Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5918 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fevvfew

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

Puritas changed it: 174 times in 95 works
Consistency: 100% (174 of 174)
Reach if approved: ~183 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: few
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 174 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (174 changes in 95 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 174)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… there is little queſtion to be made, but that as yet there vvere ſome fevvfew of other families that vvere the true ſervants of God, as Job and his …
With rule
… there is little queſtion to be made, but that as yet there vvere ſome fevvfew of other families that vvere the true ſervants of God, as Job and his …
Arthur Jackson · A Help for the Understanding of the Holy Scriptures · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou shalt not knovve vvhat houre I vvill come vpon thee. 14. Thou hast a fevvfew names in Sardis, 15. vvhich haue not defyled their garmentes, 16. and they shall vvalke vvith …
With rule
… thou shalt not knovve vvhat houre I vvill come vpon thee. 14. Thou hast a fevvfew names in Sardis, 15. vvhich haue not defyled their garmentes, 16. and they shall vvalke vvith …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
THAT ſome fevvfew ſhould differ from ſo many reuerend learned and godlie Fathers of the Church, it …
With rule
THAT ſome fevvfew ſhould differ from ſo many reuerend learned and godlie Fathers of the Church, it …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
There is the same reason, in due proportion, of one member sinning, of a fevvfew, of many, and of a vvhole Church, novv if a brother sin, and vvill …
With rule
There is the same reason, in due proportion, of one member sinning, of a fevvfew, of many, and of a vvhole Church, novv if a brother sin, and vvill …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which purpose (gentle Reader whosoeuer thou be) suffer me to aduertise thee of some fevvfew things, whereof I thinke it requisite thou shouldst take notice, somwhat to excuse such …
With rule
… which purpose (gentle Reader whosoeuer thou be) suffer me to aduertise thee of some fevvfew things, whereof I thinke it requisite thou shouldst take notice, somwhat to excuse such …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… Was it a vaine shevv at the ſight vvhereof, yea in dimme light, a fevvfew yeares agoe they trembled, that novv they boldely endure to looke in to the …
With rule
… Was it a vaine shevv at the ſight vvhereof, yea in dimme light, a fevvfew yeares agoe they trembled, that novv they boldely endure to looke in to the …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvhich is common to all, and not to the spirituall vvhich is proper to fevvfew. Even the very vvicked eate the body and blood of Christ Sacramentally: and vvhen …
With rule
… vvhich is common to all, and not to the spirituall vvhich is proper to fevvfew. Even the very vvicked eate the body and blood of Christ Sacramentally: and vvhen …
David Calderwood · A Solution of Doctor Resolutus Resolutions for Kneeling · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the knovvledg of more things is a greater Perfection than the knovvledg of a fevvfew; and if the knovvledg of a thing includes ſomething of Perfection, the ignorance of …
With rule
… the knovvledg of more things is a greater Perfection than the knovvledg of a fevvfew; and if the knovvledg of a thing includes ſomething of Perfection, the ignorance of …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 289 · 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.