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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27642 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvretchednesswretchedness

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: wretchedness
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
    … of future happineſs, no man would be hir'd to undergo the Penance of Humane VVretchedneſsWretchedness.
    With rule
    … of future happineſs, no man would be hir'd to undergo the Penance of Humane VVretchedneſsWretchedness.

    John Gosnold · Holy and Profitable Sayings · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … that knovvs himſelf, it is eſpecially to knovv thine ovvn vileneſs, and thine ovvn vvretchedneſswretchedness, and becauſe humility doth order the heart according to this knovvledg, therefore the Scripture …
    With rule
    … that knovvs himſelf, it is eſpecially to knovv thine ovvn vileneſs, and thine ovvn vvretchedneſswretchedness, and becauſe humility doth order the heart according to this knovvledg, therefore the Scripture …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Four Books on Matthew 11 · p. 513 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Covenant, and an intereſt in Chriſt; and ſo fit us for Heaven. 'Tis our vvretchedneſswretchedness to make our table a ſnare, and our welfare a trap: As the Sea …
    With rule
    … Covenant, and an intereſt in Chriſt; and ſo fit us for Heaven. 'Tis our vvretchedneſswretchedness to make our table a ſnare, and our welfare a trap: As the Sea …

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

  4. Printed
    … ſin, and this man recovering and performing nothing, but ſliding back into the former vvretchedneſswretchedness of Life; this Repentance hovvever ſerious, and earneſt it ſeemed, vvould not have ſaved …
    With rule
    … ſin, and this man recovering and performing nothing, but ſliding back into the former vvretchedneſswretchedness of Life; this Repentance hovvever ſerious, and earneſt it ſeemed, vvould not have ſaved …

    Thomas Beverley · The General Inefficacy and Insincerity of a Death-Bed Repentance · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſees a People unreformed, when he ſees a Spirit of Profaneneſs, of Atheiſm, of VVretchedneſsWretchedness, Senſeleſneſs of things, and of Ungodlineſs; He takes away thoſe Perſons, that are as …
    With rule
    … ſees a People unreformed, when he ſees a Spirit of Profaneneſs, of Atheiſm, of VVretchedneſsWretchedness, Senſeleſneſs of things, and of Ungodlineſs; He takes away thoſe Perſons, that are as …

    Thomas Beverley · A Solemn Persuasion to Most Earnest Prayer · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … but this knovvledg of our ſelves, to knovv our ovvn meanneſs and vileneſs, and vvretchedneſswretchedness, this is that that humbles us; and ſo an humble Heart makes that to …
    With rule
    … but this knovvledg of our ſelves, to knovv our ovvn meanneſs and vileneſs, and vvretchedneſswretchedness, this is that that humbles us; and ſo an humble Heart makes that to …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Four Books on Matthew 11 · p. 513 · 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.