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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4154 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nyghtnight

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

Puritas changed it
351 times in 110 works
Consistency
99.4% (351 of 353)
Reach if approved
~371 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: night
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
353 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (351 changes in 110 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 351)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … wine. This is the scripture agaynste banquetting and dronkennes. But now they banquet al nyghtnight, and lye a bed in the day tyme tyl none, & the scrypture speaketh nothinge …
    With rule
    … wine. This is the scripture agaynste banquetting and dronkennes. But now they banquet al nyghtnight, and lye a bed in the day tyme tyl none, & the scrypture speaketh nothinge …

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

  2. Printed
    … is, there is alſo no horrour, nor fātaſye of ſpretes, or deceatfulneſſe of the nyghtnight, but playne corage and boldneſſe. Yf onye thynge els be ſene (as fyre or …
    With rule
    … is, there is alſo no horrour, nor fātaſye of ſpretes, or deceatfulneſſe of the nyghtnight, but playne corage and boldneſſe. Yf onye thynge els be ſene (as fyre or …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … al your mindes so on drinking, that ye syt sweating therat vntill it be nyghtnight. The harpe, the Lute, the Tabour, the droumslade, the trumpet, the shalme, and plenty …
    With rule
    … al your mindes so on drinking, that ye syt sweating therat vntill it be nyghtnight. The harpe, the Lute, the Tabour, the droumslade, the trumpet, the shalme, and plenty …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … fastynge stondethe in thys poynte, yf we continue without ony diner vntyll it be nyghtnight. Hytherto haue I rehersed the wordes of S. Iohn Chrisostome, of whome we maye …
    With rule
    … fastynge stondethe in thys poynte, yf we continue without ony diner vntyll it be nyghtnight. Hytherto haue I rehersed the wordes of S. Iohn Chrisostome, of whome we maye …

    Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … owne neceſſities, and thoſe which depende vppon him, comming weary and trauayled home at nyghtnight, ſo great a parte of the yeare bee ſent fainte and feeble to his …
    With rule
    … owne neceſſities, and thoſe which depende vppon him, comming weary and trauayled home at nyghtnight, ſo great a parte of the yeare bee ſent fainte and feeble to his …

    Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 196 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … with whom Paule agreeth, thus wryting vnto the Corynthis. Our lorde Iesus, the same nyghtnight he was betrayed: he toke the brede, and after he had geuen thank…s …
    With rule
    … with whom Paule agreeth, thus wryting vnto the Corynthis. Our lorde Iesus, the same nyghtnight he was betrayed: he toke the brede, and after he had geuen thank…s …

    William Tyndale · The Supper of the Lord · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Euen to God both nyghtnight and daye
    With rule
    Euen to God both nyghtnight and daye

    John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … wonderfull / yf we shuld laye th… out here togither. Neyther haue you spared the nyghtnight nor yet the daye to fynde out all fylthynesse. Ded not you fynde out …
    With rule
    … wonderfull / yf we shuld laye th… out here togither. Neyther haue you spared the nyghtnight nor yet the daye to fynde out all fylthynesse. Ded not you fynde out …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

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