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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6048 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvantonwanton

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

Puritas changed it
31 times in 24 works
Consistency
100% (31 of 31)
Reach if approved
~33 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wanton
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
31 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (31 changes in 24 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 31)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … them; his Answer was, because they would be ashamed to look on the Light, VVantonWanton Carriage of many that called themselves Christians.
    With rule
    … them; his Answer was, because they would be ashamed to look on the Light, VVantonWanton Carriage of many that called themselves Christians.

    John Lightfoot · Remains · p. 223 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    And grow as VVantonWanton as the Flowing Tide.
    With rule
    And grow as VVantonWanton as the Flowing Tide.

    John Tutchin · A Search After Honesty · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … meer ſceptick, or terra incognita, an every thing, a nothing, a thing for a vvantonwanton fancy to play withall, a ſmooth tongue to talk of, made up of a …
    With rule
    … meer ſceptick, or terra incognita, an every thing, a nothing, a thing for a vvantonwanton fancy to play withall, a ſmooth tongue to talk of, made up of a …

    Richard Vines · The Purifying of Unclean Hearts and Hands · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in ſome ſence, euery breach of the Secōd cōmandment, is ſpiritual vvhordome, as euery vvantonwanton vvord, euery light geſture & countenance, euery immodeſt thought in a Woman, is Adulterie: yet …
    With rule
    … in ſome ſence, euery breach of the Secōd cōmandment, is ſpiritual vvhordome, as euery vvantonwanton vvord, euery light geſture & countenance, euery immodeſt thought in a Woman, is Adulterie: yet …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vvantonneſſe, and to commit all kinde of vncleanneſſe, and that, vvith all greedineſſe, A vvantonwanton bodie is greedie of filthineſſe, it vvill ſvvallovv vp ſinne, and can neuer be …
    With rule
    … vvantonneſſe, and to commit all kinde of vncleanneſſe, and that, vvith all greedineſſe, A vvantonwanton bodie is greedie of filthineſſe, it vvill ſvvallovv vp ſinne, and can neuer be …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 171 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    VVAntonWanton women 7
    With rule
    VVAntonWanton women 7

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … men run a whoring after it, and the moſt godly and religious haue a vvantonwanton eye, which is too too apt to be looking after the ſame. And therfore …
    With rule
    … men run a whoring after it, and the moſt godly and religious haue a vvantonwanton eye, which is too too apt to be looking after the ſame. And therfore …

    John Dod · A Remedy Against Private Contentions · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … God having promiſed ſo much mercy in the former Chapter, Iſrael might quickly grow vvantonwanton, and ſay it is no great matter, though we be vile and wicked, yet …
    With rule
    … God having promiſed ſo much mercy in the former Chapter, Iſrael might quickly grow vvantonwanton, and ſay it is no great matter, though we be vile and wicked, yet …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 1-3 · p. 498 · 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.