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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27809 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvinningwinning

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: winning
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
    … ſtrong ſcent, and Knowledge of Jeſus Chriſt; I do not find the Attractive, and VVinningWinning Virtues and Powers of it; They do not at all prevail upon me: This …
    With rule
    … ſtrong ſcent, and Knowledge of Jeſus Chriſt; I do not find the Attractive, and VVinningWinning Virtues and Powers of it; They do not at all prevail upon me: This …

    Thomas Beverley · The Parable of the Ten Virgins · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … dravv near to that shore of matter, which I more aim at, for the vvinningwinning and saving of souls: Only, one thing more I vvill touch and teach here …
    With rule
    … dravv near to that shore of matter, which I more aim at, for the vvinningwinning and saving of souls: Only, one thing more I vvill touch and teach here …

    Christopher Jelinger · A New Canaan Full of Most Pleasant Gardens · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … faile farre in the ſea for a fevv fiſhes: … Miniſters preach long for the vvinningwinning of a fevv ſoules. Secondly, in fiſhes vve may … the maine ſcope; vvherein note …
    With rule
    … faile farre in the ſea for a fevv fiſhes: … Miniſters preach long for the vvinningwinning of a fevv ſoules. Secondly, in fiſhes vve may … the maine ſcope; vvherein note …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 326 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … these two partialities in Fraunce, as vve haue no neede of hys helpe for vvinningwinning vs the one part, who be already, in the feare of God & christian loue …
    With rule
    … these two partialities in Fraunce, as vve haue no neede of hys helpe for vvinningwinning vs the one part, who be already, in the feare of God & christian loue …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · 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.