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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6038 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvaldenseswaldenses

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

Puritas changed it
22 times in 11 works
Consistency
100% (22 of 22)
Reach if approved
~23 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: waldenses
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
22 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (22 changes in 11 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 22)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Sunne was Eclipsed, and earthquakes were euery where. Also there were certaine called VValdensesWaldenses who defended manye articles against the Pope and his doctrine, as transubstantiation, Purgatorye &c.
    With rule
    … the Sunne was Eclipsed, and earthquakes were euery where. Also there were certaine called VValdensesWaldenses who defended manye articles against the Pope and his doctrine, as transubstantiation, Purgatorye &c.

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Wee reade concerning Waldus (from whom the VValdenſesWaldenses tooke their name) that making merrie with many of his rich neighbours, one of …
    With rule
    Wee reade concerning Waldus (from whom the VValdenſesWaldenses tooke their name) that making merrie with many of his rich neighbours, one of …

    Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Primacy of the Pope, Purgatorie and such like matters. Genebrarde, vvho sayeth that these VValdensesWaldenses beganne Anno 1170, or as some other vvill 1218. rehearseth out of Sylvius these opinions of …
    With rule
    … Primacy of the Pope, Purgatorie and such like matters. Genebrarde, vvho sayeth that these VValdensesWaldenses beganne Anno 1170, or as some other vvill 1218. rehearseth out of Sylvius these opinions of …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … another, whereby they wanted opportunity to discover their advantage, and therefore departed: which the VValdensesWaldenses seeing, couragiously pursued them, and by that means the enemy being dispersed, and not …
    With rule
    … another, whereby they wanted opportunity to discover their advantage, and therefore departed: which the VValdensesWaldenses seeing, couragiously pursued them, and by that means the enemy being dispersed, and not …

    Samuel Clarke · A General Martyrology · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    VVAldenſesWaldenses and Albingenſes ſlaine, to the number of 1000000. page 100
    With rule
    VVAldenſesWaldenses and Albingenſes ſlaine, to the number of 1000000. page 100

    John Cotton · Exposition of Revelation 13 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    I shal begin with the VValdensesWaldenses Taborites Albigenses & Au…ites, (whose opinions and resolutions touching these particulars are registred at …
    With rule
    I shal begin with the VValdensesWaldenses Taborites Albigenses & Au…ites, (whose opinions and resolutions touching these particulars are registred at …

    William Prynne · Testimonies in All Ages · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    3 Of the VValdensesWaldenses, page 154.
    With rule
    3 Of the VValdensesWaldenses, page 154.

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … not able to say, certein it is that the godly called pauperes de Lugduno & VValdensesWaldenses, which were about that tyme, were sclaundered with many detestable opinions, which it is …
    With rule
    … not able to say, certein it is that the godly called pauperes de Lugduno & VValdensesWaldenses, which were about that tyme, were sclaundered with many detestable opinions, which it is …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 420 · 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.