Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5852 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvifewife

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

Puritas changed it: 353 times in 128 works
Consistency: 100% (353 of 353)
Reach if approved: ~371 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wife
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 353 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (353 changes in 128 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 353)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… And againe, But for the auoiding of fornication, lette euery manne haue his ovvne vvifewife, and euery vvoman hir ovvne husbande. Againe: If they haue not the gifte of …
With rule
… And againe, But for the auoiding of fornication, lette euery manne haue his ovvne vvifewife, and euery vvoman hir ovvne husbande. Againe: If they haue not the gifte of …
Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… writings to Tim. and Tit. A Bishop must bee unreproveable, the husband of one vvifewife, vvatching, sober, modest, harborous, apt to teach, not given to vvine, no stryker, nor …
With rule
… writings to Tim. and Tit. A Bishop must bee unreproveable, the husband of one vvifewife, vvatching, sober, modest, harborous, apt to teach, not given to vvine, no stryker, nor …
William Ames · Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no Prince or Prelate can abrogate, viz. 1. Self-Government. 2. The Husbands-Government of the VVifeWife. 3. And the Parents-Government of his Children, in order to personal and family wellfare …
With rule
… no Prince or Prelate can abrogate, viz. 1. Self-Government. 2. The Husbands-Government of the VVifeWife. 3. And the Parents-Government of his Children, in order to personal and family wellfare …
Richard Baxter · The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II · p. 296 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ver. 26. If any man come vnto mee, and hate not his Father, and Mother, & VVifeWife, and Children, and Brethren and Siſters, yea and his owne life alſo: he can …
With rule
… ver. 26. If any man come vnto mee, and hate not his Father, and Mother, & VVifeWife, and Children, and Brethren and Siſters, yea and his owne life alſo: he can …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Deuine. For Chriſtian Marchants doe not only deſire accidentall good things, as a good vvifewife, good children, good ſeruants, & ſuch like vvhich are all gods good gifts. And Morall …
With rule
… Deuine. For Chriſtian Marchants doe not only deſire accidentall good things, as a good vvifewife, good children, good ſeruants, & ſuch like vvhich are all gods good gifts. And Morall …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this prophesie shevveth, Nehem. 9.1.2.—32.—38. Moreover, it proveth not that Israel vvas alvvayes before, Gods vvifewife or Church; for it is playn to the contrary, Hos. 2.2. and she vvas divorced …
With rule
… this prophesie shevveth, Nehem. 9.1.2.—32.—38. Moreover, it proveth not that Israel vvas alvvayes before, Gods vvifewife or Church; for it is playn to the contrary, Hos. 2.2. and she vvas divorced …
Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
His body vvaſht and nointed vvas, by handes of his ovvne vvifewife.
With rule
His body vvaſht and nointed vvas, by handes of his ovvne vvifewife.
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… standeth in feare of her husband, least he should come to her, The good vvifewife is in feare, least her husband should go from her. This feareth least he …
With rule
… standeth in feare of her husband, least he should come to her, The good vvifewife is in feare, least her husband should go from her. This feareth least he …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 98 · 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.