Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #415 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnhappyunhappy

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

Puritas changed it: 522 times in 258 works
Consistency: 93.5% (522 of 558)
Reach if approved: ~586 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unhappy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 558 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (522 changes in 258 works, 93.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 522)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… had but one Achan, and yet that one Achan was enough to make them vnhappyunhappy. The innocence of so many thousands was not so forcible to excuse his one …
With rule
… had but one Achan, and yet that one Achan was enough to make them vnhappyunhappy. The innocence of so many thousands was not so forcible to excuse his one …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet hee wiilingly commits those things against his first intendment, that make him most vnhappyunhappy. As a thiefe steales, to keepe himselfe from famine, and so from misery: thus …
With rule
… yet hee wiilingly commits those things against his first intendment, that make him most vnhappyunhappy. As a thiefe steales, to keepe himselfe from famine, and so from misery: thus …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to time, by Gods holy Spirite, for the auenging of his cause aganist the vnhappyunhappy sead and members of Sathan, hauing to do with no les pertinacious and wicked …
With rule
… to time, by Gods holy Spirite, for the auenging of his cause aganist the vnhappyunhappy sead and members of Sathan, hauing to do with no les pertinacious and wicked …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… promiſe to Princes ſwords & other trifles happy & fortunate in war, which haue notwithſtāding an vnhappyunhappy end: and there he much more marueileth that any mā can beleeue ſuch ſubtile …
With rule
… promiſe to Princes ſwords & other trifles happy & fortunate in war, which haue notwithſtāding an vnhappyunhappy end: and there he much more marueileth that any mā can beleeue ſuch ſubtile …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he, for I dare saye, the Mule neuer sclaundered the Preacher. Oh what an vnhappyunhappy chaunce had thys Mule to carye suche an Asse vppon hys backe. I was …
With rule
… he, for I dare saye, the Mule neuer sclaundered the Preacher. Oh what an vnhappyunhappy chaunce had thys Mule to carye suche an Asse vppon hys backe. I was …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… touch life, or liberty, then they will bewaile themſelues, & wring their hands, accounting themſelues vnhappyunhappy that euer they were borne; but haue they not much more cauſe to waile …
With rule
… touch life, or liberty, then they will bewaile themſelues, & wring their hands, accounting themſelues vnhappyunhappy that euer they were borne; but haue they not much more cauſe to waile …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
Who is a wretch, or vnhappyunhappy? He that holdeth not him selfe content with that that God hath sent him …
With rule
Who is a wretch, or vnhappyunhappy? He that holdeth not him selfe content with that that God hath sent him …
Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… the cause, I grāt that ze ar miserabill, zea, that ze ar cursit and vnhappyunhappy ma wayis then ane, bot the caus is in zour selfis that hes spuilzeit …
With rule
… the cause, I grāt that ze ar miserabill, zea, that ze ar cursit and vnhappyunhappy ma wayis then ane, bot the caus is in zour selfis that hes spuilzeit …
David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (36)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 23 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Miscellanies Christian and Judaical A05462

Printed
… Adam through Christ might be the more glorious. Hereupon one sings, O foelix lapsus. VnhappyUnhappy was the fall of Adam, since by his fall we all fell, but yet …
With rule
… Adam through Christ might be the more glorious. Hereupon one sings, O foelix lapsus. VnhappyUnhappy was the fall of Adam, since by his fall we all fell, but yet …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 156 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
VnhappyUnhappy Preest, inquire no more of mee
With rule
VnhappyUnhappy Preest, inquire no more of mee
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 604 · Open in the reader

Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies A09002

Printed
… bondage. By this it appeareth, to what exigent this vnworthy rite hath brought vs. VnhappyUnhappy times you muſt heare again the old complaintes of the Germane Divines, when the …
With rule
… bondage. By this it appeareth, to what exigent this vnworthy rite hath brought vs. VnhappyUnhappy times you muſt heare again the old complaintes of the Germane Divines, when the …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 135 · Open in the reader

The Riches of Mercy A12191

Printed
VnhappyUnhappy succession of sinne,
With rule
VnhappyUnhappy succession of sinne,
Richard Sibbes · The Riches of Mercy · Open in the reader

The Practice of Repentance A13551

Printed
… the commission. The profit of sinne, is like Achans wedge, it cost his life. VnhappyUnhappy is that profit of the world, gotten by the losse of the soule.
With rule
… the commission. The profit of sinne, is like Achans wedge, it cost his life. VnhappyUnhappy is that profit of the world, gotten by the losse of the soule.
Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

Printed
… this domeſticall and familiar enemy. Thys thing the Apoſtle ment, when he cryed out, VnhappyUnhappy man that I am who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death …
With rule
… this domeſticall and familiar enemy. Thys thing the Apoſtle ment, when he cryed out, VnhappyUnhappy man that I am who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… And of this third kinde of ſins the ſame Apoſtle complayned, when he ſayd, VnhappyUnhappy man that I am, who ſhall de liuer me from the body of this …
With rule
… And of this third kinde of ſins the ſame Apoſtle complayned, when he ſayd, VnhappyUnhappy man that I am, who ſhall de liuer me from the body of this …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… the end of the former chap: Paul cried out twiſe: firſt, when he ſayd: VnhappyUnhappy man that I am, who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death …
With rule
… the end of the former chap: Paul cried out twiſe: firſt, when he ſayd: VnhappyUnhappy man that I am, who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… man. And the ſame thing he ment when he wrote in the ſeuenth chapiter. VnhappyUnhappy man that I am, who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death …
With rule
… man. And the ſame thing he ment when he wrote in the ſeuenth chapiter. VnhappyUnhappy man that I am, who ſhall deliuer me from the body of this death …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Apostles Creed A14468

Printed
There is lykewiſe wryten in the lawe. VnhappyUnhappy or accurſed be he that is hanged on the tree, and bicauſe that we …
With rule
There is lykewiſe wryten in the lawe. VnhappyUnhappy or accurſed be he that is hanged on the tree, and bicauſe that we …
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

Printed
VnhappyUnhappy woman haplesly to wed
With rule
VnhappyUnhappy woman haplesly to wed
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

Printed
… and worketh our ſaluation, and ſ… pleaſauntly prepared offereth it vnto vs to inioye. VnhappyUnhappy is he, that knoweth not theſe thinges.
With rule
… and worketh our ſaluation, and ſ… pleaſauntly prepared offereth it vnto vs to inioye. VnhappyUnhappy is he, that knoweth not theſe thinges.
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whoſe ſinnes are couered, and happy are they that haue learned to be aſhamed. VnhappyUnhappy are as many as cā not bluſhe, but ſet ſuch a face of the …
With rule
… whoſe ſinnes are couered, and happy are they that haue learned to be aſhamed. VnhappyUnhappy are as many as cā not bluſhe, but ſet ſuch a face of the …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 497 · Open in the reader