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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27442 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvoeswoes

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

Puritas changed it
11 times in 8 works
Consistency
100% (11 of 11)
Reach if approved
~12 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: woes
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 8 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lamentations, mourning, and woe, within and without; Some woes are vvritten onely vvithout, ſome vvoeswoes are writen onely vvithin, others are written without and within. Their Characters are legible …
    With rule
    … lamentations, mourning, and woe, within and without; Some woes are vvritten onely vvithout, ſome vvoeswoes are writen onely vvithin, others are written without and within. Their Characters are legible …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 247 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Israel, God calls the Pastors and Shepheards of Israel, when he sends to denounce VVoesWoes against them, Jer. 23. 1, 2. Ezek. 34 2.
    With rule
    … Israel, God calls the Pastors and Shepheards of Israel, when he sends to denounce VVoesWoes against them, Jer. 23. 1, 2. Ezek. 34 2.

    John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Disguised Plagues among us, Causing Epidemical Desolations. Again, Wars are also some of those VVoesWoes, with which the Divel causes our Trouble. It is said in Rev. 12. 17. The Dragon …
    With rule
    … Disguised Plagues among us, Causing Epidemical Desolations. Again, Wars are also some of those VVoesWoes, with which the Divel causes our Trouble. It is said in Rev. 12. 17. The Dragon …

    Cotton Mather · The Wonders of the Invisible World · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … an end of all his hopes, and pleaſures, and the beginning of all his vvoeswoes and ſorrovves.
    With rule
    … an end of all his hopes, and pleaſures, and the beginning of all his vvoeswoes and ſorrovves.

    Francis Peck · The Kernel of Christianity · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … denounced in his Holy VVord against them, and let them thunder out all the VVoesWoes and Curses that are in the Magazine of God's Justice against them, yet these …
    With rule
    … denounced in his Holy VVord against them, and let them thunder out all the VVoesWoes and Curses that are in the Magazine of God's Justice against them, yet these …

    Ezekiel Hopkins · Sermons Volume 1 · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Abadon, but in the Greeke tonge Appollyon. 14. One vvo is past, and beholde tvvo vvoeswoes come yet after this.
    With rule
    … Abadon, but in the Greeke tonge Appollyon. 14. One vvo is past, and beholde tvvo vvoeswoes come yet after this.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    In vvoeswoes so sharp so keene.
    With rule
    In vvoeswoes so sharp so keene.

    William Loe · Songs of Zion · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Fourthly, that theſe light and momentary afflictions are nothing, if compared either to thoſe vvoeswoes we have d…ſerved in hell, or thoſe joyes vvee are reſerv'd to in …
    With rule
    … Fourthly, that theſe light and momentary afflictions are nothing, if compared either to thoſe vvoeswoes we have d…ſerved in hell, or thoſe joyes vvee are reſerv'd to in …

    John Trapp · Gods Love · p. 90 · 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.