Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4134 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abilitieability

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

Puritas changed it: 2,579 times in 744 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,579 of 2,580)
Reach if approved: ~2,711 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ability
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,580 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,579 changes in 744 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,579)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… tunnes of choſen wine towards his houſe kéeping: and other likewiſe according to their abilitieability. Now the time of the Councell drawing néere, and the Biſhops aſſembled, there fell …
With rule
… tunnes of choſen wine towards his houſe kéeping: and other likewiſe according to their abilitieability. Now the time of the Councell drawing néere, and the Biſhops aſſembled, there fell …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that wanne the poore widowe that prayse, a cuppe of cold water, where more abilitieability wanteth, shall winne heauen at thend. This then is the benefite of almes giuen …
With rule
… that wanne the poore widowe that prayse, a cuppe of cold water, where more abilitieability wanteth, shall winne heauen at thend. This then is the benefite of almes giuen …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but at ſome times I remember God by praier: I doe according to my abilitieability giue to the poore: I am ready to pleaſure my friend: doe not theſe …
With rule
… but at ſome times I remember God by praier: I doe according to my abilitieability giue to the poore: I am ready to pleaſure my friend: doe not theſe …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as ſtand in need of our help, and that according to their neceſſitie & our abilitieability: and grant that by our humble, modeſt, gentle carriage of our ſelues towards all …
With rule
… as ſtand in need of our help, and that according to their neceſſitie & our abilitieability: and grant that by our humble, modeſt, gentle carriage of our ſelues towards all …
William Gouge · A Short Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… life, and respecting their infirmitie by weak old age, with consideration of thy better abilitieability in thy yong & strōg yeeres, who may better stand then they, as also before …
With rule
… life, and respecting their infirmitie by weak old age, with consideration of thy better abilitieability in thy yong & strōg yeeres, who may better stand then they, as also before …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God doth work by means and ſtir up good deſires, but giveth not abilitieability to expreſſe our deſires in fitting ſignificant words, … it is lawfull for us to …
With rule
… of God doth work by means and ſtir up good deſires, but giveth not abilitieability to expreſſe our deſires in fitting ſignificant words, … it is lawfull for us to …
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… compaſſe, not bearing an higher port, and countenance in the World, than a mans abilitieability will warrant Prou. 12.9. yet is it not good for a man to feigne himſelfe …
With rule
… compaſſe, not bearing an higher port, and countenance in the World, than a mans abilitieability will warrant Prou. 12.9. yet is it not good for a man to feigne himſelfe …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue beene so hardie, to cite that Author, whose lines vpbraid them with i…abilitieability or negligence, so long as they suffer so learned and laborious a treatisely bent …
With rule
… haue beene so hardie, to cite that Author, whose lines vpbraid them with i…abilitieability or negligence, so long as they suffer so learned and laborious a treatisely bent …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

A Treasury of Similes A18271

Printed
ABilitieAbility. Folio. 536.
With rule
ABilitieAbility. Folio. 536.
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · Open in the reader