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vncertaintiesuncertainties

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

Puritas changed it
98 times in 71 works
Consistency
93.3% (98 of 105)
Reach if approved
~110 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: uncertainties
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
105 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (98 changes in 71 works, 93.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 98)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be for vs, ſtill to lie ſlugging in the dumpes of our doubtings and vncertaintiesuncertainties? why ſhould we not now take heart to our ſelues, and lay faſt hold …
    With rule
    … be for vs, ſtill to lie ſlugging in the dumpes of our doubtings and vncertaintiesuncertainties? why ſhould we not now take heart to our ſelues, and lay faſt hold …

    John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … man chearefully in the race of Chriſtianity, when he knowes he runnes not at vncertaintiesuncertainties. And it dulls the affection in well-doing, while we are ignorant, or doubtfull …
    With rule
    … man chearefully in the race of Chriſtianity, when he knowes he runnes not at vncertaintiesuncertainties. And it dulls the affection in well-doing, while we are ignorant, or doubtfull …

    William Sclater · Threefold Preservative Against Three Dangerous Diseases · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … p. 13. much more may that religion be doubted of, which is so full of vncertaintiesuncertainties, &c.
    With rule
    … p. 13. much more may that religion be doubted of, which is so full of vncertaintiesuncertainties, &c.

    Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … therefore hee stickes, as it were in the bone and barke, in generalities, and vncertaintiesuncertainties: but in the child of God, the sacred illustration of Gods spirit doth plentifully …
    With rule
    … therefore hee stickes, as it were in the bone and barke, in generalities, and vncertaintiesuncertainties: but in the child of God, the sacred illustration of Gods spirit doth plentifully …

    Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … manner the ſame was performed, nor when▪ We do not leane vpon any doubtfull vncertaintiesuncertainties, as you would Rhetorically declare, if ye knew how▪ neither do we take the …
    With rule
    … manner the ſame was performed, nor when▪ We do not leane vpon any doubtfull vncertaintiesuncertainties, as you would Rhetorically declare, if ye knew how▪ neither do we take the …

    John Darrell · Reply to John Deacon · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … priesthood, whether it were rightly obtained, or vnlawfully purchased. Wherfore, Tho. Salisburiensis vpon these vncertaintiesuncertainties giueth this friendly counsel to worship vpon condition, that euerie dutie and things required …
    With rule
    … priesthood, whether it were rightly obtained, or vnlawfully purchased. Wherfore, Tho. Salisburiensis vpon these vncertaintiesuncertainties giueth this friendly counsel to worship vpon condition, that euerie dutie and things required …

    William Attersoll · The Badges of Christianity · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to be ſetled in the aſſurance of his fauour, and not to wauer in vncertaintiesuncertainties to our great diſcomfort. The ſtrait charge he hath laid vpon vs to belieue …
    With rule
    … to be ſetled in the aſſurance of his fauour, and not to wauer in vncertaintiesuncertainties to our great diſcomfort. The ſtrait charge he hath laid vpon vs to belieue …

    John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 172 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … muſt time it as we may, and bee content to liue and die at vncertaintiesuncertainties.
    With rule
    … muſt time it as we may, and bee content to liue and die at vncertaintiesuncertainties.

    Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 101 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Christians Bulwark A17299

  • Printed
    … I haue tyred the Reader by leading him through the many windings of Pontifician VncertaintiesUncertainties, which like an ignis fatuus, may easily diuert the Traueller from his plaine path …
    With rule
    … I haue tyred the Reader by leading him through the many windings of Pontifician VncertaintiesUncertainties, which like an ignis fatuus, may easily diuert the Traueller from his plaine path …

    Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 249 · Open in the reader

Truths Triumph Over Trent A17308

  • Printed
    … I haue tyred the Reader by leading him through the many windings of Pontifician VncertaintiesUncertainties, which like an ignis fatuus, may easily diuert the Traueller from his plaine path …
    With rule
    … I haue tyred the Reader by leading him through the many windings of Pontifician VncertaintiesUncertainties, which like an ignis fatuus, may easily diuert the Traueller from his plaine path …

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 249 · Open in the reader