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ʋncertaintyUncertainty

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
31 times in 22 works
Consistency
100% (31 of 31)
Reach if approved
~33 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
31 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (31 changes in 22 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 31)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … live, do render this and diſcourſes of the like Nature exceeding ſeaſonable. For the ƲncertaintyUncertainty of the continuance of all other Riches, ſhould ſtir us up to look with …
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    … live, do render this and diſcourſes of the like Nature exceeding ſeaſonable. For the ƲncertaintyUncertainty of the continuance of all other Riches, ſhould ſtir us up to look with …

    Bartholomew Ashwood · The Best Treasure · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    But, what, if the Doctrine of this Doomſ-day, were of any ƲncertaintyUncertainty? What, if it did admit of Queſtion, and were no more than a probable …
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    But, what, if the Doctrine of this Doomſ-day, were of any ƲncertaintyUncertainty? What, if it did admit of Queſtion, and were no more than a probable …

    Daniel Burgess · Counsel to the Rich · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … knowing your Conflict ſhall end in your being Crown'd. You Run not for an ƲncertaintyUncertainty; therefore fight not as they that beat the air: For, it is Nevertheleſs true …
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    … knowing your Conflict ſhall end in your being Crown'd. You Run not for an ƲncertaintyUncertainty; therefore fight not as they that beat the air: For, it is Nevertheleſs true …

    Elisha Coles · A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in the Future Tenſe, rather than in the Preſent; not as a matter of ƲncertaintyUncertainty and Procraſtination, but rather as a matter of Conſtancy, and as a continued Act …
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    … in the Future Tenſe, rather than in the Preſent; not as a matter of ƲncertaintyUncertainty and Procraſtination, but rather as a matter of Conſtancy, and as a continued Act …

    Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 236 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … it, may be ſtill imployed. You cannot inſiſt too often upon the Brevity, and ƲncertaintyUncertainty of our little Time on Earth; the Swiftneſs and Irrecoverableneſs of it, and the …
    With rule
    … it, may be ſtill imployed. You cannot inſiſt too often upon the Brevity, and ƲncertaintyUncertainty of our little Time on Earth; the Swiftneſs and Irrecoverableneſs of it, and the …

    John Shower · Family Religion · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to blow the Trumpet without ſeeing it, which muſt needs cauſe a very great ƲncertaintyUncertainty, and the ſame Moon be ſooner ſeen at one place then at another, and …
    With rule
    … to blow the Trumpet without ſeeing it, which muſt needs cauſe a very great ƲncertaintyUncertainty, and the ſame Moon be ſooner ſeen at one place then at another, and …

    John Shower · Sacramental Discourses Before and After the Lords Supper · p. 215 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Reformed Churches, among whom our preſent diſpute is.) Now we ſay, that even this ƲncertaintyUncertainty, and the diſputes about all theſe things, doe ſo exceedingly enervate the ſtrength of …
    With rule
    … Reformed Churches, among whom our preſent diſpute is.) Now we ſay, that even this ƲncertaintyUncertainty, and the diſputes about all theſe things, doe ſo exceedingly enervate the ſtrength of …

    Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 266 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſe 2. For Exhortation. Three Morives: 1. From the brevity of our lives, p. 55. 2. From the ƲncertaintyUncertainty of the Spirits ſtriving, ibid. 3. From the certainty of the Day of Judgement, p …
    With rule
    … ſe 2. For Exhortation. Three Morives: 1. From the brevity of our lives, p. 55. 2. From the ƲncertaintyUncertainty of the Spirits ſtriving, ibid. 3. From the certainty of the Day of Judgement, p …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.