Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8189 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnskilfullunskillful

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

Puritas changed it: 353 times in 188 works
Consistency: 98.8% (353 of 357)
Reach if approved: ~375 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: unskilful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 357 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (353 changes in 188 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 353)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Scholemen were, though not more skilfull in Tullie, then in the scriptures, yet as vnskilfullunskillful in the scriptures, as in Tullie; and there graund-maister the Maister of the …
With rule
… Scholemen were, though not more skilfull in Tullie, then in the scriptures, yet as vnskilfullunskillful in the scriptures, as in Tullie; and there graund-maister the Maister of the …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… effunditur, or effusus est. So that this is nothing else, but an impudent and vnskilfullunskillful quarrelling, against Beza, whereas you Papistes defende against the manifest institution of the cuppe …
With rule
… effunditur, or effusus est. So that this is nothing else, but an impudent and vnskilfullunskillful quarrelling, against Beza, whereas you Papistes defende against the manifest institution of the cuppe …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… To performe this there is néede of déepe meditation before a man pray: the vnſkilfullunskillful and vntaught in Gods holy word, can not meditate any thing but corruptly, and …
With rule
… To performe this there is néede of déepe meditation before a man pray: the vnſkilfullunskillful and vntaught in Gods holy word, can not meditate any thing but corruptly, and …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is no one thing (I thinke) in which our ordinarie hearers, are either more vnskilfullunskillful or more backward, then this dutie of trying doctrines: what vnſettledneſſe in opinion, what …
With rule
… is no one thing (I thinke) in which our ordinarie hearers, are either more vnskilfullunskillful or more backward, then this dutie of trying doctrines: what vnſettledneſſe in opinion, what …
Samuel Hieron · The Doctrines Trial · Open in the reader
Printed
… and if they bee so diuided, there be seuentie bookes in the Bible; the vnskilfullunskillful may finde where any one of these fiue bookes end, by looking where a …
With rule
… and if they bee so diuided, there be seuentie bookes in the Bible; the vnskilfullunskillful may finde where any one of these fiue bookes end, by looking where a …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I do to inherit eternall life? This lawer was endued with wiſedome, and not vnſkilfullunskillful of the Scriptures, which euen his aunſwere doth declare, yet in this place he …
With rule
… I do to inherit eternall life? This lawer was endued with wiſedome, and not vnſkilfullunskillful of the Scriptures, which euen his aunſwere doth declare, yet in this place he …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 393 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pull thee downe, be thou never ſo high; he can and will make thee vnskilfullunskillful, be thou never ſo cunning, or will doe vnto thee more then ſo, if …
With rule
… pull thee downe, be thou never ſo high; he can and will make thee vnskilfullunskillful, be thou never ſo cunning, or will doe vnto thee more then ſo, if …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is no ſaluation. And neither doth this ſubtle kinde of reaſoning, dryue away the vnſkilfullunskillful onely, from the knowledge of the truth, but alſo cauſeth, ſome euen amongeſt them …
With rule
… is no ſaluation. And neither doth this ſubtle kinde of reaſoning, dryue away the vnſkilfullunskillful onely, from the knowledge of the truth, but alſo cauſeth, ſome euen amongeſt them …
Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.