Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6153 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvretchwretch

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

Puritas changed it: 21 times in 18 works
Consistency: 100% (21 of 21)
Reach if approved: ~22 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wretch
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 18 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 21)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But if the VVretchWretch, (De Alva's) bloudy Bill
With rule
But if the VVretchWretch, (De Alva's) bloudy Bill
Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſtruction for having been ſo cruel to this poor man: This proud and ſcornful VVretchWretch, whom with his flaming eyes he ſaw at reſt whilſt he was in his …
With rule
… deſtruction for having been ſo cruel to this poor man: This proud and ſcornful VVretchWretch, whom with his flaming eyes he ſaw at reſt whilſt he was in his …
Timothy Rogers · Trouble of the Mind and the Disease of Melancholy · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvould have been more furious and mad after the revvard, then vvas that vvicked vvretchwretch, and vvould have thought himſelf more brutish then the aſſe, to hearken to vvhat …
With rule
… vvould have been more furious and mad after the revvard, then vvas that vvicked vvretchwretch, and vvould have thought himſelf more brutish then the aſſe, to hearken to vvhat …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they ſee themſelues as it were in the priſon and bondage of ſinne. VVretchWretch that I am, ſayeth Sainct Paule. And ſayeth hee ſo bycauſe hee is impacient …
With rule
… that they ſee themſelues as it were in the priſon and bondage of ſinne. VVretchWretch that I am, ſayeth Sainct Paule. And ſayeth hee ſo bycauſe hee is impacient …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dreamed of dying himſelfe, nor of the decaying of his tranſitorie ſubſtance, & yet poore vvretchwretch it vvas told him, that to morrovv he ſhould dye: if vvee could therefore …
With rule
… dreamed of dying himſelfe, nor of the decaying of his tranſitorie ſubſtance, & yet poore vvretchwretch it vvas told him, that to morrovv he ſhould dye: if vvee could therefore …
John Forbes · Preparative Sermon to the Lords Table · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in y^e Popes court sayinge Veni miser in iudiciū dei, that is Come thou vvretchwretch to be iudged of God. And that the Pope was found deade in his …
With rule
… in y^e Popes court sayinge Veni miser in iudiciū dei, that is Come thou vvretchwretch to be iudged of God. And that the Pope was found deade in his …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… the bottom therof protest, ſo ſinful, baſe, contemptible, and euery vvay ſo vveak a vvretchwretch as J am, to be the vnfittest instrument vnder heauen, to deale in ſo …
With rule
… the bottom therof protest, ſo ſinful, baſe, contemptible, and euery vvay ſo vveak a vvretchwretch as J am, to be the vnfittest instrument vnder heauen, to deale in ſo …
John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · Open in the reader
Printed
O vvretchwretch that I am, who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death?] Whē …
With rule
O vvretchwretch that I am, who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death?] Whē …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 176 · 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.