Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #489 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnnecessaryunnecessary

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

Puritas changed it: 367 times in 193 works
Consistency: 96.5% (367 of 380)
Reach if approved: ~399 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unnecessary
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 380 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (367 changes in 193 works, 96.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 367)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to her truſty executors; her knowledge experimētal in ciuil actiōs was in another world vnneceſſaryunnecessary; the beauty of her face, and comlines of her body was to turne to …
With rule
… to her truſty executors; her knowledge experimētal in ciuil actiōs was in another world vnneceſſaryunnecessary; the beauty of her face, and comlines of her body was to turne to …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the times of their neceſſityes. Yea ſo farr was Paul from putting men to vnneceſſaryunnecessary expenſes and burthening of them, or any way charging of them about building of …
With rule
… the times of their neceſſityes. Yea ſo farr was Paul from putting men to vnneceſſaryunnecessary expenſes and burthening of them, or any way charging of them about building of …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… although ther had bene ſome goodnes in them) what be thei? are thei not vnneceſſaryunnecessary & very vnprofitable things / which the word of god neuer cownceled any man to vſe …
With rule
… although ther had bene ſome goodnes in them) what be thei? are thei not vnneceſſaryunnecessary & very vnprofitable things / which the word of god neuer cownceled any man to vſe …
Martin Luther · Last Will and Confession · Open in the reader
Printed
… Conſcience makes a man to loue peace, to auoide vaine diſputations, and caſting forth vnneceſſaryunnecessary doubts, it hateth alſo ſingularitie, and cannot abide to be cenſorious. Scrupuloſitie is contentious …
With rule
… Conſcience makes a man to loue peace, to auoide vaine diſputations, and caſting forth vnneceſſaryunnecessary doubts, it hateth alſo ſingularitie, and cannot abide to be cenſorious. Scrupuloſitie is contentious …
Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 300 · Open in the reader
Printed
… behaue themſelues in the middeſt of their greateſt afflictions. A point of doctrine not vnneceſſaryunnecessary for vs at this time. For although by the great mercye of God, it …
With rule
… behaue themſelues in the middeſt of their greateſt afflictions. A point of doctrine not vnneceſſaryunnecessary for vs at this time. For although by the great mercye of God, it …
Oliver Pigg · Treatise on 1 Peter 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vndoubtedly true; that the destinating, and deuoting of Vnprofitable, Pleasurable, Heathenish, Infamous, Scandalous, and vnnecessaryunnecessary Inuentions, which neither the Scriptures, nor Primitiue Church approoued, to Idolatrous, and Sinfull ends …
With rule
… vndoubtedly true; that the destinating, and deuoting of Vnprofitable, Pleasurable, Heathenish, Infamous, Scandalous, and vnnecessaryunnecessary Inuentions, which neither the Scriptures, nor Primitiue Church approoued, to Idolatrous, and Sinfull ends …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you thinke he meaneth of superfluous buyldinges of Synagoges, whereof you speake, or the vnnecessaryunnecessary enryching of Prelates, whereof you meane, when he speaketh of the necessary sustentations of …
With rule
… you thinke he meaneth of superfluous buyldinges of Synagoges, whereof you speake, or the vnnecessaryunnecessary enryching of Prelates, whereof you meane, when he speaketh of the necessary sustentations of …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 343 · Open in the reader
Printed
… let thy Head lacke no Oyntment. When Salomon had found men pulling on themselues vnnecessaryunnecessary vexations in this world, and yet not buying Peace in Heauen with their trouble …
With rule
… let thy Head lacke no Oyntment. When Salomon had found men pulling on themselues vnnecessaryunnecessary vexations in this world, and yet not buying Peace in Heauen with their trouble …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 48 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Healths Sickness A10184

Printed
… had the least experience in the World. Wherefore, it will bee neither Vntimely, nor VnnecessaryUnnecessary, to encounter and withstand the Streme of this Pernicious and common Euill, with these …
With rule
… had the least experience in the World. Wherefore, it will bee neither Vntimely, nor VnnecessaryUnnecessary, to encounter and withstand the Streme of this Pernicious and common Euill, with these …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God A20720

Printed
VnnecessaryUnnecessary aboue our power.
With rule
VnnecessaryUnnecessary aboue our power.
George Downame · The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God · Open in the reader