Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8576 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnborneunborn

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

Puritas changed it: 123 times in 99 works
Consistency: 98.4% (123 of 125)
Reach if approved: ~131 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unborn
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 125 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (123 changes in 99 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 123)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… his mothers wombe: of whom Gregorie therefore saith that he was new bred yet vnborneunborn.
With rule
… his mothers wombe: of whom Gregorie therefore saith that he was new bred yet vnborneunborn.
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in them extendeth it ſelfe indifferently and generally to all here, liuing, or yet vnborneunborn, whom they loue as themſelues; yet it is ill proued from the example of …
With rule
… in them extendeth it ſelfe indifferently and generally to all here, liuing, or yet vnborneunborn, whom they loue as themſelues; yet it is ill proued from the example of …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Prophetes speake to the Iewes, and not to vs. For wee were yet vnborneunborn, and therefore wee may not seeme to take it vppon vs: for he that …
With rule
… the Prophetes speake to the Iewes, and not to vs. For wee were yet vnborneunborn, and therefore wee may not seeme to take it vppon vs: for he that …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… liued, but for vs, to the end of the World; we that were then vnborneunborn, and thoſe that as yet are not borne; the Lord Ieſus intended it to …
With rule
… liued, but for vs, to the end of the World; we that were then vnborneunborn, and thoſe that as yet are not borne; the Lord Ieſus intended it to …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… immortall hatred against him, and all that pertained vnto him: yea thee as yet vnborneunborn, but contained in him, whose whole masse by his impious disobedience, became by iust …
With rule
… immortall hatred against him, and all that pertained vnto him: yea thee as yet vnborneunborn, but contained in him, whose whole masse by his impious disobedience, became by iust …
Henry Smith · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… conuince the Aduerſaries, but in the Hebrewe and Greeke? your latine tranſlator was then vnborneunborn, when yet the ſcriptures in their original tongues were able to binde and confute …
With rule
… conuince the Aduerſaries, but in the Hebrewe and Greeke? your latine tranſlator was then vnborneunborn, when yet the ſcriptures in their original tongues were able to binde and confute …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 357 · Open in the reader
Printed
And whom, (vnborneunborn) his foes already feare.
With rule
And whom, (vnborneunborn) his foes already feare.
George Wither · Nuptial Poems · Open in the reader
Printed
an Embrion, yet vnborneunborn.
With rule
an Embrion, yet vnborneunborn.
Robert Boyd · A Spiritual Hymn · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.