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vnawaresunawares

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

Puritas changed it
579 times in 265 works
Consistency
99.3% (579 of 583)
Reach if approved
~613 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unawares
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
583 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (579 changes in 265 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 579)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … haue no ſuch end, as we do commonly at everie trif…le, if but vnawaresunawares we let fall a thing, or when we vtter ſome troubled affection, as Gen …
    With rule
    … haue no ſuch end, as we do commonly at everie trif…le, if but vnawaresunawares we let fall a thing, or when we vtter ſome troubled affection, as Gen …

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … now and then telleth truth. And the truth start out of his mouth before vnawaresunawares, where he said, that Christ is present there in a spirituall manner. And in …
    With rule
    … now and then telleth truth. And the truth start out of his mouth before vnawaresunawares, where he said, that Christ is present there in a spirituall manner. And in …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 216 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to craue pardon for them. Yea becauſe we cannot be ignorant that many ſinnes vnawaresunawares paſſe from vs, to deſire a generall diſcharge of all other ſinnes (which two …
    With rule
    … to craue pardon for them. Yea becauſe we cannot be ignorant that many ſinnes vnawaresunawares paſſe from vs, to deſire a generall diſcharge of all other ſinnes (which two …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … cautelous and circumſpect, that the Deuill get not aduantage, ſet not vpon him at vnawaresunawares; deſirous to keepe ſtanding, grow in grace, liue in peace with God, and valiant …
    With rule
    … cautelous and circumſpect, that the Deuill get not aduantage, ſet not vpon him at vnawaresunawares; deſirous to keepe ſtanding, grow in grace, liue in peace with God, and valiant …

    John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 307 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thing not only true in it selfe, but by them likewise so acknowledged, though vnawaresunawares; 4. and to make manifest that from scripture wee offer not to derogate the least …
    With rule
    … thing not only true in it selfe, but by them likewise so acknowledged, though vnawaresunawares; 4. and to make manifest that from scripture wee offer not to derogate the least …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … which both Aquinas, their Angelicall Doctor, purpoſely confeſſeth, and Rabbi Bellarmine alſo himſelfe, though vnawaresunawares: for the one ſaith, that he which vnderſtandeth not what he prayeth, is depriued …
    With rule
    … which both Aquinas, their Angelicall Doctor, purpoſely confeſſeth, and Rabbi Bellarmine alſo himſelfe, though vnawaresunawares: for the one ſaith, that he which vnderſtandeth not what he prayeth, is depriued …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 355 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … vyce did hyde it selfe from him: and if a man come vpon vs vnawaresunawares in taking our pleasure (yea though it bee well lawfull) wee blush, as if …
    With rule
    … vyce did hyde it selfe from him: and if a man come vpon vs vnawaresunawares in taking our pleasure (yea though it bee well lawfull) wee blush, as if …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 296 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … deſpiſed, deriding the profeſſors of his Goſpel? O let not this day take thée vnawaresunawares. Preuent the wrath which ſhall be then reuealed. Then it wil be too late …
    With rule
    … deſpiſed, deriding the profeſſors of his Goſpel? O let not this day take thée vnawaresunawares. Preuent the wrath which ſhall be then reuealed. Then it wil be too late …

    Elnathan Parr · The Grounds of Divinity · p. 236 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

  • Printed
    VnawaresUnawares, I partly spide,
    With rule
    VnawaresUnawares, I partly spide,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader