Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4084 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

policiepolicy

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

Puritas changed it: 3,779 times in 1,089 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,779 of 3,782)
Reach if approved: ~3,977 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: policy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,785 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,779 changes in 1,089 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,779)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The most prudent Prince that euer gouerned people, put in practise this point of policiepolicy: euen Salomon, to whom God said, I haue giuen thee a wise & an vnderstanding …
With rule
The most prudent Prince that euer gouerned people, put in practise this point of policiepolicy: euen Salomon, to whom God said, I haue giuen thee a wise & an vnderstanding …
William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
His PoliciePolicy. A Cunning Hunter.
With rule
His PoliciePolicy. A Cunning Hunter.
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nor any ſound reaſon out of Gods booke, or the rule of true chriſtian policiepolicy could withholde from purſuing their traiterous purpoſes, and practiſes. And to ſee, or heare …
With rule
… nor any ſound reaſon out of Gods booke, or the rule of true chriſtian policiepolicy could withholde from purſuing their traiterous purpoſes, and practiſes. And to ſee, or heare …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Penurie. This was good Pollicie in humane reaſon. It ſhall be no leſſe good PoliciePolicy in Religion, now in theſe times, in which the word of God is plentifull …
With rule
… Penurie. This was good Pollicie in humane reaſon. It ſhall be no leſſe good PoliciePolicy in Religion, now in theſe times, in which the word of God is plentifull …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pleaſure the ſermons of thoſe whoſe doctrines are ſtuffed with humane diſcourſes. Learning and policiepolicy never pierce conſcience. Nay, let carnall preachers preach never ſo much againſt peoples ſinnes …
With rule
… pleaſure the ſermons of thoſe whoſe doctrines are ſtuffed with humane diſcourſes. Learning and policiepolicy never pierce conſcience. Nay, let carnall preachers preach never ſo much againſt peoples ſinnes …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of that Monster, as the last, and greatest Master-stich, of all his PoliciePolicy, and Power: and, much, and darke tyme, behooved to bee allotted, to the begetting …
With rule
… out of that Monster, as the last, and greatest Master-stich, of all his PoliciePolicy, and Power: and, much, and darke tyme, behooved to bee allotted, to the begetting …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perswasion by Scripture, and then it had bene easy to haue found out the policiepolicy of the deuill. But when we learne by Scripture, that your doctrine is contrary …
With rule
… perswasion by Scripture, and then it had bene easy to haue found out the policiepolicy of the deuill. But when we learne by Scripture, that your doctrine is contrary …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 412 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the saluing and easing or releeuing of our selues. It was the Deuils policiepolicy that he vsed, but without successe, with our Sauiour; to beare him in hand …
With rule
… for the saluing and easing or releeuing of our selues. It was the Deuils policiepolicy that he vsed, but without successe, with our Sauiour; to beare him in hand …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 61 · 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.

Sermon Preached in London A19590

Printed
… the necessity thereof is also demonstrated, not so much out of the grounds of POLICIEPOLICY, as of HUMANITY, EQUITY, and CHRISTIANITY.
With rule
… the necessity thereof is also demonstrated, not so much out of the grounds of POLICIEPOLICY, as of HUMANITY, EQUITY, and CHRISTIANITY.
William Crashaw · Sermon Preached in London · Open in the reader

The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent B15350

Printed
… ſome doe ſuppoſe, that Chriſt Ieſus, as a LAVV-GIVER, hath inſtituted a certaine POLICIEPOLICY in his Goſpel, and decreed Eccleſiaſticall Lawes, which euery man ought neceſſarily to obſerue …
With rule
… ſome doe ſuppoſe, that Chriſt Ieſus, as a LAVV-GIVER, hath inſtituted a certaine POLICIEPOLICY in his Goſpel, and decreed Eccleſiaſticall Lawes, which euery man ought neceſſarily to obſerue …
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is moſt certaine, that the GOSPELL HATH NOT ORDAINED ANY EXTERNALL OR CORPOREALL POLICIEPOLICY: but permitteth vs freely to vſe the Policies of ALL Nations, as we do …
With rule
… it is moſt certaine, that the GOSPELL HATH NOT ORDAINED ANY EXTERNALL OR CORPOREALL POLICIEPOLICY: but permitteth vs freely to vſe the Policies of ALL Nations, as we do …
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 49 · Open in the reader