Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8048 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wannewan

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 117 times in 72 works
Consistency: 100% (117 of 117)
Reach if approved: ~123 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: won
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 117 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (117 changes in 72 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 117)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
When in one weeke of ſickneſſe wannewan,
With rule
When in one weeke of ſickneſſe wannewan,
John Wilson · A Song · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… carriage he wan her into a houſe, and then by ſtrength mixed with perſwaſion, wannewan her to his will. And in him you ſee the right progreſſe of this …
With rule
… carriage he wan her into a houſe, and then by ſtrength mixed with perſwaſion, wannewan her to his will. And in him you ſee the right progreſſe of this …
William Whately · Prototypes · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the life was gone out of it, and ſo it looked pale and wannewan; it had alſo many deformites by the ſtripes of his whippings, and the crowne …
With rule
… that the life was gone out of it, and ſo it looked pale and wannewan; it had alſo many deformites by the ſtripes of his whippings, and the crowne …
Nicholas Bownd · The Unbelief of Tomas the Apostle · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… purging out of her drosse, and renuing of her first loue: Whereby, as she wannewan vnto her the hearts of her enemies; so by this means she gained great …
With rule
… purging out of her drosse, and renuing of her first loue: Whereby, as she wannewan vnto her the hearts of her enemies; so by this means she gained great …
Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much stronger then the King of the South, even touching Judea. For though Ptolomie wannewan it from Laomedon, and after recovered it from Antigonus, yet in the last conquest …
With rule
… much stronger then the King of the South, even touching Judea. For though Ptolomie wannewan it from Laomedon, and after recovered it from Antigonus, yet in the last conquest …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gaſcoynes and to kepe them at home whyle in the meane time the Spanyardes wannewan Nauerne. When Nauerne was wonne our men came to houſe, as many as dyed …
With rule
… Gaſcoynes and to kepe them at home whyle in the meane time the Spanyardes wannewan Nauerne. When Nauerne was wonne our men came to houſe, as many as dyed …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 369 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aske not much: they thrust out no inheretours: it was but a mite that wannewan the poore widowe that prayse, a cuppe of cold water, where more abilitie wanteth …
With rule
… aske not much: they thrust out no inheretours: it was but a mite that wannewan the poore widowe that prayse, a cuppe of cold water, where more abilitie wanteth …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… people, and wannewan Cilicia, Cappadocia, Meſopotamia, Cyprus, &c. Vnder Homan their next king, they wannewan Affrica and Babylon, and ſo to the number of one and twenty more, ſucceſſiuely …
With rule
… people, and wannewan Cilicia, Cappadocia, Meſopotamia, Cyprus, &c. Vnder Homan their next king, they wannewan Affrica and Babylon, and ſo to the number of one and twenty more, ſucceſſiuely …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 353 · 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.