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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8864 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnhappinesseunhappiness

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

Puritas changed it
96 times in 66 works
Consistency
96.0% (96 of 100)
Reach if approved
~105 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unhappiness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
100 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (96 changes in 66 works, 96.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 96)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be thus abſent from Chriſt, be our happineſſe, and we count it our greateſt vnhappineſſeunhappiness to come vnto him by going hence; Chriſt is not our head, but he …
    With rule
    … be thus abſent from Chriſt, be our happineſſe, and we count it our greateſt vnhappineſſeunhappiness to come vnto him by going hence; Chriſt is not our head, but he …

    Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and to entreat the Lord to ſupply their wants. And further, this bewraies the vnhappineſſeunhappiness of all ſuch as doe not heartily ſeeke after both, but are content to …
    With rule
    … and to entreat the Lord to ſupply their wants. And further, this bewraies the vnhappineſſeunhappiness of all ſuch as doe not heartily ſeeke after both, but are content to …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … slip, to see and compare the wickeds outward prosperitie and happinesse with their owne vnhappinesseunhappiness and apparent miserie, whereas the Sanctuarie telleth them of the end of both, and …
    With rule
    … slip, to see and compare the wickeds outward prosperitie and happinesse with their owne vnhappinesseunhappiness and apparent miserie, whereas the Sanctuarie telleth them of the end of both, and …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 278 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    WHat is the cauſe of this vnhappineſſeunhappiness?
    With rule
    WHat is the cauſe of this vnhappineſſeunhappiness?

    Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Sabinian: Hoc plango, quòd te non plangis. And A…gustin… calles this a blessed vnhappinesseunhappiness, when a man is a…fected, not infected, with his neighbours iniquitie: …ta miseria …
    With rule
    … Sabinian: Hoc plango, quòd te non plangis. And A…gustin… calles this a blessed vnhappinesseunhappiness, when a man is a…fected, not infected, with his neighbours iniquitie: …ta miseria …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Dominical Epistles and Gospels · p. 286 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … others to beare with patience, that happinesse might not be sought in them, nor vnhappinesseunhappiness feared in these. So also they helpe vs to come to this chiefe goodnes …
    With rule
    … others to beare with patience, that happinesse might not be sought in them, nor vnhappinesseunhappiness feared in these. So also they helpe vs to come to this chiefe goodnes …

    John Downame · Consolations for the Afflicted · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … both appeareth. Which may ſet out their happineſſe: and on the contrary it is vnhappineſſeunhappiness to an Obadiah to dwell with a wicked Ahab; or a Iacob with a …
    With rule
    … both appeareth. Which may ſet out their happineſſe: and on the contrary it is vnhappineſſeunhappiness to an Obadiah to dwell with a wicked Ahab; or a Iacob with a …

    Richard Bernard · Ruths Recompense · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Their curse, what for the head thereof and for the foote, is full of vnhappinesseunhappiness. It entreth with a Vae prophetis insipientibus, woe vnto the foolish Prophets, vers. 3. and …
    With rule
    … Their curse, what for the head thereof and for the foote, is full of vnhappinesseunhappiness. It entreth with a Vae prophetis insipientibus, woe vnto the foolish Prophets, vers. 3. and …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · p. 305 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse A15636

  • Printed
    … vexation and misery. For, if it might bee so; these two contraries, Blessednesse, and VnhappinesseUnhappiness; should dwell together at the same time, in one man: which were impossible.
    With rule
    … vexation and misery. For, if it might bee so; these two contraries, Blessednesse, and VnhappinesseUnhappiness; should dwell together at the same time, in one man: which were impossible.

    George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 82 · Open in the reader