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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7729 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vngratefullungrateful

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

Puritas changed it
244 times in 122 works
Consistency
96.4% (244 of 253)
Reach if approved
~266 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ungrateful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
253 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (244 changes in 122 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 244)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Communion of Saints: 38.2. m. Communicants vngratefullungrateful: 217.2. c.
    With rule
    Communion of Saints: 38.2. m. Communicants vngratefullungrateful: 217.2. c.

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Thus the wicked anſwer heauens kindneſſe with an vngratefullungrateful wickedneſſe: for many bleſſings which they haue from God receiued, they returne horrible, and …
    With rule
    Thus the wicked anſwer heauens kindneſſe with an vngratefullungrateful wickedneſſe: for many bleſſings which they haue from God receiued, they returne horrible, and …

    Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … bountie, and be made perfectly blessed by his infinite happinesse, who when Adam thy vngratefullungrateful father by distrusting him that had faithfully promised, was throughly able to fulfill his …
    With rule
    … bountie, and be made perfectly blessed by his infinite happinesse, who when Adam thy vngratefullungrateful father by distrusting him that had faithfully promised, was throughly able to fulfill his …

    Henry Smith · The Magistrates Scripture · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſome great & preſent anger of his, and fore-ſhew ſome ſeuere iudgemēt againſt this vngratefullungrateful generation, by the death of other famous men, & of this choice inſtrument by name …
    With rule
    … ſome great & preſent anger of his, and fore-ſhew ſome ſeuere iudgemēt againſt this vngratefullungrateful generation, by the death of other famous men, & of this choice inſtrument by name …

    Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 331 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Thy ſelfe vnto the LORD vngratefullungrateful ſhow?
    With rule
    Thy ſelfe vnto the LORD vngratefullungrateful ſhow?

    George Wither · The Songs of the Old Testament Translated into English Measures · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Then beauty to desert vngratefullungrateful
    With rule
    Then beauty to desert vngratefullungrateful

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by the moſt of it. Of innocent King Edward, thus they ſpeake: England, ah vngratefullungrateful England, forgat the liuing God, and felt the curſe of hauing a child to …
    With rule
    … by the moſt of it. Of innocent King Edward, thus they ſpeake: England, ah vngratefullungrateful England, forgat the liuing God, and felt the curſe of hauing a child to …

    William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … done much euill in thy ſight. I haue not knowne thee, I haue bin vngratefullungrateful for thy benefits, I haue not praiſed thee, as I ought, I haue often …
    With rule
    … done much euill in thy ſight. I haue not knowne thee, I haue bin vngratefullungrateful for thy benefits, I haue not praiſed thee, as I ought, I haue often …

    John Mayer · A Pattern for Women · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sicelides a Piscatory A00979

  • Printed
    VngratefullUngrateful Sicelie that want'st his bones,
    With rule
    VngratefullUngrateful Sicelie that want'st his bones,

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

A Guide to Go to God A01975

  • Printed
    5. VngratefullUngrateful wretches, that haue neither mind nor time to giue God thankes for the good …
    With rule
    5. VngratefullUngrateful wretches, that haue neither mind nor time to giue God thankes for the good …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 125 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

  • Printed
    … Law requireth; and all that thy God in the Goſpell doth require of thee. VngratefullUngrateful ſoule, if thou doſt not anſwere his demands; when hauing done ſo much for …
    With rule
    … Law requireth; and all that thy God in the Goſpell doth require of thee. VngratefullUngrateful ſoule, if thou doſt not anſwere his demands; when hauing done ſo much for …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 600 · Open in the reader