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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5996 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lavvfulllawfull

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

Puritas changed it
4 times in 4 works
Consistency
2.2% (4 of 175)
Reach if approved
~184 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: lawful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
175 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
lawful (171)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4 changes in 4 works, 2.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (4 of 4)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Westminster, Dated Edin. Iune 18. 1646. The smallest (say they) of Christs Truths (if it be LavvfullLawfull to call any of them small) is of greater moment than all the other …
    With rule
    … Westminster, Dated Edin. Iune 18. 1646. The smallest (say they) of Christs Truths (if it be LavvfullLawfull to call any of them small) is of greater moment than all the other …

    Alexander Shields · A Hind Let Loose · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Whether it be LavvfullLawfull for Church-Covernours to Command indifferent decent things in the administration of Gods Worship …
    With rule
    Whether it be LavvfullLawfull for Church-Covernours to Command indifferent decent things in the administration of Gods Worship …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 333 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Geneſis in Adam before his fall, that foreign ſignified not a tyranny but a moſt LavvfullLawfull & ſynles government: and again, the Pſ. 110. the foreign vvherof are cited aboue 20. times of the …
    With rule
    … Geneſis in Adam before his fall, that foreign ſignified not a tyranny but a moſt LavvfullLawfull & ſynles government: and again, the Pſ. 110. the foreign vvherof are cited aboue 20. times of the …

    Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to collect such requisites, and ingredients, as are necessary to the constitution of a LavvfullLawfull Covenant, that so by examining this present Covenant thereby, wee may more cleerely be …
    With rule
    … to collect such requisites, and ingredients, as are necessary to the constitution of a LavvfullLawfull Covenant, that so by examining this present Covenant thereby, wee may more cleerely be …

    Samuel Clarke · Englands Covenant Proved Lawful and Necessary · p. 5 · 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.