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ʋnstableUnstable

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

Puritas changed it
26 times in 19 works
Consistency
100% (26 of 26)
Reach if approved
~27 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
26 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (26 changes in 19 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 26)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Verſe 8. ƲnſtableUnstable in all his waies] As he is that ſtands on one leg, or as …
    With rule
    Verſe 8. ƲnſtableUnstable in all his waies] As he is that ſtands on one leg, or as …

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 411 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    V. 4. ƲnſtableUnstable as water in affecting the Prieſthood. Num. 16. 1. 2. and in refuſing of the land of …
    With rule
    V. 4. ƲnſtableUnstable as water in affecting the Prieſthood. Num. 16. 1. 2. and in refuſing of the land of …

    John Lightfoot · Observations Upon Genesis · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Choice and Purpoſe reſolutely ſet: The Apoſtle ſays, James 1.8. A Double-minded Man is ƲnſtableUnstable in all his Ways. foreign A Two-Soul'd Man, one that has a Heart and …
    With rule
    … Choice and Purpoſe reſolutely ſet: The Apoſtle ſays, James 1.8. A Double-minded Man is ƲnſtableUnstable in all his Ways. foreign A Two-Soul'd Man, one that has a Heart and …

    Matthew Mead · The Young Mans Remembrancer and Youths Best Choice · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … our Minds upon ſuch Alterations, which not continuing we return to our former Figure, ƲnſtableUnstable and weak as water, Gen. 49.3. we take the form of every Veſſel we are …
    With rule
    … our Minds upon ſuch Alterations, which not continuing we return to our former Figure, ƲnſtableUnstable and weak as water, Gen. 49.3. we take the form of every Veſſel we are …

    Thomas Beverley · Evangelical Repentance Unto Salvation · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of the world are compared to waters, and well they may, fo… their inſtability; ƲnſtableUnstable they are as water (Gen. 49.4.) and for their aptneſs to ſwell and riſe up …
    With rule
    … of the world are compared to waters, and well they may, fo… their inſtability; ƲnſtableUnstable they are as water (Gen. 49.4.) and for their aptneſs to ſwell and riſe up …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 35-37 · p. 551 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    V. 4. ƲnstableUnstable as water] Water hath a qualitie to coole, and make cleane, but Reuben is …
    With rule
    V. 4. ƲnstableUnstable as water] Water hath a qualitie to coole, and make cleane, but Reuben is …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … your own unſtable ſouls? Is it nothing to you, to be under Reubens reproach? ƲnſtableUnstable as water, thou ſhalt not excel. A double minded Man is unſtable in all …
    With rule
    … your own unſtable ſouls? Is it nothing to you, to be under Reubens reproach? ƲnſtableUnstable as water, thou ſhalt not excel. A double minded Man is unſtable in all …

    Thomas Mall · The Axe at the Root of Professors Miscarriages · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    In our Bibles the words are thus, Which they that are Ʋnlearned and ƲnſtableUnstable wreſt, as they do alſo the other Scriptures, &c.
    With rule
    In our Bibles the words are thus, Which they that are Ʋnlearned and ƲnſtableUnstable wreſt, as they do alſo the other Scriptures, &c.

    James Owen · Remarks on a Sermon About Corrupting the Word of God · p. 21 · 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.