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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4175 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

leprosieleprosy

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

Puritas changed it
3,509 times in 1,161 works
Consistency
99.9% (3,509 of 3,511)
Reach if approved
~3,689 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: leprosy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,511 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,509 changes in 1,161 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,509)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … wrath reacheth euen againſt them, becauſe they are wrapped vp, and defiled with the leproſieleprosy of their owne naturall corruption, Epheſ. 2.3. Rom. 5.12. and alſo for the ſinnes of their …
    With rule
    … wrath reacheth euen againſt them, becauſe they are wrapped vp, and defiled with the leproſieleprosy of their owne naturall corruption, Epheſ. 2.3. Rom. 5.12. and alſo for the ſinnes of their …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Physitian is by all industry to take care left it gangrene and become incurable. LeprosieLeprosy is a disease of reproach as well as smart: and whereas men in misery …
    With rule
    … Physitian is by all industry to take care left it gangrene and become incurable. LeprosieLeprosy is a disease of reproach as well as smart: and whereas men in misery …

    John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſo abound on the earth that the whole world ſhall be infected with the LeproſieLeprosy of monſtrous and enormous ſins, this great houſe which hath beene long tottered, ſhall …
    With rule
    … ſo abound on the earth that the whole world ſhall be infected with the LeproſieLeprosy of monſtrous and enormous ſins, this great houſe which hath beene long tottered, ſhall …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … a sore complaint, that we haue falsified the Scripture, as it were with a LeprosieLeprosy, in translating sculptile, and conflatile, a grauen and a molten Image, and namely in …
    With rule
    … a sore complaint, that we haue falsified the Scripture, as it were with a LeprosieLeprosy, in translating sculptile, and conflatile, a grauen and a molten Image, and namely in …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſparrow on the houſe top, Pſalm. 102.7. ſhed His blood for the cleanſing of our leproſieleprosy; yet by the other that was ſent alive into the open ayre, His reſurrection …
    With rule
    … ſparrow on the houſe top, Pſalm. 102.7. ſhed His blood for the cleanſing of our leproſieleprosy; yet by the other that was ſent alive into the open ayre, His reſurrection …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that washing seven times in Iordan, is too slight a medicine to cure our leprosieleprosy? that our forgiving of others, can never have the power to worke in God …
    With rule
    … that washing seven times in Iordan, is too slight a medicine to cure our leprosieleprosy? that our forgiving of others, can never have the power to worke in God …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … selues seuen times, that is to say, often we shall be cured of the leprosieleprosy of sinne: to the waters of the poole of Siloam, because if wee bathe …
    With rule
    … selues seuen times, that is to say, often we shall be cured of the leprosieleprosy of sinne: to the waters of the poole of Siloam, because if wee bathe …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Maſſe it is reſtored to its former puritie. Popery is as a ſcab or leproſieleprosy that cleaveth to the church; and the Maſſe an abomination annexed to the Liturgie …
    With rule
    … Maſſe it is reſtored to its former puritie. Popery is as a ſcab or leproſieleprosy that cleaveth to the church; and the Maſſe an abomination annexed to the Liturgie …

    John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 149 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    … after, &c. hee transgresseth against this prohibition, TAKE THOV HEED IN THE PLAGVE OF LEPROSIELEPROSY, &c. (Deut. 25. 8.) Maimony tom. 3. treat. of LeprosieLeprosy, chap. 10. sect. 1. See the Annotations on Levit …
    With rule
    … after, &c. hee transgresseth against this prohibition, TAKE THOV HEED IN THE PLAGVE OF LEPROSIELEPROSY, &c. (Deut. 25. 8.) Maimony tom. 3. treat. of LeprosieLeprosy, chap. 10. sect. 1. See the Annotations on Levit …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 107 · Open in the reader

The Figures or Types of Christ A50253

  • Printed
    THE GOSPEL OF THE LEPROSIELEPROSY.
    With rule
    THE GOSPEL OF THE LEPROSIELEPROSY.

    Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 367 · Open in the reader