Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4222 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gratifiegratify

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

Puritas changed it: 2,623 times in 1,242 works
Consistency: 98.8% (2,623 of 2,654)
Reach if approved: ~2,789 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gratify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,654 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,623 changes in 1,242 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,623)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… needlesse (quoth M. Featly▪) it cannot be made worse then it is; yet to gratifiegratify you, I thus impugne it. This Pronoune demonstratiue, Hoc, must needs signifie some thing …
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… needlesse (quoth M. Featly▪) it cannot be made worse then it is; yet to gratifiegratify you, I thus impugne it. This Pronoune demonstratiue, Hoc, must needs signifie some thing …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnderstandeth hereticall) the lesse suspition there is of collusion or any purpose therein to gratifiegratify vs; and so much the stronger therefore is their testimonie for vs. The testimonie …
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… vnderstandeth hereticall) the lesse suspition there is of collusion or any purpose therein to gratifiegratify vs; and so much the stronger therefore is their testimonie for vs. The testimonie …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… earned it. Like pamper'd children, you play with your Meate: Giue vs leaue to gratifiegratify with some comfortes (I say not with our Sauiour, the Dogge…, but) the Children …
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… earned it. Like pamper'd children, you play with your Meate: Giue vs leaue to gratifiegratify with some comfortes (I say not with our Sauiour, the Dogge…, but) the Children …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader
Printed
… beene readie to run whither the Deuill droue me; I am ſtill forward to gratifiegratify vnruly deſires with this or that they ſtand vnto, and are bent vpon. What …
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… beene readie to run whither the Deuill droue me; I am ſtill forward to gratifiegratify vnruly deſires with this or that they ſtand vnto, and are bent vpon. What …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 394 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abundance of maintenance and multitude of Church-liuings, whereby the Pope is able to gratifiegratify the Clergy, more then any Prince in Europe. More particularly, they haue got the …
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… abundance of maintenance and multitude of Church-liuings, whereby the Pope is able to gratifiegratify the Clergy, more then any Prince in Europe. More particularly, they haue got the …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life, briefly cō piled. Neither haue I ought elſe being a poor man to gratifiegratify your holineſſe withall, neither neede you any other preſent, than ſpirituall conſolation wherewithall I …
With rule
… life, briefly cō piled. Neither haue I ought elſe being a poor man to gratifiegratify your holineſſe withall, neither neede you any other preſent, than ſpirituall conſolation wherewithall I …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods worſhip he conſecrated a little bowle of wood with his Popall bleſſing, to gratifiegratify a noble matron, that ſhe might carrie it, hanged it on her necke againſt …
With rule
… Gods worſhip he conſecrated a little bowle of wood with his Popall bleſſing, to gratifiegratify a noble matron, that ſhe might carrie it, hanged it on her necke againſt …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much as it is to me, that this Apoſtate hath alſo addreſſed him to gratifiegratify his Maiſters, I haue taken vpon mee to aunſwere hym for the ſeconde tyme …
With rule
… much as it is to me, that this Apoſtate hath alſo addreſſed him to gratifiegratify his Maiſters, I haue taken vpon mee to aunſwere hym for the ſeconde tyme …
Theodore Beza · The Life and Death of John Calvin · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (31)

20 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… with infernall Stage-Playes, the very Monuments, and Insignes, with which the Pagans did GratifieGratify, and Court their Deuill-gods vpon their Feastiualls, and solemne Birth-dayes:) as if …
With rule
… with infernall Stage-Playes, the very Monuments, and Insignes, with which the Pagans did GratifieGratify, and Court their Deuill-gods vpon their Feastiualls, and solemne Birth-dayes:) as if …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 53 · Open in the reader

Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock A25202

Printed
… on, till he comes to the Cross of Christ, ver. 14. Must we now, to GratifieGratify these Gentlemen, renounce our Reasons, and say, that a Doctrine is the Head of …
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… on, till he comes to the Cross of Christ, ver. 14. Must we now, to GratifieGratify these Gentlemen, renounce our Reasons, and say, that a Doctrine is the Head of …
Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perfect, are Blessed in the enjoyment of God; for that would be but to GratifieGratify your Tinctured Imagination, with the sound of a word that Rhimes pretty well to …
With rule
… perfect, are Blessed in the enjoyment of God; for that would be but to GratifieGratify your Tinctured Imagination, with the sound of a word that Rhimes pretty well to …
Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 304 · Open in the reader

The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 A27004

Printed
Cond. 27. GratifieGratify not Satan ſo much, as to queſtion well reſolved points, as oft as he …
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Cond. 27. GratifieGratify not Satan ſo much, as to queſtion well reſolved points, as oft as he …
Richard Baxter · The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 · p. 450 · Open in the reader

A Saint or a Brute A27016

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… importance. While you complain of your weakneſs, encreaſe it not by unbelieving uncomfortable complaints. GratifieGratify not the Devil and wicked malicious men ſo far, as to inflict on your …
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… importance. While you complain of your weakneſs, encreaſe it not by unbelieving uncomfortable complaints. GratifieGratify not the Devil and wicked malicious men ſo far, as to inflict on your …
Richard Baxter · A Saint or a Brute · p. 372 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Matthew 4:1-11 A40659

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GratifieGratify not Satan in the deepest of thy afflictions, with a confession against thy self …
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GratifieGratify not Satan in the deepest of thy afflictions, with a confession against thy self …
Thomas Fuller · Commentary on Matthew 4:1-11 · p. 42 · Open in the reader

