Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25256 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

confederacieconfederacy

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

Puritas changed it: 190 times in 127 works
Consistency: 83.7% (190 of 227)
Reach if approved: ~239 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: confederacy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 227 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (190 changes in 127 works, 83.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 190)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the French king (who was then at Bolonia in Italie, and that to make confederacieconfederacy and league with him) the whole Empire of Constantinople. But the king giuing him …
With rule
… the French king (who was then at Bolonia in Italie, and that to make confederacieconfederacy and league with him) the whole Empire of Constantinople. But the king giuing him …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… be obserued, of what horrible impietie they stand guiltie before God, who ioyne in confederacieconfederacy with Satan. Hereby they renounce the Lord that made them, they make no more …
With rule
… be obserued, of what horrible impietie they stand guiltie before God, who ioyne in confederacieconfederacy with Satan. Hereby they renounce the Lord that made them, they make no more …
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Isai. 8.12. Say not a confederacieconfederacy to all them to whome this people say a confederacieconfederacy: but sanctifie the Lord in your hearts, and let his feare be your dread …
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… Isai. 8.12. Say not a confederacieconfederacy to all them to whome this people say a confederacieconfederacy: but sanctifie the Lord in your hearts, and let his feare be your dread …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 332 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cities among them, each of them to take the cities next adioyning, Hierome. which confederacieconfederacy was the occasion of warre betweene the Romanes and the said Philip: who beeing …
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… cities among them, each of them to take the cities next adioyning, Hierome. which confederacieconfederacy was the occasion of warre betweene the Romanes and the said Philip: who beeing …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 413 · Open in the reader
Printed
BEcauſe the Iſraelites were puffed vp with the confederacieconfederacy which they had with Syria, and thought that all things ſhould fall out according …
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BEcauſe the Iſraelites were puffed vp with the confederacieconfederacy which they had with Syria, and thought that all things ſhould fall out according …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will challenge the moſt vnto your ſelues, and being many, and of an old confederacieconfederacy, will make my part the leaſt. Anſw. Yea the bootie ſhall be diuided moſt …
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… will challenge the moſt vnto your ſelues, and being many, and of an old confederacieconfederacy, will make my part the leaſt. Anſw. Yea the bootie ſhall be diuided moſt …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Reaſons. 1 Firſt, this aſſociation and confederacieconfederacy doth not breake off Gods reſolution, either by pacifying his anger, or daunting his …
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Reaſons. 1 Firſt, this aſſociation and confederacieconfederacy doth not breake off Gods reſolution, either by pacifying his anger, or daunting his …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. The Saints are in league, and confederacieconfederacy with God. Gather me my Saints (saith he) that haue made a league with …
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1. The Saints are in league, and confederacieconfederacy with God. Gather me my Saints (saith he) that haue made a league with …
Thomas Gataker · An Anniversary Memorial · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (37)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 29 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Mystery of Iniquity A28915

Printed
… force the Scottish Nation to Canonicall obedience, and a Conformity to England, now in ConfederacieConfederacy with Rome. His Majesties person for the credit of the Cause must be ingaged …
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… force the Scottish Nation to Canonicall obedience, and a Conformity to England, now in ConfederacieConfederacy with Rome. His Majesties person for the credit of the Cause must be ingaged …
Edward Bowles · The Mystery of Iniquity · p. 18 · Open in the reader

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

Printed
… either they or their posteritie should enter with them againe in any League or ConfederacieConfederacy, offensive or defensive, seeing that so traiterously and cruelly they had persecuted them, their …
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… either they or their posteritie should enter with them againe in any League or ConfederacieConfederacy, offensive or defensive, seeing that so traiterously and cruelly they had persecuted them, their …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he gave unto them this strait Commandment, Beware that thou make not League or ConfederacieConfederacy with the inhabitants of this Land: give not thy sonnes unto their daughters, nor …
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… he gave unto them this strait Commandment, Beware that thou make not League or ConfederacieConfederacy with the inhabitants of this Land: give not thy sonnes unto their daughters, nor …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
… England, if thou obstinately wilt return into Egypt, that is, If thou contract Mariage, ConfederacieConfederacy, or League with such Princes, as do maintain and advance Idolatry (such as the …
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… England, if thou obstinately wilt return into Egypt, that is, If thou contract Mariage, ConfederacieConfederacy, or League with such Princes, as do maintain and advance Idolatry (such as the …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 67 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
… mortalium miserrimus est. After which he said; That the King was unworthy of his ConfederacieConfederacy; and looking on the two Knights with a sterne countenance, he com…anded them …
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… mortalium miserrimus est. After which he said; That the King was unworthy of his ConfederacieConfederacy; and looking on the two Knights with a sterne countenance, he com…anded them …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Councell, in disposing all Officers, all places of command and trust under him: The ConfederacieConfederacy and Contributions of forraign Popish States, to maintain this warre to ruine the Parliament …
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… Councell, in disposing all Officers, all places of command and trust under him: The ConfederacieConfederacy and Contributions of forraign Popish States, to maintain this warre to ruine the Parliament …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble A57143

Printed
… that case Gods people to be dismayed, or to say, a Confedera…ie, a ConfederacieConfederacy; but to sanctifie the Lord himselfe, and make him their feare and their dread …
With rule
… that case Gods people to be dismayed, or to say, a Confedera…ie, a ConfederacieConfederacy; but to sanctifie the Lord himselfe, and make him their feare and their dread …
Edward Reynolds · Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble · p. 45 · Open in the reader

The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England B20736

Printed
… Citizens, then as the whole Church is planted and founded in ſome Covenant or ConfederacieConfederacy; ſo every Member of the Church is implanted and received into the ſame body …
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… Citizens, then as the whole Church is planted and founded in ſome Covenant or ConfederacieConfederacy; ſo every Member of the Church is implanted and received into the ſame body …
John Cotton · The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England · p. 61 · Open in the reader