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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4164 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

folliefolly

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

Puritas changed it
1,527 times in 435 works
Consistency
100% (1,527 of 1,527)
Reach if approved
~1,607 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: folly
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,529 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,527 changes in 435 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,527)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and marked: but according to the Duch prouerbe, A wiſe man committeth no ſmall folliefolly. If a Commonner offende, or committe ſome fooliſhe facte, it is not much regarded …
    With rule
    … and marked: but according to the Duch prouerbe, A wiſe man committeth no ſmall folliefolly. If a Commonner offende, or committe ſome fooliſhe facte, it is not much regarded …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … I might verie well performe if I pleased to answer a foole to his folliefolly, and so proove a foole with him: that, wherto I refused to answere, being …
    With rule
    … I might verie well performe if I pleased to answer a foole to his folliefolly, and so proove a foole with him: that, wherto I refused to answere, being …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … well, for here at the firſt enterance, the blindneſſe of the Papiſts, and their folliefolly, doth manifeſtlie bewray it ſelfe, when as they doe not ſee nor vnderſtand, that …
    With rule
    … well, for here at the firſt enterance, the blindneſſe of the Papiſts, and their folliefolly, doth manifeſtlie bewray it ſelfe, when as they doe not ſee nor vnderſtand, that …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 188 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … but firſte the purpoſe of Ieremie: that was to drawe the Iewes frō their folliefolly, which after they had once forſaken the Lorde by rebellion, did thinke alſo by …
    With rule
    … but firſte the purpoſe of Ieremie: that was to drawe the Iewes frō their folliefolly, which after they had once forſaken the Lorde by rebellion, did thinke alſo by …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … see you conclude any thing frō the place / and so I should runne into folliefolly / to answeare a matter before I heare yt. In your first entrance of this …
    With rule
    … see you conclude any thing frō the place / and so I should runne into folliefolly / to answeare a matter before I heare yt. In your first entrance of this …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of the houſe of the Lord, iff you cannot prove this, (which were duble folliefolly to go about) …hen muſt you be con…ent to knowe your ſelves that …
    With rule
    … of the houſe of the Lord, iff you cannot prove this, (which were duble folliefolly to go about) …hen muſt you be con…ent to knowe your ſelves that …

    Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … part doctor in authoritie, not in knowledge: as ſaith Iaſon *. Therfore let the firſt folliefolly of this article be ſhewed thereby, in that the pope durſt ſaie, that wicked …
    With rule
    … part doctor in authoritie, not in knowledge: as ſaith Iaſon *. Therfore let the firſt folliefolly of this article be ſhewed thereby, in that the pope durſt ſaie, that wicked …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 269 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … wiſedome but in him. This is the reaſon why it ſeemeth madnes and extreme folliefolly vnto his ſeruants whatſoeuer is not approued by his worde, haue it neuer ſo …
    With rule
    … wiſedome but in him. This is the reaſon why it ſeemeth madnes and extreme folliefolly vnto his ſeruants whatſoeuer is not approued by his worde, haue it neuer ſo …

    John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 270 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

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