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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6152 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvrestingwresting

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

Puritas changed it
8 times in 7 works
Consistency
100% (8 of 8)
Reach if approved
~8 places (estimated)
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Agrees: wresting
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
8 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8 changes in 7 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … holy, good & honeſt thīgs, peruerting alſo things vvel ſpoken into a peruerſt meaning, and vvreſtingwresting things after their levvd affections, that are ſingly and plainly vttered. They shalbe vvanton …
    With rule
    … holy, good & honeſt thīgs, peruerting alſo things vvel ſpoken into a peruerſt meaning, and vvreſtingwresting things after their levvd affections, that are ſingly and plainly vttered. They shalbe vvanton …

    Henrich Bullinger · Of the End of the World and Judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … into anie tongue; omitting no letter of aduantage, for the clearnes of Chrsſtianitie; nor vvreſtingwresting anie vvhit; that a Ievv might ſay I vvas partial in a Grammer cauſe …
    With rule
    … into anie tongue; omitting no letter of aduantage, for the clearnes of Chrsſtianitie; nor vvreſtingwresting anie vvhit; that a Ievv might ſay I vvas partial in a Grammer cauſe …

    Hugh Broughton · Our Lords Family · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … if God assist him. I hope I say, not vvith standing the violent & iniurious vvrestingwresting of his labours out of his hands, the Lord in his good time vvill …
    With rule
    … if God assist him. I hope I say, not vvith standing the violent & iniurious vvrestingwresting of his labours out of his hands, the Lord in his good time vvill …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as an illegittimate Birth; why vrge they vs then, with the secōd after-birth? vvrestingwresting their speaches, farre agaynst the mynde of the Fathers▪ for their new-conceited Purgatorie …
    With rule
    … as an illegittimate Birth; why vrge they vs then, with the secōd after-birth? vvrestingwresting their speaches, farre agaynst the mynde of the Fathers▪ for their new-conceited Purgatorie …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 204 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    3. Thirdly, I vvould deſier the Reader to obſerve, the vvreſtingwresting and miſaplying of certen places of ſcripture, vvhich (partly in this Treatiſe, and alſo …
    With rule
    3. Thirdly, I vvould deſier the Reader to obſerve, the vvreſtingwresting and miſaplying of certen places of ſcripture, vvhich (partly in this Treatiſe, and alſo …

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

  6. Printed
    … the means of holding our faith: vvhich follovv. Theſe are his more violent practiſes; vvreſtingwresting of our faith from vs: novv his more ſubtill ſleights are, his making vs …
    With rule
    … the means of holding our faith: vvhich follovv. Theſe are his more violent practiſes; vvreſtingwresting of our faith from vs: novv his more ſubtill ſleights are, his making vs …

    Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of the body, looking in thorovv the ſhaddovv to the body. This is no vvreſtingwresting of the Scripture. But novv, ſeeing all Types are avvay, it is good reaſon …
    With rule
    … of the body, looking in thorovv the ſhaddovv to the body. This is no vvreſtingwresting of the Scripture. But novv, ſeeing all Types are avvay, it is good reaſon …

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … His bones. And vve muſt not thinke, Brethren, that this is any vvrying and vvreſtingwresting of the old Scripture by the ovvne ſenſe, becauſe the ſame Scripture vvhich ſpake …
    With rule
    … His bones. And vve muſt not thinke, Brethren, that this is any vvrying and vvreſtingwresting of the old Scripture by the ovvne ſenſe, becauſe the ſame Scripture vvhich ſpake …

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 235 · 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.