Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #594 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnstableunstable

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

Puritas changed it: 398 times in 221 works
Consistency: 95.6% (398 of 416)
Reach if approved: ~438 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unstable
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 417 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (398 changes in 221 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 398)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… makes a man doubt, when he knoweth not what he should doe, but is vnstableunstable; as a waue of the Sea, that is tossed to and fro: hee is …
With rule
… makes a man doubt, when he knoweth not what he should doe, but is vnstableunstable; as a waue of the Sea, that is tossed to and fro: hee is …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… s… and because S. Peter sayde the vnlearned, being hi… selfe a fisherman, and vnstableunstable, did misconster S. Pau… epistles &c. to their owne damnation: which is all … as …
With rule
… s… and because S. Peter sayde the vnlearned, being hi… selfe a fisherman, and vnstableunstable, did misconster S. Pau… epistles &c. to their owne damnation: which is all … as …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the twelueth verse, declared that his heart was vncleane, and his spirite crooked or vnstableunstable; and in the fourteenth verse, that he had lost the ioy of his saluation …
With rule
… the twelueth verse, declared that his heart was vncleane, and his spirite crooked or vnstableunstable; and in the fourteenth verse, that he had lost the ioy of his saluation …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
… the way to Heauen. Woe is me, poore wretch, blind, lame, crooked, ſicke, impotent, vnſtableunstable as the running water: How was I bewitched with ſelfe-confidence and conceit of …
With rule
… the way to Heauen. Woe is me, poore wretch, blind, lame, crooked, ſicke, impotent, vnſtableunstable as the running water: How was I bewitched with ſelfe-confidence and conceit of …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 295 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. Secondly, let it herevpon agayne be noted, how wavering and vnstableunstable these men are in all theyr wayes: as if IEsus Christ were Yea and …
With rule
2. Secondly, let it herevpon agayne be noted, how wavering and vnstableunstable these men are in all theyr wayes: as if IEsus Christ were Yea and …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
The hope of the vngodlye and all whereſoeuer they truſt vnto, is deceyuable, vnſtableunstable and corruptyble, iiij. Regum. xviij.d. Sapi. v.c, Eccli. v.a. i. Macha …
With rule
The hope of the vngodlye and all whereſoeuer they truſt vnto, is deceyuable, vnſtableunstable and corruptyble, iiij. Regum. xviij.d. Sapi. v.c, Eccli. v.a. i. Macha …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… with you. Hauinge eyes full of aduontrye, and that cannot ceaſe to ſinne, begylinge vnſtableunstable ſoules: they haue heartes occupyed with couetouſneſſe, deteſtable followes.
With rule
… with you. Hauinge eyes full of aduontrye, and that cannot ceaſe to ſinne, begylinge vnſtableunstable ſoules: they haue heartes occupyed with couetouſneſſe, deteſtable followes.
Philipp Melanchthon · Of Two Popish Monsters – A Popish Ass and a Monkish Calf · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this new way, was giuen ouer to hold falſe and abſurd opinions, and verie vnſtableunstable, ſometime liking, ſometime in praier thanking God for preuenting him, before allowed of vs …
With rule
… this new way, was giuen ouer to hold falſe and abſurd opinions, and verie vnſtableunstable, ſometime liking, ſometime in praier thanking God for preuenting him, before allowed of vs …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
VnstableUnstable, fleeting, & inconstant Riches. 1 Ti. 6, 17.
With rule
VnstableUnstable, fleeting, & inconstant Riches. 1 Ti. 6, 17.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 408 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 VnstableUnstable men, of vnconstant minds. Iames 1, 6. He that wauereth like a Waue of the Sea …
With rule
2 VnstableUnstable men, of vnconstant minds. Iames 1, 6. He that wauereth like a Waue of the Sea …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 526 · Open in the reader

A Dialogue Between a Papist and Protestant A72176

Printed
… doubt: it hath done that in him which cannot be wrought but by GOD. VnſtableUnstable ſoules may be beguiled: for they haue not felt the power of godlines. Yée …
With rule
… doubt: it hath done that in him which cannot be wrought but by GOD. VnſtableUnstable ſoules may be beguiled: for they haue not felt the power of godlines. Yée …
George Gifford · A Dialogue Between a Papist and Protestant · p. 85 · Open in the reader