Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5839 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

knevvknew

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

Puritas changed it: 185 times in 85 works
Consistency: 100% (185 of 185)
Reach if approved: ~194 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: knew
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 185 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (185 changes in 85 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 185)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in grace as in ſtature, I never ſaid, I never thought, for I vvell knevvknew that his increaſe in ſtature vvas proper, vvhereas he increaſed in favour or grace …
With rule
… in grace as in ſtature, I never ſaid, I never thought, for I vvell knevvknew that his increaſe in ſtature vvas proper, vvhereas he increaſed in favour or grace …
Henry Jeanes · Dr Creeds Voluminous Defense of Hammons Ektenesteron · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in their ovvn hand, to remove ſuch enormities from amongſt them, as before they knevvknew to be abhominable. Then, I ſay, are they no leſſe bound, to purge their …
With rule
… in their ovvn hand, to remove ſuch enormities from amongſt them, as before they knevvknew to be abhominable. Then, I ſay, are they no leſſe bound, to purge their …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mercy giueth. Gen. 25 21, Iſaac knevvknew he ſhould haue ſeed before, yet he prayed. Elias knevvknew, and had told Ahab, God would certainly giue raine: yet both prayed, and they …
With rule
… mercy giueth. Gen. 25 21, Iſaac knevvknew he ſhould haue ſeed before, yet he prayed. Elias knevvknew, and had told Ahab, God would certainly giue raine: yet both prayed, and they …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvhen they made not a right use of it, but went on brutishly, they knevvknew it not. Jt is all one not to knovv it at all, and not …
With rule
… vvhen they made not a right use of it, but went on brutishly, they knevvknew it not. Jt is all one not to knovv it at all, and not …
Richard Sibbes · Beams of Divine Light · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect and duty to Parents; yea, he preferred mercy before sacrifice; but he vvell knevvknew, that vvhen hee once met vvith his carnall friends at the funerall, they vvould …
With rule
… respect and duty to Parents; yea, he preferred mercy before sacrifice; but he vvell knevvknew, that vvhen hee once met vvith his carnall friends at the funerall, they vvould …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 792 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the murtherer. Adam knevvknew the Eternal loue of God: begōn here: & cōtinued for euer: & knevvknew ſuffrings in this vvorld tokēs of bleſſings for the vvorld to come: but for …
With rule
… the murtherer. Adam knevvknew the Eternal loue of God: begōn here: & cōtinued for euer: & knevvknew ſuffrings in this vvorld tokēs of bleſſings for the vvorld to come: but for …
Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vvhore ranne vp and dovvne after a vvhoremaſter Prieſt, ſo that no bodie knevvknew in all that time that Betris vvas miſſing. We reade, that to ſaue the …
With rule
… the vvhore ranne vp and dovvne after a vvhoremaſter Prieſt, ſo that no bodie knevvknew in all that time that Betris vvas miſſing. We reade, that to ſaue the …
Alexander Cooke · Work More Work and a Little More Work for a Mass-Priest · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rest follovved, that the choice vvent clearly on my side. All this vvhile I knevvknew nothing hereof, or what they were about: being not acquainted with any one in …
With rule
… rest follovved, that the choice vvent clearly on my side. All this vvhile I knevvknew nothing hereof, or what they were about: being not acquainted with any one in …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 7 · 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.