Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #891 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vncomelyuncomely

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 230 times in 125 works
Consistency: 98.7% (230 of 233)
Reach if approved: ~245 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: uncomely
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 233 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (230 changes in 125 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 230)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnto Nature. Doth not Nature, saith he, teach you? speaking of some comely and vncomelyuncomely habits: as by Nature both the comelinesse, and consequently the warrantablenesse of the one …
With rule
… vnto Nature. Doth not Nature, saith he, teach you? speaking of some comely and vncomelyuncomely habits: as by Nature both the comelinesse, and consequently the warrantablenesse of the one …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… act, if there were not eyes to see, and eares to heare vvhat is vncomelyuncomely to be spoken, and wicked to be done: nor slaunder in act, if there …
With rule
… act, if there were not eyes to see, and eares to heare vvhat is vncomelyuncomely to be spoken, and wicked to be done: nor slaunder in act, if there …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſecond opinion I thinke to be vnlikely: for as it is vncomelyuncomely to build a faire houſe, not to be inhabited: So to haue theſe Heauens …
With rule
The ſecond opinion I thinke to be vnlikely: for as it is vncomelyuncomely to build a faire houſe, not to be inhabited: So to haue theſe Heauens …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blemiſhed by ſinne, then was he driuen to ſeeke for ornaments, and on his vncomelyuncomely parts to put on more comelineſſe, ſupplying naturall defects, with the helpes of art …
With rule
… blemiſhed by ſinne, then was he driuen to ſeeke for ornaments, and on his vncomelyuncomely parts to put on more comelineſſe, ſupplying naturall defects, with the helpes of art …
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
… enterluds on stages & scaffolds, or to be mixt and interlaced with bawdry, wanton shewes & vncomelyuncomely gestures, as is vsed (euery Man knoweth) in these playes and enterludes. In the …
With rule
… enterluds on stages & scaffolds, or to be mixt and interlaced with bawdry, wanton shewes & vncomelyuncomely gestures, as is vsed (euery Man knoweth) in these playes and enterludes. In the …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… it comly what euer we do, to do it with all our might? onely vncomelyuncomely when wee serue God? Is meane and mediocrity, in all excellent Arts excluded, and …
With rule
… it comly what euer we do, to do it with all our might? onely vncomelyuncomely when wee serue God? Is meane and mediocrity, in all excellent Arts excluded, and …
Samuel Ward · A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of duties, which men are mutually to practise one towards another, without doing any vncomelyuncomely, filthy, or wicked thing. 1. Tim. 2, …. In all godlinesse and Honesty.
With rule
… of duties, which men are mutually to practise one towards another, without doing any vncomelyuncomely, filthy, or wicked thing. 1. Tim. 2, …. In all godlinesse and Honesty.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee may submit himselfe meekely and gently vnto those offices whiche seeme to be vncomelyuncomely and filthie. VVe must also note that Christ telleth them that he had giuen …
With rule
… hee may submit himselfe meekely and gently vnto those offices whiche seeme to be vncomelyuncomely and filthie. VVe must also note that Christ telleth them that he had giuen …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 314 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

Printed
… vncontrouleable, and conuincing arguments haue beene produced, to prooue them to be Odious, Lasciuious, VncomelyUncomely, and Vnlawfull, Toyes, and Vanities; which bring no glory at all to God, nor …
With rule
… vncontrouleable, and conuincing arguments haue beene produced, to prooue them to be Odious, Lasciuious, VncomelyUncomely, and Vnlawfull, Toyes, and Vanities; which bring no glory at all to God, nor …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 59 · Open in the reader