Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4308 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nobilitienobility

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

Puritas changed it: 985 times in 378 works
Consistency: 99.6% (985 of 989)
Reach if approved: ~1,039 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nobility
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 989 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (985 changes in 378 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 985)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Wickliffe had many fauourers, euen of the NobilitieNobility, as well as of the lower ſort. His ſpeciall fauourers were theſe: Iohn Clenbone …
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Wickliffe had many fauourers, euen of the NobilitieNobility, as well as of the lower ſort. His ſpeciall fauourers were theſe: Iohn Clenbone …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I am bold with him, because he is so malepert with the learned & godly nobilitienobility of England) most slaunderously and maliciously affirmeth were only moderators of that disputation, but …
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… I am bold with him, because he is so malepert with the learned & godly nobilitienobility of England) most slaunderously and maliciously affirmeth were only moderators of that disputation, but …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… inuested you withall, and interest your selfe to the honour of Heauen: and whiles NobilitieNobility without Religion dyes in infancie, and is buried in the graue of Obliuion, your …
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… inuested you withall, and interest your selfe to the honour of Heauen: and whiles NobilitieNobility without Religion dyes in infancie, and is buried in the graue of Obliuion, your …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader
Printed
… point obſerued from hence is: That our Sauiour Chriſt is a perſon of great nobilitienobility, euen the nobleſt that euer was. For one way he was the eternall Son …
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… point obſerued from hence is: That our Sauiour Chriſt is a perſon of great nobilitienobility, euen the nobleſt that euer was. For one way he was the eternall Son …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it a ſteppe and ſtaier to true NobilitieNobility: it ſelfe ſure, true and perfecte NobilitieNobility is not. Hereby is it apparent to all men, that auncient family, or diſcent …
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… it a ſteppe and ſtaier to true NobilitieNobility: it ſelfe ſure, true and perfecte NobilitieNobility is not. Hereby is it apparent to all men, that auncient family, or diſcent …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… prophanesse of them and theirs, unvaileth more fully to men of all ranks, (as NobilitieNobility, Magistracie, Ministerie, Gentrie, and Cominaltie,) the iniquitie of their place, and the ruine thence …
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… prophanesse of them and theirs, unvaileth more fully to men of all ranks, (as NobilitieNobility, Magistracie, Ministerie, Gentrie, and Cominaltie,) the iniquitie of their place, and the ruine thence …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maiestrates that ar le… by thē may bring theyr proceadyngs to passe, both the nobilitienobility, y^e yemanry and the whole cōminaltie shall be destroied for euer, theyr lawful heyres …
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… maiestrates that ar le… by thē may bring theyr proceadyngs to passe, both the nobilitienobility, y^e yemanry and the whole cōminaltie shall be destroied for euer, theyr lawful heyres …
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… brought ſubiect vnto ſome danger / becauſe otherwiſe / Catelin / Lentulus / Cethegus / with other of the nobilitienobility / could not tell how to liue / but muſt needs go a begging. I woulde …
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… brought ſubiect vnto ſome danger / becauſe otherwiſe / Catelin / Lentulus / Cethegus / with other of the nobilitienobility / could not tell how to liue / but muſt needs go a begging. I woulde …
Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 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.

Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him A04923

Printed
TO THE NOBILITIENOBILITY AND ESTAtes of Scotlād Iohn Knoxe wisheth grace, mercie, and peace from God the …
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TO THE NOBILITIENOBILITY AND ESTAtes of Scotlād Iohn Knoxe wisheth grace, mercie, and peace from God the …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 2 · Open in the reader

To the Learned Nobility of England Touching Bible Translation A16976

Printed
AN EPISTLE TO THE LEARNED NOBILITIENOBILITY OF ENGLAND.
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AN EPISTLE TO THE LEARNED NOBILITIENOBILITY OF ENGLAND.
Hugh Broughton · To the Learned Nobility of England Touching Bible Translation · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… LORD, SIR HENRY DANVERS KNIGHT, BARON OF DANTESEY, A WORTHY PATTERNE OF ALL TRVE NOBILITIENOBILITY, ACCOMPLISHED BOTH FOR WARRE AND PEACE; A MVNIFICENT FAVOVRER OF ALL LEARNING AND VERTVE:
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… LORD, SIR HENRY DANVERS KNIGHT, BARON OF DANTESEY, A WORTHY PATTERNE OF ALL TRVE NOBILITIENOBILITY, ACCOMPLISHED BOTH FOR WARRE AND PEACE; A MVNIFICENT FAVOVRER OF ALL LEARNING AND VERTVE:
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 920 · Open in the reader