Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4210 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vylevile

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

Puritas changed it: 339 times in 134 works
Consistency: 99.7% (339 of 340)
Reach if approved: ~357 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: vile
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 340 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (339 changes in 134 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 339)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… draue Ascanius Columna out of his kingdome. He cloyned into his owne handes by vylevile treacherye a towne called Camery, dryuinge out and dispossessing the Queene thereof being a …
With rule
… draue Ascanius Columna out of his kingdome. He cloyned into his owne handes by vylevile treacherye a towne called Camery, dryuinge out and dispossessing the Queene thereof being a …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in buildinge suche houses as seeme gaye and gorgeous, and be in deede but vylevile earthe, stones, tymber and claye. Suche lyke aunswer ought your Magestye, & all noble men …
With rule
… in buildinge suche houses as seeme gaye and gorgeous, and be in deede but vylevile earthe, stones, tymber and claye. Suche lyke aunswer ought your Magestye, & all noble men …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
Antichrist is that vylevile and stinkynge puddle: He that drinketh thereof, shall dye euerlastingly.
With rule
Antichrist is that vylevile and stinkynge puddle: He that drinketh thereof, shall dye euerlastingly.
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… all kynde of synne, God to be hyghe, & nothynge more hygh, hymselfe to be vylevile, & nothynge more vylevile: than must he before his praier vse some menes wherby, he …
With rule
… all kynde of synne, God to be hyghe, & nothynge more hygh, hymselfe to be vylevile, & nothynge more vylevile: than must he before his praier vse some menes wherby, he …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… the loue of couetouſues. Firſt, the vice of couetouſneſſe hath euer been iudged moſt vylevile, not onely amongeſt Chryſtyans, but alſo amongeſt heathens. And that is the rote of …
With rule
… the loue of couetouſues. Firſt, the vice of couetouſneſſe hath euer been iudged moſt vylevile, not onely amongeſt Chryſtyans, but alſo amongeſt heathens. And that is the rote of …
Wolfgang Musculus · Lawful and Unlawful Usury Amongst Christians · Open in the reader
Printed
… theſe men never yet ſufficiētly went down into themſelues, and haue never ſeen that vylevile corruption, that lyeth far ben in the heart. I know (ſayeth the Apoſtle) being …
With rule
… theſe men never yet ſufficiētly went down into themſelues, and haue never ſeen that vylevile corruption, that lyeth far ben in the heart. I know (ſayeth the Apoſtle) being …
Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 204 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the wyſe: the weake, to the ſtrong: the poore, to the rich: the vylevile, to the honorable: and which is yet more ſtrange: the ſicke, to the whole …
With rule
… to the wyſe: the weake, to the ſtrong: the poore, to the rich: the vylevile, to the honorable: and which is yet more ſtrange: the ſicke, to the whole …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whan thou inforcest thy selfe to sweare for a worldlye thinge? and for a vylevile creature takest God to witnesse? yes trewly doest thou / and for it forsakest thy …
With rule
… whan thou inforcest thy selfe to sweare for a worldlye thinge? and for a vylevile creature takest God to witnesse? yes trewly doest thou / and for it forsakest thy …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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