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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5895 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

allovvallow

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

Puritas changed it
35 times in 26 works
Consistency
100% (35 of 35)
Reach if approved
~37 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: allow
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
35 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (35 changes in 26 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 35)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … moſt neceſſary and unavoydable act of ſelf defence. Since the Scriptures formerly cited vvill allovvallow more unto private perſons, then vvhat this Surveyer reſtricketh them unto, (as vve have …
    With rule
    … moſt neceſſary and unavoydable act of ſelf defence. Since the Scriptures formerly cited vvill allovvallow more unto private perſons, then vvhat this Surveyer reſtricketh them unto, (as vve have …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 211 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Who, to himſelf, vvould not, in life, allovvallow
    With rule
    Who, to himſelf, vvould not, in life, allovvallow

    George Wither · Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vnlavvfull and contrarie to Gods ordinance, (notvvithſtanding their gloſes in their other vvritinges to allovvallow them to be lavvfull by Zadok and Abimelech, and by Seruiah the chief Prieſte …
    With rule
    … vnlavvfull and contrarie to Gods ordinance, (notvvithſtanding their gloſes in their other vvritinges to allovvallow them to be lavvfull by Zadok and Abimelech, and by Seruiah the chief Prieſte …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vvil neither allovvallow Prohistamenoi to be translated Rulers, (vvhich so many Greek authors vvil allovvallow,) nor give us an other English vvord for it, I vvil leav him to …
    With rule
    … vvil neither allovvallow Prohistamenoi to be translated Rulers, (vvhich so many Greek authors vvil allovvallow,) nor give us an other English vvord for it, I vvil leav him to …

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sheweth himselfe a rebell in hart by his Motiues, which booke D. Allen did allovvallow to the Presse. And how far the other that is old chollerike & bitter Stapleton …
    With rule
    … sheweth himselfe a rebell in hart by his Motiues, which booke D. Allen did allovvallow to the Presse. And how far the other that is old chollerike & bitter Stapleton …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … determination of the Church, under some generall rules of the vvord, vvill seeme to allovvallow somevvhat, he cannot tell vvhat, some circumstances only civill, or occasionall, as the tyme …
    With rule
    … determination of the Church, under some generall rules of the vvord, vvill seeme to allovvallow somevvhat, he cannot tell vvhat, some circumstances only civill, or occasionall, as the tyme …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … vvhen they are preſent to us, vve can order our affairs accordingly; ſhall vve allovvallow God no greater a meaſure of Knovvledg than vve have, and make him as …
    With rule
    … vvhen they are preſent to us, vve can order our affairs accordingly; ſhall vve allovvallow God no greater a meaſure of Knovvledg than vve have, and make him as …

    Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 296 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Apocrypha (a controversie so learnedly canvased by the Doctor) they being as unvvilling to allovvallow so few, as he so many Books in the Bible to be Canonical.
    With rule
    … Apocrypha (a controversie so learnedly canvased by the Doctor) they being as unvvilling to allovvallow so few, as he so many Books in the Bible to be Canonical.

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 64 · 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.