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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4230 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyneline

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

Puritas changed it
245 times in 118 works
Consistency
88.4% (245 of 277)
Reach if approved
~291 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: line
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
277 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (245 changes in 118 works, 88.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 245)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … a spanne, which was geuen vnto Ezechiell, nor very far different frō ye measuring lyneline in Zacharie. And what is this els? but that the administratiō of Gods heauenly …
    With rule
    … a spanne, which was geuen vnto Ezechiell, nor very far different frō ye measuring lyneline in Zacharie. And what is this els? but that the administratiō of Gods heauenly …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Vltimum uale, at least wise in thys place, for I haue not long to lyneline, so that I thinke I shall neuer come here in to thys place againe …
    With rule
    … Vltimum uale, at least wise in thys place, for I haue not long to lyneline, so that I thinke I shall neuer come here in to thys place againe …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    After Taylor had lyneline in Prison a while, hee was sent for and depriued, because he maintained Priests …
    With rule
    After Taylor had lyneline in Prison a while, hee was sent for and depriued, because he maintained Priests …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 257 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … paſſe in a ſhallow boat ouer a deepe riuer, and ſo farre as our lyneline and plummet will reach, wee will endeauour (God willing) to ſound the depth of …
    With rule
    … paſſe in a ſhallow boat ouer a deepe riuer, and ſo farre as our lyneline and plummet will reach, wee will endeauour (God willing) to ſound the depth of …

    John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 170 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … liue therein, or within the knowledge and remembrāce thereof, to make demonſtration of the lyneline of ſucceſon: yet when in the iuſt iudgement of God, the Churches ſhall bee …
    With rule
    … liue therein, or within the knowledge and remembrāce thereof, to make demonſtration of the lyneline of ſucceſon: yet when in the iuſt iudgement of God, the Churches ſhall bee …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … true and lawfull Councels, which muſt be holdē to be the very rule and lyneline to rule all others, and what proceeding and order the Pope and his do …
    With rule
    … true and lawfull Councels, which muſt be holdē to be the very rule and lyneline to rule all others, and what proceeding and order the Pope and his do …

    Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … your man could either have said or signed I would not have interchanged one lyneline with him. I know what is the efficacie of errour, and bewitching force of …
    With rule
    … your man could either have said or signed I would not have interchanged one lyneline with him. I know what is the efficacie of errour, and bewitching force of …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vapour comes into the firie region, it is soone enflamed. Their rancorous filth had lyneline quiet, as mucke in a dunghill, had not the Sun of the Gospell, shone …
    With rule
    … vapour comes into the firie region, it is soone enflamed. Their rancorous filth had lyneline quiet, as mucke in a dunghill, had not the Sun of the Gospell, shone …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 98 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (32)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 26 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A05537

  • Printed
    Iuſt in his LyneLine Eclipticall
    With rule
    Iuſt in his LyneLine Eclipticall

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Benedict, Bernard, Clement, Cleit, and LyneLine.
    With rule
    Benedict, Bernard, Clement, Cleit, and LyneLine.

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier A05548

  • Printed
    Iuste in his LyneLine Eclipticall
    With rule
    Iuste in his LyneLine Eclipticall

    David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … which we sée in the whole world, like as from a Pricke, procéedeth a LyneLine, an outside, and all substantiall bodies. And of vnitie or one in nombering, proceedeth …
    With rule
    … which we sée in the whole world, like as from a Pricke, procéedeth a LyneLine, an outside, and all substantiall bodies. And of vnitie or one in nombering, proceedeth …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 15 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Holy Genealogies A16972

  • Printed
    … a kingdome in Iudah. And yf ſhe might, why would S. Mathew omit her LyneLine in ſhewing the right of the kingdome, and come to Ioſephs houſe: whoſe right …
    With rule
    … a kingdome in Iudah. And yf ſhe might, why would S. Mathew omit her LyneLine in ſhewing the right of the kingdome, and come to Ioſephs houſe: whoſe right …

    Hugh Broughton · A Defense of the Holy Genealogies · Open in the reader

The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles II A36435

  • Printed
    … to bee carried before him: Thereafter the Lyon king of Arms, rehearſed the Royall LyneLine of the Kings upward, to FERGUS the firſt.
    With rule
    … to bee carried before him: Thereafter the Lyon king of Arms, rehearſed the Royall LyneLine of the Kings upward, to FERGUS the firſt.

    Robert Douglas · The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles II · p. 47 · Open in the reader