Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4174 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forbydforbid

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

Puritas changed it: 197 times in 86 works
Consistency: 100% (197 of 197)
Reach if approved: ~207 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: forbid
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 197 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (197 changes in 86 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 197)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… make the Sacramentes nothing else but bare signes, naked figures, and imaginatiue representations? God forbydforbid, it is not in vaine that the ontwarde elementes in the deuine Sacramentes doo …
With rule
… make the Sacramentes nothing else but bare signes, naked figures, and imaginatiue representations? God forbydforbid, it is not in vaine that the ontwarde elementes in the deuine Sacramentes doo …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader
Printed
… chyldren ye are of nature. If your wycked counsell had taken effect as God forbydforbid it shuld verye fewe true fauerers of the Lordes verite had bene about the …
With rule
… chyldren ye are of nature. If your wycked counsell had taken effect as God forbydforbid it shuld verye fewe true fauerers of the Lordes verite had bene about the …
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader
Printed
… that ye are afrayde y^t your workes shoulde come to lyghte. But if ye forbydforbid this, doubte ye not▪ but you shall haue another more earnest, wherein your detestable …
With rule
… that ye are afrayde y^t your workes shoulde come to lyghte. But if ye forbydforbid this, doubte ye not▪ but you shall haue another more earnest, wherein your detestable …
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… neth to ryse vp amonge vs, and repose oure whole affiaunce in them? God forbydforbid. For as weapons apte for warre are not to be neglected, & as all kynde …
With rule
… neth to ryse vp amonge vs, and repose oure whole affiaunce in them? God forbydforbid. For as weapons apte for warre are not to be neglected, & as all kynde …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… that reſiſte the trueth, and prouoke the pacience of God, do I euyll? God forbydforbid. Yf we maye not do euyll, that good may come thereof, howe muche leſſe …
With rule
… that reſiſte the trueth, and prouoke the pacience of God, do I euyll? God forbydforbid. Yf we maye not do euyll, that good may come thereof, howe muche leſſe …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… moued & ſtyred with the worde of god / which doth ſo playnly and ſo expreſſely forbydforbid all maner of ymages. Whatſoeuer is redde concernynge ymages in the lawe / in the …
With rule
… moued & ſtyred with the worde of god / which doth ſo playnly and ſo expreſſely forbydforbid all maner of ymages. Whatſoeuer is redde concernynge ymages in the lawe / in the …
Martin Bucer · Images Not to be Suffered in Churches · Open in the reader
Printed
… in peace. And that / saye they / which was permitted vnto Naaman / whi do ye forbydforbid vnto us? Furst theise men shuld weye with them selues / whether that we only …
With rule
… in peace. And that / saye they / which was permitted vnto Naaman / whi do ye forbydforbid vnto us? Furst theise men shuld weye with them selues / whether that we only …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Shall I than take Christes membres, & make them the membres of an harlot? God forbydforbid. Paul then whā he spake those wordes (All the synnes that a mā dothe …
With rule
… Shall I than take Christes membres, & make them the membres of an harlot? God forbydforbid. Paul then whā he spake those wordes (All the synnes that a mā dothe …
Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · 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.