, Partly Mystical.
    With rule
    ORNITHO-LOGIE OR, The Speech of BIRDS, ALSO, The Speech of FLOVVERSFLOWERS Partly Moral, Partly Mystical.

    Thomas Fuller · The Speech of Birds also the Speech of Flowers · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … water, the Trees their fruit, the earth her herbs, the hearbes their flowers, the flovversflowers their ſeeds, and the ſeeds their increaſe: yea, beaſts and birds fowles & fiſhes, giue …
    With rule
    … water, the Trees their fruit, the earth her herbs, the hearbes their flowers, the flovversflowers their ſeeds, and the ſeeds their increaſe: yea, beaſts and birds fowles & fiſhes, giue …

    Henry Smith · The Poor Mans Tears Opened · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … cordiall to a Chriſtian or ſick ſoul: and, 2. becauſe, whereas other bundles of ſvveet FlovversFlowers or noſegayes are ſo kept in the breaſt, by being placed betvveen them; He …
    With rule
    … cordiall to a Chriſtian or ſick ſoul: and, 2. becauſe, whereas other bundles of ſvveet FlovversFlowers or noſegayes are ſo kept in the breaſt, by being placed betvveen them; He …

    William Guild · Loves Intercourse Between the Lamb and His Bride · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    As heaps of vvheate sot all vvith flovversflowers
    With rule
    As heaps of vvheate sot all vvith flovversflowers

    William Loe · Songs of Zion · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … vvord of God among the reſt, vvhich may be called a garland of heauenly flovversflowers, or out of vvhich your Lordship may reape moſt precious frute, it is this …
    With rule
    … vvord of God among the reſt, vvhich may be called a garland of heauenly flovversflowers, or out of vvhich your Lordship may reape moſt precious frute, it is this …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    And fade as doe the flovversflowers
    With rule
    And fade as doe the flovversflowers

    William Loe · Songs of Zion · p. 59 · 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.