Rules
All candidates
Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25058 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

visibilitievisibility

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

Puritas changed it
239 times in 60 works
Consistency
98.3% (239 of 243)
Reach if approved
~255 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: visibility
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
243 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (239 changes in 60 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 239)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Christ may be in the Eucharist without the essentiall properties thereof, as circumscription, quantitie, visibilitievisibility, and such like, doe thus reason out of this place: the burning heat is …
    With rule
    … Christ may be in the Eucharist without the essentiall properties thereof, as circumscription, quantitie, visibilitievisibility, and such like, doe thus reason out of this place: the burning heat is …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of persecution, or some grieuous apostacy, the faithfull might bee brought to a small visibilitievisibility.
    With rule
    … of persecution, or some grieuous apostacy, the faithfull might bee brought to a small visibilitievisibility.

    Archbishop George Abbot · The Perpetual Visibility and Succession of the True Church in All Ages · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    But specially in the question which M. Arnoux propoundeth touching the visibilitievisibility of the Church, these distinctions are necessarie, to the end that when men speake …
    With rule
    But specially in the question which M. Arnoux propoundeth touching the visibilitievisibility of the Church, these distinctions are necessarie, to the end that when men speake …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Buckler of the Faith · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of fire. Pillars they were for firmeneſſe: they were of Cloud and fire, of viſibilitievisibility and vſe. The greater light obſcureth the leſſe; therefore in the day time he …
    With rule
    … of fire. Pillars they were for firmeneſſe: they were of Cloud and fire, of viſibilitievisibility and vſe. The greater light obſcureth the leſſe; therefore in the day time he …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 · p. 254 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of fire. Pillars they were for firmenesse: they were of Cloud and fire, of visibilitievisibility and vse. The greater light obscureth the lesse; therefore in the day time he …
    With rule
    … of fire. Pillars they were for firmenesse: they were of Cloud and fire, of visibilitievisibility and vse. The greater light obscureth the lesse; therefore in the day time he …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · p. 254 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … pretended; but also, whose Mouth speaketh. So as, still, you may see, that even VisibilitieVisibility must bee reduced vnto, and examined, by our onelie demonstratiue Marke, which, in the …
    With rule
    … pretended; but also, whose Mouth speaketh. So as, still, you may see, that even VisibilitieVisibility must bee reduced vnto, and examined, by our onelie demonstratiue Marke, which, in the …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … it downe to be ſo eſſentiall to the being of the Church, and the viſibilitievisibility thereof as the other. For Prayer I confeſſe it alſo to be the propertie …
    With rule
    … it downe to be ſo eſſentiall to the being of the Church, and the viſibilitievisibility thereof as the other. For Prayer I confeſſe it alſo to be the propertie …

    Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 286 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    VisibilitieVisibility, no true note of the Church. 132.1. m.
    With rule
    VisibilitieVisibility, no true note of the Church. 132.1. m.

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

  • Printed
    … come, now, to vnder-proppe your declyning CONTINVANCE, vvith as weake a Warrand, of VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY; vvhich is your Man's next Marke, & which I haue, all-readie, so marred, with …
    With rule
    … come, now, to vnder-proppe your declyning CONTINVANCE, vvith as weake a Warrand, of VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY; vvhich is your Man's next Marke, & which I haue, all-readie, so marred, with …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    I pray you, (Philomathes) goe forward, to the Marke of VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY: vvhich, in the Continuance of the Church, commeth most fitlie to bee considered. And …
    With rule
    I pray you, (Philomathes) goe forward, to the Marke of VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY: vvhich, in the Continuance of the Church, commeth most fitlie to bee considered. And …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to beare vp your decaying CONTINVANCE. But, I say, (Philomathes) that no more can VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY bee a proper Marke of the Church, than could CONTINVANCE; for, it is a …
    With rule
    … to beare vp your decaying CONTINVANCE. But, I say, (Philomathes) that no more can VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY bee a proper Marke of the Church, than could CONTINVANCE; for, it is a …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … none did see our Church: but, I, justlie, taxed a false Conclusion, led from VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY, to common, and continuall seeing. For, manie thinges are visible, which yet neyther are …
    With rule
    … none did see our Church: but, I, justlie, taxed a false Conclusion, led from VISIBILITIEVISIBILITY, to common, and continuall seeing. For, manie thinges are visible, which yet neyther are …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 81 · Open in the reader