Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4194 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

relygionreligion

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

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 53 works
Consistency: 86.5% (161 of 186)
Reach if approved: ~196 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: religion
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 187 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 53 works, 86.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… you, and suffred you not to peryshe, seynge that you haue so aduaunced his relygionreligion, whiche others estemed not to be true, but a spirite, a fantasye, a thyng …
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… you, and suffred you not to peryshe, seynge that you haue so aduaunced his relygionreligion, whiche others estemed not to be true, but a spirite, a fantasye, a thyng …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Epistle to the Duke of Somerset · Open in the reader
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… the false preachers / poysoninge the catholyke faythe wyth false doctrine vnder the coloure of relygionreligion / pretendinge abstinence / prayer / ād clennesse. These .iij. wycked spretes are not all vnlyke to …
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… the false preachers / poysoninge the catholyke faythe wyth false doctrine vnder the coloure of relygionreligion / pretendinge abstinence / prayer / ād clennesse. These .iij. wycked spretes are not all vnlyke to …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
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… he hath lawes onely of prophane buſynes therfore he cannot iudge the contrauerſys of relygionreligion, the minor is to be denyed, for the mageſtrate hath a lawe to ponyſhe …
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… he hath lawes onely of prophane buſynes therfore he cannot iudge the contrauerſys of relygionreligion, the minor is to be denyed, for the mageſtrate hath a lawe to ponyſhe …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader
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… I am now debating with the enemye, bée made cleare and manyfeſt, that true relygionreligion, can neuer bée daungerous to a Common Wealth, but dooth alwayes cauſe it to …
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… I am now debating with the enemye, bée made cleare and manyfeſt, that true relygionreligion, can neuer bée daungerous to a Common Wealth, but dooth alwayes cauſe it to …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 119 · Open in the reader
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… hande. For our mercy doth beſtow more goodes throughout all the ſtréete, then your relygionreligion throughout all your Temples. Hée declareth by thoſe woordes that the auncient Chriſtians beſtowed …
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… hande. For our mercy doth beſtow more goodes throughout all the ſtréete, then your relygionreligion throughout all your Temples. Hée declareth by thoſe woordes that the auncient Chriſtians beſtowed …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 54 · Open in the reader
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… had commytted in conſentyng to Idolatri, they rane forthe into the ſtreats profeſſede theyr relygionreligion, teſtifyed them ſealues to be Chriſtians, affyrmyng that theyr handes only had cōſentyd vnto …
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… had commytted in conſentyng to Idolatri, they rane forthe into the ſtreats profeſſede theyr relygionreligion, teſtifyed them ſealues to be Chriſtians, affyrmyng that theyr handes only had cōſentyd vnto …
Martin Bucer · Woe to the World Because of Offenses · Open in the reader
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… to speake properly, we cannot say that God is knowen where there is no relygionreligion nor godlynesse. But here I dooe not yet touche that speciall kynde of knoweledge …
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… to speake properly, we cannot say that God is knowen where there is no relygionreligion nor godlynesse. But here I dooe not yet touche that speciall kynde of knoweledge …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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… priest or deacon / by any meanes put away his owne wife vnder pretence of relygionreligion: but if he doe / let hym be excommunicated: and if he so continew / let …
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… priest or deacon / by any meanes put away his owne wife vnder pretence of relygionreligion: but if he doe / let hym be excommunicated: and if he so continew / let …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (25)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Nobles A03850

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… nedeth to teache? For Epicures, godleſſe perſons, blaſphemers, forſwearers, mockers, and ſcorners of Gods RelygionReligion, (if anye bee in this ſorte) I determyne, no otherwyſe then doggs from Sacraments …
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… nedeth to teache? For Epicures, godleſſe perſons, blaſphemers, forſwearers, mockers, and ſcorners of Gods RelygionReligion, (if anye bee in this ſorte) I determyne, no otherwyſe then doggs from Sacraments …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
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… gentiles Pryeſts, were mocked, and mocked. But happelye they will ſaye, they like the RelygionReligion that lyketh all men. But generallye all, bothe Iewes, and Gentyles, conſpired to crucifie …
With rule
… gentiles Pryeſts, were mocked, and mocked. But happelye they will ſaye, they like the RelygionReligion that lyketh all men. But generallye all, bothe Iewes, and Gentyles, conſpired to crucifie …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
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… oure ſelues to the beſte. Doeth then the lengthe of time argue truthe of RelygionReligion? But the Gentyles erred longe before Chriſtes commynge, and ſuperſtytion is anncyente, and vyce …
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… oure ſelues to the beſte. Doeth then the lengthe of time argue truthe of RelygionReligion? But the Gentyles erred longe before Chriſtes commynge, and ſuperſtytion is anncyente, and vyce …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty A05142

