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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4138 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

synceresincere

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

Puritas changed it
506 times in 204 works
Consistency
97.6% (506 of 518)
Reach if approved
~544 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sincere
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
518 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (506 changes in 204 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 506)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … hertes felte what a precious thyng, and of howe great strength effycacy & power, the synceresincere faythe is. Therfore yf youre fayth be not accōpanied wyth good workes, youre fayth …
    With rule
    … hertes felte what a precious thyng, and of howe great strength effycacy & power, the synceresincere faythe is. Therfore yf youre fayth be not accōpanied wyth good workes, youre fayth …

    Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … singular knowledg in the Scriptures, and hope you are willing in respect of your synceresincere piety, to convince our errours by the light of Gods word, if any where …
    With rule
    … singular knowledg in the Scriptures, and hope you are willing in respect of your synceresincere piety, to convince our errours by the light of Gods word, if any where …

    Henry Ainsworth · The Confession of Faith of English People in Exile · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … sacrifices, and obserued externall rites of the Church, but afterward fell away from the synceresincere worship of the true God to idolatrie and all manner of wickednes, and became …
    With rule
    … sacrifices, and obserued externall rites of the Church, but afterward fell away from the synceresincere worship of the true God to idolatrie and all manner of wickednes, and became …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … they neuer so plausible. As there is nothing more safe and more souereignable then synceresincere religion, which dooth display abroade direct too the right way of the true vndoubted …
    With rule
    … they neuer so plausible. As there is nothing more safe and more souereignable then synceresincere religion, which dooth display abroade direct too the right way of the true vndoubted …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … alleage to prooue that the intereſt in the couenant doth not depend vpon the ſynceresincere fayth or godlines of the next parents, youcrie out of ſo many errors, miſchines …
    With rule
    … alleage to prooue that the intereſt in the couenant doth not depend vpon the ſynceresincere fayth or godlines of the next parents, youcrie out of ſo many errors, miſchines …

    George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … with mans diuices and tradicions. The Britaynes had always the preaching of the truthe, synceresincere doctrine, and the liuely faith and such seruice as was deliuered to the Apostles …
    With rule
    … with mans diuices and tradicions. The Britaynes had always the preaching of the truthe, synceresincere doctrine, and the liuely faith and such seruice as was deliuered to the Apostles …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … though never ſo malicious, an ingenious acknowledgement, that thou art a true Iſraelite, a ſynceresincere Nathaniel in whom there is found no guile. Now though our maine and firſt …
    With rule
    … though never ſo malicious, an ingenious acknowledgement, that thou art a true Iſraelite, a ſynceresincere Nathaniel in whom there is found no guile. Now though our maine and firſt …

    Henry Jeanes · Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … them that hypocrisye, woulde not be all wayes hydden but such as wer not synceresincere shoulde be knowen at the laste daye, and all that was taughte shoulde at …
    With rule
    … them that hypocrisye, woulde not be all wayes hydden but such as wer not synceresincere shoulde be knowen at the laste daye, and all that was taughte shoulde at …

    Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Righteous Mans Plea to True Happiness A13019

  • Printed
    3. SyncereSincere obedience.
    With rule
    3. SyncereSincere obedience.

    John Stoughton · The Righteous Mans Plea to True Happiness · p. 72 · Open in the reader

Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship A19142

  • Printed
    Seventhly, we have appropriated the surnames of Christians, the title of SyncereSincere, the very name of the Church, the Brethren, the Godly, unto our selves.
    With rule
    Seventhly, we have appropriated the surnames of Christians, the title of SyncereSincere, the very name of the Church, the Brethren, the Godly, unto our selves.

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 523 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Pope, and doe not utterly seperate from him, through ignorance, there be many Christians, SyncereSincere according to their knowledge, belonging to the true Catholike Church, and so to be …
    With rule
    … Pope, and doe not utterly seperate from him, through ignorance, there be many Christians, SyncereSincere according to their knowledge, belonging to the true Catholike Church, and so to be …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 523 · Open in the reader

The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized A62084

  • Printed
    … we sought for, love, seated in the supream ruling power in man, his will. SyncereSincere love to God, carries that in and with it, which is the best requital …
    With rule
    … we sought for, love, seated in the supream ruling power in man, his will. SyncereSincere love to God, carries that in and with it, which is the best requital …

    George Sikes · The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized · p. 38 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached Before the Parliament A86505

  • Printed
    … This rightneſſe (or uprightneſſe, as tis oft rendered) is called in the New Teſtament SyncereSincere. q. d. foreign A man is at heart, what he ſeems in actions, or, Sine …
    With rule
    … This rightneſſe (or uprightneſſe, as tis oft rendered) is called in the New Teſtament SyncereSincere. q. d. foreign A man is at heart, what he ſeems in actions, or, Sine …

    Nathanael Homes · Sermon Preached Before the Parliament · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … man to whom the Lord imputeth not ſinne, in whoſe ſpirit is no guile. SyncereSincere men are called in Phil. …1.10. foreign that is toazed abroad, (as a lock of wool …
    With rule
    … man to whom the Lord imputeth not ſinne, in whoſe ſpirit is no guile. SyncereSincere men are called in Phil. …1.10. foreign that is toazed abroad, (as a lock of wool …

    Nathanael Homes · Sermon Preached Before the Parliament · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Legal and Rational Plea A91199

  • Printed
    … us many wayes, how far it is, AND EVER SHALL BE, from his ROYALL, SYNCERESINCERE CARE and Affection to the Subjects of England, to alter or innovate the FUNDAMENTALL …
    With rule
    … us many wayes, how far it is, AND EVER SHALL BE, from his ROYALL, SYNCERESINCERE CARE and Affection to the Subjects of England, to alter or innovate the FUNDAMENTALL …

    William Prynne · Legal and Rational Plea · p. 38 · Open in the reader