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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7999 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vndoeundo

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

Puritas changed it
317 times in 173 works
Consistency
98.4% (317 of 322)
Reach if approved
~338 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: undo
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
322 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (317 changes in 173 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 317)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the poore the Twentiths of them. It is not seasonable, nor reasonable charitie, to vndoeundo whole townes by your vsuries, enclosings, oppressions, impropriations; and for a kind of expiation …
    With rule
    … the poore the Twentiths of them. It is not seasonable, nor reasonable charitie, to vndoeundo whole townes by your vsuries, enclosings, oppressions, impropriations; and for a kind of expiation …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſhall feele more of it in Purgatorie? He hath done it: and ſhall any vndoeundo it? Or thinke to doe it better? The blood of Chriſt is our purgatorie …
    With rule
    … ſhall feele more of it in Purgatorie? He hath done it: and ſhall any vndoeundo it? Or thinke to doe it better? The blood of Chriſt is our purgatorie …

    Robert Horne · Life and Death · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to doe things contradictorie, is not to effect and doe, but to faile and vndoeundo: and therefore an argument of impotency, rather then of omnipotency: and for that cauſe …
    With rule
    … to doe things contradictorie, is not to effect and doe, but to faile and vndoeundo: and therefore an argument of impotency, rather then of omnipotency: and for that cauſe …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 473 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … rumors of people, consultations to destroye one another, and suttle deuyces to disappoynt or vndoeundo one another. Good men by reading them become malicious, and euill men become worse …
    With rule
    … rumors of people, consultations to destroye one another, and suttle deuyces to disappoynt or vndoeundo one another. Good men by reading them become malicious, and euill men become worse …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 420 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not that men should sell you ware that is nought, and too deare, to vndoeundo you: doe no such thing then vnto your neighbours, but as loath as you …
    With rule
    … not that men should sell you ware that is nought, and too deare, to vndoeundo you: doe no such thing then vnto your neighbours, but as loath as you …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 642 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … as they can. These play the fooles as well as the wicked men, and vndoeundo themselues vtterly, which otherwise might haue beene vpheld, and liued comfortably of their credit …
    With rule
    … as they can. These play the fooles as well as the wicked men, and vndoeundo themselues vtterly, which otherwise might haue beene vpheld, and liued comfortably of their credit …

    John Rogers · A Treatise of Love · p. 240 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Prodigall returned not from his Harlot without an empty Purse. Sinne doth no lesse vndoeundo a mans estate. It is a Purgatorie to his Patrimonie. It is obiected: It …
    With rule
    … Prodigall returned not from his Harlot without an empty Purse. Sinne doth no lesse vndoeundo a mans estate. It is a Purgatorie to his Patrimonie. It is obiected: It …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … haue all alike with him. The prodigall loueth not parſimony. His nature is to vndoeundo all that deale with him, and follow his humours; neyther regarde his ſerpentine tongue …
    With rule
    … haue all alike with him. The prodigall loueth not parſimony. His nature is to vndoeundo all that deale with him, and follow his humours; neyther regarde his ſerpentine tongue …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 287 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

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

A Spiritual Trumpet Sounded to Christian Warfare A04371

  • Printed
    … art foiled, and ſeekeſt to recouer thy ſelfe, and make amends by better truſtineſſe. VndoeUndo the works of the deuill, by morning for them, by repentance, by running to …
    With rule
    … art foiled, and ſeekeſt to recouer thy ſelfe, and make amends by better truſtineſſe. VndoeUndo the works of the deuill, by morning for them, by repentance, by running to …

    William Jemmat · A Spiritual Trumpet Sounded to Christian Warfare · p. 143 · Open in the reader

Five Godly and Profitable Sermons A09262

  • Printed
    … free me from this streightnesse, and bring my soule out into a large place. VndoeUndo the works of of the Divell, restraine his power, destroy his kingdome, and vtterly …
    With rule
    … free me from this streightnesse, and bring my soule out into a large place. VndoeUndo the works of of the Divell, restraine his power, destroy his kingdome, and vtterly …

    William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

  • Printed
    VndoeUndo their Country, hurt and wrong the poore,
    With rule
    VndoeUndo their Country, hurt and wrong the poore,

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader