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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27700 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvindowswindows

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

Puritas changed it
5 times in 4 works
Consistency
100% (5 of 5)
Reach if approved
~5 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: windows
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
5 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5 changes in 4 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (5 of 5)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it out, or we shall have no Quiet. He did so, and all the VVindowsWindows and Doors were presently shut, and all quiet, so they went to sleep.
    With rule
    … it out, or we shall have no Quiet. He did so, and all the VVindowsWindows and Doors were presently shut, and all quiet, so they went to sleep.

    Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſins allowed, make way for great ſins. A little Thief creeping in at the VVindowsWindows, may open the Door to great Ones. A little Sin is as mortal, as …
    With rule
    … ſins allowed, make way for great ſins. A little Thief creeping in at the VVindowsWindows, may open the Door to great Ones. A little Sin is as mortal, as …

    John Quick · Hell Opened · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … think there is no Fire in the House, unless it flame out at the VVindowsWindows; and this advantage was taken by the inveterate Enemies of our Church, to represent …
    With rule
    … think there is no Fire in the House, unless it flame out at the VVindowsWindows; and this advantage was taken by the inveterate Enemies of our Church, to represent …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Unreasonableness of Separation · p. xxxii · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vvil not reade seruice euery day forenoone and afternoone, to the vvalles and the vvindowswindows, to the stooles and the stones: and is not this cause sufficient to denie …
    With rule
    … vvil not reade seruice euery day forenoone and afternoone, to the vvalles and the vvindowswindows, to the stooles and the stones: and is not this cause sufficient to denie …

    William Burton · A Sermon Preached 21 December 1589 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … when he and his Family were in Bed, and asleep, all the Doors and VVindowsWindows in the House opened and clattered, so as to awaken and affright them all …
    With rule
    … when he and his Family were in Bed, and asleep, all the Doors and VVindowsWindows in the House opened and clattered, so as to awaken and affright them all …

    Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 155 · 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.