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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25046 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

exemplifieexemplify

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it
249 times in 180 works
Consistency
97.2% (249 of 256)
Reach if approved
~269 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: exemplify
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
256 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (249 changes in 180 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 249)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … tearmes and sentences, teacheth vs this doctrine. We must labour in our meditations to exemplifieexemplify, and enlarge vnto our owne vnderstanding the miseries that we doe suffer in the …
    With rule
    … tearmes and sentences, teacheth vs this doctrine. We must labour in our meditations to exemplifieexemplify, and enlarge vnto our owne vnderstanding the miseries that we doe suffer in the …

    John Udall · Commentary Upon Lamentations · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … meaſure of true beleeuing, ſo is the meaſure of all true hoping. Let vs exemplifieexemplify it a little.
    With rule
    … meaſure of true beleeuing, ſo is the meaſure of all true hoping. Let vs exemplifieexemplify it a little.

    Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of the same body, to reigne with him for euermore. So Saint Paul doth exemplifieexemplify this, in describing a true Iew: Hee is not a Iew, that is one …
    With rule
    … of the same body, to reigne with him for euermore. So Saint Paul doth exemplifieexemplify this, in describing a true Iew: Hee is not a Iew, that is one …

    Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 202 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and vow too: much more then a single knot of a commandement alone. To exemplifieexemplify this in some particulars; Many, when called to the supper of the Lord, pretend …
    With rule
    … and vow too: much more then a single knot of a commandement alone. To exemplifieexemplify this in some particulars; Many, when called to the supper of the Lord, pretend …

    Daniel Dyke · The Mystery of Self-Deceiving · p. 233 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … calleth Angels food because it came so immediatly from Heaven) the more clearely to exemplifieexemplify the lively signification of the Sabbaths rest, which being alwayes typicall, should bee much …
    With rule
    … calleth Angels food because it came so immediatly from Heaven) the more clearely to exemplifieexemplify the lively signification of the Sabbaths rest, which being alwayes typicall, should bee much …

    George Abbot · The Sabbath Vindicated · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … it was an elegancie vsed of the finest authors, and such as Budee doth exemplifieexemplify of, why doth he say. that he seeth not why Luke should vse soloecophanes …
    With rule
    … it was an elegancie vsed of the finest authors, and such as Budee doth exemplifieexemplify of, why doth he say. that he seeth not why Luke should vse soloecophanes …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ready, and when ſhe muſt needs be ſeuere, it grieueth her. I neede not exemplifieexemplify it, they are freſh in memory. How vnwilling was ſhee to conſent to the …
    With rule
    … ready, and when ſhe muſt needs be ſeuere, it grieueth her. I neede not exemplifieexemplify it, they are freſh in memory. How vnwilling was ſhee to conſent to the …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it true, and no false matter. And this distinction of his, he labours to exemplifieexemplify by similitude, and to confirm by example. The similitude he borrowes from a materiall …
    With rule
    … it true, and no false matter. And this distinction of his, he labours to exemplifieexemplify by similitude, and to confirm by example. The similitude he borrowes from a materiall …

    John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 304 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar A39998

  • Printed
    … Officers of any Churches. And therefore, if the Dr. will draw this Act to ExemplifieExemplify Episcopal Authority, he draws upon himself two gross Absurdities, 1. That Paul had, and Exemplified …
    With rule
    … Officers of any Churches. And therefore, if the Dr. will draw this Act to ExemplifieExemplify Episcopal Authority, he draws upon himself two gross Absurdities, 1. That Paul had, and Exemplified …

    Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and Government, among these several Orders of Divine Appointment, it was very unsuteable to ExemplifieExemplify such an Arbitrary Dominion thereby, as the Dr. here supposeth, and such a Civil …
    With rule
    … and Government, among these several Orders of Divine Appointment, it was very unsuteable to ExemplifieExemplify such an Arbitrary Dominion thereby, as the Dr. here supposeth, and such a Civil …

    Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 25 · Open in the reader