Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3960 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wysewise

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

Puritas changed it: 2,327 times in 266 works
Consistency: 99.4% (2,327 of 2,341)
Reach if approved: ~2,460 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wise
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,341 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,327 changes in 266 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,327)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… too resyste. They shall not be tounge tyed, they haue theyr aunswere, yea so wysewise▪ that theyr aduersaryes shall not be hable to resyste. They maye well oppresse it …
With rule
… too resyste. They shall not be tounge tyed, they haue theyr aunswere, yea so wysewise▪ that theyr aduersaryes shall not be hable to resyste. They maye well oppresse it …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader
Printed
With that he was verteous and wysewise,
With rule
With that he was verteous and wysewise,
David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader
Printed
… skorning, then when hee should see the whole swarme of Papistes in most humble wysewise to fall groueling on the grounde, too lifte vp their handes too heauen, and …
With rule
… skorning, then when hee should see the whole swarme of Papistes in most humble wysewise to fall groueling on the grounde, too lifte vp their handes too heauen, and …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and contentious babblynge: thys chaunge of ſubſtaunces was neuer imagined. But cleane cō trary wyſewise. The true churche, euen from the begynnyng, hath fed of the ſpirituall meate that …
With rule
… and contentious babblynge: thys chaunge of ſubſtaunces was neuer imagined. But cleane cō trary wyſewise. The true churche, euen from the begynnyng, hath fed of the ſpirituall meate that …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
The lorde Cobham sayd. Saynt paule y^e apostle was (I am sure) as wysewise as yow be now / and more godlye lerned. And he call… yt breade / writynge …
With rule
The lorde Cobham sayd. Saynt paule y^e apostle was (I am sure) as wysewise as yow be now / and more godlye lerned. And he call… yt breade / writynge …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader
Printed
… take, specially in bookes, for so much as in person they can in no wysewise be euery where present, & for that it is a booke heere named. For by …
With rule
… take, specially in bookes, for so much as in person they can in no wysewise be euery where present, & for that it is a booke heere named. For by …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he myght ſe lowe and lowe agayne / and of lowe to doo lyke wyſewise to other men / and to ouercome them with well doinge
With rule
… that he myght ſe lowe and lowe agayne / and of lowe to doo lyke wyſewise to other men / and to ouercome them with well doinge
John Johnsone · An Comfortable Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinke them good, laudable and pleaſaunte. We maye not thinke vs ſo free nor wyſewise, that we maye do vnto God and vnto hys honor, what we thynke expedient …
With rule
… thinke them good, laudable and pleaſaunte. We maye not thinke vs ſo free nor wyſewise, that we maye do vnto God and vnto hys honor, what we thynke expedient …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

13 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.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

Printed
… speake nothing, but the wordes of the Great Shepheard: For, the words of the WyseWise, are lyke Goades, and lyke Nayles, &c. which are given by one Pastour. Were …
With rule
… speake nothing, but the wordes of the Great Shepheard: For, the words of the WyseWise, are lyke Goades, and lyke Nayles, &c. which are given by one Pastour. Were …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Two Learned and Godly Sermons A02184

Printed
… deuises agaynst others: and this the Scripture doth also forbid vs. For, Eccle. 7. the WyseWise man, from the moūth of God, doth forbid vs, to thinke yll of the …
With rule
… deuises agaynst others: and this the Scripture doth also forbid vs. For, Eccle. 7. the WyseWise man, from the moūth of God, doth forbid vs, to thinke yll of the …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader

Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame A02358

Printed
AGe is a Crovvne of Glorie, (sayeth the WyseWise) when it is found in the way of Righteousnesse: and, Aske for the olde …
With rule
AGe is a Crovvne of Glorie, (sayeth the WyseWise) when it is found in the way of Righteousnesse: and, Aske for the olde …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 27 · Open in the reader

The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay A05547

Printed
WyseWise and true counsell alas I dyd refuse
With rule
WyseWise and true counsell alas I dyd refuse
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

The History of a Noble Squire A05554

Printed
WyseWise men desiris commounlie
With rule
WyseWise men desiris commounlie
David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader
Printed
WyseWise men into thair companie.
With rule
WyseWise men into thair companie.
David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

Printed
Now must I néeds say as the WyseWise King Salomon said, all things are vaine and transitorie, and nothing is permanent vnder …
With rule
Now must I néeds say as the WyseWise King Salomon said, all things are vaine and transitorie, and nothing is permanent vnder …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

Printed
… aucthoritie / feared immediatly (as Herode did of the losse of his Kingdome when the WyseWise menne axed where the newe borne Kinge of Iewes was) and conspired with the …
With rule
… aucthoritie / feared immediatly (as Herode did of the losse of his Kingdome when the WyseWise menne axed where the newe borne Kinge of Iewes was) and conspired with the …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
… wherin loue doeth consist) we do neither loue man, nor yet loue God. The WyseWise man saith: The begynnyng of a good lyfe, is to do iustice. Yea, the …
With rule
… wherin loue doeth consist) we do neither loue man, nor yet loue God. The WyseWise man saith: The begynnyng of a good lyfe, is to do iustice. Yea, the …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Sermon 29 September 1574 A19669

Printed
WyſeWise he muſt be, ſuch one as by long experience hath learned wiſedome, and is …
With rule
WyſeWise he muſt be, ſuch one as by long experience hath learned wiſedome, and is …
Robert Crowley · Sermon 29 September 1574 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

Printed
… of Cicero de Repub. that are woorthy to be knowen, where Scipio thus ſpeaketh: WyſeWise men called not euery company a people, but a company aſſociated together by conſent …
With rule
… of Cicero de Repub. that are woorthy to be knowen, where Scipio thus ſpeaketh: WyſeWise men called not euery company a people, but a company aſſociated together by conſent …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader

The Use and Abuse of Dancing B00830

Printed
… requyreth ſo precyſe profe: yet howe the lookes are a prouocation therevnto, beléeue the WyſeWise man, and followe his good counſell. Vſe not the company of a woman that …
With rule
… requyreth ſo precyſe profe: yet howe the lookes are a prouocation therevnto, beléeue the WyſeWise man, and followe his good counſell. Vſe not the company of a woman that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Use and Abuse of Dancing · Open in the reader

Epistle to the Duke of Somerset B16185

Printed
… their lyberte. There to auoyde euels we must be contente to suffre some losse. WyseWise and thriftie men do prouyde to put away the lesse good for to obteyne …
With rule
… their lyberte. There to auoyde euels we must be contente to suffre some losse. WyseWise and thriftie men do prouyde to put away the lesse good for to obteyne …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Epistle to the Duke of Somerset · Open in the reader