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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #15058 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnbeleeuingunbelieving

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

Puritas changed it
624 times in 259 works
Consistency
99.5% (624 of 627)
Reach if approved
~659 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unbelieving
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
627 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (624 changes in 259 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 624)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the children of disobedience: be not therefore companions with them. But the fearefull and vnbeleeuingunbelieving, and the abhominable, and murtherers, and whooremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyers …
    With rule
    … the children of disobedience: be not therefore companions with them. But the fearefull and vnbeleeuingunbelieving, and the abhominable, and murtherers, and whooremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyers …

    David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 540 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … I hope to the glory of God. Scoffing Ismaelites, mocking Esa…itz, maleuolent Iebusits, vnbeleeuingunbelieving Atheists, and profane Achrists vsually take offence at the plainenesse of such texts; but …
    With rule
    … I hope to the glory of God. Scoffing Ismaelites, mocking Esa…itz, maleuolent Iebusits, vnbeleeuingunbelieving Atheists, and profane Achrists vsually take offence at the plainenesse of such texts; but …

    William Loe · The Kings Shoe · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … If we ſhall ſo lead our liues, that our liues ſhall be to the vnbeleeuingunbelieving Atheiſt, and blinde Papiſt, a horrour and a ſcandall, ſhall they not both, Atheiſt …
    With rule
    … If we ſhall ſo lead our liues, that our liues ſhall be to the vnbeleeuingunbelieving Atheiſt, and blinde Papiſt, a horrour and a ſcandall, ſhall they not both, Atheiſt …

    Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thereof: and which is more, ouer the prince of the world himſelfe. Aſſuring our vnbeleeuingunbelieving hartes, of his loue towardes vs, ſhewing how mightie his ſpirite was in the …
    With rule
    … thereof: and which is more, ouer the prince of the world himſelfe. Aſſuring our vnbeleeuingunbelieving hartes, of his loue towardes vs, ſhewing how mightie his ſpirite was in the …

    John Penry · Equity of a Humble Supplication · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to the remnaunt I ſaye, and not the Lorde, if …ay brother haue an vnbeleeuingunbelieving wife, and ſhe be contente to dwell with him, lette him not not forſake …
    With rule
    … to the remnaunt I ſaye, and not the Lorde, if …ay brother haue an vnbeleeuingunbelieving wife, and ſhe be contente to dwell with him, lette him not not forſake …

    Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … are meats said to be sanctified by Gods word for mans food; and the vnbeleeuingunbelieving Mate sanctified to the maried beleeuer▪
    With rule
    … are meats said to be sanctified by Gods word for mans food; and the vnbeleeuingunbelieving Mate sanctified to the maried beleeuer▪

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 220 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Conuert, ô Lord, and ſtrengthen my vnbeleeuingunbelieving, fearefull, and diſtruſtfull heart, that truſting in thee the liuing God, and relying wholly …
    With rule
    Conuert, ô Lord, and ſtrengthen my vnbeleeuingunbelieving, fearefull, and diſtruſtfull heart, that truſting in thee the liuing God, and relying wholly …

    Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … exhorteth all the faithfull that liued among the Gentiles, and Christian women that had vnbeleeuingunbelieving husbands to doe, 1. Pet. 2. 12. and 3. 1.
    With rule
    … exhorteth all the faithfull that liued among the Gentiles, and Christian women that had vnbeleeuingunbelieving husbands to doe, 1. Pet. 2. 12. and 3. 1.

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 431 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God A16338

  • Printed
    … thy selfe vnder falsehood. And why? because Gods Word saith, that the Fearefull, and VnbeleeuingUnbelieving, and the Abominable, and Murtherers, and Whoremongers, and S…rcerers, and Idolaters, and all …
    With rule
    … thy selfe vnder falsehood. And why? because Gods Word saith, that the Fearefull, and VnbeleeuingUnbelieving, and the Abominable, and Murtherers, and Whoremongers, and S…rcerers, and Idolaters, and all …

    Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 329 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

  • Printed
    VnbeleeuingUnbelieving Iewes.
    With rule
    VnbeleeuingUnbelieving Iewes.

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 420 · Open in the reader