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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2080 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unknowneunknown

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
1,077 times in 413 works
Consistency
99.3% (1,077 of 1,084)
Reach if approved
~1,139 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unknown
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,084 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,077 changes in 413 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,077)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … from the old, ſo it hath new, and different Articles and doctrines of Faith, unknowneunknown to the old Church, and not to be found for ſuch, in the writings …
    With rule
    … from the old, ſo it hath new, and different Articles and doctrines of Faith, unknowneunknown to the old Church, and not to be found for ſuch, in the writings …

    Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … we…. For they that lacke customers all the weeke, either because their haunt is unknowneunknown, or the Constables and Officers of their Parish watch them so narrowly, that they …
    With rule
    … we…. For they that lacke customers all the weeke, either because their haunt is unknowneunknown, or the Constables and Officers of their Parish watch them so narrowly, that they …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 391 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … make a Fire of them on his Hearth, then in his Heart. Inju…ies unknowneunknown doe many times the lesse hurt; when I have found them, I then begin …
    With rule
    … make a Fire of them on his Hearth, then in his Heart. Inju…ies unknowneunknown doe many times the lesse hurt; when I have found them, I then begin …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 321 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their errours, though they be never so ridiculous and senslesse, as prayer in an unknowneunknown tongue, and such like.
    With rule
    … their errours, though they be never so ridiculous and senslesse, as prayer in an unknowneunknown tongue, and such like.

    Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 92 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … onely ſhun the preſence of the Lord, but ſhould live at eaſe like one unknowneunknown, both for my vocation, and alſo for my behaviour in the execution thereof, and …
    With rule
    … onely ſhun the preſence of the Lord, but ſhould live at eaſe like one unknowneunknown, both for my vocation, and alſo for my behaviour in the execution thereof, and …

    Henry Smith · Jonah the Messenger of Ninevehs Repentance · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    What are the miseries which wicked spirits suffer, are unknowneunknown to us; we reade that they beleeve and tremble, Iam. 2. that they are kept …
    With rule
    What are the miseries which wicked spirits suffer, are unknowneunknown to us; we reade that they beleeve and tremble, Iam. 2. that they are kept …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 449 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … moe in number then the haires of our h…ad. Thirdly, For hidden and unknowneunknown sins, a generall confession may suffice to give a man comfort, and assurance of …
    With rule
    … moe in number then the haires of our h…ad. Thirdly, For hidden and unknowneunknown sins, a generall confession may suffice to give a man comfort, and assurance of …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … curse, as blesse; he may speak what he will in a tongue knowne or unknowneunknown, for the people know not: from that same practise Bellarmine defendeth prayer in an …
    With rule
    … curse, as blesse; he may speak what he will in a tongue knowne or unknowneunknown, for the people know not: from that same practise Bellarmine defendeth prayer in an …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 316 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

  • Printed
    … And to the ſame purpoſe tended that inſcription alleadged by the Apoſtle foreign TO THE UNKNOWNEUNKNOWN AND STRANGE GOD What ſay you to this, that Licinius about to enter into …
    With rule
    … And to the ſame purpoſe tended that inſcription alleadged by the Apoſtle foreign TO THE UNKNOWNEUNKNOWN AND STRANGE GOD What ſay you to this, that Licinius about to enter into …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 267 · Open in the reader

A Demonstration of Family Duties A54497

  • Printed
    … paſsed by & beheld your devotions, I found an Altar with this inſcription, TO THE UNKNOWNEUNKNOWN GOD; whom ye therefore ignorantly worſhip, him declare I unto you.
    With rule
    … paſsed by & beheld your devotions, I found an Altar with this inſcription, TO THE UNKNOWNEUNKNOWN GOD; whom ye therefore ignorantly worſhip, him declare I unto you.

    Thomas Paget · A Demonstration of Family Duties · p. 5 · Open in the reader

The Disabled Debtor Discharged A57544

  • Printed
    Reaſon. UnknowneUnknown things are not deſired, how then can they be rejoyced in? Say a man …
    With rule
    Reaſon. UnknowneUnknown things are not deſired, how then can they be rejoyced in? Say a man …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 230 · Open in the reader

Britains Genius A96763

  • Printed
    UnknowneUnknown; or, wherein little credit lies:
    With rule
    UnknowneUnknown; or, wherein little credit lies:

    George Wither · Britains Genius · p. 98 · Open in the reader