Advice to an Only Child A43569

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2. GratifieGratify me your Father in this ſmall requeſt; Never provoke others unto Paſſion, neither be …
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2. GratifieGratify me your Father in this ſmall requeſt; Never provoke others unto Paſſion, neither be …
Oliver Heywood · Advice to an Only Child · p. 58 · Open in the reader

Sufferings and Oppressions of Many Christians in Devon A43688

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… diſhonour'd by ſuch Oppreſſing, and empty Perſons; who only Proſtitute Authority to Contempt, and GratifieGratify a ſingle particular Intereſt, which will be found too narrow a Baſis for our …
With rule
… diſhonour'd by ſuch Oppreſſing, and empty Perſons; who only Proſtitute Authority to Contempt, and GratifieGratify a ſingle particular Intereſt, which will be found too narrow a Baſis for our …
John Hickes · Sufferings and Oppressions of Many Christians in Devon · p. 15 · Open in the reader

A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet A45154

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The Doctor is brought in (you ſay) as one deſigning to GratifieGratify the Roman Faction.
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The Doctor is brought in (you ſay) as one deſigning to GratifieGratify the Roman Faction.
John Humfrey · A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet · p. 9 · Open in the reader

Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil A50113

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SEASONABLE DISCOURSES UPON Some Common, but Woful, INSTANCES, WHEREIN Men GratifieGratify the Grand Enemy of their SALVATION.
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SEASONABLE DISCOURSES UPON Some Common, but Woful, INSTANCES, WHEREIN Men GratifieGratify the Grand Enemy of their SALVATION.
Cotton Mather · Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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… nature of Man to make moſt after Denied Morſels. Yet ſecondly, They grant to GratifieGratify him (when they had thus prepared him for his yielding to any Terms) upon …
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… nature of Man to make moſt after Denied Morſels. Yet ſecondly, They grant to GratifieGratify him (when they had thus prepared him for his yielding to any Terms) upon …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 318 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the voluntary Contributions of the People thereunto, ver. 4, 6. All ſorts were here ready to GratifieGratify the King, ſeeing himſelf ſo ready to bear his part of the Burden, wherein …
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… the voluntary Contributions of the People thereunto, ver. 4, 6. All ſorts were here ready to GratifieGratify the King, ſeeing himſelf ſo ready to bear his part of the Burden, wherein …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 651 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France A56905

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… the advice of the Queen-Regent, His moſt Honoured Lady and Mother, deſiring to GratifieGratify and Treat Favourably His ſaid Subjects, hath permitted, and doth permit them the Convocation …
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… the advice of the Queen-Regent, His moſt Honoured Lady and Mother, deſiring to GratifieGratify and Treat Favourably His ſaid Subjects, hath permitted, and doth permit them the Convocation …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 425 · Open in the reader

The True Christians T est A59607

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… it revenge their own Cauſe and Quarrel, ſerve their own intereſt, and not Gods: GratifieGratify their own Luſts, more than the Will of God; when they had rather that …
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… it revenge their own Cauſe and Quarrel, ſerve their own intereſt, and not Gods: GratifieGratify their own Luſts, more than the Will of God; when they had rather that …
Samuel Shaw · The True Christians T est · p. 95 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John A63065

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Verſe 10. To whom ye forgive] Or, GratifieGratify. Mercy is that we muſt mutually lend and borrow one of another. Let the …
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Verſe 10. To whom ye forgive] Or, GratifieGratify. Mercy is that we muſt mutually lend and borrow one of another. Let the …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 134 · Open in the reader

A Body of Practical Divinity A65285

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… who hath had such Love-Tokens from Heaven, and Signal experiences, for him to GratifieGratify a Lust, How horrid is this! It was an aggravation of Solomon's Sin, that …
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… who hath had such Love-Tokens from Heaven, and Signal experiences, for him to GratifieGratify a Lust, How horrid is this! It was an aggravation of Solomon's Sin, that …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 874 · Open in the reader

Religion Our True Interest A65309

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2. Impure Thoughts. They think how to GratifieGratify their Lusts, they do foreign make provision, or as the word signifies, become Caterers for …
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2. Impure Thoughts. They think how to GratifieGratify their Lusts, they do foreign make provision, or as the word signifies, become Caterers for …
Thomas Watson · Religion Our True Interest · p. 109 · Open in the reader

The Souls Possession of Christ A72376

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… faſt ſhame and ſorrow too: A ſtranger to grace, and a ſtranger to God: GratifieGratify your luſts, and you gratifiegratify the devill: Without holineſſe, no happineſſe: Heaven is too …
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… faſt ſhame and ſorrow too: A ſtranger to grace, and a ſtranger to God: GratifieGratify your luſts, and you gratifiegratify the devill: Without holineſſe, no happineſſe: Heaven is too …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Possession of Christ · p. 169 · Open in the reader

The Greatest Sinners Exhorted and Encouraged B04319

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4. Let Sinners sadly Consider Whom they GratifieGratify, and whom they grieve by delaying their Conversion. They please their greatest enemy, and …
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4. Let Sinners sadly Consider Whom they GratifieGratify, and whom they grieve by delaying their Conversion. They please their greatest enemy, and …
Increase Mather · The Greatest Sinners Exhorted and Encouraged · p. 51 · Open in the reader

Farewell Sermon B22620

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Secondly, By discontent you GratifieGratify the Devil. When Nero [that he might the better conceive the flames of Troy …
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Secondly, By discontent you GratifieGratify the Devil. When Nero [that he might the better conceive the flames of Troy …
George Evanke · Farewell Sermon · p. 9 · Open in the reader