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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #1140 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vntieuntie

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

Puritas changed it
81 times in 62 works
Consistency
98.7% (81 of 82)
Reach if approved
~86 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: untie
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
82 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (81 changes in 62 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 81)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and thirtieth verse, hee forbiddeth to anoint mans flesh with it? How shall wee vntieuntie this knot, saith Procopius, writing vpon that place, Priests must bee anointed with the …
    With rule
    … and thirtieth verse, hee forbiddeth to anoint mans flesh with it? How shall wee vntieuntie this knot, saith Procopius, writing vpon that place, Priests must bee anointed with the …

    George Downame · Two Sermons · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … with my Lord in point of argument, nor take vpon me the skill to vntieuntie ſo hard a knot as his bleſſed hand hath knit; therefore, with falling downe …
    With rule
    … with my Lord in point of argument, nor take vpon me the skill to vntieuntie ſo hard a knot as his bleſſed hand hath knit; therefore, with falling downe …

    Robert Horne · The History of the Woman of Great Faith · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … any wit, restraine him for euer comming into your church: If you can not vntieuntie this knot nor winde your selfe out of this maze, vnlesse you will be …
    With rule
    … any wit, restraine him for euer comming into your church: If you can not vntieuntie this knot nor winde your selfe out of this maze, vnlesse you will be …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … wherein is nothing but contumely and diſhonour? So, where God hath annexed honour, they vntieuntie it; where he hath bound, they vndoe. Which is not ſpoken to animate yong …
    With rule
    … wherein is nothing but contumely and diſhonour? So, where God hath annexed honour, they vntieuntie it; where he hath bound, they vndoe. Which is not ſpoken to animate yong …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … onely sicke and weake but euen starke dead; which cannot stirre though the keeper vntieuntie his boltes and chaines, nor heare though he sound a trumpet in his eare …
    With rule
    … onely sicke and weake but euen starke dead; which cannot stirre though the keeper vntieuntie his boltes and chaines, nor heare though he sound a trumpet in his eare …

    William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    But to returne to the obiection, and to vntieuntie the former knot; why then are we commanded or exhorted to do any thing …
    With rule
    But to returne to the obiection, and to vntieuntie the former knot; why then are we commanded or exhorted to do any thing …

    Thomas Stoughton · The Christians Sacrifice Better than all the Legal Sacrifices of Jews · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Should vntieuntie her shining haire,
    With rule
    Should vntieuntie her shining haire,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to baptize with the holy Ghoſte: whoſe ſhoe latchet I am not worthy to vntieuntie: for although I came before him, yet am I, no body, and it is …
    With rule
    … to baptize with the holy Ghoſte: whoſe ſhoe latchet I am not worthy to vntieuntie: for although I came before him, yet am I, no body, and it is …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.