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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4262 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spoylingspoiling

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

Puritas changed it
744 times in 465 works
Consistency
98.4% (744 of 756)
Reach if approved
~794 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: spoiling
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
756 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (744 changes in 465 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 744)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … at harueſt, vpon the hill ſide of S. Germain, perceiued a company of ſouldiers ſpoylingspoiling them of S. Germain, and doubting they would goe to Angroign, made an outcry …
    With rule
    … at harueſt, vpon the hill ſide of S. Germain, perceiued a company of ſouldiers ſpoylingspoiling them of S. Germain, and doubting they would goe to Angroign, made an outcry …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 495 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … is not absolute but subject unto order, For. 1: what tyrannie is there so great, spoylingspoiling men wholly of their liberty, but this pretence agreeth to it? for by order …
    With rule
    … is not absolute but subject unto order, For. 1: what tyrannie is there so great, spoylingspoiling men wholly of their liberty, but this pretence agreeth to it? for by order …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Thoſe men which do Church-ſpoylingspoiling loue,
    With rule
    Thoſe men which do Church-ſpoylingspoiling loue,

    Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … heauen & the earth, and all therein, are ſaid to ſing for ioy, at the ſpoylingspoiling of eaſterne Babilon; becauſe ſhee had cauſed the ſlaine of Iſrael to fall. So …
    With rule
    … heauen & the earth, and all therein, are ſaid to ſing for ioy, at the ſpoylingspoiling of eaſterne Babilon; becauſe ſhee had cauſed the ſlaine of Iſrael to fall. So …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 245 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … gates thereof, but gayned thing but shotte, beeing put from Exeter, they fell on spoylingspoiling and robbing, where or howsoeuer they might catche, then laying their heads together, they …
    With rule
    … gates thereof, but gayned thing but shotte, beeing put from Exeter, they fell on spoylingspoiling and robbing, where or howsoeuer they might catche, then laying their heads together, they …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 222 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … extirpation, Eſt. 9. For, touching the Iewes taking the Gentiles Captives, as it were, and ſpoylingspoiling them of Gentiliſme, by the preaching of the Goſpell, it is a harſh and …
    With rule
    … extirpation, Eſt. 9. For, touching the Iewes taking the Gentiles Captives, as it were, and ſpoylingspoiling them of Gentiliſme, by the preaching of the Goſpell, it is a harſh and …

    William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … writes expresly; That the very sacking of Rome, the destruction of all Italy, the spoylingspoiling of Ravenna, Trevers, Marseilles, Agrippina, Moguntia, and a great part of France and Spaine …
    With rule
    … writes expresly; That the very sacking of Rome, the destruction of all Italy, the spoylingspoiling of Ravenna, Trevers, Marseilles, Agrippina, Moguntia, and a great part of France and Spaine …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … them vpon that handwriting. He turneth (I ſay) to them, and fighteth with them, ſpoylingspoiling and leading them captiues. Then hauing ſpoyled them, he leadeth them to their ſhame …
    With rule
    … them vpon that handwriting. He turneth (I ſay) to them, and fighteth with them, ſpoylingspoiling and leading them captiues. Then hauing ſpoyled them, he leadeth them to their ſhame …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 198 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

8 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.

Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ A04214

  • Printed
    … ſame I affirme of that Allegorie in Luke; which ſheweth Chriſtes Overcoming, Binding, and SpoylingSpoiling of Satan in deed: but not by his locall being in Hel. What if …
    With rule
    … ſame I affirme of that Allegorie in Luke; which ſheweth Chriſtes Overcoming, Binding, and SpoylingSpoiling of Satan in deed: but not by his locall being in Hel. What if …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 209 · Open in the reader

Virtues History A11081

  • Printed
    SpoylingSpoiling those wolues which all the passers tare,
    With rule
    SpoylingSpoiling those wolues which all the passers tare,

    Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 4-7 A35438

  • Printed
    … baſe humours a good man may have, as call for theſe ſtrong working pils, SpoylingSpoiling and Captivity, to caſt them out. Now thoſe men of underſtanding have no more …
    With rule
    … baſe humours a good man may have, as call for theſe ſtrong working pils, SpoylingSpoiling and Captivity, to caſt them out. Now thoſe men of underſtanding have no more …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 116 · Open in the reader

Satans Temptations in Three Parts A42781

  • Printed
    … with them into exceſs of vanity and neglect; if Bonds, Impriſonments, Baniſhments, Hatreds, Oppoſitions, SpoylingSpoiling of Goods, Sufferings of all kinds will divert them, he is ſure to ſet …
    With rule
    … with them into exceſs of vanity and neglect; if Bonds, Impriſonments, Baniſhments, Hatreds, Oppoſitions, SpoylingSpoiling of Goods, Sufferings of all kinds will divert them, he is ſure to ſet …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 140 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Habakkuk A51907

  • Printed
    1. Here is SpoylingSpoiling, that is robbing one another, invading one anothers goods and lands, and that done …
    With rule
    1. Here is SpoylingSpoiling, that is robbing one another, invading one anothers goods and lands, and that done …

    Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2. SpoylingSpoiling: If we by any means hurt him in his maintenance, either by taking from …
    With rule
    2. SpoylingSpoiling: If we by any means hurt him in his maintenance, either by taking from …

    Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 34 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

  • Printed
    Ezek. 22. 12. Oppression. Arias Montanus. Deceit. …. & Junius. Mat. 23. 25. Ravening, as foreign is rendred, Luk. 11. 39. SpoylingSpoiling, as Heb. 10. 34.
    With rule
    Ezek. 22. 12. Oppression. Arias Montanus. Deceit. …. & Junius. Mat. 23. 25. Ravening, as foreign is rendred, Luk. 11. 39. SpoylingSpoiling, as Heb. 10. 34.

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 204 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

  • Printed
    … of the Divinity Schooles, as indeed nothing pertaining to true Divinity, but to a SpoylingSpoiling through Philosophy and vaine deceit, as the Apostle Speakes. But the summe of all …
    With rule
    … of the Divinity Schooles, as indeed nothing pertaining to true Divinity, but to a SpoylingSpoiling through Philosophy and vaine deceit, as the Apostle Speakes. But the summe of all …

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 155 · Open in the reader