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vnableunable

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

Puritas changed it
1,366 times in 486 works
Consistency
99.0% (1,366 of 1,379)
Reach if approved
~1,449 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unable
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,379 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,366 changes in 486 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,366)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the diuell to hell, and in the night of his age, when he is vnableunable, that hee may returne easily from Sathans hold, and the slymie pits of sin …
    With rule
    … the diuell to hell, and in the night of his age, when he is vnableunable, that hee may returne easily from Sathans hold, and the slymie pits of sin …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … stand neyther by them nor by vs. We are but feeble and windshaken pillers vnableunable to vnderprop and beare such a waight, & therfore how so euer they build theyr …
    With rule
    … stand neyther by them nor by vs. We are but feeble and windshaken pillers vnableunable to vnderprop and beare such a waight, & therfore how so euer they build theyr …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … I know) you expect not: ſure I am, I for my part am very vnableunable to beſtow. But (as S. Peter ſaid to the cripple at the temple gate …
    With rule
    … I know) you expect not: ſure I am, I for my part am very vnableunable to beſtow. But (as S. Peter ſaid to the cripple at the temple gate …

    Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vnto him, set downe in the Conference. In which, because M. Fisher found himself vnableunable to deal with Doctor White, therefore he makes bold to borrow a point of …
    With rule
    … vnto him, set downe in the Conference. In which, because M. Fisher found himself vnableunable to deal with Doctor White, therefore he makes bold to borrow a point of …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of himselfe determine any certainty. Likewyse Gabriel Biel sticking fast in the same quauemyre vnableunable too vnwelde him selfe cleane from out the same, is faine at the length …
    With rule
    … of himselfe determine any certainty. Likewyse Gabriel Biel sticking fast in the same quauemyre vnableunable too vnwelde him selfe cleane from out the same, is faine at the length …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … for the Sheepe, it is one of the silliest creatures that is, and most vnableunable to defend it selfe: neither is it vnknowne to vs (to spare to speak …
    With rule
    … for the Sheepe, it is one of the silliest creatures that is, and most vnableunable to defend it selfe: neither is it vnknowne to vs (to spare to speak …

    Thomas Gataker · An Anniversary Memorial · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … moreouer vertue with your faith, &c. Saint Peter knoweth what babes we be, how vnableunable to guide our ſteppes in the pathes of godlines, and that maketh him not …
    With rule
    … moreouer vertue with your faith, &c. Saint Peter knoweth what babes we be, how vnableunable to guide our ſteppes in the pathes of godlines, and that maketh him not …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons Upon the Seven Chief Virtues · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … placed Starre in the Firmament, that giues no light. Whether they be idle, or vnableunable, like Aesop's Henne, too fatte to lay; they are but a burden to our …
    With rule
    … placed Starre in the Firmament, that giues no light. Whether they be idle, or vnableunable, like Aesop's Henne, too fatte to lay; they are but a burden to our …

    Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 15 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

  • Printed
    VnableUnable any good things to endure:
    With rule
    VnableUnable any good things to endure:

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader