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ʋnnecessaryUnnecessary

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

Puritas changed it
20 times in 17 works
Consistency
100% (20 of 20)
Reach if approved
~21 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
20 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (20 changes in 17 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 20)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    (11.) It makes it ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary or Ʋnreaſonable, to Pray for themſelves or others, for thoſe things which we ſhould …
    With rule
    (11.) It makes it ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary or Ʋnreaſonable, to Pray for themſelves or others, for thoſe things which we ſhould …

    David Clarkson · A Discourse of the Saving Grace of God · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    3. ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary viſits, are great waſters of our time: of which you muſt take heed, it …
    With rule
    3. ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary viſits, are great waſters of our time: of which you muſt take heed, it …

    John Fox · Time and the End of Time · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … little Church, (as J. O. believes it,) Swarm'd with a number of Idle, and ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary Presbyters, which no Man in his Wits will believe.
    With rule
    … little Church, (as J. O. believes it,) Swarm'd with a number of Idle, and ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary Presbyters, which no Man in his Wits will believe.

    James Owen · Defense of Scripture Ordination · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    4. IT is a tempting of God as to his Providence, when we venture upon ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary, Avoidable Dangers, and expect that God ſhould interpoſe to preſerve us. He that will …
    With rule
    4. IT is a tempting of God as to his Providence, when we venture upon ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary, Avoidable Dangers, and expect that God ſhould interpoſe to preſerve us. He that will …

    John Shower · Of Tempting Christ · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    3. ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary converſe with carnal friends ib.
    With rule
    3. ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary converſe with carnal friends ib.

    Richard Alleine · A Vindication of Godliness · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    1. Mark any that grow more in loving and caring for ƲnnecessaryUnnecessary, Worldly, Fleshly things, and you shall find that they grow more indifferent to Prayer …
    With rule
    1. Mark any that grow more in loving and caring for ƲnnecessaryUnnecessary, Worldly, Fleshly things, and you shall find that they grow more indifferent to Prayer …

    Richard Baxter · Christs Justification of Marys Choice · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … feign impoſſible Terms, ſuch as are An Ʋniverſal Soveraignty, and Multitudes of Hamane, Doubtful, ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary Canons; which are the moſt effectual cauſes of Diſcord. But, 1. to take up with …
    With rule
    … feign impoſſible Terms, ſuch as are An Ʋniverſal Soveraignty, and Multitudes of Hamane, Doubtful, ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary Canons; which are the moſt effectual cauſes of Diſcord. But, 1. to take up with …

    Richard Baxter · A Paraphrase on the New Testament · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … may thereby Love and Honour God; is this Eaſie? Or is it, think you, ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary? Sirs, mark it well; I count not that you have receiv'd your ſight, or …
    With rule
    … may thereby Love and Honour God; is this Eaſie? Or is it, think you, ƲnneceſſaryUnnecessary? Sirs, mark it well; I count not that you have receiv'd your ſight, or …

    Daniel Burgess · A Call to Sinners · p. 26 · 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.