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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4147 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

puritiepurity

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

Puritas changed it
1,990 times in 686 works
Consistency
100% (1,990 of 1,990)
Reach if approved
~2,091 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: purity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,990 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,990 changes in 686 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,990)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of Heart, miscarried, with glistering and plausible pretences, of the Church of Zeale, of PuritiePurity, singular Holynesse, and such lyke; having yet, and, all-bee-it some-what affected …
    With rule
    … of Heart, miscarried, with glistering and plausible pretences, of the Church of Zeale, of PuritiePurity, singular Holynesse, and such lyke; having yet, and, all-bee-it some-what affected …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and bodely rites, a man could be sanctified, but by inwarde vertues and spirituall puritiepurity, not by voluntary obseruations and imagined practises of mens deusing, but by obedience and …
    With rule
    … and bodely rites, a man could be sanctified, but by inwarde vertues and spirituall puritiepurity, not by voluntary obseruations and imagined practises of mens deusing, but by obedience and …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſeueritie. And becauſe they think there is no Church, where there is not ſound puritiepurity and integritie of life, through the hatred of wickednes they depart away from the …
    With rule
    … ſeueritie. And becauſe they think there is no Church, where there is not ſound puritiepurity and integritie of life, through the hatred of wickednes they depart away from the …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    THe picture of puritiepurity▪ and patterne of Piety, (moſt Gracious and dread Sou…r…ign… Lord) holy Bernard …
    With rule
    THe picture of puritiepurity▪ and patterne of Piety, (moſt Gracious and dread Sou…r…ign… Lord) holy Bernard …

    Henry Greenwood · Works · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the truth of their ſoules to ſee the profeſſion of Ieſus Chriſt florriſh in puritiepurity and ſincerity, and in the light of all truth, ſett their owne harts and …
    With rule
    … the truth of their ſoules to ſee the profeſſion of Ieſus Chriſt florriſh in puritiepurity and ſincerity, and in the light of all truth, ſett their owne harts and …

    Thomas Helwys · Admonition Unto Congregations · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … did ſignifie, which were all as ſo many ſeverall teſtimonies of the holineſſe and puritiepurity of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt: therefore he was called the Lambe without blemiſh: and …
    With rule
    … did ſignifie, which were all as ſo many ſeverall teſtimonies of the holineſſe and puritiepurity of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt: therefore he was called the Lambe without blemiſh: and …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 159 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … on onely on the backe and outſide, not in the heart, and in the puritiepurity of his worſhip, & ſo when they, in their Maſsings or otherwiſe, haue played their …
    With rule
    … on onely on the backe and outſide, not in the heart, and in the puritiepurity of his worſhip, & ſo when they, in their Maſsings or otherwiſe, haue played their …

    Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 456 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    CHaſtitie is of the duties that touch the puritiepurity of ones perſon. In minde, by abſteyning from filthie luſtes: in bodie, by keeping …
    With rule
    CHaſtitie is of the duties that touch the puritiepurity of ones perſon. In minde, by abſteyning from filthie luſtes: in bodie, by keeping …

    Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · p. 27 · 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.