Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5842 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvhilewhile

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

Puritas changed it: 474 times in 212 works
Consistency: 100% (474 of 474)
Reach if approved: ~498 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: while
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 474 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (474 changes in 212 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 474)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… euer recent in memorie, as a dicton: Shee that liues in pleasure, is dead vvhilewhile shee liueth. 1. Tim. 5. 6. But yee liue more in murmuring and in paine: Therefore yee …
With rule
… euer recent in memorie, as a dicton: Shee that liues in pleasure, is dead vvhilewhile shee liueth. 1. Tim. 5. 6. But yee liue more in murmuring and in paine: Therefore yee …
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · Open in the reader
Printed
VVhileWhile the Priest is saying the aforesaid Orysons, he shall stand with his face Eastward …
With rule
VVhileWhile the Priest is saying the aforesaid Orysons, he shall stand with his face Eastward …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt Ieſus our Sauiour hath ſought for vs vvith ſo great ſtudie and indeuor, vvhilewhile as yet vve vvere his enemies and fled frō him; if he boght vs …
With rule
… Chriſt Ieſus our Sauiour hath ſought for vs vvith ſo great ſtudie and indeuor, vvhilewhile as yet vve vvere his enemies and fled frō him; if he boght vs …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or indwelling sinne, is that originall sinne vvhereof we treat; vvhich Paul for a vvhilewhile could not discerne to be in him (as all naturall men discern it not …
With rule
… or indwelling sinne, is that originall sinne vvhereof we treat; vvhich Paul for a vvhilewhile could not discerne to be in him (as all naturall men discern it not …
Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life of grace is ended, in the life of glory. In the meane time, vvhilewhile vvee liue here, vvee ſhall receiue, though not this Crowne actually, yet the full …
With rule
… life of grace is ended, in the life of glory. In the meane time, vvhilewhile vvee liue here, vvee ſhall receiue, though not this Crowne actually, yet the full …
Henry Tozer · Directions for a Godly Life · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
… almost a Christian. So, the first founder of that Honorable Order, did intend a vvhilewhile (it may be) to erect some Title of honor sutable to his first apprehension …
With rule
… almost a Christian. So, the first founder of that Honorable Order, did intend a vvhilewhile (it may be) to erect some Title of honor sutable to his first apprehension …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they speake except that the word be sent vnto them? O Lord said Moses, vvhilewhile God vvas sending him to speake to Pharaoh, I am not eloquent, or as …
With rule
… they speake except that the word be sent vnto them? O Lord said Moses, vvhilewhile God vvas sending him to speake to Pharaoh, I am not eloquent, or as …
Zacharie Boyd · The Balm of Gilead Prepared for the Sick · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVhileWhile he with cheerfull steps the rockes asce…ding:
With rule
VVhileWhile he with cheerfull steps the rockes asce…ding:
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · 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.