Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6052 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvareware

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

Puritas changed it: 21 times in 17 works
Consistency: 100% (21 of 21)
Reach if approved: ~22 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: were
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 21 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (21 changes in 17 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 21)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Dead, and a Thousand other Trinklements, and Trumperies: Scripture never knew such base VVareWare; we must go to some other kind of Shop for it. And that Pedlar …
With rule
… the Dead, and a Thousand other Trinklements, and Trumperies: Scripture never knew such base VVareWare; we must go to some other kind of Shop for it. And that Pedlar …
John Lightfoot · Remains · p. 259 · Open in the reader
Printed
Mastre Henrye VvareWare / the Offycyall of Caunterburye / Phylip Morgan / doctor of both lawes / Howest kyffyn / doctor of …
With rule
Mastre Henrye VvareWare / the Offycyall of Caunterburye / Phylip Morgan / doctor of both lawes / Howest kyffyn / doctor of …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vvord, vve feele not his heauy vvrath & plage vpon vs before vve be vvareware. For vvhen vve are once vveery of the vvorde, then follovveth the contempt of …
With rule
… the vvord, vve feele not his heauy vvrath & plage vpon vs before vve be vvareware. For vvhen vve are once vveery of the vvorde, then follovveth the contempt of …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · Open in the reader
Printed
… drunkennes of ſoule and body is forbidden. In the 21. of Luke 34. He ſaies, Be vvareware leaſt your harts be prest dovvn vvith ſurfetting and drunkenneſſe, that is of the …
With rule
… drunkennes of ſoule and body is forbidden. In the 21. of Luke 34. He ſaies, Be vvareware leaſt your harts be prest dovvn vvith ſurfetting and drunkenneſſe, that is of the …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 252 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they vvould set foote there (I knovv not hovv) before the french vvere a vvareware, and sending ouer some colonies from hence of such superfluous gentilmen as themselues, they …
With rule
… they vvould set foote there (I knovv not hovv) before the french vvere a vvareware, and sending ouer some colonies from hence of such superfluous gentilmen as themselues, they …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… books, against the State, or some Honorable personages; that so, they being questioned his vvareware may haue the quicker sale. He makes no scruple to put out the right …
With rule
… books, against the State, or some Honorable personages; that so, they being questioned his vvareware may haue the quicker sale. He makes no scruple to put out the right …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in 64. yeres afore (as it pleaſed him to ſay,) procured me before I vvas vvareware a great ſtipend to profeſſe yf I vvould: & alſo vvrote to knovv vvhether you …
With rule
… in 64. yeres afore (as it pleaſed him to ſay,) procured me before I vvas vvareware a great ſtipend to profeſſe yf I vvould: & alſo vvrote to knovv vvhether you …
Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · Open in the reader
Printed
… my Luſts, his Glory for my vile Affections: Surely the dear price of my VVareWare, ſhould Inhance the ſtudy of Heaven, and heavenly Things in my Soul. If Wares …
With rule
… my Luſts, his Glory for my vile Affections: Surely the dear price of my VVareWare, ſhould Inhance the ſtudy of Heaven, and heavenly Things in my Soul. If Wares …
John Collinges · The Weavers Pocket-Book · p. 34 · 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.