Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #488 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnmercifullyunmercifully

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

Puritas changed it: 78 times in 56 works
Consistency: 95.1% (78 of 82)
Reach if approved: ~86 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unmercifully
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 82 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (78 changes in 56 works, 95.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 78)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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Prop.If he that is oppreſſed, vnmercifullyunmercifully racked, deſpitefully entreated, depriued of his owne right, ouerthrowne in his righteous cauſe, yea …
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Prop.If he that is oppreſſed, vnmercifullyunmercifully racked, deſpitefully entreated, depriued of his owne right, ouerthrowne in his righteous cauſe, yea …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 168 · Open in the reader
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… So the partiall Magistrate, whom he should deliuer from the poison of sinne, murthereth vnmercifullyunmercifully with the poiso… of indulgence in sinne. And therefore it is said, that such …
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… So the partiall Magistrate, whom he should deliuer from the poison of sinne, murthereth vnmercifullyunmercifully with the poiso… of indulgence in sinne. And therefore it is said, that such …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
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… occupyeth the hartes of temporall rulers, which moueth them both w^t swerde and fyre vnmercifullyunmercifully to destroye the iust & ryght possessions of other, that they alone as Gods may …
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… occupyeth the hartes of temporall rulers, which moueth them both w^t swerde and fyre vnmercifullyunmercifully to destroye the iust & ryght possessions of other, that they alone as Gods may …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
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… other sinnes. 49. Lords and Masters are to be admonished, not to deale cruelly and vnmercifullyunmercifully with their subiects: yea, and not to seeke that which is due vnto themselues …
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… other sinnes. 49. Lords and Masters are to be admonished, not to deale cruelly and vnmercifullyunmercifully with their subiects: yea, and not to seeke that which is due vnto themselues …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 640 · Open in the reader
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… chastite dare not knowe their own childerne / if thei be not truse breakers that vnmercifullyunmercifully warre against vertu and godlines / if thei be not deuels & quarelers and the very …
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… chastite dare not knowe their own childerne / if thei be not truse breakers that vnmercifullyunmercifully warre against vertu and godlines / if thei be not deuels & quarelers and the very …
Alexander Alesius · The Authority of the Word of God Against the Bishop of London · Open in the reader
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… forsooth) we must beleeue, that they (poore hearts) fast extreamely, that they lash themselues vnmercifullyunmercifully, that they lye vpon the bare, cold, hard ground, that they grate their skinnes …
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… forsooth) we must beleeue, that they (poore hearts) fast extreamely, that they lash themselues vnmercifullyunmercifully, that they lye vpon the bare, cold, hard ground, that they grate their skinnes …
John Cameron · Examination of those Plausible Appearances in the Romish Church · p. 154 · Open in the reader
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… by little and little, here a piece, and there a piece, deales farre more vnmercifullyunmercifully with the Scriptures, as a Lyon cruſhing them in pieces at the firſt, with …
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… by little and little, here a piece, and there a piece, deales farre more vnmercifullyunmercifully with the Scriptures, as a Lyon cruſhing them in pieces at the firſt, with …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 4 · Open in the reader
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… it, and neither fiatter others in their euill courſes, nor yet too rigorouſly and vnmercifullyunmercifully rebuke them for the ſame. Thoſe that haue beene pinched with ſickneſſe and are …
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… it, and neither fiatter others in their euill courſes, nor yet too rigorouſly and vnmercifullyunmercifully rebuke them for the ſame. Thoſe that haue beene pinched with ſickneſſe and are …
John Dod · Seven Godly and Fruitful Sermons · p. 87 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Sinners Indictment A14766

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… Prayers vnto God. How dare you come to Christ by Prayer, while you deale VnmercifullyUnmercifully with him in his poore members? For as they that feed the Poore, feed …
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… Prayers vnto God. How dare you come to Christ by Prayer, while you deale VnmercifullyUnmercifully with him in his poore members? For as they that feed the Poore, feed …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… members? For as they that feed the Poore, feed Christ; so they that deale VnmercifullyUnmercifully with the poore, doe wrong to Christ: and hee, That stoppeth his eares at …
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… members? For as they that feed the Poore, feed Christ; so they that deale VnmercifullyUnmercifully with the poore, doe wrong to Christ: and hee, That stoppeth his eares at …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 57 · Open in the reader
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… there were either God, or Diuell, Heauen, or Hell, they would not deale so VnmercifullyUnmercifully with others as they doe. These are they whom Salomon speaketh of: There is …
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… there were either God, or Diuell, Heauen, or Hell, they would not deale so VnmercifullyUnmercifully with others as they doe. These are they whom Salomon speaketh of: There is …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 58 · Open in the reader
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Though the poore neither curse, nor cry vengeance against them that deale VnmercifullyUnmercifully with them; yet God will stand for them. Now for the oppression of the …
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Though the poore neither curse, nor cry vengeance against them that deale VnmercifullyUnmercifully with them; yet God will stand for them. Now for the oppression of the …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 61 · Open in the reader