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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3985 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

companiecompany

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

Puritas changed it
4,291 times in 865 works
Consistency
99.8% (4,291 of 4,296)
Reach if approved
~4,514 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: company
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
4,296 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,291 changes in 865 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,291)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … sufficient and complete) need not fear upon a paritie in all other respects, any companiecompany whatsoever to come against them: such are enough, being as good as a feast …
    With rule
    … sufficient and complete) need not fear upon a paritie in all other respects, any companiecompany whatsoever to come against them: such are enough, being as good as a feast …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 261 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … many as would bee ſaued muſt ſeperate themſelues, and ioyne with the pure ſelected companiecompany of Donatus. And for theſe reſpects they baptized again all ſuch as fell vnto …
    With rule
    … many as would bee ſaued muſt ſeperate themſelues, and ioyne with the pure ſelected companiecompany of Donatus. And for theſe reſpects they baptized again all ſuch as fell vnto …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … anie other worldely reſpect or politie, do abſente thē ſelues frō the Congregatiō and companiecompany of their poore brethern, where Chriſt hathe aduaunced his ſtandarde, and blowen his troumpet …
    With rule
    … anie other worldely reſpect or politie, do abſente thē ſelues frō the Congregatiō and companiecompany of their poore brethern, where Chriſt hathe aduaunced his ſtandarde, and blowen his troumpet …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and to chase awaye their sorrowe, by drinking at tauernes, by minstrelsie, in merrie companiecompany, by purging melancholy, in phisicke, all which seeme to weare away the paine for …
    With rule
    … and to chase awaye their sorrowe, by drinking at tauernes, by minstrelsie, in merrie companiecompany, by purging melancholy, in phisicke, all which seeme to weare away the paine for …

    Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Yet after the messenger had assured mee, that there were none in the Ls companiecompany, but such as sincerely affected the truth of the Gospell, I made then no …
    With rule
    … Yet after the messenger had assured mee, that there were none in the Ls companiecompany, but such as sincerely affected the truth of the Gospell, I made then no …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    And riding from amidst her companiecompany,
    With rule
    And riding from amidst her companiecompany,

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … like the he goates of the flock: comming out from among that contagious & incurable companiecompany, and touching no vncleane thing. Did we goe out of Babel, till there was …
    With rule
    … like the he goates of the flock: comming out from among that contagious & incurable companiecompany, and touching no vncleane thing. Did we goe out of Babel, till there was …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of the Eldership. or, by the authoritie of the Eldership. 1. Tim. 4. What is this companiecompany of Eldership? Somewhat they woulde say like to the Apostles worde, but they will …
    With rule
    … of the Eldership. or, by the authoritie of the Eldership. 1. Tim. 4. What is this companiecompany of Eldership? Somewhat they woulde say like to the Apostles worde, but they will …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 166 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Pageant of Popes A02895

  • Printed
    THE FIRST COMPANIECOMPANY OF ROMAINE BISHOPS being in nomber to Syluester the first, xxxij. all whiche were …
    With rule
    THE FIRST COMPANIECOMPANY OF ROMAINE BISHOPS being in nomber to Syluester the first, xxxij. all whiche were …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 15 · Open in the reader

The Holy State A40674

  • Printed
    COmpanieCompany is one of the greatest pleasures of the nature of man. For the beams …
    With rule
    COmpanieCompany is one of the greatest pleasures of the nature of man. For the beams …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 161 · Open in the reader