Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4090 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fyghtfight

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

Puritas changed it: 332 times in 91 works
Consistency: 99.7% (332 of 333)
Reach if approved: ~350 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fight
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 333 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (332 changes in 91 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 332)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
In loues cause to fyghtfight, ye maye sone haue me a floate
With rule
In loues cause to fyghtfight, ye maye sone haue me a floate
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… with an other, to auenge our selues, and to satisfie our …: but we shold fyghtfight against the yll motions which rise vp in our hearts against the lawe of …
With rule
… with an other, to auenge our selues, and to satisfie our …: but we shold fyghtfight against the yll motions which rise vp in our hearts against the lawe of …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… puissāce, might and strength, not onely enter battel with our enemyes, but also valeauntly fyghtfight with them coragiously put them to flyght, & tryumphantly cary away a glorious vyctory ouer …
With rule
… puissāce, might and strength, not onely enter battel with our enemyes, but also valeauntly fyghtfight with them coragiously put them to flyght, & tryumphantly cary away a glorious vyctory ouer …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · Open in the reader
Printed
… his Lyfe, is assayled and ouerwhelmed with dyuers and greuous temtacions, wherwith he must fyghtfight valeauntly. But aboue all, this is the most bytter and most greuous tentacyon / whan …
With rule
… his Lyfe, is assayled and ouerwhelmed with dyuers and greuous temtacions, wherwith he must fyghtfight valeauntly. But aboue all, this is the most bytter and most greuous tentacyon / whan …
Thomas Becon · The Physic of the Soul · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſure and true, and nother lye nor deceaue: Thoſe be oure wapens wherwyth we fyghtfight, and ouercome al aduerſyte. But lyke as ſpere and ſhylde are not profytable vnto …
With rule
… ſure and true, and nother lye nor deceaue: Thoſe be oure wapens wherwyth we fyghtfight, and ouercome al aduerſyte. But lyke as ſpere and ſhylde are not profytable vnto …
Andreas Osiander · Whether a Christian Man Ought to Flee the Plague · Open in the reader
Printed
… actuall ſynne whiche ſhal chaūce on vs whyle we enforce the contrary and euer fyghtfight there againſt & hope to ſine no more. And thus / repētaūce & faith begynne at our …
With rule
… actuall ſynne whiche ſhal chaūce on vs whyle we enforce the contrary and euer fyghtfight there againſt & hope to ſine no more. And thus / repētaūce & faith begynne at our …
William Tyndale · A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
with me they fyghtfight apace:
With rule
with me they fyghtfight apace:
John Bradford · The Complaint of Verity · Open in the reader
Printed
… by which S. Paul ſaithe. That god is prouoked euen agaynſt one which wolde fyghtfight agaynſt hym, by which he ſaith, that Ieſus Chriſte is offended that one forſaketh …
With rule
… by which S. Paul ſaithe. That god is prouoked euen agaynſt one which wolde fyghtfight agaynſt hym, by which he ſaith, that Ieſus Chriſte is offended that one forſaketh …
John Calvin · What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.