Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4011 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

adulterieadultery

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

Puritas changed it: 2,927 times in 638 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,927 of 2,928)
Reach if approved: ~3,076 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: adultery
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,928 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,927 changes in 638 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,927)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… either manifest or doubtfull. If it be manifest as Abiathers was for murther, treason, adulterieadultery, &c. the King obseruing the processe of the lawe, as in all other mens …
With rule
… either manifest or doubtfull. If it be manifest as Abiathers was for murther, treason, adulterieadultery, &c. the King obseruing the processe of the lawe, as in all other mens …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 300 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and all his workes, should now séeke vnto deuilles for helpe? Hee that committeth adulterieadultery in the flesh, is not to bee suffered. Then how much more are these …
With rule
… and all his workes, should now séeke vnto deuilles for helpe? Hee that committeth adulterieadultery in the flesh, is not to bee suffered. Then how much more are these …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… death (counting it certaine that thy colour would procure me to be accuſed of adulterieadultery, and that none would believe me when I tol… them the cauſe) and to …
With rule
… death (counting it certaine that thy colour would procure me to be accuſed of adulterieadultery, and that none would believe me when I tol… them the cauſe) and to …
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader
Printed
… as Paul said / it is not I that sinne. And / that contynuing in that adulterieadultery / she is the spouse of Christ by outward profession. You would saye it were …
With rule
… as Paul said / it is not I that sinne. And / that contynuing in that adulterieadultery / she is the spouse of Christ by outward profession. You would saye it were …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. Thou ſhalt not commit AdulterieAdultery.
With rule
A. Thou ſhalt not commit AdulterieAdultery.
John Ball · A Short Catechism · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
What remedies haue you againſt the temptations of adulterieadultery?
With rule
What remedies haue you againſt the temptations of adulterieadultery?
Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… As, Whoſoeuer putteth awaye his wi…e, except for the eaſe of fornication, committeth adulterieadultery.
With rule
… As, Whoſoeuer putteth awaye his wi…e, except for the eaſe of fornication, committeth adulterieadultery.
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, there is a relation of the adulterieadultery conceiued in her heart, and committed there, proued by her gazing on him with …
With rule
Secondly, there is a relation of the adulterieadultery conceiued in her heart, and committed there, proued by her gazing on him with …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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