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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4092 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

qualitiequality

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

Puritas changed it
2,840 times in 810 works
Consistency
100% (2,840 of 2,840)
Reach if approved
~2,984 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: quality
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,840 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,840 changes in 810 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,840)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … armed in his palace, &c. where ſometime the puniſhment is increaſed according to the qualitiequality of the offence, not onely in the fine, but further, in the loſſe of …
    With rule
    … armed in his palace, &c. where ſometime the puniſhment is increaſed according to the qualitiequality of the offence, not onely in the fine, but further, in the loſſe of …

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 205 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … howe base, or howe weake soever the instruments bee) then, nether multitude, nor high qualitiequality of maintainers, nor prescription of tyme and prevailing darknes, can give to error any …
    With rule
    … howe base, or howe weake soever the instruments bee) then, nether multitude, nor high qualitiequality of maintainers, nor prescription of tyme and prevailing darknes, can give to error any …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … price of the afflictions which we suffer for Christ, but rather by comparing their qualitiequality, and quantitie, with life euerlasting, he gathereth that we shall be infinitely more happye …
    With rule
    … price of the afflictions which we suffer for Christ, but rather by comparing their qualitiequality, and quantitie, with life euerlasting, he gathereth that we shall be infinitely more happye …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    MY Aduersaries next Argument from the qualitiequality of the Communicants, page 18. is this; If Christs body be really and corporally present …
    With rule
    MY Aduersaries next Argument from the qualitiequality of the Communicants, page 18. is this; If Christs body be really and corporally present …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … world: in ſuch a manner, not in ſo great meaſure. There may be in qualitiequality and likeneſſe a compariſon betwixt things that are in quantitie and meaſure very vnequall …
    With rule
    … world: in ſuch a manner, not in ſo great meaſure. There may be in qualitiequality and likeneſſe a compariſon betwixt things that are in quantitie and meaſure very vnequall …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … wee haue also the like faith with them, though not in quantitie, yet in qualitiequality.
    With rule
    … wee haue also the like faith with them, though not in quantitie, yet in qualitiequality.

    Richard Greenham · Propositions Containing Answers in Divers Spiritual Matters · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … wee know the soule to be in that man: so faith being an inward qualitiequality of the soule, cannot be seene of anie but by effectes, namely good workes …
    With rule
    … wee know the soule to be in that man: so faith being an inward qualitiequality of the soule, cannot be seene of anie but by effectes, namely good workes …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … gunpouder and flaxe by fire: & therefore as they who haue such commodities knowing their qualitiequality by warinesse preserue them long from burning, so may wee our natures, that they …
    With rule
    … gunpouder and flaxe by fire: & therefore as they who haue such commodities knowing their qualitiequality by warinesse preserue them long from burning, so may wee our natures, that they …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

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