Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #911 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnspottedunspotted

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

Puritas changed it: 446 times in 253 works
Consistency: 99.5% (446 of 448)
Reach if approved: ~471 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unspotted
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 448 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (446 changes in 253 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 446)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for that cause prouision was made for such beastes onely, t…at were cleane, vnspottedunspotted & vndefiled: hereby enducing the people of y^• old Sinagogue to learn, how they ought …
With rule
… for that cause prouision was made for such beastes onely, t…at were cleane, vnspottedunspotted & vndefiled: hereby enducing the people of y^• old Sinagogue to learn, how they ought …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… be of that religion, which the Apostle calleth, religionem mundam & immaculatam, The pure and vnspottedunspotted religion: and that is (as he affirmeth) to viset the fatherlesse, and succoure widowes …
With rule
… be of that religion, which the Apostle calleth, religionem mundam & immaculatam, The pure and vnspottedunspotted religion: and that is (as he affirmeth) to viset the fatherlesse, and succoure widowes …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we ſay then of thoſe which condemne whole multitudes, amongſt whom there be many vnſpottedunspotted with groſe errors and offenſes? But the ground of your dooing is from hence …
With rule
… we ſay then of thoſe which condemne whole multitudes, amongſt whom there be many vnſpottedunspotted with groſe errors and offenſes? But the ground of your dooing is from hence …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
Note then, That our high-prieſt, i… both the Sacrificer, the Altar, and th… vnſpottedunspotted ſacrifice it ſelfe: Theſe the… who claime, that they ſucceede him in his prieſthood …
With rule
Note then, That our high-prieſt, i… both the Sacrificer, the Altar, and th… vnſpottedunspotted ſacrifice it ſelfe: Theſe the… who claime, that they ſucceede him in his prieſthood …
William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 182 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord hath made . The children of God whoſe care hath beene to keepe themſelues vnſpottedunspotted of the World may call death, as Iacob did the place where hee came …
With rule
… Lord hath made . The children of God whoſe care hath beene to keepe themſelues vnſpottedunspotted of the World may call death, as Iacob did the place where hee came …
Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… himſelfe haue bene cleared of iniurye offred vnto vs, nor his Iuſtice haue bene vnſpottedunspotted euen before vs, which if once wee ſuffer to enter but into our thoughtes …
With rule
… himſelfe haue bene cleared of iniurye offred vnto vs, nor his Iuſtice haue bene vnſpottedunspotted euen before vs, which if once wee ſuffer to enter but into our thoughtes …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
Printed
… that not of a corrupte, flesshely, malicious & synfull, but of a pure, immaculate, clene, vnspottedunspotted, faithful & charitable mynd. But I wyll fyrst shewe by the scriptures & holy fathers, y^t …
With rule
… that not of a corrupte, flesshely, malicious & synfull, but of a pure, immaculate, clene, vnspottedunspotted, faithful & charitable mynd. But I wyll fyrst shewe by the scriptures & holy fathers, y^t …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… muſt bee ſtrawbery Sermons, againſt which Latymer cryed out ſo much. Fiftly. A life vnſpottedunspotted in the world, a conuerſation wanting couetouſnes, a ſober carriage free from ambition and …
With rule
… muſt bee ſtrawbery Sermons, againſt which Latymer cryed out ſo much. Fiftly. A life vnſpottedunspotted in the world, a conuerſation wanting couetouſnes, a ſober carriage free from ambition and …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 182 · 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.