/vn(\p{L}+)/un$1
initial vn- as un-
- Matches
- Word pattern (regex)
- Case
- Any case; keeps the original's capitals
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- Puritan
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Rationale
In early modern print v and u are one letter in two shapes: v at the start of a word, u inside it, whichever sound is meant. This covers every word beginning vn- (vntill, vnderstand, vnworthy). Broad: before approving, read the sample for Latin and proper names.
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About 30,129 places across the Puritan corpus, estimated: 30,129 in a random sample of 70 of 7,722 works.
Drawn Oct 19, 2026, 6:08 PM against rule-set version 36 · 2 samples drawn · no exact count yet (the overnight batch count is not built). Shown in original spelling.
Overlaps with rules already in force: rule #1, rule #4. Where they match the same words, the earlier rule (or the longer phrase) wins and this one changes nothing there; those places are struck through below.
…haue preached, we should hold him accursed: And incited there vntounto by some of the Fathers themselues in open wordes, by other in their…
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 418 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…where no marriages ſhall be. But ſomtime perhaps a man ſcapeth vnpuniſhedunpunished, or elſe adulteries committed are not openlie knowne; what then…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 479 · Open in the reader
…ones, & offer them ſelues to die for the ſafetie of them. Hereby we vnderſtandunderstand, what miſerable gods the idolaters haue worſhipped; whom they would…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 360 · Open in the reader
…without inuitation from the Text, fall into bitter inuectiues, and vndecentundecent rayling speeches, against the persons of either Papist or Puritan,…
Archbishop George Abbot · Kings Letter to the Lords of Canterbury Touching Preaching and Preachers · p. 3 · Open in the reader
An anſwer vntounto reaſons on the contrarie part.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 435 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…will answer as Ioseph did to his brethren; Looke me not in the face, vnlesseunlesse thy brother bee with thee. Shall the father thinke wel of that…
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 74 · Open in the reader
…gift. And I am out of doubt, that the apoſtles gaue more epiſtles vntounto the churches, than we haue in theſe daies. And I am thoroughlie…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 52 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
1. The VniverſalityUniversality of Gods mercy without difference of perſons; that admits all ſorts…
Thomas Adams · Commentary on 2 Peter · p. 20 · Open in the reader
…touching the ſame is perpetuall, 69.a,b, 73.b, Whether is were vniuerſalluniuersall, 71.a, For whom it is lawfull, and not lawfull, 77.a,b, 78,a,…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…ſhuld they doo, whoſe dutie is alwaies to applie themſelues both vntounto praiers, and to the adminiſtration of the ſacraments? I anſwer:…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 193 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye haue done it vntounto me. The miseries of my brethren are my own miseries. Wee haue an…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 129 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
Againſt the Stoikes … or vnſenſiblesunsensibles of Paſſions. [1] 152.b 163b, 166.b, [2] 405.ab, 408.a, [3] 296.…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…of man being fallen. Moreouer, if theſe things be referred vntounto the regenerate, we may ſaie, that the ſaieng of Ierom hath a reſpect…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 274 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
By him they all shall worke vntounto our good.
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 103 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…choiſe, whereby a man determineth to become rich, though it be by vniuſtuniust meanes. And the deſire of ſlaughter is not againſt the choiſe, which…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 294 · Open in the reader
…1 word⟧, that is to ſaie, powers of the ſpirit to puniſh the vngodlieungodlie.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 155 · Open in the reader
…of the inclination to allurements of this world, is a thing proper vntounto our will being now corrupted, not as it was inſtituted by God.…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 187 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…his body, had in the traine of Alasco the Polish Duke, seene our VniversityUniversity in the yeare 1583. his hart was on fire, to make himselfe by some…
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 88 · Open in the reader
…Gods expresse charge? Hee answers all, vvhen he leaues their house vntounto them desolate. I hope I may take a little, sayes ⟦GAP:illegible; 1+…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 232 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…Baker: who ceaseth from raising, after he hath kneaded the Dough, vntilluntill it be leauened. They haue made ready their heart, like an Ouen,…
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 118 · Open in the reader
…the commandements, haue left this commandement; Thou ſhalt not luſt, vndiuidedundiuided, and haue diuided the firſt precept into two parts. So that in the…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 553 · Open in the reader
…Chriſt moſt plainlie ſheweth, that the eating of his bodie muſt be vnderſtoodunderstood ſpirituallie: for he ſaid, that his words are ſpirit and life. And…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 211 · Open in the reader
…helpeth you but little, ſéeing Epiphanius cannot otherwiſe be vnderſtoodunderstood, but as I haue declared. For it is manifeſtlie ſaid; that the Lord…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 186 · Open in the reader
But if we ſhould fullie grant this vntounto Pighius, that that faith, whereof Paule ſpeaketh, is the generall…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 133 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…in his ſinne. They that in ſuch wiſe ſuffer reproches, giue ſtomach vntounto the wicked, that they dare do greater things, & to perſeuere in…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 530 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…purgatorie, which they would wreſt out of this place, can be common vntounto all men? Vnleſſe perhaps they will place the ſame in the aire, and…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 243 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
Yet as their sinne was bad enough, let not our vncharitablenesseuncharitablenesse make it worse. Let vs not thinke them so vnreasonable, as to thinke…
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 25 · Open in the reader
…procéed, and ſpeake of thoſe lords or magiſtrates, which are ſubiect vntounto the power of ſuperiours. Theſe ſéeme on this maner to be diuided:…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 326 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…vile. And thus we muſt beware of this heinous crime, that we through vnpatienceunpatience doo not tempt GOD: for by ſuch meanes men either beléeue him not, to…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 332 · Open in the reader
All creatures doo ſeruice vntounto Chriſt. Luke. 2, 9. Matth. 2, 2. Matt. 27, 51. Mar. 15, 33. Matt.…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 252 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
1. They are well gotten: for God is not the Patron of vniustuniust gaines. He can blesse a man well enough without the help of the…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 256 · Open in the reader
…And in times paſt there appeared in heauen the ſigne of the croſſe vntounto Conſtantine the great, and an inſcription was added; In this ſigne…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 349 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…and to stand before the Lord, which is expounded there, to minister vntounto him and to blesse in his name to this day. So as the Lord God of…
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 40 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…like a Rome-harted Protestant, hides this Deuillish Seminary vnderunder his roofe without suspicion. To say truth, most of our professions…
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 36 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #4
…vs see the kind loue of the Popish Clergie to their people, and how vnfainedlyunfainedly they desire their going to Heauen; when they pluck out their eyes, &…
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 286 · Open in the reader
VnderſtandingUnderstanding.
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader
…found. Wee see here two Brethren borne togeather (it is most likely) vnderunder the raigne of one Planet or Constellation; yet as different in…
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 65 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #4
…the Church, & the Church a Temple of God. The materiall Temple vnderunder the Law was a figure of the spirituall vnder the Gospell. The former…
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 38 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #4
…yet it may be doubted, whether they praie for vs. For it may ſuffice vntounto that charitie, that both they wiſh well and will well vnto vs. For…
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 308 · Open in the reader · taken first by rule #1
…daily. And although the Apoſtle vſeth the praeterit time, wherby he vnderſtandethunderstandeth the true beginning of this worke: yet ſo long as wee liue, the…
John Abernethy · The Dignity and Duty of a Christian · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Exceptions
None. Where the rule is wrong in one place, except it there (“Not here”) from a sampled match above or from the word in the reader; where a book's printer used the form on purpose, except the whole book.
Timeline
- Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PMversion 13
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