Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3987 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

empyreempire

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

Puritas changed it: 478 times in 102 works
Consistency: 100% (478 of 478)
Reach if approved: ~502 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: empire
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 478 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (478 changes in 102 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 478)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the bride is the bridegrome. and that when God did deliver unto her the empyreempire of the world and all the things contayned therein; he sayd unto her that …
With rule
… the bride is the bridegrome. and that when God did deliver unto her the empyreempire of the world and all the things contayned therein; he sayd unto her that …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 437 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of your EmpyreEmpire, and Romes now tottring Throne.
With rule
Of your EmpyreEmpire, and Romes now tottring Throne.
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brought in sectes, as Pharisees, Saducees, & Esseanes, and were the fynall decay of that empyreempire, as were the papystes of our christia nyte. An other maner of presthode was …
With rule
… brought in sectes, as Pharisees, Saducees, & Esseanes, and were the fynall decay of that empyreempire, as were the papystes of our christia nyte. An other maner of presthode was …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. lxix · Open in the reader
Printed
… begging fryers to greate Ecclesiasticall dignityes, as to bishoprickes, archbishoprickes and Cardinalships. After the EmpyreEmpire had beene voyde a long time, at y^e length he made Rodolph Earle of …
With rule
… begging fryers to greate Ecclesiasticall dignityes, as to bishoprickes, archbishoprickes and Cardinalships. After the EmpyreEmpire had beene voyde a long time, at y^e length he made Rodolph Earle of …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to diſpoſſeſſe him of his kingdome: and after, when Otho was inueſted with the EmpyreEmpire, hee ſet vp Frederick the ſonne of Henry the ſixt againſt him, and depoſed …
With rule
… to diſpoſſeſſe him of his kingdome: and after, when Otho was inueſted with the EmpyreEmpire, hee ſet vp Frederick the ſonne of Henry the ſixt againſt him, and depoſed …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 381 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Germain princes, kindle ſuch a fire of diuiſion and diſcorde throughout the whole EmpyreEmpire as can neuer be quenched, but by the vtter ſubuerſion of all Germany. For …
With rule
… the Germain princes, kindle ſuch a fire of diuiſion and diſcorde throughout the whole EmpyreEmpire as can neuer be quenched, but by the vtter ſubuerſion of all Germany. For …
Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did lurke in obscurity for a time, and many made defection from the Romane EmpyreEmpire. But in the meane time, GOD had his servantes marked, as is specified in …
With rule
… did lurke in obscurity for a time, and many made defection from the Romane EmpyreEmpire. But in the meane time, GOD had his servantes marked, as is specified in …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finde that both Antichrist is come, and the Pope is hee. This is the EmpyreEmpire of Rome, which the Apostle darklie insinuateth, least he should stirre vp the Romans …
With rule
… finde that both Antichrist is come, and the Pope is hee. This is the EmpyreEmpire of Rome, which the Apostle darklie insinuateth, least he should stirre vp the Romans …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 114 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.