Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4050 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

certainliecertainly

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

Puritas changed it: 288 times in 114 works
Consistency: 100% (288 of 288)
Reach if approved: ~303 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: certainly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 288 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (288 changes in 114 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 288)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſhall dwell in Zion and in Ieruſalem: thou ſhalt weepe no more: he will certainliecertainly haue mercie vpon thee at the voice of thy crie: when he heareth thee …
With rule
… ſhall dwell in Zion and in Ieruſalem: thou ſhalt weepe no more: he will certainliecertainly haue mercie vpon thee at the voice of thy crie: when he heareth thee …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
… remisse, and so by infirmity of the flesh do fall (into fornication or &c.) CertainlieCertainly this is a less sinne and more tolerable offēce, thē it is to marry …
With rule
… remisse, and so by infirmity of the flesh do fall (into fornication or &c.) CertainlieCertainly this is a less sinne and more tolerable offēce, thē it is to marry …
William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… exemplarlie holie men. And thus much haue I gained by hearing of them, that certainliecertainly, I perceiue our Writers to lay against them, manie vnjust imputations, so to make …
With rule
… exemplarlie holie men. And thus much haue I gained by hearing of them, that certainliecertainly, I perceiue our Writers to lay against them, manie vnjust imputations, so to make …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… here ſet downe, yet will I vnmooueablie confeſſe and ſticke vnto this, becauſe I certainliecertainly knowe this to bee the Woorde of God, whiche abideth faſt for euer, and …
With rule
… here ſet downe, yet will I vnmooueablie confeſſe and ſticke vnto this, becauſe I certainliecertainly knowe this to bee the Woorde of God, whiche abideth faſt for euer, and …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… you bee in the faith? And if it be so, no man can euer certainliecertainly know, whether he be justified, considering that they onlie, which trulie beleeue, can be …
With rule
… you bee in the faith? And if it be so, no man can euer certainliecertainly know, whether he be justified, considering that they onlie, which trulie beleeue, can be …
William Perkins · How a Man May Know Whether he be a Son of God · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart be filled with God: looke that godly ſpeaches be in thy mouth; for certainliecertainly as thou ſpeakeſt ſo thou vvalkneſt the heart: ſpeake well, a good affection will …
With rule
… heart be filled with God: looke that godly ſpeaches be in thy mouth; for certainliecertainly as thou ſpeakeſt ſo thou vvalkneſt the heart: ſpeake well, a good affection will …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vngoly: and I am a companion of all them that keepe thy lawe. For certainliecertainly no leauen so soone pearceth through a lump of dough, no pitch so fast …
With rule
… vngoly: and I am a companion of all them that keepe thy lawe. For certainliecertainly no leauen so soone pearceth through a lump of dough, no pitch so fast …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… know the truth without scripture, as Theophilus did, yet we can not know it certainliecertainly without.
With rule
… know the truth without scripture, as Theophilus did, yet we can not know it certainliecertainly without.
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 34 · 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.