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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #28034 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

widovvswidows

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

Puritas changed it
3 times in 3 works
Consistency
100% (3 of 3)
Reach if approved
~3 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: widows
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3 changes in 3 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (3 of 3)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be by vveakness, or under-age, and the like, as is that of Orphans, WidovvsWidows, Ministers, and others, vvho by their stations are kept up from other tradings, and …
    With rule
    … be by vveakness, or under-age, and the like, as is that of Orphans, WidovvsWidows, Ministers, and others, vvho by their stations are kept up from other tradings, and …

    James Durham · Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments · p. 434 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … much the more Lament their loss, God vvill I doubt not, be the bereaved WidovvsWidows Portion; but it ought, with tenderness to be consider'd, What it was for one …
    With rule
    … much the more Lament their loss, God vvill I doubt not, be the bereaved WidovvsWidows Portion; but it ought, with tenderness to be consider'd, What it was for one …

    John Howe · Sermon on the Death of Richard Adams · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Prophet vvas ſo conſciencious in this particular, that vvhen he made the poor WidovvsWidows oyle to increaſe in the 2 King. 4.7. he bid her ſell it, and firſt pay …
    With rule
    … the Prophet vvas ſo conſciencious in this particular, that vvhen he made the poor WidovvsWidows oyle to increaſe in the 2 King. 4.7. he bid her ſell it, and firſt pay …

    Christopher Love · The Combat Between the Flesh and Spirit · p. 70 · 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.