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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5850 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

knovvingknowing

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

Puritas changed it
124 times in 61 works
Consistency
100% (124 of 124)
Reach if approved
~130 places (estimated)
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Agrees: knowing
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
124 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (124 changes in 61 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 124)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … vvould be very loth to ſend his Benjamin vvith them into Egypt, yet not knovvingknowing hovv to truſt his brethren concerning his life and ſafety except he might ſee …
    With rule
    … vvould be very loth to ſend his Benjamin vvith them into Egypt, yet not knovvingknowing hovv to truſt his brethren concerning his life and ſafety except he might ſee …

    Arthur Jackson · A Help for the Understanding of the Holy Scriptures · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … we are to be thankful for …e Means, ſo contented with …e Meaſures of KNOVVINGKNOWING that …e preſcribes and allows, inaſ…uch as they are ſuch as are able …
    With rule
    … we are to be thankful for …e Means, ſo contented with …e Meaſures of KNOVVINGKNOWING that …e preſcribes and allows, inaſ…uch as they are ſuch as are able …

    Faithful Teate · A Discourse Grounded on Proverbs · p. 275 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a man to behold indifferent things vvith obedience, rather than vvith oppoſition or diſpute, knovvingknowing that the vviſdom vvhich is from above, … firſt pure and then peaceable.
    With rule
    … a man to behold indifferent things vvith obedience, rather than vvith oppoſition or diſpute, knovvingknowing that the vviſdom vvhich is from above, … firſt pure and then peaceable.

    Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 540 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Samnites, deſiring them to ceaſe from vvar againſt their neighbours, vvhich the Campanian deputies knovvingknowing to be loſt labor, they yeild themſelves up as the right of the Romans …
    With rule
    … Samnites, deſiring them to ceaſe from vvar againſt their neighbours, vvhich the Campanian deputies knovvingknowing to be loſt labor, they yeild themſelves up as the right of the Romans …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … conſcience, and regardeth the hope of eternall bleſſednes; to be vvatchfull, in diſcrying and knovvingknowing this Church; and carefull in vniting himſelfe vnto the ſame: euerye good man therefore …
    With rule
    … conſcience, and regardeth the hope of eternall bleſſednes; to be vvatchfull, in diſcrying and knovvingknowing this Church; and carefull in vniting himſelfe vnto the ſame: euerye good man therefore …

    Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of the ſoules immortality: the ſtory is knovven. Contrarivviſe, the learned in Goddes vvorde, knovvingknowing that this life is a death from ſinne, and a vvaye to the life …
    With rule
    … of the ſoules immortality: the ſtory is knovven. Contrarivviſe, the learned in Goddes vvorde, knovvingknowing that this life is a death from ſinne, and a vvaye to the life …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Hope of the Faithful · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Tarſus ſpake Greek ſo did the reſt of Cilicia, or at the leaſt Fomer knovvingknowing all their maners of tongues vvould bring for a Q. the chief Dialect: & yf …
    With rule
    … Tarſus ſpake Greek ſo did the reſt of Cilicia, or at the leaſt Fomer knovvingknowing all their maners of tongues vvould bring for a Q. the chief Dialect: & yf …

    Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Rom. 2. 4. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-sufferance, not knovvingknowing that the goodness of the Lord leads thee to repentance?
    With rule
    … Rom. 2. 4. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-sufferance, not knovvingknowing that the goodness of the Lord leads thee to repentance?

    Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 312 · 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.