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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8574 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

untyeuntie

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

Puritas changed it
83 times in 75 works
Consistency
98.8% (83 of 84)
Reach if approved
~88 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: untie
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
84 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (83 changes in 75 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 83)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Ribera ſaw this knot in Apocal. Cap. 20. Num. 33. therefore to untyeuntie the ſame he ſaith: that which followeth: And lived, and reigned, is not to …
    With rule
    Ribera ſaw this knot in Apocal. Cap. 20. Num. 33. therefore to untyeuntie the ſame he ſaith: that which followeth: And lived, and reigned, is not to …

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 514 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … part. There are many arcana naturae, knots in Nature, that are not easie to untyeuntie. Why Nilus should overflow in Summer, when by the course of nature Waters are …
    With rule
    … part. There are many arcana naturae, knots in Nature, that are not easie to untyeuntie. Why Nilus should overflow in Summer, when by the course of nature Waters are …

    Thomas Watson · The Mischief of Sin · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the great Saint Auſtin, a knot that hath buſied the moſt learned wits to untyeuntie, and yet perhaps is not ſo untyed, but that it remaines intangled ſtill? at …
    With rule
    … the great Saint Auſtin, a knot that hath buſied the moſt learned wits to untyeuntie, and yet perhaps is not ſo untyed, but that it remaines intangled ſtill? at …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Soliloquy of the Soul · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … seeming difference betweene the two Apostles. Some, a when they were not able to untyeuntie this Gordian knot, have sought, with Alexander, to cut it, by questioning without just …
    With rule
    … seeming difference betweene the two Apostles. Some, a when they were not able to untyeuntie this Gordian knot, have sought, with Alexander, to cut it, by questioning without just …

    George Downame · A Treatise of Justification · p. 530 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … one Point as ſoon as you can, if you have any clear way to untyeuntie the knot: and if your Grounds conduce to it more then mine, I ſhall …
    With rule
    … one Point as ſoon as you can, if you have any clear way to untyeuntie the knot: and if your Grounds conduce to it more then mine, I ſhall …

    Richard Baxter · Of Justification · p. 395 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Text, he hath boldly adventured to cut the knot which he could not untyeuntie. He proceeds,
    With rule
    … the Text, he hath boldly adventured to cut the knot which he could not untyeuntie. He proceeds,

    Nehemiah Coxe · A Confutation of the Heresies and Errors of Thomas Collier · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Ans. I confesse this is a hard knot to untyeuntie, I desire some who have better fingers then I, would lend their help here …
    With rule
    Ans. I confesse this is a hard knot to untyeuntie, I desire some who have better fingers then I, would lend their help here …

    Giles Firmin · Are Ministers Bound to Baptize Children of Parents who Say They Believe · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … be undress'd, so that there was no comming at it. But, if we said, untyeuntie his neckcloth, and the parties bidden, at the same time, understood our intent to …
    With rule
    … be undress'd, so that there was no comming at it. But, if we said, untyeuntie his neckcloth, and the parties bidden, at the same time, understood our intent to …

    Cotton Mather · Memorable Providences · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

  • Printed
    … c. Mark 11.28, &c. & Luke 20.2, &c. when Aſſaulted with Cavillers, he doth Nodum Nodo Diſſipare, UntyeUntie one Knot with another, and Anſwers one Queſtion by Asking another, in ſtead of …
    With rule
    … c. Mark 11.28, &c. & Luke 20.2, &c. when Aſſaulted with Cavillers, he doth Nodum Nodo Diſſipare, UntyeUntie one Knot with another, and Anſwers one Queſtion by Asking another, in ſtead of …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 268 · Open in the reader