Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4105 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prynceprince

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

Puritas changed it: 246 times in 83 works
Consistency: 100% (246 of 246)
Reach if approved: ~258 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: prince
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 246 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 83 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… mery by ſum ſight of that celeſtiall & heauenlye life whearin thou arte the kyng & prynceprince together with the father & the holy ghoſte. Thy Angelles & holye ſoules, be moſte hapie …
With rule
… mery by ſum ſight of that celeſtiall & heauenlye life whearin thou arte the kyng & prynceprince together with the father & the holy ghoſte. Thy Angelles & holye ſoules, be moſte hapie …
John Bradford · A Godly Meditation · Open in the reader
Printed
… not Chriſtes fleſh. Wherfore, if I might optaine ſo much fa…e of my prynceprince and people, as dyd Ih… amonge the Iſraelites: I woulde boeth deſtray this your …
With rule
… not Chriſtes fleſh. Wherfore, if I might optaine ſo much fa…e of my prynceprince and people, as dyd Ih… amonge the Iſraelites: I woulde boeth deſtray this your …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. lv · Open in the reader
Printed
If it shuld be otherwise (as the lorde forbydde both prynceprince Edwarde and the whole realm b…syde shuld be in most d…e daunger …
With rule
If it shuld be otherwise (as the lorde forbydde both prynceprince Edwarde and the whole realm b…syde shuld be in most d…e daunger …
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader
Printed
… it not to be wondred that al estates … so corrupt vnder so godlye a prynceprince? But our prophet … procede… in his complaint, saying: they cannot repent, neither yet thincke …
With rule
… it not to be wondred that al estates … so corrupt vnder so godlye a prynceprince? But our prophet … procede… in his complaint, saying: they cannot repent, neither yet thincke …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… whome he muſt regarde & not his owne wyll. So it is neceſſarye that a prynceprince or a lorde guydynge an hooſte / go forth not after his owne mynde, but …
With rule
… whome he muſt regarde & not his owne wyll. So it is neceſſarye that a prynceprince or a lorde guydynge an hooſte / go forth not after his owne mynde, but …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… man can inuēt for the prosperous conseruacion of a cōmō weale? Neuer was there PryncePrince, y^t toke lyke paynes for the safegard of his cominalte. Neuer was there father …
With rule
… man can inuēt for the prosperous conseruacion of a cōmō weale? Neuer was there PryncePrince, y^t toke lyke paynes for the safegard of his cominalte. Neuer was there father …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… Triers great Vicar, about Supper tyme cam to Luther, by the commaundement of hys PryncePrince, ſygnifieng that at the houre and place preſcribed, he muſte the morrow after haue …
With rule
… Triers great Vicar, about Supper tyme cam to Luther, by the commaundement of hys PryncePrince, ſygnifieng that at the houre and place preſcribed, he muſte the morrow after haue …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader
Printed
… he had done, The lord sayd vnto hym thys prophesy is the capyteyne or prynceprince of Ierusalem▪ when yet it was but an ensample to him how he shulde …
With rule
… he had done, The lord sayd vnto hym thys prophesy is the capyteyne or prynceprince of Ierusalem▪ when yet it was but an ensample to him how he shulde …
William Tyndale · Declaration of the Sacraments · 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.