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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

relyesrelies

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
100 times in 72 works
Consistency
99.0% (100 of 101)
Reach if approved
~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: relies
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 72 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … relyesrelies on faith alone, is execrable: But the Apoſtle ſpeakes the contrary, hee that relyesrelies on Faith alone, is bleſſed. This Theodoret, ſeptimo Therapeuticon, almoſt repeats, foreign. Nor do wee …
    With rule
    … relyesrelies on faith alone, is execrable: But the Apoſtle ſpeakes the contrary, hee that relyesrelies on Faith alone, is bleſſed. This Theodoret, ſeptimo Therapeuticon, almoſt repeats, foreign. Nor do wee …

    Samuel Torshell · Three Questions · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Exod. 14. 13, 14, 15, 16, &c. So King Aſa was a man full of infirmitities and weakneſſes; he relyesrelies on the King of Syria, and on the Lord; he is very impatient, and …
    With rule
    … Exod. 14. 13, 14, 15, 16, &c. So King Aſa was a man full of infirmitities and weakneſſes; he relyesrelies on the King of Syria, and on the Lord; he is very impatient, and …

    Thomas Brooks · The Privy Key of Heaven · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    2 Note. Right knowledge relyesrelies on powerfull grace to oppoſe luſt.
    With rule
    2 Note. Right knowledge relyesrelies on powerfull grace to oppoſe luſt.

    Henry Hurst · The Inability of Natural Man to Attain Right Knowledge · p. 182 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … some Volume written about the Councels; or some Religious Persons on whom he much relyesrelies, assures him of them. I know you believe that your Churches Proposition is a …
    With rule
    … some Volume written about the Councels; or some Religious Persons on whom he much relyesrelies, assures him of them. I know you believe that your Churches Proposition is a …

    John Owen · Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Ephesus, all ordained by the Bishop of Constantinople. If then the certainty of succession relyesrelies upon the credit of this Leontius, let them thank the Council of Chalcedon, who …
    With rule
    … Ephesus, all ordained by the Bishop of Constantinople. If then the certainty of succession relyesrelies upon the credit of this Leontius, let them thank the Council of Chalcedon, who …

    Edward Stillingfleet · A Weapon-Salve for the Churchs Wounds · p. 301 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    3. The Convert receives Christ, and relyesrelies upon him for Pardon, Grace, and Life eternal: He is troubled that he received …
    With rule
    3. The Convert receives Christ, and relyesrelies upon him for Pardon, Grace, and Life eternal: He is troubled that he received …

    Nathanael Vincent · The Conversion of the Soul · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … O! will Chriſt ſay of a ſoule that is ready to ſinke, and yet relyesrelies on him, and truſts to him. Here is a poore ſoule that depends on …
    With rule
    … O! will Chriſt ſay of a ſoule that is ready to ſinke, and yet relyesrelies on him, and truſts to him. Here is a poore ſoule that depends on …

    John Durant · Comfort and Counsel for Dejected Souls · p. 216 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … elſe but the taſte and preſent ſweetneſſe which he had in the promiſe; he relyesrelies upon the taſte and ſenſe which hee had by the ſip of the promiſe …
    With rule
    … elſe but the taſte and preſent ſweetneſſe which he had in the promiſe; he relyesrelies upon the taſte and ſenſe which hee had by the ſip of the promiſe …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 480 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.