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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25271 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hostilitiehostility

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

Puritas changed it
170 times in 101 works
Consistency
91.8% (170 of 185)
Reach if approved
~194 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hostility
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
185 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (170 changes in 101 works, 91.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 170)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … named, and by Paulus the 4. Pius the 4. Pius the 5. both by open warre and hostilitiehostility, wherein the two Philips of Spaine bare the chiefest stroke, and by priuie treacherie …
    With rule
    … named, and by Paulus the 4. Pius the 4. Pius the 5. both by open warre and hostilitiehostility, wherein the two Philips of Spaine bare the chiefest stroke, and by priuie treacherie …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 448 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    hoſtilitiehostility, hatred, enmitie, or open wars.
    With rule
    hoſtilitiehostility, hatred, enmitie, or open wars.

    Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … metaphoricall word (ſtriueth) a word borrowed and taken from ſuch as withſtand violence and hoſtilitiehostility, or ſuch as ſtriue for maſteries, we are giuen to vnderſtand.
    With rule
    … metaphoricall word (ſtriueth) a word borrowed and taken from ſuch as withſtand violence and hoſtilitiehostility, or ſuch as ſtriue for maſteries, we are giuen to vnderſtand.

    Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · p. 1386 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … profane policie, and pious prudence. As the worke of God is opposed by open hostilitiehostility, and which is more dangerous by secret treacherie; so is it hindered by carnall …
    With rule
    … profane policie, and pious prudence. As the worke of God is opposed by open hostilitiehostility, and which is more dangerous by secret treacherie; so is it hindered by carnall …

    Alexander Henderson · Sermon 18 July 1644 · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    5. Their hostilitiehostility and murderous minds: they destroy all, to multiplie their owne kind. And for this …
    With rule
    5. Their hostilitiehostility and murderous minds: they destroy all, to multiplie their owne kind. And for this …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 202 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … conſideration of ſo great troubles, as then ſhall be in the world, by open hoſtilitiehostility and bloudie battels, betweene true Chriſtians and the Antichriſtians. A white horſe: A horſe …
    With rule
    … conſideration of ſo great troubles, as then ſhall be in the world, by open hoſtilitiehostility and bloudie battels, betweene true Chriſtians and the Antichriſtians. A white horſe: A horſe …

    Richard Bernard · A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation · p. 303 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    I will professe and practise hostilitiehostility against Seluishnesse, and render my selfe to bee guyded by a forraine Witte-and …
    With rule
    I will professe and practise hostilitiehostility against Seluishnesse, and render my selfe to bee guyded by a forraine Witte-and …

    William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … out of their godly course, thou expressest not the smallest enmitie. Nebuchadnezzer shewed his hostilitiehostility, not onely in swallowing up the Church as a Dragon, but also in making …
    With rule
    … out of their godly course, thou expressest not the smallest enmitie. Nebuchadnezzer shewed his hostilitiehostility, not onely in swallowing up the Church as a Dragon, but also in making …

    Thomas Taylor · Two Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 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.

Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 A00687

  • Printed
    … all the Natiounis adiacent, quha continually socht thair distructioū baith be secreit dissaitis & oppin HostilitieHostility, bot also wer oppressit with Famine, derth and scarcitie of all thingis, quhilk maid …
    With rule
    … all the Natiounis adiacent, quha continually socht thair distructioū baith be secreit dissaitis & oppin HostilitieHostility, bot also wer oppressit with Famine, derth and scarcitie of all thingis, quhilk maid …

    David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader

The City of Peace A01085

  • Printed
    … he get in. The enemies of this Citie are many; diuided into two bands; HostilitieHostility and Mutinie The Gouernour of it, is Magistracie: the Law, Religion: the Palace, the …
    With rule
    … he get in. The enemies of this Citie are many; diuided into two bands; HostilitieHostility and Mutinie The Gouernour of it, is Magistracie: the Law, Religion: the Palace, the …

    Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 22 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

  • Printed
    V. 60. all their vengeance] HostilitieHostility and violence. Jer. 51. 36.
    With rule
    V. 60. all their vengeance] HostilitieHostility and violence. Jer. 51. 36.

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

Answer to a Book A50898

  • Printed
    As to the Act of HostilitieHostility, though not much material in whom first it began, or by whose Commissions dated …
    With rule
    As to the Act of HostilitieHostility, though not much material in whom first it began, or by whose Commissions dated …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 91 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

  • Printed
    … against them, invade their Lawes, Liberties, Goods, Houses, Persons, and exercise all acts of HostilitieHostility against them, as farre forth as the most barbarous Forraigne Enemies would doe: It …
    With rule
    … against them, invade their Lawes, Liberties, Goods, Houses, Persons, and exercise all acts of HostilitieHostility against them, as farre forth as the most barbarous Forraigne Enemies would doe: It …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 5 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

  • Printed
    … againſt them, invade their Lawes, Liberties, Goods, Houſes, Perſons, and exerciſe all acts of HoſtilitieHostility againſt them, as fatre forth as the moſt barbarous Forraigne Enemies would doe: It …
    With rule
    … againſt them, invade their Lawes, Liberties, Goods, Houſes, Perſons, and exerciſe all acts of HoſtilitieHostility againſt them, as fatre forth as the moſt barbarous Forraigne Enemies would doe: It …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 5 · Open in the reader