Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #769 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnlookedunlooked

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

Puritas changed it: 157 times in 92 works
Consistency: 98.7% (157 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unlooked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (157 changes in 92 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 157)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſeeke mercy, which if he had ſought, ſurely he had felt it ſuddainlie, and vnlookedunlooked for. But to returne to DAVID againe, he being ſtrengthned beſide his expectation, he …
With rule
… ſeeke mercy, which if he had ſought, ſurely he had felt it ſuddainlie, and vnlookedunlooked for. But to returne to DAVID againe, he being ſtrengthned beſide his expectation, he …
Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… carriage, how euer for the preſent he may be daunted at ſome ſudden accident vnlookedunlooked for in the world. The foole, ſaith Bernard, is changeable like the Moone: but …
With rule
… carriage, how euer for the preſent he may be daunted at ſome ſudden accident vnlookedunlooked for in the world. The foole, ſaith Bernard, is changeable like the Moone: but …
Francis Taylor · Self-Satisfaction · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnarmed, gathered together in common praier and supplication, and their enemies came vpon them vnlookedunlooked for, and on the sudden: Ioseph. then they vsed no carnall weapons, or outward …
With rule
… vnarmed, gathered together in common praier and supplication, and their enemies came vpon them vnlookedunlooked for, and on the sudden: Ioseph. then they vsed no carnall weapons, or outward …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… employ our selues; though counsels of vngodlines, be rounded in our eares; and strange vnlookedunlooked-for temptations, with faire opportunities, lay siege against vs: yet they shall not preuaile …
With rule
… employ our selues; though counsels of vngodlines, be rounded in our eares; and strange vnlookedunlooked-for temptations, with faire opportunities, lay siege against vs: yet they shall not preuaile …
George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… violence is offered. Euen as if the wind ſhould driue vs to any place vnlookedunlooked for. Or if the kinges officers doe perforce compell thy handes to offer incenſe …
With rule
… violence is offered. Euen as if the wind ſhould driue vs to any place vnlookedunlooked for. Or if the kinges officers doe perforce compell thy handes to offer incenſe …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 511 · Open in the reader
Printed
… names) to the whole church of God. The which as I know it commeth vnlookedunlooked for, not only in reſpect of your ſelues, but alſo of diuers other that …
With rule
… names) to the whole church of God. The which as I know it commeth vnlookedunlooked for, not only in reſpect of your ſelues, but alſo of diuers other that …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · Open in the reader
Printed
… The vanity of this life, being but a very dreame and ſhadow. 5. The ſudden & vnlookedunlooked for approach of Death. 6. That juſt cauſe hee hath to ſuſpect himſelfe of impenitencie …
With rule
… The vanity of this life, being but a very dreame and ſhadow. 5. The ſudden & vnlookedunlooked for approach of Death. 6. That juſt cauſe hee hath to ſuſpect himſelfe of impenitencie …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is to puniſh. Thus is God ſaid to viſit, when with ſome ſudden and vnlookedunlooked ſcourge or calamity, he taketh vengeance vpon men for their ſinnes, which for a …
With rule
… is to puniſh. Thus is God ſaid to viſit, when with ſome ſudden and vnlookedunlooked ſcourge or calamity, he taketh vengeance vpon men for their ſinnes, which for a …
Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 279 · 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.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
VnlookedUnlooked for, and most dreadfull Iudgement, hurling downe, and laying wast all things, like a …
With rule
VnlookedUnlooked for, and most dreadfull Iudgement, hurling downe, and laying wast all things, like a …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 56 · Open in the reader