Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4198 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

transitorietransitory

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

Puritas changed it: 754 times in 258 works
Consistency: 99.2% (754 of 760)
Reach if approved: ~799 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: transitory
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 760 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (754 changes in 258 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 754)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… despise worldly thinges? Wholly to set our minde vppon heauenly thinges, not regarding the transitorietransitory and vncertaine vanities of this world, according to the wordes of S. Peter: all …
With rule
… despise worldly thinges? Wholly to set our minde vppon heauenly thinges, not regarding the transitorietransitory and vncertaine vanities of this world, according to the wordes of S. Peter: all …
Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… concerne Gods glory, and are neceſſary to ſaluation we muſt expect abſolutely: but things tranſitorietransitory, with this cō dition (if God ſee them to be good for vs). Better …
With rule
… concerne Gods glory, and are neceſſary to ſaluation we muſt expect abſolutely: but things tranſitorietransitory, with this cō dition (if God ſee them to be good for vs). Better …
Elnathan Parr · Abba Father · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though we used it not: all that we haue here is but vaine and transitorietransitory: and all our studie and endeauour must be to come to the kingdome of …
With rule
… though we used it not: all that we haue here is but vaine and transitorietransitory: and all our studie and endeauour must be to come to the kingdome of …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
… manie yeares▪ he neither dreamed of dying himſelfe, nor of the decaying of his tranſitorietransitory ſubſtance, & yet poore vvretch it vvas told him, that to morrovv he ſhould dye …
With rule
… manie yeares▪ he neither dreamed of dying himſelfe, nor of the decaying of his tranſitorietransitory ſubſtance, & yet poore vvretch it vvas told him, that to morrovv he ſhould dye …
John Forbes · Preparative Sermon to the Lords Table · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… both the want of things needfull to true life, and the desire of other transitorietransitory things. And it is the same in effect that Caluine meaneth when he saith …
With rule
… both the want of things needfull to true life, and the desire of other transitorietransitory things. And it is the same in effect that Caluine meaneth when he saith …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… common as well to the wicked as to the godly? are they not so transitorietransitory and insufficient, that the more a man hath of them, the more he may …
With rule
… common as well to the wicked as to the godly? are they not so transitorietransitory and insufficient, that the more a man hath of them, the more he may …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 366 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which case we will rather forsake the earth than heauen, and our fraile and transitorietransitory houses rather than the heauenly mansons. But hetherto, the lawe of nature, and the …
With rule
… which case we will rather forsake the earth than heauen, and our fraile and transitorietransitory houses rather than the heauenly mansons. But hetherto, the lawe of nature, and the …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. CXXXVIII · Open in the reader
Printed
Sen ilk court bene vntraiſt and tranſitorietransitory,
With rule
Sen ilk court bene vntraiſt and tranſitorietransitory,
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Colossians A21260

Printed
TranſitorieTransitory things make not more or leſſe holy in Gods ſight. pag. 750
With rule
TranſitorieTransitory things make not more or leſſe holy in Gods ſight. pag. 750
Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · Open in the reader