Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8421 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnnecessarieunnecessary

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

Puritas changed it: 292 times in 152 works
Consistency: 98.6% (292 of 296)
Reach if approved: ~311 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unnecessary
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 296 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (292 changes in 152 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 292)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for any to aduenture hazard, or manifeſt danger, by intermedling in a friuolous and vnneceſſarieunnecessary quarel, and much more for ſuch cauſe as can not be iuſtified by any …
With rule
… for any to aduenture hazard, or manifeſt danger, by intermedling in a friuolous and vnneceſſarieunnecessary quarel, and much more for ſuch cauſe as can not be iuſtified by any …
Gabriel Powel · The Deprived and Silenced Ministers Arguments · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of swearing wee may consider two kinds. The one is this voluntarie rash and vnnecessarieunnecessary swearing, which issueth commonly from a profane heart and carelesse of God. Of this …
With rule
… of swearing wee may consider two kinds. The one is this voluntarie rash and vnnecessarieunnecessary swearing, which issueth commonly from a profane heart and carelesse of God. Of this …
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Braccarense, Lateranense, Lugdunense, Pictaviense, Merense: lest I should ouercharge a litle booke with an vnnecessarieunnecessary burthen, or trouble the reader of superstitious rites, damning of old …, and of euery …
With rule
… Braccarense, Lateranense, Lugdunense, Pictaviense, Merense: lest I should ouercharge a litle booke with an vnnecessarieunnecessary burthen, or trouble the reader of superstitious rites, damning of old …, and of euery …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 593 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the things that belong vnto our peace; not to ſpeake of your fruitleſſe and vnneceſſarieunnecessary talking, on that day, in your houſes, or at your doores, or as ye …
With rule
… the things that belong vnto our peace; not to ſpeake of your fruitleſſe and vnneceſſarieunnecessary talking, on that day, in your houſes, or at your doores, or as ye …
Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 941 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that I haue said heere before there may be gathered these conclusions folowing, not vnnecessarieunnecessary to be noted, for better perspicuities sake, to the vnlearned.
With rule
… that I haue said heere before there may be gathered these conclusions folowing, not vnnecessarieunnecessary to be noted, for better perspicuities sake, to the vnlearned.
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Pietie and Charitie, I pray you tell me, what you can ſay for vnneceſſarieunnecessary and deſperate running to the ſicke and buried of the Plague?
With rule
… to Pietie and Charitie, I pray you tell me, what you can ſay for vnneceſſarieunnecessary and deſperate running to the ſicke and buried of the Plague?
James Balmford · Concerning the Plagues Infection · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the 16. In which hee coucheth and combines both. Let no man now thinke admonition vnnecessarieunnecessary (not though he be the best of many.) For Timothie is heere exhorted to …
With rule
… the 16. In which hee coucheth and combines both. Let no man now thinke admonition vnnecessarieunnecessary (not though he be the best of many.) For Timothie is heere exhorted to …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Images notwithſtanding this obtractation, why not (then) this Croſſe aſwell? And we pull downe vnneceſſarieunnecessary chappells and Churches without all feare, which is more ſubiect ten times to this …
With rule
… Images notwithſtanding this obtractation, why not (then) this Croſſe aſwell? And we pull downe vnneceſſarieunnecessary chappells and Churches without all feare, which is more ſubiect ten times to this …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 64 · 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.