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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #1097 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnderlingsunderlings

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
129 times in 64 works
Consistency
97.7% (129 of 132)
Reach if approved
~139 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: underlings
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
132 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (129 changes in 64 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 129)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … they were their inferiors, and proudly insulting ouer their inferiours as abiects, and base vnderlingsunderlings. And as waterish humours abounding in the bodie doe cause a dropsie, which swelleth …
    With rule
    … they were their inferiors, and proudly insulting ouer their inferiours as abiects, and base vnderlingsunderlings. And as waterish humours abounding in the bodie doe cause a dropsie, which swelleth …

    John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · p. 708 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Vertue without Fortune is like a King that hath a sure Counsell, though his vnderlingsunderlings be rebellious; Hee is able to keepe him in guard, though abroad there be …
    With rule
    Vertue without Fortune is like a King that hath a sure Counsell, though his vnderlingsunderlings be rebellious; Hee is able to keepe him in guard, though abroad there be …

    William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … committing his Church vnto the government of the same, as cā be by meane vnderlingsunderlings vnto a king in committing his beloved spouse vnto the direction of the Mistres …
    With rule
    … committing his Church vnto the government of the same, as cā be by meane vnderlingsunderlings vnto a king in committing his beloved spouse vnto the direction of the Mistres …

    Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … poore, and the meaner sort of men, who are appointed by God to be vnderlingsunderlings in this world: Seeke they fauour here and finde it not? worke they here …
    With rule
    … poore, and the meaner sort of men, who are appointed by God to be vnderlingsunderlings in this world: Seeke they fauour here and finde it not? worke they here …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Lawes, and strike more awe into the people, than the punishment of an hundred vnderlingsunderlings and inferiour persons.
    With rule
    … Lawes, and strike more awe into the people, than the punishment of an hundred vnderlingsunderlings and inferiour persons.

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … sure) did mean no better at al vnto them, but to keep them as vnderlingsunderlings stil: the other, that therefore it was not for thē any lōger to be …
    With rule
    … sure) did mean no better at al vnto them, but to keep them as vnderlingsunderlings stil: the other, that therefore it was not for thē any lōger to be …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    In old World, Monkes were vnderlingsunderlings to Abbots: euen then when Abbots were vnderlingsunderlings to doore-keepers. But now Monkes haue gotten the precedency of moſt of the …
    With rule
    In old World, Monkes were vnderlingsunderlings to Abbots: euen then when Abbots were vnderlingsunderlings to doore-keepers. But now Monkes haue gotten the precedency of moſt of the …

    Alexander Cooke · The Weather Cock of Romes Religion · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … like workes, is not so admirable, as in the poore and seruile offices of vnderlingsunderlings, as in keeping of sheepe, sweeping the house, &c. 2. Art thou troubled at the …
    With rule
    … like workes, is not so admirable, as in the poore and seruile offices of vnderlingsunderlings, as in keeping of sheepe, sweeping the house, &c. 2. Art thou troubled at the …

    Daniel Dyke · The Mystery of Self-Deceiving · p. 421 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.