Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4254 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

synnersinner

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

Puritas changed it: 273 times in 86 works
Consistency: 97.5% (273 of 280)
Reach if approved: ~294 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sinner
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 280 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (273 changes in 86 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 273)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the publican, which sayd only, Propitius esto mihi peccatori, Lord be … vnto me a synnersinner. Therfore Christ saieth: Vigilate & orate ne intretis in …, watch and pray, lest ye enter …
With rule
… the publican, which sayd only, Propitius esto mihi peccatori, Lord be … vnto me a synnersinner. Therfore Christ saieth: Vigilate & orate ne intretis in …, watch and pray, lest ye enter …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath put away thy synne, thou shalt not dye. Mary magdalen was a famous synnersinner, & whan she herde her vnclene conuersacion rebuked by the woorde of God, she hertely …
With rule
… hath put away thy synne, thou shalt not dye. Mary magdalen was a famous synnersinner, & whan she herde her vnclene conuersacion rebuked by the woorde of God, she hertely …
Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader
Printed
… as some iudge of him, & Tratour both to God and his Prynce? Is a synnersinner fyt to pay a synners raūsome? Is a Traytou… a conuenient parson to make …
With rule
… as some iudge of him, & Tratour both to God and his Prynce? Is a synnersinner fyt to pay a synners raūsome? Is a Traytou… a conuenient parson to make …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
… asked: why the Publycan was iustyfied, and not the Pharisce. Luke. 18. Why Marie the synnersinner, and not Symon the Léeper: Luke. 11. Why harlottes and Publicans, goe before the Scribes …
With rule
… asked: why the Publycan was iustyfied, and not the Pharisce. Luke. 18. Why Marie the synnersinner, and not Symon the Léeper: Luke. 11. Why harlottes and Publicans, goe before the Scribes …
Theodore Beza · The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… happeneth not tyll the body be ſlayne by deeth / a Chriſtē ys ever a ſynnersinner in the lawe / and therfore faſteth and prayeth to God in the ſpyryte / the …
With rule
… happeneth not tyll the body be ſlayne by deeth / a Chriſtē ys ever a ſynnersinner in the lawe / and therfore faſteth and prayeth to God in the ſpyryte / the …
William Tyndale · Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work · Open in the reader
Printed
… loue which moued thee to pardon Iudas with Thamar, Dauid, Berthſabe, and the greate ſynnersinner, of whom we reade in S. Luke, moue thee to pardone and forgeue me …
With rule
… loue which moued thee to pardon Iudas with Thamar, Dauid, Berthſabe, and the greate ſynnersinner, of whom we reade in S. Luke, moue thee to pardone and forgeue me …
John Bradford · Godly Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of it. The other Repentance thei call of the Gospell, by whyche the synnersinner is in dede greuously vexed with himselfe, but he ryseth vp higher & taketh holde …
With rule
… out of it. The other Repentance thei call of the Gospell, by whyche the synnersinner is in dede greuously vexed with himselfe, but he ryseth vp higher & taketh holde …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… am ordayned of God to this ende. First to acknowlege my selfe a wycked synnersinner, than to aryse from it through true repentaunce, and so to leade a newe …
With rule
… am ordayned of God to this ende. First to acknowlege my selfe a wycked synnersinner, than to aryse from it through true repentaunce, and so to leade a newe …
John Bale · A Dialogue to be had at Table Between Two Children · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Arrow Against the Separationists A08811

Printed
… But as yourſelf ſayd before, The abſteyning from the practiſe doth not clear the SynnerSinner; vnleſs you do further repent and renounce your ſin: yea if your reaſoning againſt …
With rule
… But as yourſelf ſayd before, The abſteyning from the practiſe doth not clear the SynnerSinner; vnleſs you do further repent and renounce your ſin: yea if your reaſoning againſt …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 275 · Open in the reader

Introduction to the Epistle to the Romans A14132

Printed
The SynnerSinner
With rule
The SynnerSinner
William Tyndale · Introduction to the Epistle to the Romans · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 A18081

Printed
… it, in that he is taken of the church, for a Publican and a SynnerSinner, and in that, there is an actual ſecluding from the ſacrament. For otherwiſe, as …
With rule
… it, in that he is taken of the church, for a Publican and a SynnerSinner, and in that, there is an actual ſecluding from the ſacrament. For otherwiſe, as …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · p. 80 · Open in the reader