Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12405 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnderstādunderstand

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

Puritas changed it: 831 times in 243 works
Consistency: 99.5% (831 of 835)
Reach if approved: ~878 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 836 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: vnderstād (4)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (831 changes in 243 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 831)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… case before, that agreeth with the verbe, & the sense, it is farre fetcht to vnderstādunderstand a nominatiue case of him, that is not spoken of. I will set downe …
With rule
… case before, that agreeth with the verbe, & the sense, it is farre fetcht to vnderstādunderstand a nominatiue case of him, that is not spoken of. I will set downe …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 488 · Open in the reader
Printed
… written in the law & the prophets. He openeth their vnderstā ding that they might vnderstādunderstand the scriptures, which contained the worde of God perfectly & sufficiently, although the same in …
With rule
… written in the law & the prophets. He openeth their vnderstā ding that they might vnderstādunderstand the scriptures, which contained the worde of God perfectly & sufficiently, although the same in …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brings mee in after his patched manner, certaine assertions (which himself doth not wel vnderstādunderstand neither) Som of the Frenchmen against the gouernment of women, some of th'anabaptists against …
With rule
… brings mee in after his patched manner, certaine assertions (which himself doth not wel vnderstādunderstand neither) Som of the Frenchmen against the gouernment of women, some of th'anabaptists against …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… probable, that God doth purposely adde, Do after my iudgements; as giuing therby to vnderstādunderstand, that his meaning in the former sentence was but to bar similitude in such …
With rule
… probable, that God doth purposely adde, Do after my iudgements; as giuing therby to vnderstādunderstand, that his meaning in the former sentence was but to bar similitude in such …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
Obiectiō BVt ſome wil obiect & ſay: albeit / we vnderſtādunderstand not what we do pray / ye God vnderſtādeth / who knoweth the ſecret of our …
With rule
Obiectiō BVt ſome wil obiect & ſay: albeit / we vnderſtādunderstand not what we do pray / ye God vnderſtādeth / who knoweth the ſecret of our …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · p. iij · Open in the reader
Printed
… shewe it perfectlye yet, I wyl do the best I can to make you vnderstādunderstand the greuouse panges that oure Sauyoure Chryste was in, whē he was in the …
With rule
… shewe it perfectlye yet, I wyl do the best I can to make you vnderstādunderstand the greuouse panges that oure Sauyoure Chryste was in, whē he was in the …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… many places in the hiſtori of the Goſpel, ther of it may be eaſeli vnderſtādunderstand, that faith ſhuld be publiſhed & exalted with prayſes, & his power & ſtrēgth ſhould be alwayes …
With rule
… many places in the hiſtori of the Goſpel, ther of it may be eaſeli vnderſtādunderstand, that faith ſhuld be publiſhed & exalted with prayſes, & his power & ſtrēgth ſhould be alwayes …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstādunderstand and seeke after god.
With rule
… heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstādunderstand and seeke after god.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 31 · 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.