Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #325 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnderstandethunderstandeth

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

Puritas changed it: 2,259 times in 455 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,259 of 2,260)
Reach if approved: ~2,375 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: understandeth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,260 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,259 changes in 455 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,259)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… implyeth aſſent: for a man may vtter this word Amen to that which he vnderſtandethunderstandeth not: but with aſſent of minde & heart he cannot ſay Amen.
With rule
… implyeth aſſent: for a man may vtter this word Amen to that which he vnderſtandethunderstandeth not: but with aſſent of minde & heart he cannot ſay Amen.
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 335 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a beast by his own knowledge. And therefore man that is in honour and vnderstandethunderstandeth not, is like vnto beasts that perish. Did not the bridle of Gods ouer …
With rule
… a beast by his own knowledge. And therefore man that is in honour and vnderstandethunderstandeth not, is like vnto beasts that perish. Did not the bridle of Gods ouer …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but conſidered according to the two faculties thereof, it poſſeſſeth the Minde, as it vnderſtandethunderstandeth and aſſenteth; the will, as it receiueth embraceth the word of promiſe. Secondly it …
With rule
… but conſidered according to the two faculties thereof, it poſſeſſeth the Minde, as it vnderſtandethunderstandeth and aſſenteth; the will, as it receiueth embraceth the word of promiſe. Secondly it …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are not obiect vnto our sense; onely vnto God, who seeth their hearts and vnderstandethunderstandeth all their secret cogitations, vnto him they are cleare and manifest. All men knew …
With rule
… are not obiect vnto our sense; onely vnto God, who seeth their hearts and vnderstandethunderstandeth all their secret cogitations, vnto him they are cleare and manifest. All men knew …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iohn, Apoc. 2. by eating of the Tree of life in the Paradise of God, vnderstandethunderstandeth not the sacramentall eating; which cannot be in heauen, where there are no sacred …
With rule
… Iohn, Apoc. 2. by eating of the Tree of life in the Paradise of God, vnderstandethunderstandeth not the sacramentall eating; which cannot be in heauen, where there are no sacred …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the Word was God. By the Word in which place, that the Euang. vnderstandethunderstandeth not that word of God which is spoken, and vanisheth, but the person of …
With rule
… and the Word was God. By the Word in which place, that the Euang. vnderstandethunderstandeth not that word of God which is spoken, and vanisheth, but the person of …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is worthy to be shorne on his poll, with a number of crownes, that vnderstandethunderstandeth this of a shauen crowne. If nothing else could haue driuen him from this …
With rule
… is worthy to be shorne on his poll, with a number of crownes, that vnderstandethunderstandeth this of a shauen crowne. If nothing else could haue driuen him from this …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Solomon doeth not ſpeake here of the iudgement ſeate, but by the word place, vnderſtandethunderstandeth as much as to ſay, in ſteade. Then is it thus, that the people …
With rule
… Solomon doeth not ſpeake here of the iudgement ſeate, but by the word place, vnderſtandethunderstandeth as much as to ſay, in ſteade. Then is it thus, that the people …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.