Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11113 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

yeresyears

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 2,867 times in 422 works
Consistency: 99.7% (2,867 of 2,873)
Reach if approved: ~3,406 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: years
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,242 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,867 changes in 422 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,867)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Church of Christianity three yeares; that is, three reuolutions of Ages, thrice fiue hundred yeresyears. Or he hath tarried the leasure of the whole world three yeares: the first …
With rule
… Church of Christianity three yeares; that is, three reuolutions of Ages, thrice fiue hundred yeresyears. Or he hath tarried the leasure of the whole world three yeares: the first …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not but ſee his errour; and yet againe a long while after this, (twenty yeresyears after, Iudg. 15. 20. (when certainely ere that hee had repented of this his ſinne, for …
With rule
… not but ſee his errour; and yet againe a long while after this, (twenty yeresyears after, Iudg. 15. 20. (when certainely ere that hee had repented of this his ſinne, for …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 331 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their soules, not onely here were as they suffred wyth hym for a thousand yeresyears space, but also aboue where as he sitteth on the right hand of gods …
With rule
… their soules, not onely here were as they suffred wyth hym for a thousand yeresyears space, but also aboue where as he sitteth on the right hand of gods …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… and (to reaſon from the leſſe to the greater) will we not attend ſeuen yeresyears (perhaps we ſhall not wait ſeuen dayes) to be free for euer? For by …
With rule
… and (to reaſon from the leſſe to the greater) will we not attend ſeuen yeresyears (perhaps we ſhall not wait ſeuen dayes) to be free for euer? For by …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… patternes his owne. Concerning whom it is recorded, that he reigned but a few yeresyears, and then was killed, and they which were present at his death, calling to …
With rule
… patternes his owne. Concerning whom it is recorded, that he reigned but a few yeresyears, and then was killed, and they which were present at his death, calling to …
Francis Johnson · Reasons Against Two Errors of the Anabaptists · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
Pylat was Lieuetenant vnder Tiberius, ouer Iudaea, and ſucceeded Valerius Cratus, ſome eight yeresyears before Chriſt died on the croſſe.
With rule
Pylat was Lieuetenant vnder Tiberius, ouer Iudaea, and ſucceeded Valerius Cratus, ſome eight yeresyears before Chriſt died on the croſſe.
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
About thrée yeresyears after, there fell a diſſention betwéene the nobilitie and commons of the land: in …
With rule
About thrée yeresyears after, there fell a diſſention betwéene the nobilitie and commons of the land: in …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Councell of Laterane, which was more then 600. yeresyears after the first age of 600. yeresyears. And although the efficacy of error. preuayled by Gods iust iudgment ouer a great …
With rule
… the Councell of Laterane, which was more then 600. yeresyears after the first age of 600. yeresyears. And although the efficacy of error. preuayled by Gods iust iudgment ouer a great …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 400 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 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.

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

Printed
… c. all whiche conſiſte and are doen within the limitation of Houres, Daies, and YeresYears. But when thou wilt throughly conſider the life to come, thou muſt quight forget …
With rule
… c. all whiche conſiſte and are doen within the limitation of Houres, Daies, and YeresYears. But when thou wilt throughly conſider the life to come, thou muſt quight forget …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

Certain Questions A16958

Printed
YeresYears are to Iſaaks byrth
With rule
YeresYears are to Iſaaks byrth
Hugh Broughton · Certain Questions · p. 31 · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

Printed
… Legges. PTOLE Philadelphus. for him the 70 turned the Prophetes into Greke. Much they altered: YeresYears Gen. 5. and. 11. they faigned 1350 leaſt the oftē halfyng of ages ſhoulde trouble the faithles …
With rule
… Legges. PTOLE Philadelphus. for him the 70 turned the Prophetes into Greke. Much they altered: YeresYears Gen. 5. and. 11. they faigned 1350 leaſt the oftē halfyng of ages ſhoulde trouble the faithles …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader