Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13718 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iiijiv

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

Puritas changed it: 845 times in 79 works
Consistency: 99.4% (845 of 850)
Reach if approved: ~1,016 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 967 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: y (5)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (845 changes in 79 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 845)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wisedome to shine the better. Neyther dothe he teache any other thinge vnto the .iiijiv. chapter of the firste Epistle to the Corinthians, than that the faith is then …
With rule
… wisedome to shine the better. Neyther dothe he teache any other thinge vnto the .iiijiv. chapter of the firste Epistle to the Corinthians, than that the faith is then …
John Calvin · The Little Book · Open in the reader
Printed
… office as of a filizarie, &c. ſeiſin ſhall bee alledged by the taking of iiijiv. d. for making out a capias, or ſuch like. In a quod permittat, by …
With rule
… office as of a filizarie, &c. ſeiſin ſhall bee alledged by the taking of iiijiv. d. for making out a capias, or ſuch like. In a quod permittat, by …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 357 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his heade / which acte he & the states of the empyre commanded to be publyshed .iiijiv. tymes in the yere at estern / whytsontyde / assumpcion of our lady and at cristemas.
With rule
… his heade / which acte he & the states of the empyre commanded to be publyshed .iiijiv. tymes in the yere at estern / whytsontyde / assumpcion of our lady and at cristemas.
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
This is a consectary drawne out of the 28 e iiijiv. For if the inscripts were halfed, they should be diameters, against the grant.
With rule
This is a consectary drawne out of the 28 e iiijiv. For if the inscripts were halfed, they should be diameters, against the grant.
Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ The. iiijiv. Chapter.
With rule
¶ The. iiijiv. Chapter.
Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · Open in the reader
Printed
… very nedle work of some one payre of these bootehose to stand, some in .iiijiv. pound, vi. pound, and some in x. pound a péece. Besides this, they are …
With rule
… very nedle work of some one payre of these bootehose to stand, some in .iiijiv. pound, vi. pound, and some in x. pound a péece. Besides this, they are …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… worſhipped is the herte of mā. For God is a ſprite (ſayth Chriſt Io. iiijiv.) & will be worſheped in the ſprite & in trueth: That is / when a penitente herte …
With rule
… worſhipped is the herte of mā. For God is a ſprite (ſayth Chriſt Io. iiijiv.) & will be worſheped in the ſprite & in trueth: That is / when a penitente herte …
William Tyndale · Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work · p. xlv · Open in the reader
Printed
iiijiv. Lowely and meke.
With rule
iiijiv. Lowely and meke.
Alexander Alesius · The Authority of the Word of God Against the Bishop of London · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.