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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27605 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tovverstowers

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

Puritas changed it
6 times in 5 works
Consistency
100% (6 of 6)
Reach if approved
~6 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: towers
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
6 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6 changes in 5 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (6 of 6)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … they are caughtavvay (or die) they bee made poore, they bee barred vp like tovverstowers, they be cut off as the top of eares of corne.
    With rule
    … they are caughtavvay (or die) they bee made poore, they bee barred vp like tovverstowers, they be cut off as the top of eares of corne.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 475 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Likewiſe her breaſts are ſaid to be like TovversTowers, and ſo not onely comly faſhioned, as the Lord ſpeaks, Ezek. 16. 7. but ſo abounding …
    With rule
    Likewiſe her breaſts are ſaid to be like TovversTowers, and ſo not onely comly faſhioned, as the Lord ſpeaks, Ezek. 16. 7. but ſo abounding …

    William Guild · Loves Intercourse Between the Lamb and His Bride · p. 281 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſeing the light of the land of Goshen in telling the bulvvarkes, the cittadles, & tovverstowers of the heauenly Ieruſalem, in arriuing at the faire hauens, and conſidering man in …
    With rule
    … ſeing the light of the land of Goshen in telling the bulvvarkes, the cittadles, & tovverstowers of the heauenly Ieruſalem, in arriuing at the faire hauens, and conſidering man in …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Walls of Jericho fell down, and at the presence of Christ shall all high TovversTowers, and strong Holds, and hiding Places for sinners be razed, and dissolved at his …
    With rule
    … Walls of Jericho fell down, and at the presence of Christ shall all high TovversTowers, and strong Holds, and hiding Places for sinners be razed, and dissolved at his …

    John Bunyan · Solomons Temple Spiritualized · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … then that the Caſtle, and the upper Town Millo, vvas ſo vvell fortified vvith TovversTowers and Walls that it vvas not eaſily to be taken, the Jebuſites (after that …
    With rule
    … then that the Caſtle, and the upper Town Millo, vvas ſo vvell fortified vvith TovversTowers and Walls that it vvas not eaſily to be taken, the Jebuſites (after that …

    John Ray · A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages · p. 283 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    4. In reſpect of defence and fortification, with Mountains round about, Walls and Watch-TovversTowers, as vve ſee, Pſalm. 125. 2. Iſai. 62 6. & Ezekiel. 33 3. Even ſo as the mountains are round about …
    With rule
    4. In reſpect of defence and fortification, with Mountains round about, Walls and Watch-TovversTowers, as vve ſee, Pſalm. 125. 2. Iſai. 62 6. & Ezekiel. 33 3. Even ſo as the mountains are round about …

    William Guild · Loves Intercourse Between the Lamb and His Bride · p. 34 · 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.