Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4278 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

exercyseexercise

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

Puritas changed it: 192 times in 69 works
Consistency: 97.4% (192 of 197)
Reach if approved: ~207 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: exercise
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 197 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (192 changes in 69 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 192)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
¶ And they ought not to exercyſeexercise cruelnes on Chriſtan men nor lawes contrary to deuine or natural ought not to …
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¶ And they ought not to exercyſeexercise cruelnes on Chriſtan men nor lawes contrary to deuine or natural ought not to …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader
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… supplye and exequute his rowm, In an other place also they be reaported to exercyseexercise iudgement euen for god and not for man. Furthermore Paule recyteth the offices, amonges …
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… supplye and exequute his rowm, In an other place also they be reaported to exercyseexercise iudgement euen for god and not for man. Furthermore Paule recyteth the offices, amonges …
Richard Taverner · A Catechism · Open in the reader
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… ſhewe men hys p…omes, or els in this be half kepe ſylence, and exercyſeexercise themſelues better in doyng their dutyes to their brethren, that be alyue. Towardes whom …
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… ſhewe men hys p…omes, or els in this be half kepe ſylence, and exercyſeexercise themſelues better in doyng their dutyes to their brethren, that be alyue. Towardes whom …
John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 93 · Open in the reader
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… it, and ſo will haue it, to declare the conſtancie of hys, and to exercyſeexercise them, that they ſhoulde haue regarde to an hygher thyng, then thys worlde. In …
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… it, and ſo will haue it, to declare the conſtancie of hys, and to exercyſeexercise them, that they ſhoulde haue regarde to an hygher thyng, then thys worlde. In …
John Calvin · Epistle to Prince Edward · Open in the reader
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… Parliament, or Eſtate, as their judgement, That the king ſhould bee ſuſpended from the exercyſeexercise of his Royall power.
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… Parliament, or Eſtate, as their judgement, That the king ſhould bee ſuſpended from the exercyſeexercise of his Royall power.
Robert Douglas · The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles II · p. 22 · Open in the reader
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… bewtyfull in a Chriſten manne, than purelye to worſhypp God, ād ryght lye to exercyſeexercise the wurkes of faythe, whych theſe bokes throughlye teacheth. Rather were ſoch menne worthye …
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… bewtyfull in a Chriſten manne, than purelye to worſhypp God, ād ryght lye to exercyſeexercise the wurkes of faythe, whych theſe bokes throughlye teacheth. Rather were ſoch menne worthye …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
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… ſe / the preeſtes and monkes dayly ſacryfyce and ſaye maſſe / pray euery houre / and exercyſeexercise them ſelfe in the worde of god / by ſtudyeng, readyng, or hearyng. For the …
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… ſe / the preeſtes and monkes dayly ſacryfyce and ſaye maſſe / pray euery houre / and exercyſeexercise them ſelfe in the worde of god / by ſtudyeng, readyng, or hearyng. For the …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
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… of good thynges mo. All this doth our countrey for vs thorow the diligēt exercyseexercise of wyse and sage teachers. So that it may appeare right wel, men be …
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… of good thynges mo. All this doth our countrey for vs thorow the diligēt exercyseexercise of wyse and sage teachers. So that it may appeare right wel, men be …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

A Christmas Banket A06698

Printed
… youre hertes at peace with God. Study daye and nyght in the LORDES lawe. ExercyseExercise faythfull & continuall prayer. Procure in all thynges the glory of God. Honour youre moost …
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… youre hertes at peace with God. Study daye and nyght in the LORDES lawe. ExercyseExercise faythfull & continuall prayer. Procure in all thynges the glory of God. Honour youre moost …
Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

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… Hee joyneth with vs, in the Discharge of them. 3. Hee is first in the ExercyseExercise: not onelie because hee discharged them in his owne proper person; but also because …
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… Hee joyneth with vs, in the Discharge of them. 3. Hee is first in the ExercyseExercise: not onelie because hee discharged them in his owne proper person; but also because …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 30 · Open in the reader
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HAving proven CHRIST'S Office, hee showeth his ExercyseExercise of it, in offering for our sinnes a more precious Obla…ion than the …
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HAving proven CHRIST'S Office, hee showeth his ExercyseExercise of it, in offering for our sinnes a more precious Obla…ion than the …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… of the other. The Leviticall Priestes, in their Consecration, got a commaundement, for the ExercyseExercise of bodilie and carnall Rites, some fewe yeares of their mortall lyfe; without power …
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… of the other. The Leviticall Priestes, in their Consecration, got a commaundement, for the ExercyseExercise of bodilie and carnall Rites, some fewe yeares of their mortall lyfe; without power …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 128 · Open in the reader