Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8290 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnmercifullunmerciful

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

Puritas changed it: 359 times in 183 works
Consistency: 97.0% (359 of 370)
Reach if approved: ~389 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unmerciful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 370 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (359 changes in 183 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 359)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But wolde God, wolde God that Lady Periury dyd exercyse her vnmercifullunmerciful and tyrannicall …r…elnes only in gettyng and scra…chyng …p togyther falsely and …
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But wolde God, wolde God that Lady Periury dyd exercyse her vnmercifullunmerciful and tyrannicall …r…elnes only in gettyng and scra…chyng …p togyther falsely and …
Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. xlv · Open in the reader
Printed
… bondſlaue to by torne, and worne out with ſore labour vnder the hands of vnmercifullunmerciful maſters: ſo would he not haue the poore dumbe creatures, and therefore elſewhere explaining …
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… bondſlaue to by torne, and worne out with ſore labour vnder the hands of vnmercifullunmerciful maſters: ſo would he not haue the poore dumbe creatures, and therefore elſewhere explaining …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the example of Zach. 2. Chron. 24 22.. Being lead by the occaſion of their vniuſt & vnmercifullunmerciful dealing with him, had a full perſwaſion & feeling of the ſight and iuſtice of …
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… in the example of Zach. 2. Chron. 24 22.. Being lead by the occaſion of their vniuſt & vnmercifullunmerciful dealing with him, had a full perſwaſion & feeling of the ſight and iuſtice of …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… voice: rehearſing y^e 34. Pſalm. Iudge me O Lord, and defend my cauſe againſt the vnmercifullunmerciful people: He was not come to the latter end of the Pſalme, when the …
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… voice: rehearſing y^e 34. Pſalm. Iudge me O Lord, and defend my cauſe againſt the vnmercifullunmerciful people: He was not come to the latter end of the Pſalme, when the …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Samaritane, Chriſt ſaith that it was the Prieſt and Leuite that were vnmercifullunmerciful.
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… of the Samaritane, Chriſt ſaith that it was the Prieſt and Leuite that were vnmercifullunmerciful.
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all to make vp their market, least any thing should escape their hands, these vnmercifullunmerciful bribers maketh marchaundise of the soules of men, to depriue Christe of his whole …
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… all to make vp their market, least any thing should escape their hands, these vnmercifullunmerciful bribers maketh marchaundise of the soules of men, to depriue Christe of his whole …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… became fooles: and the ſcripture muſt be true: the mercies of the wicked are vnmercifullunmerciful: their bowels the ſeat of mercie, are cruell: if they that are euill, can …
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… became fooles: and the ſcripture muſt be true: the mercies of the wicked are vnmercifullunmerciful: their bowels the ſeat of mercie, are cruell: if they that are euill, can …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… it followeth, that if he can do this and will not, he is an vnmercifullunmerciful Tyrant, in ſuffering ſo many millions of ſoules to lye frying in that furnace …
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… it followeth, that if he can do this and will not, he is an vnmercifullunmerciful Tyrant, in ſuffering ſo many millions of ſoules to lye frying in that furnace …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 370 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures A01074

Printed
VnmercifullUnmerciful men shall be paid home in the end, 269.
With rule
VnmercifullUnmerciful men shall be paid home in the end, 269.
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · Open in the reader

A Sinners Indictment A14766

Printed
… are full of blood. God reiecteth, and will not heare the Prayers of the VnmercifullUnmerciful: so long as they haue bloody fingers, their Prayers are abhominable; They haue not …
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… are full of blood. God reiecteth, and will not heare the Prayers of the VnmercifullUnmerciful: so long as they haue bloody fingers, their Prayers are abhominable; They haue not …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is an heauie Iudgement. If then there be any among you, that carry an VnmercifullUnmerciful affection, first let the oppressed▪ goe free. Wash your bloody and vnmercifullunmerciful hands, else …
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… is an heauie Iudgement. If then there be any among you, that carry an VnmercifullUnmerciful affection, first let the oppressed▪ goe free. Wash your bloody and vnmercifullunmerciful hands, else …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If a man haue neuer so many good guiftes, if he haue once an VnmercifullUnmerciful and rauening minde, all his Wisedome, Learning, and other good guiftes are buried and …
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… If a man haue neuer so many good guiftes, if he haue once an VnmercifullUnmerciful and rauening minde, all his Wisedome, Learning, and other good guiftes are buried and …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all his Wisedome, Learning, and other good guiftes are buried and lost. Therefore euery VnmercifullUnmerciful man is an Atheist, They are resolued there is no God: For, if they …
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… all his Wisedome, Learning, and other good guiftes are buried and lost. Therefore euery VnmercifullUnmerciful man is an Atheist, They are resolued there is no God: For, if they …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… done to him, euen vpon the King himselfe. Then God will not suffer the VnmercifullUnmerciful man to escape, The Lord is the auenger of all such. The poore committeth …
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… done to him, euen vpon the King himselfe. Then God will not suffer the VnmercifullUnmerciful man to escape, The Lord is the auenger of all such. The poore committeth …
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 61 · Open in the reader