Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5930 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tovvardstowards

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

Puritas changed it: 186 times in 102 works
Consistency: 100% (186 of 186)
Reach if approved: ~195 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: towards
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 186 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (186 changes in 102 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 186)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… conclude this point: knovv, that vvhatſoeuer good thing hath befallen vs, or is comming tovvardstowards vs, (all fauours and mercies exhibited, or promiſed) all are of Gods free grace …
With rule
… conclude this point: knovv, that vvhatſoeuer good thing hath befallen vs, or is comming tovvardstowards vs, (all fauours and mercies exhibited, or promiſed) all are of Gods free grace …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. VVhat is your duty tovvardstowards your neighbour?
With rule
Q. VVhat is your duty tovvardstowards your neighbour?
Richard Bernard · A Double Catechism · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in equity, and good conscience, men are to respect the instruments of Gods mercy tovvardstowards them) I vvill enlarge my self, in this point, further, then othervvise I vvould.
With rule
… in equity, and good conscience, men are to respect the instruments of Gods mercy tovvardstowards them) I vvill enlarge my self, in this point, further, then othervvise I vvould.
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 380 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the decalogue, the firſt cō priſeth in 4. cōmādements certaine duties to bee performed immediatly tovvardstowards God: the ſecond teacheth in 6 cōmandemēts what duties muſt be performed towards our neighbour …
With rule
… the decalogue, the firſt cō priſeth in 4. cōmādements certaine duties to bee performed immediatly tovvardstowards God: the ſecond teacheth in 6 cōmandemēts what duties muſt be performed towards our neighbour …
Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them and me to requite any parte thereof, yet suche is our bounden dueties tovvardstowards your Lordshippe, that neither blinde obliuion, nor tyme vvith his crooked sithe, shall be …
With rule
… them and me to requite any parte thereof, yet suche is our bounden dueties tovvardstowards your Lordshippe, that neither blinde obliuion, nor tyme vvith his crooked sithe, shall be …
Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
The first is the behaviour of Elias, tovvardstowards Idolaters & their Idolatrous practises vvhom he jeares to their faces, & out of a holy …
With rule
The first is the behaviour of Elias, tovvardstowards Idolaters & their Idolatrous practises vvhom he jeares to their faces, & out of a holy …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · Open in the reader
Printed
… the teaching I have had by it. Many more of the Dealings of God tovvardstowards me I might relate, but these out of the spoils vvo… in Battel have …
With rule
… the teaching I have had by it. Many more of the Dealings of God tovvardstowards me I might relate, but these out of the spoils vvo… in Battel have …
John Bunyan · Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… himselfe is of: the Conformists never being so covetous as to cast an eye tovvardstowards it, nor the high Royalists so ignoble in their greatest extreamities, as to lay …
With rule
… himselfe is of: the Conformists never being so covetous as to cast an eye tovvardstowards it, nor the high Royalists so ignoble in their greatest extreamities, as to lay …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 37 · 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.