Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6096 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvildernesswilderness

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

Puritas changed it: 91 times in 45 works
Consistency: 100% (91 of 91)
Reach if approved: ~96 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wilderness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 91 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (91 changes in 45 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 91)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hearing of his enticing charms. He hath power here to tempt us in the VVildernessWilderness; but he entereth not the Holy City: He may set us on the pinacle …
With rule
… hearing of his enticing charms. He hath power here to tempt us in the VVildernessWilderness; but he entereth not the Holy City: He may set us on the pinacle …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he will provide them one in America, making for them a way in the VVilderneſsWilderness, and Hewing them out an hiding Place through the Rocks, and in a Deſart …
With rule
… he will provide them one in America, making for them a way in the VVilderneſsWilderness, and Hewing them out an hiding Place through the Rocks, and in a Deſart …
John Collinges · The Weavers Pocket-Book · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will make with them a Covenant of Peace. And they that dwell in the VVildernessWilderness, shall sleep safely in the woods, and shall be in their own Land without …
With rule
… will make with them a Covenant of Peace. And they that dwell in the VVildernessWilderness, shall sleep safely in the woods, and shall be in their own Land without …
John Foxe · Of Free Justification by Christ · p. 509 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wilderneſs, that is, they went along, winding this way and that, through the VVilderneſsWilderness, to wit, of Moab; ſee the Note above, verſ. 1. Her branches are ſtretched out …
With rule
… the wilderneſs, that is, they went along, winding this way and that, through the VVilderneſsWilderness, to wit, of Moab; ſee the Note above, verſ. 1. Her branches are ſtretched out …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon Isaiah · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lam. 3.22. Though their offences were aggravated by their Obligations (making both Egypt and the VVilderneſsWilderness two Stages of aſtoniſhing wonders) yet, [he remembred they were but Fleſh,] frail and …
With rule
… Lam. 3.22. Though their offences were aggravated by their Obligations (making both Egypt and the VVilderneſsWilderness two Stages of aſtoniſhing wonders) yet, [he remembred they were but Fleſh,] frail and …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 465 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the purſuer. Thus it was while the Iſraelites were in their journey in the VVilderneſsWilderness, and lay in one intire body round about the Tabernacle; but when they came …
With rule
… the purſuer. Thus it was while the Iſraelites were in their journey in the VVilderneſsWilderness, and lay in one intire body round about the Tabernacle; but when they came …
Joseph Wilson · Abolishing of Things Abused to Superstition and Idolatry · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and did not know the ways of God, though their Carcaſes Fell in the VVilderneſsWilderness? and whether ſeeing the Miracles of Chriſt, and yet Rejecting him, They Crucified him …
With rule
… and did not know the ways of God, though their Carcaſes Fell in the VVilderneſsWilderness? and whether ſeeing the Miracles of Chriſt, and yet Rejecting him, They Crucified him …
Thomas Beverley · A Discourse Upon the Powers of the World to Come · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. The Lords Vindication and Acquittance of himself from all blame [Have I been a VVildernessWilderness, &c.] q. d. I have not been so unto them.
With rule
1. The Lords Vindication and Acquittance of himself from all blame [Have I been a VVildernessWilderness, &c.] q. d. I have not been so unto them.
Thomas Shepard Jr · Eye-Salve · p. 2 · 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.