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vnfortunateunfortunate

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

Puritas changed it: 102 times in 66 works
Consistency: 94.4% (102 of 108)
Reach if approved: ~113 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unfortunate
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 108 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (102 changes in 66 works, 94.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 102)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but they were but a few vnfortunateunfortunate Gentlemen. Answ. Happie wee they were so vnfortunateunfortunate. But these were but the lesse wheeles: Catesby, Faux, Percy, and their fellowes were …
With rule
… but they were but a few vnfortunateunfortunate Gentlemen. Answ. Happie wee they were so vnfortunateunfortunate. But these were but the lesse wheeles: Catesby, Faux, Percy, and their fellowes were …
Thomas Taylor · A Map of Rome · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is the end which crownes all, and that which makes the vndertaking prosperous, or vnfortunateunfortunate: not the occurrences, that happen well, or ill, in the proceeding. For, though a …
With rule
… is the end which crownes all, and that which makes the vndertaking prosperous, or vnfortunateunfortunate: not the occurrences, that happen well, or ill, in the proceeding. For, though a …
George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… religion. But on the other ſide wee read that Antiochus ſyrnamed Epiphanes was moſt vnfortunateunfortunate, who as it were making warre with God himſelfe, did moſt wickedly burne and …
With rule
… religion. But on the other ſide wee read that Antiochus ſyrnamed Epiphanes was moſt vnfortunateunfortunate, who as it were making warre with God himſelfe, did moſt wickedly burne and …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which ſignifieth heauy or mournefull: the Arabick by two words, foreign which ſignifie vile and vnfortunateunfortunate: the truth is, by a talaiporous or wretched perſon, we are to vnderſtand ſuch …
With rule
… which ſignifieth heauy or mournefull: the Arabick by two words, foreign which ſignifie vile and vnfortunateunfortunate: the truth is, by a talaiporous or wretched perſon, we are to vnderſtand ſuch …
Stephen Denison · Another Tombstone · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are much to be conſidered in the ſucceſſe of thynges, as well proſperous as vnfortunateunfortunate: but yet we muſt much more haue a regarde vnto the firſt and chiefe …
With rule
… are much to be conſidered in the ſucceſſe of thynges, as well proſperous as vnfortunateunfortunate: but yet we muſt much more haue a regarde vnto the firſt and chiefe …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with a cudgell he had in his hand, the pride of vnfortunateunfortunate Peretus. The vnfortunateunfortunate man who of Felix was become Infelix, went ſtraightway to Rome, and tolde pope …
With rule
… with a cudgell he had in his hand, the pride of vnfortunateunfortunate Peretus. The vnfortunateunfortunate man who of Felix was become Infelix, went ſtraightway to Rome, and tolde pope …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fooles do) tormenteth and vexeth him ſelfe therwith. And in this he is more vnfortunateunfortunate and vnquiet, then I am: in that he cannot all together vnborden him ſelfe …
With rule
… fooles do) tormenteth and vexeth him ſelfe therwith. And in this he is more vnfortunateunfortunate and vnquiet, then I am: in that he cannot all together vnborden him ſelfe …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… of bloud for themſelues and theirs: For queſtionleſſe the Churches goods haue proued more vnfortunateunfortunate to the Gentrie of this land than euer did the gold of the Temple …
With rule
… of bloud for themſelues and theirs: For queſtionleſſe the Churches goods haue proued more vnfortunateunfortunate to the Gentrie of this land than euer did the gold of the Temple …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 305 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs A20796

Printed
¶ VnfortunateUnfortunate.
With rule
¶ VnfortunateUnfortunate.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 219 · Open in the reader

The Unfortunate Politician A40648

Printed
ANDRONICVS, OR, The VnfortunateUnfortunate POLITICIAN.
With rule
ANDRONICVS, OR, The VnfortunateUnfortunate POLITICIAN.
Thomas Fuller · The Unfortunate Politician · Open in the reader