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… hym selfe there wyth no discention. For he hath there dominion in the open RelygionReligion, & neadeth not to trouble hym selfe any further.
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… hym selfe there wyth no discention. For he hath there dominion in the open RelygionReligion, & neadeth not to trouble hym selfe any further.
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

The Amendment of Life A13339

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… Anilin, confeſſeth and acknowledgeth, that by diuerſe and ſundrie experiences hee knewe, that if RelygionReligion (wherein wee are to obſerue wyth greate zeale a ſingular reuerence of holyneſſe and …
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… Anilin, confeſſeth and acknowledgeth, that by diuerſe and ſundrie experiences hee knewe, that if RelygionReligion (wherein wee are to obſerue wyth greate zeale a ſingular reuerence of holyneſſe and …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 335 · Open in the reader

The Christian Disputations A14461

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… ſale and valued and is eſtéemed after the gayne that it bryngeth. Your begging RelygionReligion, goeth about in Tauerns, Shops and Markets, for to begge. Ye demaunde money for …
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… ſale and valued and is eſtéemed after the gayne that it bryngeth. Your begging RelygionReligion, goeth about in Tauerns, Shops and Markets, for to begge. Ye demaunde money for …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 54 · Open in the reader
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… God to periſh with hunger. May he not rightly ſay, that all the Chriſtian RelygionReligion is no other thing now, but a very beggery? And the Gods that are …
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… God to periſh with hunger. May he not rightly ſay, that all the Chriſtian RelygionReligion is no other thing now, but a very beggery? And the Gods that are …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 54 · Open in the reader
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… by the occaſion of the feaſt of the deade, the goodly conformyties, betwéene your RelygionReligion and the Panyms, touchinge the purifications and ſanctyfications. But I wyll yet declare vnto …
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… by the occaſion of the feaſt of the deade, the goodly conformyties, betwéene your RelygionReligion and the Panyms, touchinge the purifications and ſanctyfications. But I wyll yet declare vnto …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 147 · Open in the reader

A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel A14463

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… hathe commaunded. Fynally, hée hathe alſo ordeyned them to ſeparate vs, in matter of RelygionReligion, from euery aſſemblie, and from all perſons, whiche followe any doctrine or relygionreligion contrarye …
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… hathe commaunded. Fynally, hée hathe alſo ordeyned them to ſeparate vs, in matter of RelygionReligion, from euery aſſemblie, and from all perſons, whiche followe any doctrine or relygionreligion contrarye …
Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 31 · Open in the reader

The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God B11843

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… and Nero ouercome them, and haue power ouer them, with his prophane, and ſuperſtitious RelygionReligion.
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… and Nero ouercome them, and haue power ouer them, with his prophane, and ſuperſtitious RelygionReligion.
Henrich Bullinger · The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God · p. 26 · Open in the reader
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… they had the aſſiſtance of lieutenants of prouinces euery where, vnto whom the Chriſtian RelygionReligion was knowne, …nd many of great power in the Emperours Court, as namely Dortheus …
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… they had the aſſiſtance of lieutenants of prouinces euery where, vnto whom the Chriſtian RelygionReligion was knowne, …nd many of great power in the Emperours Court, as namely Dortheus …
Henrich Bullinger · The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God · Open in the reader
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But in proceſſe of time, that feruent loue of RelygionReligion began to waxe colde, and ther aroſe diſſentions & contentions, cheifly amonge biſſhops and doctours …
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But in proceſſe of time, that feruent loue of RelygionReligion began to waxe colde, and ther aroſe diſſentions & contentions, cheifly amonge biſſhops and doctours …
Henrich Bullinger · The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God · p. 38 · Open in the reader