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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3966 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wyckedwicked

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

Puritas changed it
1,322 times in 152 works
Consistency
99.6% (1,322 of 1,327)
Reach if approved
~1,394 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wicked
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,327 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,322 changes in 152 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,322)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the vse or rather the abuse and mysorder of these thynges is worldlye, is wyckedwicked, is deuilyshe, is abhominable.
    With rule
    … the vse or rather the abuse and mysorder of these thynges is worldlye, is wyckedwicked, is deuilyshe, is abhominable.

    Thomas Lever · A Fruitful Sermon · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Chriſtian hope of our reſurrectiō in Chriſt. Wherfor the men in our tymes be wyckedwicked and Saduceis, whiche worſhippe not fearfully the churcheyardes of Chriſtianes, and ſetteth nothinge by …
    With rule
    … Chriſtian hope of our reſurrectiō in Chriſt. Wherfor the men in our tymes be wyckedwicked and Saduceis, whiche worſhippe not fearfully the churcheyardes of Chriſtianes, and ſetteth nothinge by …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wretchednes, thā ony creatures in the world. But yet beholde ye ende of the wyckedwicked. For sodenly they do consume, perysh & come to nought. The Psalmographe sayth: ye death …
    With rule
    … wretchednes, thā ony creatures in the world. But yet beholde ye ende of the wyckedwicked. For sodenly they do consume, perysh & come to nought. The Psalmographe sayth: ye death …

    Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … LORDE in her Oratory, & diuers other places? Dyd not Daniel, when he serued the wyckedwicked kynge knele downe & pray vnto the LORDE thryse euery daye in his chā ber …
    With rule
    … LORDE in her Oratory, & diuers other places? Dyd not Daniel, when he serued the wyckedwicked kynge knele downe & pray vnto the LORDE thryse euery daye in his chā ber …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the shield of faith, wherwith ye may quenche all the firy dartes of the wyckedwicked. And take the helmet of saluation, and the sword of the spirit, which …s …
    With rule
    … the shield of faith, wherwith ye may quenche all the firy dartes of the wyckedwicked. And take the helmet of saluation, and the sword of the spirit, which …s …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 360 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … her, bycause she so honestly setketh, rather to be a marryed woman, than a wyckedwicked prestes whore.
    With rule
    … her, bycause she so honestly setketh, rather to be a marryed woman, than a wyckedwicked prestes whore.

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. lxxix · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and vertuouse kynge, that kynde of tyranny, whych is of al other the most wyckedwicked & blasphemouse. But far other is the gentyll nature of our religiouse Iosias▪ whych hath …
    With rule
    … and vertuouse kynge, that kynde of tyranny, whych is of al other the most wyckedwicked & blasphemouse. But far other is the gentyll nature of our religiouse Iosias▪ whych hath …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    against this wyckedwicked bande?
    With rule
    against this wyckedwicked bande?

    John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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.

An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist A02807

  • Printed
    … the same kynde of doyng Ergo he is a wyckedwicked and an obstynate papyst. WyckedWicked, for so muche as he dishonoureth god, and obstynate, because he dysobeyeth hys kynge …
    With rule
    … the same kynde of doyng Ergo he is a wyckedwicked and an obstynate papyst. WyckedWicked, for so muche as he dishonoureth god, and obstynate, because he dysobeyeth hys kynge …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man A02906

  • Printed
    WyckedWicked was Semei, so was Achirophel.
    With rule
    WyckedWicked was Semei, so was Achirophel.

    John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader

The Sick Mans Salve A07163

  • Printed
    WyckedWicked lyfe to the riotous sonne,
    With rule
    WyckedWicked lyfe to the riotous sonne,

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    WyckedWicked sonne repēteth
    With rule
    WyckedWicked sonne repēteth

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Wicked Mammon A14146

  • Printed
    The parable of the WyckedWicked Mammon.
    With rule
    The parable of the WyckedWicked Mammon.

    William Tyndale · The Parable of the Wicked Mammon · Open in the reader