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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4216 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fynallyfinally

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

Puritas changed it
234 times in 84 works
Consistency
100% (234 of 234)
Reach if approved
~246 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: finally
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
234 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (234 changes in 84 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 234)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … vs. For whom ſoeuer trees / ſtones / ſyluer / golde / & other ſtuffe / wherof images are made: fynallyfinally whom the ſyght of man / to whom god hath giuen lyfe & reaſō can natte …
    With rule
    … vs. For whom ſoeuer trees / ſtones / ſyluer / golde / & other ſtuffe / wherof images are made: fynallyfinally whom the ſyght of man / to whom god hath giuen lyfe & reaſō can natte …

    Martin Bucer · Pictures not to be Worshiped · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    FynallyFinally seynge that Chrystes loue taketh all to the best, & nothyng is here that maye …
    With rule
    FynallyFinally seynge that Chrystes loue taketh all to the best, & nothyng is here that maye …

    John Wycliffe · Wycliffes Wicket · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … anye ryght to tangle anie of his subiectes in the snare of chastitie. And fynallyfinally that Uvī chester scorneth no lesse his Photius and other moste holye fathers & trewe …
    With rule
    … anye ryght to tangle anie of his subiectes in the snare of chastitie. And fynallyfinally that Uvī chester scorneth no lesse his Photius and other moste holye fathers & trewe …

    Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … séeke to bee restored into his Bishopprick, from which hée was iustly deposed, &c. FynallyFinally, it is worth nothing, for hee falsifieth the wordes of S. Cyprian in translation …
    With rule
    … séeke to bee restored into his Bishopprick, from which hée was iustly deposed, &c. FynallyFinally, it is worth nothing, for hee falsifieth the wordes of S. Cyprian in translation …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Thu lawe of Moses, And Christes lawe fynallyfinally
    With rule
    Thu lawe of Moses, And Christes lawe fynallyfinally

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … nor poore, neyther wise nor foolyshe. proude of stomake, nor feable of courage, and fynallyfinally no earthlye creature by no craft or ingyne of man dyd euer escape. … any …
    With rule
    … nor poore, neyther wise nor foolyshe. proude of stomake, nor feable of courage, and fynallyfinally no earthlye creature by no craft or ingyne of man dyd euer escape. … any …

    John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by his legatys euē tyl all churches & houſes were filled & ſatiſfyed with goldyn yeares fynallyfinally he braſt into purgatory at length alſo to the deade ſowlys firſt thorow Maſſes …
    With rule
    … by his legatys euē tyl all churches & houſes were filled & ſatiſfyed with goldyn yeares fynallyfinally he braſt into purgatory at length alſo to the deade ſowlys firſt thorow Maſſes …

    Martin Luther · Last Will and Confession · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … pore conſcience ſtand: it wold ronne away for feare if it coulde tell whither. FynallyFinally the Goſpel wylleth that by thꝭ word Grace, ſhuld be vnderſtand the fre mercy …
    With rule
    … pore conſcience ſtand: it wold ronne away for feare if it coulde tell whither. FynallyFinally the Goſpel wylleth that by thꝭ word Grace, ſhuld be vnderſtand the fre mercy …

    Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · 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.