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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4064 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

societiesociety

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

Puritas changed it
3,077 times in 806 works
Consistency
99.9% (3,077 of 3,080)
Reach if approved
~3,236 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: society
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,080 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,077 changes in 806 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,077)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … also of the masculine gender. Hierome also in that place, interpreteth not appetite, but societiesociety, and fantasie, ththat chataoth is the masculine gender, and not the foeminine. Whereas it …
    With rule
    … also of the masculine gender. Hierome also in that place, interpreteth not appetite, but societiesociety, and fantasie, ththat chataoth is the masculine gender, and not the foeminine. Whereas it …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 317 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and a thréefold cord is not eaſily brokē. Where men are linked together in ſocietiesociety and friendſhip, they be ſtrong and can not eaſily be iniuried. By theſe his …
    With rule
    … and a thréefold cord is not eaſily brokē. Where men are linked together in ſocietiesociety and friendſhip, they be ſtrong and can not eaſily be iniuried. By theſe his …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … yet of your Fraternity, nor haue yet giuen their names to be of your SocietieSociety, I meane such as are in the flowre of their age, of sufficient stature …
    With rule
    … yet of your Fraternity, nor haue yet giuen their names to be of your SocietieSociety, I meane such as are in the flowre of their age, of sufficient stature …

    William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … crowne, bringing vs to our countrey, to the sight of God, company of Angels, societiesociety of Saints, and coniunction with Christ: and therefore so expected with ioy, and desired …
    With rule
    … crowne, bringing vs to our countrey, to the sight of God, company of Angels, societiesociety of Saints, and coniunction with Christ: and therefore so expected with ioy, and desired …

    William Guild · The Elf-Fire of Purgatory · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … maiestie. The Lord gyue vs the harts to beware, renounce, and abhorre, the secrete societiesociety and friendshippe of all those that seeke to trouble her quiet gouernement, as the …
    With rule
    … maiestie. The Lord gyue vs the harts to beware, renounce, and abhorre, the secrete societiesociety and friendshippe of all those that seeke to trouble her quiet gouernement, as the …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    1 Neerenesse & societiesociety with God.
    With rule
    1 Neerenesse & societiesociety with God.

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … God, to be vterlie ignorant of the Father, and with him to haue no societiesociety. S. Iohn plainely affirmeth. Iudas the seruant of Iesus Christ and brother of Iames …
    With rule
    … God, to be vterlie ignorant of the Father, and with him to haue no societiesociety. S. Iohn plainely affirmeth. Iudas the seruant of Iesus Christ and brother of Iames …

    David Fergusson · Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … for doctrines mens commandements: therefore it is no ioyning with you in any spirituall societiesociety. For which cause, that with more craft and speed, they may inueigle the vnletterd …
    With rule
    … for doctrines mens commandements: therefore it is no ioyning with you in any spirituall societiesociety. For which cause, that with more craft and speed, they may inueigle the vnletterd …

    James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Value of True Valor A13562

  • Printed
    TO THE GENEROVS MINDED MILITARY SOCIETIESOCIETY.
    With rule
    TO THE GENEROVS MINDED MILITARY SOCIETIESOCIETY.

    Thomas Taylor · The Value of True Valor · Open in the reader

A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven A14380

  • Printed
    TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SOCIETIESOCIETY OF THE GOVERNOVRS OF Christs Hospitall, I. V. Dedicateth all his poore endeuours, and …
    With rule
    TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SOCIETIESOCIETY OF THE GOVERNOVRS OF Christs Hospitall, I. V. Dedicateth all his poore endeuours, and …

    John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    TO THE MOST NOBLE, AND WORTHILY HONOVRED SOCIETIESOCIETY OF GRAYES INNE: AT WHOSE BARRE THIS JMPOSTOR WAS openly arraigned: J. H. HVMBLY …
    With rule
    TO THE MOST NOBLE, AND WORTHILY HONOVRED SOCIETIESOCIETY OF GRAYES INNE: AT WHOSE BARRE THIS JMPOSTOR WAS openly arraigned: J. H. HVMBLY …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 499 · Open in the reader