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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8590 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnusuallunusual

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

Puritas changed it
154 times in 88 works
Consistency
99.3% (154 of 155)
Reach if approved
~163 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unusual
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
155 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (154 changes in 88 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 154)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … haue beene made carkases? And falling vpon those times which did abound with paradoxicall, & vnusuallunusual diseases, of all which, the pox, which then began to rage, was almost the …
    With rule
    … haue beene made carkases? And falling vpon those times which did abound with paradoxicall, & vnusuallunusual diseases, of all which, the pox, which then began to rage, was almost the …

    John Donne · Ignatius Conclave · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … on them. Which kind of game that it was not either vnknowne vnto, or vnusuallunusual among the auncients, beside other euidences, hereby appeareth, in that they many times compare …
    With rule
    … on them. Which kind of game that it was not either vnknowne vnto, or vnusuallunusual among the auncients, beside other euidences, hereby appeareth, in that they many times compare …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Chriſtians. Then theſe witneſſes are ſufficient, that your deniall hereof, is a ſtrange and vnuſuallunusual opinion, that is, a Paradox.
    With rule
    … Chriſtians. Then theſe witneſſes are ſufficient, that your deniall hereof, is a ſtrange and vnuſuallunusual opinion, that is, a Paradox.

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    It is not vnuſuallunusual for a Lion to reſemble a King. This reſemblance is, Prou. 19.12. The Kings wrath …
    With rule
    It is not vnuſuallunusual for a Lion to reſemble a King. This reſemblance is, Prou. 19.12. The Kings wrath …

    Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 249 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … our eſtate from ſingleneſſe to mariage, from pouerty to wealth, or the contrary (as vnuſuallunusual matters do more eaſily vnſettle) that in theſe, I ſay, and ſuch like, when …
    With rule
    … our eſtate from ſingleneſſe to mariage, from pouerty to wealth, or the contrary (as vnuſuallunusual matters do more eaſily vnſettle) that in theſe, I ſay, and ſuch like, when …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 336 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that in letters ſent vnto men abſent, theſe formes of ſpeeches haue not bene vnuſuallunusual or miſliked, to ſay, The brethren ſalute thee, or, Salute the brethren. All the …
    With rule
    … that in letters ſent vnto men abſent, theſe formes of ſpeeches haue not bene vnuſuallunusual or miſliked, to ſay, The brethren ſalute thee, or, Salute the brethren. All the …

    Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 946 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    1 This phrase, for the King to be called the head, is not vnusuallunusual in scripture, 1. Sam. 15.17. Saul is sayd to be the head of the tribes. Psal …
    With rule
    1 This phrase, for the King to be called the head, is not vnusuallunusual in scripture, 1. Sam. 15.17. Saul is sayd to be the head of the tribes. Psal …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … meant the light of the Gospell, obscured by Papall Aegyptian Mysts. Nor is it vnusuallunusual in Scripture to compare the knowledge of Gods word to the Sunne, Mic. 3.6. Therefore …
    With rule
    … meant the light of the Gospell, obscured by Papall Aegyptian Mysts. Nor is it vnusuallunusual in Scripture to compare the knowledge of Gods word to the Sunne, Mic. 3.6. Therefore …

    Henry Burton · The Seven Vials · p. 65 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.