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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4228 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

faythfulfaithful

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

Puritas changed it
622 times in 160 works
Consistency
98.1% (622 of 634)
Reach if approved
~666 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: faithful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
634 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (622 changes in 160 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 622)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ceaseth, but endurethe in perfecte strengthe for euer & euer, y• the sinnes of y• faythfulfaithful repentant maye be forgyuen at all tymes by it. Christes bloud shall not crye …
    With rule
    … ceaseth, but endurethe in perfecte strengthe for euer & euer, y• the sinnes of y• faythfulfaithful repentant maye be forgyuen at all tymes by it. Christes bloud shall not crye …

    Thomas Becon · News Out of Heaven · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … God, though he be aſſured of his ſaluation is not to be accounted a faythfulfaithful mā. Why? to be aſſured of ſaluation, & to haue a nullitie of fayth before …
    With rule
    … God, though he be aſſured of his ſaluation is not to be accounted a faythfulfaithful mā. Why? to be aſſured of ſaluation, & to haue a nullitie of fayth before …

    John Penry · Defense of Writings on the Ignorant Ministry · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … But as I do righte well on your parte admit the similytude of ye faythfulfaithful wife of Cana, which came to Christ for to haue her daughters helth, wyth …
    With rule
    … But as I do righte well on your parte admit the similytude of ye faythfulfaithful wife of Cana, which came to Christ for to haue her daughters helth, wyth …

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to cloke their owne impietie, and to intice others to do the like. But faythfulfaithful Daniel had learned an other leſſon, and of a more faithfull ſcholemaiſter: euen the …
    With rule
    … to cloke their owne impietie, and to intice others to do the like. But faythfulfaithful Daniel had learned an other leſſon, and of a more faithfull ſcholemaiſter: euen the …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … them, to the abhorrynge of all Chriſtē …ares, and the great dolour of all faythfulfaithful hartes. Here is not the trewe preachynge of the goſpell called vpon by the …
    With rule
    … them, to the abhorrynge of all Chriſtē …ares, and the great dolour of all faythfulfaithful hartes. Here is not the trewe preachynge of the goſpell called vpon by the …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … absent) not onely ought to be couered with golde, but also ought of al faythfulfaithful & christē people, yea in this scarsenes and penurye of all thynges, to be cladde …
    With rule
    … absent) not onely ought to be couered with golde, but also ought of al faythfulfaithful & christē people, yea in this scarsenes and penurye of all thynges, to be cladde …

    Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that are vnrype agaynst the Lordes commyng, that is to say: to comfort the faythfulfaithful, to confirme the weake, and to instruct the ignoraunt, in diuers necessary pointes of …
    With rule
    … that are vnrype agaynst the Lordes commyng, that is to say: to comfort the faythfulfaithful, to confirme the weake, and to instruct the ignoraunt, in diuers necessary pointes of …

    Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … sygnes of humiliaciō God vtterly abhorreth, whē they come not from a penitent and faythfulfaithful hart, and casteth them awaye as hypocrytysh and diuelish, as we read in the …
    With rule
    … sygnes of humiliaciō God vtterly abhorreth, whē they come not from a penitent and faythfulfaithful hart, and casteth them awaye as hypocrytysh and diuelish, as we read in the …

    Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

1 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.

A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers A02668

  • Printed
    … contrarye saynt Paules doctrine) s…ffer an euyll thinge that good maye come therof? FaythfulFaithful wyfes wyll cōtinue in ther honeste / whan you / and all whorehūters shall go to …
    With rule
    … contrarye saynt Paules doctrine) s…ffer an euyll thinge that good maye come therof? FaythfulFaithful wyfes wyll cōtinue in ther honeste / whan you / and all whorehūters shall go to …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader