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vnknownunknown

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

Puritas changed it
245 times in 146 works
Consistency
95.3% (245 of 257)
Reach if approved
~270 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unknown
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
257 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (245 changes in 146 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 245)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … defenders of the truth, yet they clearly knew that the opiniō of Popish Purgatorywas vnknownunknown to their ancient orthodoxe fathers.
    With rule
    … defenders of the truth, yet they clearly knew that the opiniō of Popish Purgatorywas vnknownunknown to their ancient orthodoxe fathers.

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be receiued as a Mediator, we shall worship vnknowne men, as the Athenians did vnknownunknown gods. For the best Papists doubt whether there were euer any S. George, or …
    With rule
    … be receiued as a Mediator, we shall worship vnknowne men, as the Athenians did vnknownunknown gods. For the best Papists doubt whether there were euer any S. George, or …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … was by ſaying the Pater-noſter in Latin, or repeating other roſaries in an vnknownunknown lāguage.
    With rule
    … was by ſaying the Pater-noſter in Latin, or repeating other roſaries in an vnknownunknown lāguage.

    Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their liues & goods ſhuld (to the preiudice of their country cuſtomes) be cōmitted to vnknownunknown, beggerly & baſe perſons, who coueting their goods & treſurs, might eaſely find means to accuſe …
    With rule
    … their liues & goods ſhuld (to the preiudice of their country cuſtomes) be cōmitted to vnknownunknown, beggerly & baſe perſons, who coueting their goods & treſurs, might eaſely find means to accuſe …

    Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the good name or credit of my neighbour, whether friend or ſo, known or vnknownunknown: but carefully preſerue the ſame. The occaſiō of this commandement was our ſeditious nature.
    With rule
    … the good name or credit of my neighbour, whether friend or ſo, known or vnknownunknown: but carefully preſerue the ſame. The occaſiō of this commandement was our ſeditious nature.

    Richard Bernard · Joshuas Godly Resolution · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … knowen sinnes, and those which troble the conscience, are to be confessed particularlie: but vnknownunknown sins generally. Psa. 19
    With rule
    … knowen sinnes, and those which troble the conscience, are to be confessed particularlie: but vnknownunknown sins generally. Psa. 19

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … his: Heb. 4.15. But al this muſt bee vnderſtoode of a celeſtial faſhiō & maner altogether vnknownunknown vnto vs, without imagining an interceſſion by praiers agreeable vnto the ſtate of this …
    With rule
    … his: Heb. 4.15. But al this muſt bee vnderſtoode of a celeſtial faſhiō & maner altogether vnknownunknown vnto vs, without imagining an interceſſion by praiers agreeable vnto the ſtate of this …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a strange tongue is spoken one should interprete, or otherwise the speaker in an vnknownunknown tongue should hold his peace, Verse 16, 17, 18. But the Councell of Trent sayth, (in the …
    With rule
    … a strange tongue is spoken one should interprete, or otherwise the speaker in an vnknownunknown tongue should hold his peace, Verse 16, 17, 18. But the Councell of Trent sayth, (in the …

    Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 199 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Treasury of Similes A18271

  • Printed
    VNknownUnknown Language in Gods ſeruice. Folio. 173.
    With rule
    VNknownUnknown Language in Gods ſeruice. Folio. 173.

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · Open in the reader