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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4017 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyghtlight

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

Puritas changed it
1,362 times in 207 works
Consistency
99.3% (1,362 of 1,371)
Reach if approved
~1,441 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: light
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,371 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,362 changes in 207 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,362)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ye beginning I spake but the worde, & all things were created, heauen, earth, ye lyghtlight, the firmamēt, the Sunne, the Mone the fowles, the fishes, the beastes, and last …
    With rule
    … ye beginning I spake but the worde, & all things were created, heauen, earth, ye lyghtlight, the firmamēt, the Sunne, the Mone the fowles, the fishes, the beastes, and last …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … yt by the word, which is cōmitted to their charge, effectually they worke ether lyghtlight, or darknes, life, or death, yea saluation, or damnation. The text of Leuiticus serueth …
    With rule
    … yt by the word, which is cōmitted to their charge, effectually they worke ether lyghtlight, or darknes, life, or death, yea saluation, or damnation. The text of Leuiticus serueth …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 372 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … can be, is synne, and in comparison of it, al other burthens ar but lyghtlight and easy matters to beare. Therfore Christe came too delyuer vs frome that, and …
    With rule
    … can be, is synne, and in comparison of it, al other burthens ar but lyghtlight and easy matters to beare. Therfore Christe came too delyuer vs frome that, and …

    Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … cankard Papists, and of theyr pestilent Prelates, and blin… Bishops, which to blemish the lyghtlight of Gods word, and to stablysh theyr Antichristes kingdome, haue ben the workers and …
    With rule
    … cankard Papists, and of theyr pestilent Prelates, and blin… Bishops, which to blemish the lyghtlight of Gods word, and to stablysh theyr Antichristes kingdome, haue ben the workers and …

    Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    The lyghtlight hereof hath so delyghted vs, that nothyng heretofore hath fed our eyes with so …
    With rule
    The lyghtlight hereof hath so delyghted vs, that nothyng heretofore hath fed our eyes with so …

    Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the papistes haue to consider, which study by all meanes to deminishe and make lyghtlight the benefite of the death of Christ, wheras the Apostell dooth attribute all yt …
    With rule
    … the papistes haue to consider, which study by all meanes to deminishe and make lyghtlight the benefite of the death of Christ, wheras the Apostell dooth attribute all yt …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and figures: how muche leſſe cā it excuſe any mā now in ſo great lyghtlight of the Goſpel? Seing then thou knoweſt thy ſelf bownd to obeye thy Lorde …
    With rule
    … and figures: how muche leſſe cā it excuſe any mā now in ſo great lyghtlight of the Goſpel? Seing then thou knoweſt thy ſelf bownd to obeye thy Lorde …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … lightly him selfe / it is a sufficient proue / that he is a pariure / yll / lyghtlight / and one that lytle regardeth Goddes truth. now whan Christ sayth / it is sayd …
    With rule
    … lightly him selfe / it is a sufficient proue / that he is a pariure / yll / lyghtlight / and one that lytle regardeth Goddes truth. now whan Christ sayth / it is sayd …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

7 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.

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

  • Printed
    … carnestly as they ought to do. But it is to be feared, least as LyghtLight hath many her Chyldren here, so the worlde hath sent some of hys whelps …
    With rule
    … carnestly as they ought to do. But it is to be feared, least as LyghtLight hath many her Chyldren here, so the worlde hath sent some of hys whelps …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … thys worlde be eyther mo in nombre, or more prudent then the Chyldren of LyghtLight, what then auayleth vs to hauc this Conuocation? Had it not bene better we …
    With rule
    … thys worlde be eyther mo in nombre, or more prudent then the Chyldren of LyghtLight, what then auayleth vs to hauc this Conuocation? Had it not bene better we …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 6 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A06504

  • Printed
    LYghtLight ſignifieth felicitie, darkenes, affliction, and miſerye, as where it is ſayd, A light is …
    With rule
    LYghtLight ſignifieth felicitie, darkenes, affliction, and miſerye, as where it is ſayd, A light is …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

  • Printed
    Now on the contrarie part he sayeth, LyghtLight in the Lord, too shewe that all the wisedome which wee haue, commeth of …
    With rule
    Now on the contrarie part he sayeth, LyghtLight in the Lord, too shewe that all the wisedome which wee haue, commeth of …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Furthermore Saint Paule in one place calleth vs LyghtLight, and by and by he addeth, Chyldren of light. Both of them come too …
    With rule
    Furthermore Saint Paule in one place calleth vs LyghtLight, and by and by he addeth, Chyldren of light. Both of them come too …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … too one end. But yit is it not for nought that he termeth vs LyghtLight. For it serueth too expresse the better, that Gods grace is not only offered …
    With rule
    … too one end. But yit is it not for nought that he termeth vs LyghtLight. For it serueth too expresse the better, that Gods grace is not only offered …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

  • Printed
    … from the deadly sleep of ignorance; and so did Jesus Christ the onely true LyghtLight shine unto many, for the way taken of one. And albeit that these notable …
    With rule
    … from the deadly sleep of ignorance; and so did Jesus Christ the onely true LyghtLight shine unto many, for the way taken of one. And albeit that these notable …

    John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 21 · Open in the reader