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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27616 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvashingswashings

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: washings
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
    … might revoke all men from this error, that they ſhould not reſt in corporall vvaſhingswashings and in outvvard performances, exhorts them to looke unto Chriſt, vvho vvas the truth …
    With rule
    … might revoke all men from this error, that they ſhould not reſt in corporall vvaſhingswashings and in outvvard performances, exhorts them to looke unto Chriſt, vvho vvas the truth …

    John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be conſidered, One externall, vvhich vvas in the red Sea, and in the legall vvaſhingswashings, and ſo they were all waſh'd, good and bad.
    With rule
    … be conſidered, One externall, vvhich vvas in the red Sea, and in the legall vvaſhingswashings, and ſo they were all waſh'd, good and bad.

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Mark 7. 4. held the waſhing of Hands, Veſſels, Cups, Pots, and Beds, &c. and there VVaſhingsWashings are called Baptiſm.
    With rule
    … Mark 7. 4. held the waſhing of Hands, Veſſels, Cups, Pots, and Beds, &c. and there VVaſhingsWashings are called Baptiſm.

    Benjamin Keach · Gold Refined · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    VVhat was betokened by the VVaſhingsWashings of the Iewes. 84. a 15.
    With rule
    VVhat was betokened by the VVaſhingsWashings of the Iewes. 84. a 15.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … simple denyall, he sheweth that there were other causes vvhy our Saviour condemned those vvashingswashings: which is the very same thing vvhich the Abridgement affirmeth, vvhen they say, by …
    With rule
    … simple denyall, he sheweth that there were other causes vvhy our Saviour condemned those vvashingswashings: which is the very same thing vvhich the Abridgement affirmeth, vvhen they say, by …

    William Ames · Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … red Heifer, to purifie and cleanſe thoſe who were defiled, Heb. 9.10. they had divers vvaſhingswashings.
    With rule
    … red Heifer, to purifie and cleanſe thoſe who were defiled, Heb. 9.10. they had divers vvaſhingswashings.

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 142 · 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.