Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #772 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnnaturalunnatural

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

Puritas changed it: 116 times in 94 works
Consistency: 94.3% (116 of 123)
Reach if approved: ~129 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unnatural
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 123 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (116 changes in 94 works, 94.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 116)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… would euer haue be leued (I wryt nowe in bytternesse of herte) that suche vnnaturalunnatural crueltie should haue had dominion ouer any reasonable creature? But the saying is to …
With rule
… would euer haue be leued (I wryt nowe in bytternesse of herte) that suche vnnaturalunnatural crueltie should haue had dominion ouer any reasonable creature? But the saying is to …
John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being departed this life, appeared to an Heremit, in the likenesse of an horrible & vnnaturalunnatural beast, hauing head & taile like an Asse, & the rest of his bodie like a …
With rule
… being departed this life, appeared to an Heremit, in the likenesse of an horrible & vnnaturalunnatural beast, hauing head & taile like an Asse, & the rest of his bodie like a …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 309 · Open in the reader
Printed
I answer; the reason is: not that God delighteth in vnreasonable or vnnaturalunnatural courses, or in laying heauie burdens vpon his children. But he did it for …
With rule
I answer; the reason is: not that God delighteth in vnreasonable or vnnaturalunnatural courses, or in laying heauie burdens vpon his children. But he did it for …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 182 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yonger brethren, ascendeth the throne, which, together with his life, he lost, by like vnnaturalunnatural trecherie of Periaconcona his sister, the 24 of Nouēb. 1577. Mahomet his brother succeeded in this …
With rule
… yonger brethren, ascendeth the throne, which, together with his life, he lost, by like vnnaturalunnatural trecherie of Periaconcona his sister, the 24 of Nouēb. 1577. Mahomet his brother succeeded in this …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are recited by the Apoſtle, Rom. 1. as confounding of kindes and ſexes, likewiſe the vnnaturalunnatural abuſage of woman-kind. Theſe heinous ſinnes and horrible treſpaſſes are to bee puniſhed …
With rule
… are recited by the Apoſtle, Rom. 1. as confounding of kindes and ſexes, likewiſe the vnnaturalunnatural abuſage of woman-kind. Theſe heinous ſinnes and horrible treſpaſſes are to bee puniſhed …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs, and maruailouslie prone to suspect, backbite and malice all men▪ yea, we are vnnaturalunnatural, vnkinde, and vnthankefull euen towards them to whom wee are most neerely bound, tell …
With rule
… vs, and maruailouslie prone to suspect, backbite and malice all men▪ yea, we are vnnaturalunnatural, vnkinde, and vnthankefull euen towards them to whom wee are most neerely bound, tell …
William Bradshaw · A Direction for Weaker Christians · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… some reason vnto it: they sought some comfort to releue their sorrowe: & it semed vnnaturalunnatural not to shew before God some testimonie of their loue toward the dead. How …
With rule
… some reason vnto it: they sought some comfort to releue their sorrowe: & it semed vnnaturalunnatural not to shew before God some testimonie of their loue toward the dead. How …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… any strange Eclipse, Comet, apparition in the heauens, shaking of the earth, strange and vnnaturalunnatural births; but after this change of nature some euent came strangely sooner or later …
With rule
… any strange Eclipse, Comet, apparition in the heauens, shaking of the earth, strange and vnnaturalunnatural births; but after this change of nature some euent came strangely sooner or later …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 229 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.