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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8116 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vniversalluniversal

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

Puritas changed it
661 times in 207 works
Consistency
99.4% (661 of 665)
Reach if approved
~699 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: universal
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
665 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (661 changes in 207 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 661)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Object. 3. But how is this Church Catholike or VniverſallUniversal, if any man be ſhut out of it? Or how is it ſaid by …
    With rule
    Object. 3. But how is this Church Catholike or VniverſallUniversal, if any man be ſhut out of it? Or how is it ſaid by …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 163 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of arguing to reaſon from the ſpeciall, or a ſingular, to the generall, and vniverſalluniversal: Much leſſe from one extraordinary act or event, to all ordinary courſes of the …
    With rule
    … of arguing to reaſon from the ſpeciall, or a ſingular, to the generall, and vniverſalluniversal: Much leſſe from one extraordinary act or event, to all ordinary courſes of the …

    James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … day aboli…hed & ſwallowed vp of Hell. Laſtly …eere is ſhewed the moſt general & vniverſalluniversal rendring vp of all the …ead whatſoever to iudgment. But Hel plainly hath not …
    With rule
    … day aboli…hed & ſwallowed vp of Hell. Laſtly …eere is ſhewed the moſt general & vniverſalluniversal rendring vp of all the …ead whatſoever to iudgment. But Hel plainly hath not …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 189 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the primary cauſe of all afflictions, and of many the immediate cauſe. Of the vniverſalluniversal deluge, and floud of waters in the daies of Noah, Gen. 6.17. Of the burning …
    With rule
    … the primary cauſe of all afflictions, and of many the immediate cauſe. Of the vniverſalluniversal deluge, and floud of waters in the daies of Noah, Gen. 6.17. Of the burning …

    Sebastian Benefield · The Haven of the Afflicted · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is vnlawful (ſay you) notwithſtanding all the ſtates in Europe alow him to be vniverſalluniversal biſhop, and it is vnlawful notwithſtanding poperie were true religion, and hee a moſt …
    With rule
    … is vnlawful (ſay you) notwithſtanding all the ſtates in Europe alow him to be vniverſalluniversal biſhop, and it is vnlawful notwithſtanding poperie were true religion, and hee a moſt …

    John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    1. An VniversallUniversal change, p. 141
    With rule
    1. An VniversallUniversal change, p. 141

    John Preston · Sins Overthrow · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ltra, an utmost linke in the chaine of any Science, and such a Prime, VniversallUniversal, Vnquestionable, Vnprovable Truth, from whence all Inferiour Collections are fundamentally raised, and this is …
    With rule
    … ltra, an utmost linke in the chaine of any Science, and such a Prime, VniversallUniversal, Vnquestionable, Vnprovable Truth, from whence all Inferiour Collections are fundamentally raised, and this is …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 484 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … but in particulars, and that strongly, Thou art the man: this convincing is also vniversalluniversal, of sinnes of nature, of sinnes of life, sinnes of the Vnderstanding, of the …
    With rule
    … but in particulars, and that strongly, Thou art the man: this convincing is also vniversalluniversal, of sinnes of nature, of sinnes of life, sinnes of the Vnderstanding, of the …

    Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · p. 160 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford A08356

  • Printed
    VNiverſallUniversal grace refuted. 3. &c.
    With rule
    VNiverſallUniversal grace refuted. 3. &c.

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · Open in the reader