Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6050 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvantswants

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

Puritas changed it: 74 times in 50 works
Consistency: 100% (74 of 74)
Reach if approved: ~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wants
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (74 changes in 50 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 74)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
VVAntsWants and faultes of the Church to reforme men are not bound onely to vſe …
With rule
VVAntsWants and faultes of the Church to reforme men are not bound onely to vſe …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · Open in the reader
Printed
1. It is exquisitely like a wildernes, no man but for innumerable vvantswants, liues as in a Desart here.
With rule
1. It is exquisitely like a wildernes, no man but for innumerable vvantswants, liues as in a Desart here.
Nicholas Byfield · The Cure of the Fear of Death · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeeing the ſtrength of our fleſh and naturall corruptions, and our frailtie and vveakeneſſe, vvantswants and many infirmities of our ſpirituall part are moued hereby to attribute the vvhole …
With rule
… ſeeing the ſtrength of our fleſh and naturall corruptions, and our frailtie and vveakeneſſe, vvantswants and many infirmities of our ſpirituall part are moued hereby to attribute the vvhole …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 3 · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us of this, that, The pooreſt Chriſtian alive may have a Supply of his VVantsWants, if he will but fetch it upon his Knees. Holy Mr. Carter told his …
With rule
… us of this, that, The pooreſt Chriſtian alive may have a Supply of his VVantsWants, if he will but fetch it upon his Knees. Holy Mr. Carter told his …
Daniel Burgess · The Sure Way to Wealth Infallible · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in worshipe doctrine diſcipline and government. Then he muſt tell us that the book vvantswants nothing of the compleatneſſe of an infamous lybel, and why? Becauſe [it fals upon …
With rule
… in worshipe doctrine diſcipline and government. Then he muſt tell us that the book vvantswants nothing of the compleatneſſe of an infamous lybel, and why? Becauſe [it fals upon …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 446 · Open in the reader
Printed
… loſt; thy naturall Father is dead, but thou haſt a Father in heaven vvho vvantswants no vviſdome to counſell thee, no love to comfort thee, no povver to help …
With rule
… loſt; thy naturall Father is dead, but thou haſt a Father in heaven vvho vvantswants no vviſdome to counſell thee, no love to comfort thee, no povver to help …
Samuel Ainsworth · Sermon 16 December 1654 · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pro. 21. 13. whoſo ſtoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, (their knowing cryes, vvantswants and neceſſities, though themſelves out of ſhamefac'tneſſe do not cry, himſelf ſhall cry and …
With rule
… Pro. 21. 13. whoſo ſtoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, (their knowing cryes, vvantswants and neceſſities, though themſelves out of ſhamefac'tneſſe do not cry, himſelf ſhall cry and …
Thomas Mocket · Christmas the Christians Grand Feast · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that we are poore miſerable, blind, & naked, & then vve shall ſeeke to ſupplie our vvantswants from this purchaſe. Secondly to knovve that all good is in this purchaſe for …
With rule
… that we are poore miſerable, blind, & naked, & then vve shall ſeeke to ſupplie our vvantswants from this purchaſe. Secondly to knovve that all good is in this purchaſe for …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 103 · 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.