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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27744 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ovvnerowner

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

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

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

Where Puritas made the change (4 of 4)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … trickes, quilites, and quirkes in the Lavv, to hould poſſeſſion ſtill againſt the true ovvnerowner: ſo it is here, the Lords day, hath thruſt out the Lords Sabbath day …
    With rule
    … trickes, quilites, and quirkes in the Lavv, to hould poſſeſſion ſtill againſt the true ovvnerowner: ſo it is here, the Lords day, hath thruſt out the Lords Sabbath day …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 185 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … inhabitante thereof, as a rotten olde cottage, which is ready to fall vpon the ovvnerowner, if hee doe not supporte it. And how plentifully haue many of the Fathers …
    With rule
    … inhabitante thereof, as a rotten olde cottage, which is ready to fall vpon the ovvnerowner, if hee doe not supporte it. And how plentifully haue many of the Fathers …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 383 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and ſuch things as are once conſecrated to God muſt not return to the ovvnerowner again.
    With rule
    … and ſuch things as are once conſecrated to God muſt not return to the ovvnerowner again.

    Arthur Jackson · A Help for the Understanding of the Holy Scriptures · p. 316 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and brought up children, and they haue rebelled againſt me. The oxe knovveth his ovvnerowner, and the aſſe his maſters cribibut Iſraell doeth not knovv, my people doth not …
    With rule
    … and brought up children, and they haue rebelled againſt me. The oxe knovveth his ovvnerowner, and the aſſe his maſters cribibut Iſraell doeth not knovv, my people doth not …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 134 · 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.