Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4268 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

edifieedify

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

Puritas changed it: 2,677 times in 1,094 works
Consistency: 99.8% (2,677 of 2,680)
Reach if approved: ~2,816 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: edify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,680 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,677 changes in 1,094 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,677)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… one anothers burdens: in devotion, to pray one for another: in holy communication, to edifieedify one another. Here morall Philoſophy goeth hand in hand with Divinity, demonſtrating that true …
With rule
… one anothers burdens: in devotion, to pray one for another: in holy communication, to edifieedify one another. Here morall Philoſophy goeth hand in hand with Divinity, demonſtrating that true …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
… about Questions, which but ingender Stryfe; and, doe more feast ydle Humours, than they edifieedify Godlie Soules.
With rule
… about Questions, which but ingender Stryfe; and, doe more feast ydle Humours, than they edifieedify Godlie Soules.
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good ceremonies ought onelie to bee kept, which among the people of Chriſt doo edifieedify the onelie and true faith, and the ſincere worſhip of God, concord, charitie, and …
With rule
… good ceremonies ought onelie to bee kept, which among the people of Chriſt doo edifieedify the onelie and true faith, and the ſincere worſhip of God, concord, charitie, and …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
§. 165. Of Miniſters ſeeking to edifieedify the Church.
With rule
§. 165. Of Miniſters ſeeking to edifieedify the Church.
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 525 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſure anchor, to ſuſtaine and ſtay you; your holy and gracious Schoole, to edifieedify you in the knowledge, faith, and love of Chrſt; to raviſh your ſoules with …
With rule
… and ſure anchor, to ſuſtaine and ſtay you; your holy and gracious Schoole, to edifieedify you in the knowledge, faith, and love of Chrſt; to raviſh your ſoules with …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… work of the miniſtery: But in reading a ſtinted Liturgie a miniſter doth not edifieedify the church with his own gifts.
With rule
… work of the miniſtery: But in reading a ſtinted Liturgie a miniſter doth not edifieedify the church with his own gifts.
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hypocrites, who (so they haue a forme of Gods seruice) neuer care whether it edifieedify their conscience or no. Such are they as rest content with a dumbe Ministry …
With rule
… hypocrites, who (so they haue a forme of Gods seruice) neuer care whether it edifieedify their conscience or no. Such are they as rest content with a dumbe Ministry …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… inſtruction that is giuen in the ſpring of youth better proſpereth and doth more edifieedify, then that which is giuen in the Autumne of manhood, or winter of gray …
With rule
… inſtruction that is giuen in the ſpring of youth better proſpereth and doth more edifieedify, then that which is giuen in the Autumne of manhood, or winter of gray …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Gospel Liberty A80742

Printed
4. EDIFIEEDIFY. Teaching us that we ſhould rather endeavour edification, then giving offence in the uſe …
With rule
4. EDIFIEEDIFY. Teaching us that we ſhould rather endeavour edification, then giving offence in the uſe …
Walter Cradock · Gospel Liberty · Open in the reader
Printed
… ALL things are not EXPEDIENT: ALL things are LAWFULL for me, but ALL things EDIFIEEDIFY not.
With rule
… ALL things are not EXPEDIENT: ALL things are LAWFULL for me, but ALL things EDIFIEEDIFY not.
Walter Cradock · Gospel Liberty · p. 1 · Open in the reader