Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #588 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnlikelyunlikely

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

Puritas changed it: 449 times in 203 works
Consistency: 99.5% (449 of 451)
Reach if approved: ~474 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unlikely
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 451 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (449 changes in 203 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 449)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ground of Abrahams Faith, the Father of the faithfull) able to bring the most vnlikelyunlikely things that are to passe in an instant. For many things are impossible with …
With rule
… ground of Abrahams Faith, the Father of the faithfull) able to bring the most vnlikelyunlikely things that are to passe in an instant. For many things are impossible with …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is…ans, and establish the Idolatrous seruice of their Breaden god. Secondly▪ by meanes vnlikelyunlikely: It was no… b…wrai…d, nor defeated by any wit or policie of …
With rule
… is…ans, and establish the Idolatrous seruice of their Breaden god. Secondly▪ by meanes vnlikelyunlikely: It was no… b…wrai…d, nor defeated by any wit or policie of …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the godly pray in matters moſte harde to be brought to paſſe, and moſt vnlikelyunlikely in regard of any vſual and ordinarie meanes: and yet are heard, and geue …
With rule
… the godly pray in matters moſte harde to be brought to paſſe, and moſt vnlikelyunlikely in regard of any vſual and ordinarie meanes: and yet are heard, and geue …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnderſtood of the holy Ghoſt, here were nothing but purity to purity, which is vnlikelyunlikely; if contentions amongſt the faithfull themſelues, they ſhould not at the ſame inſtant haue …
With rule
… vnderſtood of the holy Ghoſt, here were nothing but purity to purity, which is vnlikelyunlikely; if contentions amongſt the faithfull themſelues, they ſhould not at the ſame inſtant haue …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 458 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ps. 73. 13. [verily I haue cleansed my heart in vaine.] Baruch. Ier. 45. 3. no course so vnlikelyunlikely to thriue by, to liue happily or honorably in the world as that which …
With rule
… Ps. 73. 13. [verily I haue cleansed my heart in vaine.] Baruch. Ier. 45. 3. no course so vnlikelyunlikely to thriue by, to liue happily or honorably in the world as that which …
William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
If one be aged, or past the ordinarie time, it is hard and vnlikelyunlikely: but if one be very aged, and farre past it, it is impossible shee …
With rule
If one be aged, or past the ordinarie time, it is hard and vnlikelyunlikely: but if one be very aged, and farre past it, it is impossible shee …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods dealing with men, to bring them to ſo happie an eſtate by ſo vnlikelyunlikely meanes, and ſo farre off, ſhould teach the men of this age, that wiſedome …
With rule
… Gods dealing with men, to bring them to ſo happie an eſtate by ſo vnlikelyunlikely meanes, and ſo farre off, ſhould teach the men of this age, that wiſedome …
Richard Rogers · Sermons · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though peraduenture not done (as they ſay in printe) yet becauſe it is not vnlikelyunlikely, but by theſe meanes they will come into the handes of many, who will …
With rule
… though peraduenture not done (as they ſay in printe) yet becauſe it is not vnlikelyunlikely, but by theſe meanes they will come into the handes of many, who will …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

Printed
… of Ʋriah: & certain it is, that otherwise he had wounded his hart very sore. VnlikelyUnlikely it is not, but that he bewraied Dauids offence in the cause of Ʋriah …
With rule
… of Ʋriah: & certain it is, that otherwise he had wounded his hart very sore. VnlikelyUnlikely it is not, but that he bewraied Dauids offence in the cause of Ʋriah …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 330 · Open in the reader