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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19605 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnletteredunlettered

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

Puritas changed it
81 times in 60 works
Consistency
100% (81 of 81)
Reach if approved
~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unlettered
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (81 changes in 60 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 81)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … purpose, especially because deep knowledge of points belongs not but to Diuines; for an vnletteredunlettered and priuate man a little knowledge is best. Here is a tempter come: though …
    With rule
    … purpose, especially because deep knowledge of points belongs not but to Diuines; for an vnletteredunlettered and priuate man a little knowledge is best. Here is a tempter come: though …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    2 An vnletteredunlettered and ignorant man. Rom. 1, 14. A debter to the wise and Unwise.
    With rule
    2 An vnletteredunlettered and ignorant man. Rom. 1, 14. A debter to the wise and Unwise.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 513 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and their order aboue the heauen of heauens, they haue a rule that the vnletteredunlettered among them ſhoulde not care to learne letters. But the Ieſuites, they profeſſe and …
    With rule
    … and their order aboue the heauen of heauens, they haue a rule that the vnletteredunlettered among them ſhoulde not care to learne letters. But the Ieſuites, they profeſſe and …

    William Charke · An Answer to a Seditious Pamphlet · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in a few ſcattered leaues, and as rudely compoſed in a ſort of ſcribled & vnletteredunlettered lines, the out ward haske whereof, although it be farre vnlike the lordly gift …
    With rule
    … in a few ſcattered leaues, and as rudely compoſed in a ſort of ſcribled & vnletteredunlettered lines, the out ward haske whereof, although it be farre vnlike the lordly gift …

    John Andrewes · Christs Cross · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is recorded, were from the Fiſher-boat, this from the Tole booth; They were vnletteredunlettered, this infamous; The condition was not in it ſelfe ſinfull, but as the taxes …
    With rule
    … is recorded, were from the Fiſher-boat, this from the Tole booth; They were vnletteredunlettered, this infamous; The condition was not in it ſelfe ſinfull, but as the taxes …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … times welcome vnto them, but as for their letters (foraſmuch as they were men vnletteredunlettered, and onely brought vp in feats of warre) therfore cared they not for ſéeing …
    With rule
    … times welcome vnto them, but as for their letters (foraſmuch as they were men vnletteredunlettered, and onely brought vp in feats of warre) therfore cared they not for ſéeing …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 249 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … howe it shuld happen, that men, I wyll not call them. lerned, but rude & vnletteredunlettered, which shuld haue but only a crum of humane reason and witte, shuld be …
    With rule
    … howe it shuld happen, that men, I wyll not call them. lerned, but rude & vnletteredunlettered, which shuld haue but only a crum of humane reason and witte, shuld be …

    Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Wherein, for the vtility and profite of manie, as wel the learned as the vnletteredunlettered who haue not the vnderſtanding of the French tongue, I did the more willingly …
    With rule
    Wherein, for the vtility and profite of manie, as wel the learned as the vnletteredunlettered who haue not the vnderſtanding of the French tongue, I did the more willingly …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · 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.