Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4150 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

simpliesimply

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

Puritas changed it: 1,045 times in 289 works
Consistency: 99.2% (1,045 of 1,053)
Reach if approved: ~1,106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: simply
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,053 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,045 changes in 289 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,045)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… preſent or cited. But peraduenture ſome man will ſay, theſe Princes were condemned not ſimpliesimply as heretiks, but iointly as notorious and manifeſt heretiks. For they are oftentimes thus …
With rule
… preſent or cited. But peraduenture ſome man will ſay, theſe Princes were condemned not ſimpliesimply as heretiks, but iointly as notorious and manifeſt heretiks. For they are oftentimes thus …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 243 · Open in the reader
Printed
… absolute ordinance is the principall cause of reprobation, of sinne, and of damnation: but simpliesimply we do teache, that God in his etternall counsell for the manifestation of his …
With rule
… absolute ordinance is the principall cause of reprobation, of sinne, and of damnation: but simpliesimply we do teache, that God in his etternall counsell for the manifestation of his …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… books are not of one sort: there be some in which I haue so simpliesimply and Euangelically intreated of the religion of faith and honest conuersation, that my very …
With rule
… books are not of one sort: there be some in which I haue so simpliesimply and Euangelically intreated of the religion of faith and honest conuersation, that my very …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… firſt ſignification we haue ſaide, why the deſcenſion into hell muſt not be taken ſimpliesimply for burial in this place. The other ſignification alſo to wit, the deſcenſion to …
With rule
… firſt ſignification we haue ſaide, why the deſcenſion into hell muſt not be taken ſimpliesimply for burial in this place. The other ſignification alſo to wit, the deſcenſion to …
Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… verily his diſcipl. teaching thereby that it is not the receyving of his word ſimpliesimply, that maketh vs diſciples: but the abydiug in it, which none can doe that …
With rule
… verily his diſcipl. teaching thereby that it is not the receyving of his word ſimpliesimply, that maketh vs diſciples: but the abydiug in it, which none can doe that …
John Forbes · Letter to Merchants · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them tributaries vnto him. Moreouer it is to be noted that he sayeth not simpliesimply they shall obteyne a kingdome, but they shall receyue power as kinges. For as …
With rule
… them tributaries vnto him. Moreouer it is to be noted that he sayeth not simpliesimply they shall obteyne a kingdome, but they shall receyue power as kinges. For as …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… about the hypocriſie and vaine babling of ſuch as pray but of faſhion, but ſimpliesimply of the reading, when one prayeth: which vntill he can prooue that diuers Pſalmes …
With rule
… about the hypocriſie and vaine babling of ſuch as pray but of faſhion, but ſimpliesimply of the reading, when one prayeth: which vntill he can prooue that diuers Pſalmes …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so that if God commaund Abraham to kill his owne sonne, he must yeeld simpliesimply obedience, and be content to doe so: but it is high sacriledge for any …
With rule
… so that if God commaund Abraham to kill his owne sonne, he must yeeld simpliesimply obedience, and be content to doe so: but it is high sacriledge for any …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 150 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Godly and Learned Treatises A00635

Printed
SimplieSimply. Rom. 9, 5. 1. Tim. 1, 17.
With rule
SimplieSimply. Rom. 9, 5. 1. Tim. 1, 17.
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Works A02178

Printed
… wee should weepe, this beseemes not wise men, much lesse Christian men to doe. SimplieSimply to be grieued is not reproueable, but to be grieued out of Time, measure …
With rule
… wee should weepe, this beseemes not wise men, much lesse Christian men to doe. SimplieSimply to be grieued is not reproueable, but to be grieued out of Time, measure …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 767 · Open in the reader

Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed A10250

Printed
17 SimplieSimply to take an oath, is ſo farre from beeing forbidden by the Lorde (as …
With rule
17 SimplieSimply to take an oath, is ſo farre from beeing forbidden by the Lorde (as …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 74 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

Printed
… him, is prooued and confirmed by manie reaſons, but ſome fewe ſhall nowe ſuffice. 1. SimplieSimply and abſolutelie, without reſtraint to anie certaine circumſtaunce, none is called god in the …
With rule
… him, is prooued and confirmed by manie reaſons, but ſome fewe ſhall nowe ſuffice. 1. SimplieSimply and abſolutelie, without reſtraint to anie certaine circumſtaunce, none is called god in the …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 483 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus A15408

Printed
… persons are here understood, as the widow, fatherlesse, strangers and such like, Tostat. quaest. 3. 4. SimplieSimply it is not forbidden to respect a poore man, but in his cause: in …
With rule
… persons are here understood, as the widow, fatherlesse, strangers and such like, Tostat. quaest. 3. 4. SimplieSimply it is not forbidden to respect a poore man, but in his cause: in …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 440 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of Self-Deceiving A21024

Printed
1 SimplieSimply. p. 245.
With rule
1 SimplieSimply. p. 245.
Daniel Dyke · The Mystery of Self-Deceiving · Open in the reader