Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4002 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

posteritieposterity

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

Puritas changed it: 4,371 times in 971 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,371 of 4,374)
Reach if approved: ~4,603 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: posterity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,381 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,371 changes in 971 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,371)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… his great blessing, without praier & humbling of our selues, we shall conuey them to posteritieposterity: and although the lord granteth sometimes ciuill gifts vnto the children of natural and …
With rule
… his great blessing, without praier & humbling of our selues, we shall conuey them to posteritieposterity: and although the lord granteth sometimes ciuill gifts vnto the children of natural and …
Richard Greenham · Godly Exhortation and Fruitful Admonition to Virtuous Parents · Open in the reader
Printed
… wiſe. It is not his meaning, that a man ſhould not trauaile for his poſteritieposterity, becauſe his ſonne may proue a foole. But he would not haue men ſo …
With rule
… wiſe. It is not his meaning, that a man ſhould not trauaile for his poſteritieposterity, becauſe his ſonne may proue a foole. But he would not haue men ſo …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… craftye Serpentes ſubtyll Counſel, dryuen forthe of Paradyſe & adiudged to death with al their poſteritieposterity. Geneſ. iii. King Saul counſayling w^t the ſotheſayer the wiſe womanne, whome onlye he …
With rule
… craftye Serpentes ſubtyll Counſel, dryuen forthe of Paradyſe & adiudged to death with al their poſteritieposterity. Geneſ. iii. King Saul counſayling w^t the ſotheſayer the wiſe womanne, whome onlye he …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… to all PoſteritiePosterity, for their Example; as it will certainly remaine to your owne PoſteritiePosterity, for their glory. But leaſt I ſhould adde the offence of tediouſneſſe to boldneſſe …
With rule
… to all PoſteritiePosterity, for their Example; as it will certainly remaine to your owne PoſteritiePosterity, for their glory. But leaſt I ſhould adde the offence of tediouſneſſe to boldneſſe …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · Open in the reader
Printed
… manifold instances for proofe hereof, which more learned pennes have and will commend to posteritieposterity: the sweet close which his Majestie set (a little before the changing of his …
With rule
… manifold instances for proofe hereof, which more learned pennes have and will commend to posteritieposterity: the sweet close which his Majestie set (a little before the changing of his …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee did it not with an vpright heart, God iuſtly puniſhed it in his poſteritieposterity.
With rule
… hee did it not with an vpright heart, God iuſtly puniſhed it in his poſteritieposterity.
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… engrauen in a piller, with letters of golde, for a perpetuall memorie to all poſteritieposterity to come. This was an. 1528.
With rule
… engrauen in a piller, with letters of golde, for a perpetuall memorie to all poſteritieposterity to come. This was an. 1528.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 427 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dwell, there shall neuer be any mariages celebrated there, that for the hope of posteritieposterity the citie mighte loke for some renewing, but sorow, solitude, silence, horrour and confusion …
With rule
… dwell, there shall neuer be any mariages celebrated there, that for the hope of posteritieposterity the citie mighte loke for some renewing, but sorow, solitude, silence, horrour and confusion …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 123 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

Theological and Legal Queries A91165

Printed
… and diſſolved Juncto affirm: and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES, with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIEPOSTERITY after him, claiming the Crown and Kingſhip by lawfull indubitable Right, declared, ratified by …
With rule
… and diſſolved Juncto affirm: and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES, with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIEPOSTERITY after him, claiming the Crown and Kingſhip by lawfull indubitable Right, declared, ratified by …
William Prynne · Theological and Legal Queries · p. 19 · Open in the reader