Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13013 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnperfectimperfect

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

Puritas changed it: 675 times in 259 works
Consistency: 99.7% (675 of 677)
Reach if approved: ~759 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: unperfect
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 722 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (675 changes in 259 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 675)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Churches of God for men to hold it in that meaning; 7. and how vnperfectimperfect their interpretations are who so much labour to helpe it, eyther by diuiding commaundements …
With rule
… the Churches of God for men to hold it in that meaning; 7. and how vnperfectimperfect their interpretations are who so much labour to helpe it, eyther by diuiding commaundements …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
Further, the leaſt true faith, though it be vnperfectimperfect doth iuſtifie. It cannot then bee, that it doth this by its owne value …
With rule
Further, the leaſt true faith, though it be vnperfectimperfect doth iuſtifie. It cannot then bee, that it doth this by its owne value …
Paul Baynes · The Mirror or Miracle of Gods Love Unto the World of His Elect · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nor their Church Catholique: but to waue the Scriptures, and Fathers, and writers, as vnperfectimperfect, and yet to crie out with the father of lyes, All is mine: this …
With rule
… nor their Church Catholique: but to waue the Scriptures, and Fathers, and writers, as vnperfectimperfect, and yet to crie out with the father of lyes, All is mine: this …
Humphrey Lynde · The Safe Way Leading All Christians · p. 278 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are thorowly euyll: oure good workes are nat thorowly good, beynge bothe corrupte and vnperfectimperfect. Example. Dauyd hath many good workes, and yet he hath many vicious affections, as …
With rule
… are thorowly euyll: oure good workes are nat thorowly good, beynge bothe corrupte and vnperfectimperfect. Example. Dauyd hath many good workes, and yet he hath many vicious affections, as …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
A deſcription or an vnperfectimperfect ſetting forth of a thing, doeth ſet a thing forth by any other reaſon …
With rule
A deſcription or an vnperfectimperfect ſetting forth of a thing, doeth ſet a thing forth by any other reaſon …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… S. Paul in that speach includeth him selfe: Our knowledge & our prophecying &c. is vnperfectimperfect, whether we speake or write. And sayth, that he troweth I will not say …
With rule
… S. Paul in that speach includeth him selfe: Our knowledge & our prophecying &c. is vnperfectimperfect, whether we speake or write. And sayth, that he troweth I will not say …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but as all things done by men, euen the beſt, it ſhall be found vnperfectimperfect. He that will haue it to be no true worſhip of God, in which …
With rule
… but as all things done by men, euen the beſt, it ſhall be found vnperfectimperfect. He that will haue it to be no true worſhip of God, in which …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we stand not here vpon perfection of knowledge, which in the best Diuines is vnperfectimperfect: nor vpon the perfection of our perswasion which in all flesh is mingled with …
With rule
… we stand not here vpon perfection of knowledge, which in the best Diuines is vnperfectimperfect: nor vpon the perfection of our perswasion which in all flesh is mingled with …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 106 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.