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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3927 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

authoritieauthority

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

Puritas changed it
19,707 times in 1,527 works
Consistency
99.9% (19,707 of 19,708)
Reach if approved
~20,711 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: authority
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
19,711 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19,707 changes in 1,527 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19,707)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of Gods vengance, and executioners of his wrath, they doe not exercise power and authoritieauthority which is absolute, and at their owne will and appointment, but so farre as …
    With rule
    … of Gods vengance, and executioners of his wrath, they doe not exercise power and authoritieauthority which is absolute, and at their owne will and appointment, but so farre as …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Preacher at the Crosse declared divers erroneous assertions therein, condemned (as he said) by AuthoritieAuthority. Among which that assertion in the fore-front, Inter damnatos, touching the deniall of …
    With rule
    … Preacher at the Crosse declared divers erroneous assertions therein, condemned (as he said) by AuthoritieAuthority. Among which that assertion in the fore-front, Inter damnatos, touching the deniall of …

    Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Of one correction, for the reſt, as of excommunication: the preparation is by the authoritieauthority & majeſtie of Chriſt, the action a fearful ſentence with majeſtie, juſtlie pronounced, the vſe …
    With rule
    … Of one correction, for the reſt, as of excommunication: the preparation is by the authoritieauthority & majeſtie of Chriſt, the action a fearful ſentence with majeſtie, juſtlie pronounced, the vſe …

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … power, the lesse passion. It is a Statetyrannie, in authority to minde nothing but authoritieauthority. Posse & nolle, nobile. It is noble to may and wil not. When a rayling …
    With rule
    … power, the lesse passion. It is a Statetyrannie, in authority to minde nothing but authoritieauthority. Posse & nolle, nobile. It is noble to may and wil not. When a rayling …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … legall, for it was never ratified by act of Parliament, but all the civill authoritieauthority it had, was only royall by the Kings mandat. You would say imposed by …
    With rule
    … legall, for it was never ratified by act of Parliament, but all the civill authoritieauthority it had, was only royall by the Kings mandat. You would say imposed by …

    David Calderwood · An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that shoulde take away the sinnes of the world. Finally, let all ye whole authoritieauthority of the Propheticall Scriptures be cancelled for vntrueth, because the greater parte thereof doeth …
    With rule
    … that shoulde take away the sinnes of the world. Finally, let all ye whole authoritieauthority of the Propheticall Scriptures be cancelled for vntrueth, because the greater parte thereof doeth …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not acknowledge that the Sonne of GOD who alwaye abydeth in the house, hath AuthoritieAuthority to infranchise them, and that they could not be delyuered from the bondage of …
    With rule
    … not acknowledge that the Sonne of GOD who alwaye abydeth in the house, hath AuthoritieAuthority to infranchise them, and that they could not be delyuered from the bondage of …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of him, much lesse ground that I deliuer vpon his or any other mans authoritieauthority, is vntrue. As for the differences betweene him and me herein by Mr. B …
    With rule
    … of him, much lesse ground that I deliuer vpon his or any other mans authoritieauthority, is vntrue. As for the differences betweene him and me herein by Mr. B …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 123 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

  • Printed
    … the Premisses well considering, by good and diligent deliberation, by the POWER, NAME, AND AUTHORITIEAUTHORITY TO US AS ABOUE IS SAID COMMITTED, PRONOUNCE, DISCERNE, AND DECLARE the same King …
    With rule
    … the Premisses well considering, by good and diligent deliberation, by the POWER, NAME, AND AUTHORITIEAUTHORITY TO US AS ABOUE IS SAID COMMITTED, PRONOUNCE, DISCERNE, AND DECLARE the same King …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 62 · Open in the reader