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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4046 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spoyledspoiled

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

Puritas changed it
2,030 times in 821 works
Consistency
99.7% (2,030 of 2,035)
Reach if approved
~2,139 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: spoiled
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,036 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,030 changes in 821 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,030)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Abbeis, in which was nothing almost but ignorance and filthmes, and Idolatrie, we haue spoyledspoiled the Church of God, of great vtilitie. But he saith further, they were votaries …
    With rule
    … Abbeis, in which was nothing almost but ignorance and filthmes, and Idolatrie, we haue spoyledspoiled the Church of God, of great vtilitie. But he saith further, they were votaries …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 308 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and to diſgrace them vtterly, to the end that the ſimple may not be ſpoyledspoiled by thē as a praie, doo want ſome iudgement. For as it is Chriſtian …
    With rule
    … and to diſgrace them vtterly, to the end that the ſimple may not be ſpoyledspoiled by thē as a praie, doo want ſome iudgement. For as it is Chriſtian …

    George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … like. So it commeth to paſſe, that many times a man hath his children ſpoyledspoiled, euen by his ſeruants, who teach them ſo much wickedneſſe whileſt they are young …
    With rule
    … like. So it commeth to paſſe, that many times a man hath his children ſpoyledspoiled, euen by his ſeruants, who teach them ſo much wickedneſſe whileſt they are young …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … hath and respect vnto his inheritance, that it be not abused any way, or spoyledspoiled; the like, & greater care, hath God our heauenly Father, that our children, which are …
    With rule
    … hath and respect vnto his inheritance, that it be not abused any way, or spoyledspoiled; the like, & greater care, hath God our heauenly Father, that our children, which are …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in this spirituall respecte, but also in body. When they haue bene greuously handled, spoyledspoiled of their goodes, imprisoned, and exiled, graciously hath he reléeued them, and prouided for …
    With rule
    … in this spirituall respecte, but also in body. When they haue bene greuously handled, spoyledspoiled of their goodes, imprisoned, and exiled, graciously hath he reléeued them, and prouided for …

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

  6. Printed
    … carry them voide of aches, iſſues and other ſlubbers: they that did ſpoyle were ſpoyledspoiled, and ſhee that fed vpon bloud, fed the dogs: Drunkards ſeeke red wine, and …
    With rule
    … carry them voide of aches, iſſues and other ſlubbers: they that did ſpoyle were ſpoyledspoiled, and ſhee that fed vpon bloud, fed the dogs: Drunkards ſeeke red wine, and …

    Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … body & ſoule to burne in hell / for auoyding of Idolatrie / your worldly ſubſtaūce ſhalbe ſpoyledspoiled / but for obeyng Idolatrie / heauenly ryches ſhalbe loſt for auoyding Idolatrie / you maye fall …
    With rule
    … body & ſoule to burne in hell / for auoyding of Idolatrie / your worldly ſubſtaūce ſhalbe ſpoyledspoiled / but for obeyng Idolatrie / heauenly ryches ſhalbe loſt for auoyding Idolatrie / you maye fall …

    John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vppon them on a ſudden: who came and found them aſſembled at prayers, and ſpoyledspoiled them of all that they, had pulling their garmentes from their backes: ſome they …
    With rule
    … vppon them on a ſudden: who came and found them aſſembled at prayers, and ſpoyledspoiled them of all that they, had pulling their garmentes from their backes: ſome they …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 487 · 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.

Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops A10190

  • Printed
    … feares God, and hopes to be saved by Iesus Christ, to Beware of being SpoyledSpoiled, and made a prey (as the word signifieth) of being heguiled of their reward …
    With rule
    … feares God, and hopes to be saved by Iesus Christ, to Beware of being SpoyledSpoiled, and made a prey (as the word signifieth) of being heguiled of their reward …

    William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

  • Printed
    … He calls it no more the house of the Lord, but their house. Desolate] SpoyledSpoiled of all its grace; yet the word house may be taken more generally for …
    With rule
    … He calls it no more the house of the Lord, but their house. Desolate] SpoyledSpoiled of all its grace; yet the word house may be taken more generally for …

    Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 122 · Open in the reader