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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5941 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvitwit

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

Puritas changed it
292 times in 102 works
Consistency
100% (292 of 292)
Reach if approved
~307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wit
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
292 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (292 changes in 102 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 292)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſide made victours by him, and confirmed, all loguiques that ever vvrote, all comon vvitwit for ſoules paſſages all theſe are nothing vvith D. Bilſon: as though he vvere …
    With rule
    … ſide made victours by him, and confirmed, all loguiques that ever vvrote, all comon vvitwit for ſoules paſſages all theſe are nothing vvith D. Bilſon: as though he vvere …

    Hugh Broughton · A Reply Upon Winton · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    I do not know vvhat engine of vvitwit and art ſome men haue, to elude theſe reaſons, and to batter them ſo …
    With rule
    I do not know vvhat engine of vvitwit and art ſome men haue, to elude theſe reaſons, and to batter them ſo …

    John Canne · A Stay Against Straying · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and ſhrewd turres of little children are excuſed becauſe they proceed from vvant of vvitwit; ſo ſhould the ſame excuſe ſerue for them vvho commit faults thorough ignorance and …
    With rule
    … and ſhrewd turres of little children are excuſed becauſe they proceed from vvant of vvitwit; ſo ſhould the ſame excuſe ſerue for them vvho commit faults thorough ignorance and …

    John Downame · Spiritual Physic to Cure the Diseases of the Soul · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … this with ioy, as the Cheife ground of our conſolation, in all dangers, to vvitwit, that Chriſt the Lord, hath all povver given him in heaven, and in earth …
    With rule
    … this with ioy, as the Cheife ground of our conſolation, in all dangers, to vvitwit, that Chriſt the Lord, hath all povver given him in heaven, and in earth …

    John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … as elect men: & the like cauſe in God of his election of both: to vvitwit, the good pleaſure of his wil. Els should not the vvil of God be …
    With rule
    … as elect men: & the like cauſe in God of his election of both: to vvitwit, the good pleaſure of his wil. Els should not the vvil of God be …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 223 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … you haue preſently receiued, or may hereafter thorovv his goodneſſe attaine vnto; eyther of vvitwit, vvealth, learning, credit, countenance, byrth, office, honor, or vvhatſoeuer els: vvherevnto I vvill (thorovv …
    With rule
    … you haue preſently receiued, or may hereafter thorovv his goodneſſe attaine vnto; eyther of vvitwit, vvealth, learning, credit, countenance, byrth, office, honor, or vvhatſoeuer els: vvherevnto I vvill (thorovv …

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

  7. Printed
    … with the instruments, teachers and those that leade us a better vvay, that our vvitwit vvill serve for. But to take a course to doe us good another day …
    With rule
    … with the instruments, teachers and those that leade us a better vvay, that our vvitwit vvill serve for. But to take a course to doe us good another day …

    Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 218 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … meete / and ſhulde trie owte and knowe the matter betvvene them and Aſheley / to vvitwit / vvhither they vvere an aduerſary parte / to Aſhley yea or no / But the Paſtor …
    With rule
    … meete / and ſhulde trie owte and knowe the matter betvvene them and Aſheley / to vvitwit / vvhither they vvere an aduerſary parte / to Aſhley yea or no / But the Paſtor …

    William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. LXX · 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.