Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4327 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chiefliechiefly

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

Puritas changed it: 324 times in 114 works
Consistency: 97.8% (324 of 331)
Reach if approved: ~348 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chiefly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 331 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (324 changes in 114 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 324)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… others: there fore the faithfull Miniſters and ſtewards of the myſterie of Chriſt, ar chiefliechiefly bleſſed; but if they be not faithfull, they are of all men the moſt …
With rule
… others: there fore the faithfull Miniſters and ſtewards of the myſterie of Chriſt, ar chiefliechiefly bleſſed; but if they be not faithfull, they are of all men the moſt …
Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 388 · Open in the reader
Printed
… some Bishops dwelling in places where the pride of the Roman Bishops had bene chiefliechiefly abandoned, their defection (I say) from the footsteps and good decrees of their antecessours …
With rule
… some Bishops dwelling in places where the pride of the Roman Bishops had bene chiefliechiefly abandoned, their defection (I say) from the footsteps and good decrees of their antecessours …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader
Printed
… his greateſt diuine, recken this for one of the Popes names of dignitie? but chiefliechiefly why doth the Pope miſlike the name, and allowe the thing ſignified by the …
With rule
… his greateſt diuine, recken this for one of the Popes names of dignitie? but chiefliechiefly why doth the Pope miſlike the name, and allowe the thing ſignified by the …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Locuſts cometh to minde: For theſe did beare their ſtings in their tayle chiefliechiefly, that is the dregges of the Saracenes, who had noe proper places of their …
With rule
… the Locuſts cometh to minde: For theſe did beare their ſtings in their tayle chiefliechiefly, that is the dregges of the Saracenes, who had noe proper places of their …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 274 · Open in the reader
Printed
… interpretation of my words or no / I leaue not only to all mens / but chiefliechiefly to his owne conscience to be considered. Yet he still couertly persisting in his …
With rule
… interpretation of my words or no / I leaue not only to all mens / but chiefliechiefly to his owne conscience to be considered. Yet he still couertly persisting in his …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vp handes for voyce-giving in the the publicke meetinges did alwayes and moſt chiefliechiefly concerne the People. In this very manner to this purpoſe we have this word …
With rule
… vp handes for voyce-giving in the the publicke meetinges did alwayes and moſt chiefliechiefly concerne the People. In this very manner to this purpoſe we have this word …
Henry Jacob · Necessity of Reforming Our Churches · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sting, and will not worke, but liue on the labour of the other, and chiefliechiefly the wilde Bees, amongst the which some flie swarming from doore to doore, to …
With rule
… sting, and will not worke, but liue on the labour of the other, and chiefliechiefly the wilde Bees, amongst the which some flie swarming from doore to doore, to …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… neuer applie the law or the Gospell to themselues, but their whole meditation, is chiefliechiefly in the opiniōs of him whom they follow. As they that follow Luther, few …
With rule
… neuer applie the law or the Gospell to themselues, but their whole meditation, is chiefliechiefly in the opiniōs of him whom they follow. As they that follow Luther, few …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 261 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric A00630

Printed
… rules preſcribed in the worde of God, and all ſuch matters of waight & momente. ChieflieChiefly vntill by the fathers authoritie and conſente, more full power be giuen to their …
With rule
… rules preſcribed in the worde of God, and all ſuch matters of waight & momente. ChieflieChiefly vntill by the fathers authoritie and conſente, more full power be giuen to their …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines A04207

Printed
… Church D…ciplice. And all this wee have from the Biſhops of Rome, &c. ChieflieChiefly from Caliſtus the ſecond. Frō which time the Churches libertie as it were languiſhing …
With rule
… Church D…ciplice. And all this wee have from the Biſhops of Rome, &c. ChieflieChiefly from Caliſtus the ſecond. Frō which time the Churches libertie as it were languiſhing …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 39 · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

Printed
… leaue it to your owne consideration, what credit your apologie of those playes deserveth. ChieflieChiefly seeing Nero, whom that law condemned, might haue vsed the same defense against his …
With rule
… leaue it to your owne consideration, what credit your apologie of those playes deserveth. ChieflieChiefly seeing Nero, whom that law condemned, might haue vsed the same defense against his …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with anie colour of probabilitie that you meant to note these by Momus name. ChieflieChiefly nowe that you haue expreslie fastened it on them in your replie: saying in …
With rule
… with anie colour of probabilitie that you meant to note these by Momus name. ChieflieChiefly nowe that you haue expreslie fastened it on them in your replie: saying in …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… GOD vnder Iuppiters name, then confessing to him that there are Gods in heaven. ChieflieChiefly seeing that these speeches are delivered by the flower of those persons, by whose …
With rule
… GOD vnder Iuppiters name, then confessing to him that there are Gods in heaven. ChieflieChiefly seeing that these speeches are delivered by the flower of those persons, by whose …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… playes, may rather proove you to bee rash, then your assertion to be true. ChieflieChiefly, sith you mention, not onely their applause, a thing that sense might iudge of …
With rule
… playes, may rather proove you to bee rash, then your assertion to be true. ChieflieChiefly, sith you mention, not onely their applause, a thing that sense might iudge of …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 150 · Open in the reader

Conference Between Rainolds and Hart A10345

Printed
… out of all antiquitie, if he had known anie of that mind in déede. ChieflieChiefly séeing that he is so ambitious in citing Fathers when he hath them, that …
With rule
… out of all antiquitie, if he had known anie of that mind in déede. ChieflieChiefly séeing that he is so ambitious in citing Fathers when he hath them, that …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 77 · Open in the reader