Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11548 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnknowenunknown

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 908 times in 274 works
Consistency: 99.6% (908 of 911)
Reach if approved: ~957 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unknown
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 911 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (908 changes in 274 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 908)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſhoulde beleue the church was loſt: whether they ſhoulde beleue the church that was vnknowenunknown to them, &c. But if your demande haue any ſenſe in it: This is …
With rule
… ſhoulde beleue the church was loſt: whether they ſhoulde beleue the church that was vnknowenunknown to them, &c. But if your demande haue any ſenſe in it: This is …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 After the plentnous description of the true church of Christe, which is vnknowenunknown to the worlde (for the glorious doughter of the eternall Kinge, is from within …
With rule
1 After the plentnous description of the true church of Christe, which is vnknowenunknown to the worlde (for the glorious doughter of the eternall Kinge, is from within …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtrange places found a ſtraunge goodnes of God for their prouiſion, which is not vnknowenunknown vnto you. Ierome expoundeth a prouerb among the Hebrues: In monte dominus videbit. i …
With rule
… ſtrange places found a ſtraunge goodnes of God for their prouiſion, which is not vnknowenunknown vnto you. Ierome expoundeth a prouerb among the Hebrues: In monte dominus videbit. i …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men / in ſo moch that all men ſynned. Dearly beloweth bretherne it is not vnknowenunknown to you / the ſer…tute the bondage / ād the …hialdom where vnder we were …
With rule
… men / in ſo moch that all men ſynned. Dearly beloweth bretherne it is not vnknowenunknown to you / the ſer…tute the bondage / ād the …hialdom where vnder we were …
John Johnsone · An Comfortable Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… burdens and .ii. heapes of synnes. One hepe of knowen sinnes, an other of vnknowenunknown synnes. I hade nede to say. Aboccultis meis mūdame domine O Lorde deliuer me …
With rule
… burdens and .ii. heapes of synnes. One hepe of knowen sinnes, an other of vnknowenunknown synnes. I hade nede to say. Aboccultis meis mūdame domine O Lorde deliuer me …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… I knowe that this worke is lytell made of / yea it is all vtterly vnknowenunknown / therfore lette vs loke vpon it more dylygently, content to haue ſayde, that this …
With rule
… I knowe that this worke is lytell made of / yea it is all vtterly vnknowenunknown / therfore lette vs loke vpon it more dylygently, content to haue ſayde, that this …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… least, that I may now first heare you, and, now first, trye you, as vnknowenunknown before. I think it bee an equitable thing which I crave, observing, foresooth, this …
With rule
… least, that I may now first heare you, and, now first, trye you, as vnknowenunknown before. I think it bee an equitable thing which I crave, observing, foresooth, this …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vp into the earth, which perchaunce runne into the sea by some secret and vnknowenunknown channels, some ryuers there be, that hide their heddes vnder the earth, and in …
With rule
… vp into the earth, which perchaunce runne into the sea by some secret and vnknowenunknown channels, some ryuers there be, that hide their heddes vnder the earth, and in …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Brutish Thunderbolt A03718

Printed
VnknowenUnknown with knowen ſhe equall makes,
With rule
VnknowenUnknown with knowen ſhe equall makes,
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 105 · Open in the reader

The Wonderful Workmanship of the World A19803

Printed
… vnto ſuche queſtions as are demaunded touching God, and his infinite mercie towardes mankinde. VnknowenUnknown things are vndeſired, as the old Prouerbe ſaieth. Wherefore, whenas the Hiſtorie of the …
With rule
… vnto ſuche queſtions as are demaunded touching God, and his infinite mercie towardes mankinde. VnknowenUnknown things are vndeſired, as the old Prouerbe ſaieth. Wherefore, whenas the Hiſtorie of the …
Lambert Daneau · The Wonderful Workmanship of the World · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs A20796

Printed
VnknowenUnknown, vnkist.
With rule
VnknowenUnknown, vnkist.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 99 · Open in the reader