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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7540 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vncleannesseuncleanness

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
1,724 times in 419 works
Consistency
99.8% (1,724 of 1,726)
Reach if approved
~1,814 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: uncleanness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,726 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,724 changes in 419 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,724)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the heauens. He is iuſt, holy and good, a hater of all iniquitie and vncleanneſſeuncleanness: the fountaine and giuer of all good things: louing to the faithfull, and a …
    With rule
    … the heauens. He is iuſt, holy and good, a hater of all iniquitie and vncleanneſſeuncleanness: the fountaine and giuer of all good things: louing to the faithfull, and a …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … vnprofitable; there is none that doth good, no not one. Pride, Whoredome, Adultery, Fornication, VncleanneſſeUncleanness, Wantonneſſe, Idolatry, Witch-craft, Hatred, Debate, Emulation, Wrath, Contention, Sedition, Hereſie, Couetouſneſſe, Drunkenneſſe, Swearing …
    With rule
    … vnprofitable; there is none that doth good, no not one. Pride, Whoredome, Adultery, Fornication, VncleanneſſeUncleanness, Wantonneſſe, Idolatry, Witch-craft, Hatred, Debate, Emulation, Wrath, Contention, Sedition, Hereſie, Couetouſneſſe, Drunkenneſſe, Swearing …

    Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the other is but malum per accidens. No man pulles downe his houſe, becauſe vncleanneſſeuncleanness hath been committed in one of the chambers. Let offenders be remoued from the …
    With rule
    … the other is but malum per accidens. No man pulles downe his houſe, becauſe vncleanneſſeuncleanness hath been committed in one of the chambers. Let offenders be remoued from the …

    Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … hands and ſteale not: Walke in loue and hate not: flie fornication and all vncleanneſſeuncleanness and name it not: And all this to be done vpon promiſe and penalty …
    With rule
    … hands and ſteale not: Walke in loue and hate not: flie fornication and all vncleanneſſeuncleanness and name it not: And all this to be done vpon promiſe and penalty …

    William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is to forſake couetouſneſſe? doeſt thou conceiue ſwearing to be vgly, Saboth-breaking vgly, vncleanneſſeuncleanness, idleneſſe, &c. vgly, when the motion is to leaue diſhonoring Gods Name, diſ-hallowing …
    With rule
    … is to forſake couetouſneſſe? doeſt thou conceiue ſwearing to be vgly, Saboth-breaking vgly, vncleanneſſeuncleanness, idleneſſe, &c. vgly, when the motion is to leaue diſhonoring Gods Name, diſ-hallowing …

    Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … was while he was ſingle: for now hee hath added breach of faith to vncleanneſſeuncleanness. O, ſo to let our hearts be in the world, after wee haue by …
    With rule
    … was while he was ſingle: for now hee hath added breach of faith to vncleanneſſeuncleanness. O, ſo to let our hearts be in the world, after wee haue by …

    Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 254 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … openedst to all that thirst for thy grace a double fountaine for sinne and vncleannesseuncleanness, the one of water, the other of bloud; the one to purge the guilt …
    With rule
    … openedst to all that thirst for thy grace a double fountaine for sinne and vncleannesseuncleanness, the one of water, the other of bloud; the one to purge the guilt …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and pure, that he cannot abide the least sparke of iniquity, neither can any vncleannesseuncleanness or vnrighteousnesse haue place with him, as Psal. 5. Thou art not a God that …
    With rule
    … and pure, that he cannot abide the least sparke of iniquity, neither can any vncleannesseuncleanness or vnrighteousnesse haue place with him, as Psal. 5. Thou art not a God that …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 59 · 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.

Sins Overthrow A10024

  • Printed
    DOCTR. 1. VNcleannesseUncleanness is one of the siunes that are here to be… mortisied, p. 153
    With rule
    DOCTR. 1. VNcleannesseUncleanness is one of the siunes that are here to be… mortisied, p. 153

    John Preston · Sins Overthrow · Open in the reader