Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3963 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

myghtmight

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

Puritas changed it: 2,859 times in 248 works
Consistency: 99.6% (2,859 of 2,870)
Reach if approved: ~3,016 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: might
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,870 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,859 changes in 248 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,859)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vp with that queſtion. Nowe by this time had Iudas done hys parte, he myghtmight go hang hymſelfe: In thys caſe then we ſée our Sauioure, howe he ſtandeth …
With rule
… vp with that queſtion. Nowe by this time had Iudas done hys parte, he myghtmight go hang hymſelfe: In thys caſe then we ſée our Sauioure, howe he ſtandeth …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… some one or other that desyreth me that I wil speake that his matter myghtmight be hard, and that he hath lain this long at great costes and charges …
With rule
… some one or other that desyreth me that I wil speake that his matter myghtmight be hard, and that he hath lain this long at great costes and charges …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
That he no maner of way myghtmight me begyle.
With rule
That he no maner of way myghtmight me begyle.
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader
Printed
… vngodlines and vnrighteouſnes of men which withholde the truth in vnrighteouſnes. For though man myghtmight knowe by the Creatures that there was a God: yet notwithſtanding his nature is …
With rule
… vngodlines and vnrighteouſnes of men which withholde the truth in vnrighteouſnes. For though man myghtmight knowe by the Creatures that there was a God: yet notwithſtanding his nature is …
Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… cast vs ito hell fyre, but marcyfully sente vs into thys world, that we myghtmight here repent, deplore, lament, & bewayle our synfull & abhominable offence, that by this meanes thorow …
With rule
… cast vs ito hell fyre, but marcyfully sente vs into thys world, that we myghtmight here repent, deplore, lament, & bewayle our synfull & abhominable offence, that by this meanes thorow …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… e executed, & the prophecies that were concer…ing them, might be fulfilled, that they myghtmight be a monument of h…s wrath vnto all the posterity, the beginning of …
With rule
… e executed, & the prophecies that were concer…ing them, might be fulfilled, that they myghtmight be a monument of h…s wrath vnto all the posterity, the beginning of …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader
Printed
… synne that nether our dedes nor al the treasures that euē god made or myghtmight make / myghtmight haue holpe vs out of them / ergo no dedes nor workes may …
With rule
… synne that nether our dedes nor al the treasures that euē god made or myghtmight make / myghtmight haue holpe vs out of them / ergo no dedes nor workes may …
Patrick Hamilton · Gatherings of Scripture and Declaring of Faith and Works of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… marke in their ryght handes. 6. or in their fore heades. 7. And that no man myghtmight bye and sell. 8. saue he that had the marke. 9. or the name of the …
With rule
… marke in their ryght handes. 6. or in their fore heades. 7. And that no man myghtmight bye and sell. 8. saue he that had the marke. 9. or the name of the …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

11 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.

Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle A02633

Printed
MyghtMight those bloudye blusterers haue had theyr full swaye now of late / they wolde haue …
With rule
MyghtMight those bloudye blusterers haue had theyr full swaye now of late / they wolde haue …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites A02738

Printed
MyghtMight I haue bene stopped, for syluer or for gelte.
With rule
MyghtMight I haue bene stopped, for syluer or for gelte.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ A02749

Printed
MyghtMight I haue bene stopped, for syluer or for g…l…e
With rule
MyghtMight I haue bene stopped, for syluer or for g…l…e
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader

A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted A02886

Printed
… Pantolabus here rayleth vpon in his rustycall …ymes without lernynge / wytt / and all godlynesse. MyghtMight we not (thynke you) saye to him with Apelles? Come downe ser sowter / and …
With rule
… Pantolabus here rayleth vpon in his rustycall …ymes without lernynge / wytt / and all godlynesse. MyghtMight we not (thynke you) saye to him with Apelles? Come downe ser sowter / and …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay A05547

Printed
MyghtMight be a patron in Portingale or Fraunce
With rule
MyghtMight be a patron in Portingale or Fraunce
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… néedes haue thē in himselfe for all: and therefore they call him Mynd and MyghtMight, attributing vnto him the perfect knowledge and infinite power of all things. Finally, forasmuch …
With rule
… néedes haue thē in himselfe for all: and therefore they call him Mynd and MyghtMight, attributing vnto him the perfect knowledge and infinite power of all things. Finally, forasmuch …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there none other deuise wherewith to haue disguised it, without taking any further peyne? MyghtMight it not haue suffised to haue sayd, One Iosias shall come &c. without speaking …
With rule
… there none other deuise wherewith to haue disguised it, without taking any further peyne? MyghtMight it not haue suffised to haue sayd, One Iosias shall come &c. without speaking …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 434 · Open in the reader

The Rescuing of the Romish Fox A14048

Printed
… thys ſorte of Papiſtes / ſhuld he worthely blame the goſpellerres for the Papiſtes papiſtrie / MyghtMight he honeſtly ſay to thē in Englond that wold haue all the ſeruice in …
With rule
… thys ſorte of Papiſtes / ſhuld he worthely blame the goſpellerres for the Papiſtes papiſtrie / MyghtMight he honeſtly ſay to thē in Englond that wold haue all the ſeruice in …
William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) A14133

Printed
… of the ſpyryte of God and they coulde not erre / thoſe pharyſeys and oures? MyghtMight not the general councelles of thoſe, and the thynges there decreed with out ſcrypture …
With rule
… of the ſpyryte of God and they coulde not erre / thoſe pharyſeys and oures? MyghtMight not the general councelles of thoſe, and the thynges there decreed with out ſcrypture …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xxxiii · Open in the reader
Printed
… thynges there ordayned and decreed bothe clene with out and alſo agaynſte Godes worde? MyghtMight not the ceremonyes whiche thoſe hade adyde to the ceremonyes of Moſes, ſeme to …
With rule
… thynges there ordayned and decreed bothe clene with out and alſo agaynſte Godes worde? MyghtMight not the ceremonyes whiche thoſe hade adyde to the ceremonyes of Moſes, ſeme to …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xxxiii · Open in the reader

An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross A16576

Printed
… body, as to admitte, that if there be bred, then Chryſt is a lyar: MyghtMight not we reaſon and ſaye then: if Chriſtes body at y^• tyme was not …
With rule
… body, as to admitte, that if there be bred, then Chryſt is a lyar: MyghtMight not we reaſon and ſaye then: if Chriſtes body at y^• tyme was not …
John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 72 · Open in the reader