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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25265 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

formalitieformality

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

Puritas changed it
176 times in 117 works
Consistency
89.8% (176 of 196)
Reach if approved
~206 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: formality
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
196 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (176 changes in 117 works, 89.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … wee have either buried, or elſe ſlighted over. In affliction wee can ſee our formalitieformality, barrenneſſe, looſneſſe, dead-heartedneſſe, litherneſſe in good duties, pride, hypocriſie, earthly-mindedneſſe, uncharitableneſſe, and …
    With rule
    … wee have either buried, or elſe ſlighted over. In affliction wee can ſee our formalitieformality, barrenneſſe, looſneſſe, dead-heartedneſſe, litherneſſe in good duties, pride, hypocriſie, earthly-mindedneſſe, uncharitableneſſe, and …

    Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ruine, as you ſee before your eyes. So little doth God care for outward formalitieformality, where true Piety and goodneſſe is wanting. [When Ieruſalem was inhabited] Not thinly and …
    With rule
    … ruine, as you ſee before your eyes. So little doth God care for outward formalitieformality, where true Piety and goodneſſe is wanting. [When Ieruſalem was inhabited] Not thinly and …

    William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thought of diſobedience, how will hee ſpare our groſſe negligence and preſumption? How our formalitieformality and vnreuerence in his ſeruice? Saith PETER, What manner ought we to be in …
    With rule
    … thought of diſobedience, how will hee ſpare our groſſe negligence and preſumption? How our formalitieformality and vnreuerence in his ſeruice? Saith PETER, What manner ought we to be in …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 340 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … will. And this is that which they commonlie ſay, that there is a double formalitieformality or difference of ſinne: repugnancie with the Law and guilt: or that there are …
    With rule
    … will. And this is that which they commonlie ſay, that there is a double formalitieformality or difference of ſinne: repugnancie with the Law and guilt: or that there are …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … king, their Episcopall power and jurisdiction is not changed for all that want of formalitieformality, as before I have cleared out of Bishop Farrars answer.
    With rule
    … king, their Episcopall power and jurisdiction is not changed for all that want of formalitieformality, as before I have cleared out of Bishop Farrars answer.

    David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … anie of his Chaplains, whether this be ſpoken in ieſt or in earneſt, in formalitieformality as words of courſe, or in faith as a holy prayer. If they knowe …
    With rule
    … anie of his Chaplains, whether this be ſpoken in ieſt or in earneſt, in formalitieformality as words of courſe, or in faith as a holy prayer. If they knowe …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſet formes we read not. Their perſecutions and dayes of afflictions preſerved them from formalitieformality in prayer, and taught them how to finde their hearts and knees, and tongues …
    With rule
    … ſet formes we read not. Their perſecutions and dayes of afflictions preſerved them from formalitieformality in prayer, and taught them how to finde their hearts and knees, and tongues …

    John Allin · A Defense of the Answer Made Unto Nine Questions · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    V. 5. Having a forme of godlinesse] Or, formalitieformality. Not foreign, but foreign, not the true forme and essence of godlinesse, but an outward conformation …
    With rule
    V. 5. Having a forme of godlinesse] Or, formalitieformality. Not foreign, but foreign, not the true forme and essence of godlinesse, but an outward conformation …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Saints Qualification A10010

  • Printed
    FormalitieFormality argues want of zeale:
    With rule
    FormalitieFormality argues want of zeale:

    John Preston · The Saints Qualification · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    … duties, to a forme more holy. Suppoſe, Firſt, from Seruilitie, to Ingenuitie; Secondly, from FormalitieFormality, to Sinceritie; Thirdly, from Ciuilitie, to true inward Sanctitie.
    With rule
    … duties, to a forme more holy. Suppoſe, Firſt, from Seruilitie, to Ingenuitie; Secondly, from FormalitieFormality, to Sinceritie; Thirdly, from Ciuilitie, to true inward Sanctitie.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 77 · Open in the reader

Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites A15819

  • Printed
    … night: by the ſunne in the hand, he is able to diſcouer all things. FormalitieFormality in religion may be expreſſed in Ianus, vntill we come to the key and …
    With rule
    … night: by the ſunne in the hand, he is able to diſcouer all things. FormalitieFormality in religion may be expreſſed in Ianus, vntill we come to the key and …

    John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 310 · Open in the reader

Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God A16338

  • Printed
    … no spirituall▪life warmes their affections, no roote of grace growes in their hearts: FormalitieFormality in this kinde, is euer voide of all vitall vigour, vegetation, and actiuitie; constant …
    With rule
    … no spirituall▪life warmes their affections, no roote of grace growes in their hearts: FormalitieFormality in this kinde, is euer voide of all vitall vigour, vegetation, and actiuitie; constant …

    Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 47 · Open in the reader

Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies A19178

  • Printed
    … the Courtiers such, as stood in most need of instigations to the zeale of FormalitieFormality, being otherwise for substance such as they should be.
    With rule
    … the Courtiers such, as stood in most need of instigations to the zeale of FormalitieFormality, being otherwise for substance such as they should be.

    William Ames · Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies · Open in the reader

The Saints Solemn Covenant A29528

  • Printed
    … Worship of God for the most part how was it turned to a meer FormalitieFormality? our condition therein being but too like that of Israels herein the Text; little …
    With rule
    … Worship of God for the most part how was it turned to a meer FormalitieFormality? our condition therein being but too like that of Israels herein the Text; little …

    John Brinsley · The Saints Solemn Covenant · p. 14 · Open in the reader

Christs Coming and the Influence of its Expectation A41706

  • Printed
    … at ſuch a diſtance from the coming of the Day of God, but the FormalitieFormality and D…dneſſe of our Spirits in our race? Is the…e much deadneſſe …
    With rule
    … at ſuch a diſtance from the coming of the Day of God, but the FormalitieFormality and D…dneſſe of our Spirits in our race? Is the…e much deadneſſe …

    Theophilus Gale · Christs Coming and the Influence of its Expectation · p. 208 · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

  • Printed
    … poiſoned Fountain of al other ſin. Whence ſprings carnal confidence, groundles preſumtion, ſoul-deluſion, FormalitieFormality, Hypocriſie, Hardnes of heart, and final Apoſtaſie, but from enmitie againſt Chriſt, or ſome …
    With rule
    … poiſoned Fountain of al other ſin. Whence ſprings carnal confidence, groundles preſumtion, ſoul-deluſion, FormalitieFormality, Hypocriſie, Hardnes of heart, and final Apoſtaſie, but from enmitie againſt Chriſt, or ſome …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 259 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … this alſo the ſpirit of ſelf-love, and ſelf-ſeeking? Farther, whence ſprings curſed FormalitieFormality, but from this root? Laſtly, What hardens the heart, and inclines it to Apoſtafie …
    With rule
    … this alſo the ſpirit of ſelf-love, and ſelf-ſeeking? Farther, whence ſprings curſed FormalitieFormality, but from this root? Laſtly, What hardens the heart, and inclines it to Apoſtafie …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 281 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … this, even in the higheſt Duties of Religion, is but a loitering, dreaming, ſleepy FormalitieFormality. Neither may the Friends of Chriſt expect, that he wil walk with them in …
    With rule
    … this, even in the higheſt Duties of Religion, is but a loitering, dreaming, ſleepy FormalitieFormality. Neither may the Friends of Chriſt expect, that he wil walk with them in …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 388 · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

  • Printed
    … of God in any thing, though but in the leaſt circumſtance, 'tis wicked action: FormalitieFormality in action, ſpeakes the exactneſſe of it to rule.
    With rule
    … of God in any thing, though but in the leaſt circumſtance, 'tis wicked action: FormalitieFormality in action, ſpeakes the exactneſſe of it to rule.

    Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 230 · Open in the reader