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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4342 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vycevice

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

Puritas changed it
274 times in 78 works
Consistency
98.5% (274 of 278)
Reach if approved
~292 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: vice
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
278 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (274 changes in 78 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 274)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and kepe them from euill happe. Nowe I myght in speakinge of some odious vycevice, largelye sette oute some example belonginge to the same, and compare it with o …
    With rule
    … and kepe them from euill happe. Nowe I myght in speakinge of some odious vycevice, largelye sette oute some example belonginge to the same, and compare it with o …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … hym ſelfe in the effaires of hys prynce myſgouerned his houſholde mayne teyned ryole vycevice and ſynne or brought the good worde of God in to any euell reporte …
    With rule
    … hym ſelfe in the effaires of hys prynce myſgouerned his houſholde mayne teyned ryole vycevice and ſynne or brought the good worde of God in to any euell reporte …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … name of God, in makynge othes at pleaſure and raſhelye. I knowe that that vycevice is to common: and therfore we oughte rather to ſtudye to repreſſe it, than …
    With rule
    … name of God, in makynge othes at pleaſure and raſhelye. I knowe that that vycevice is to common: and therfore we oughte rather to ſtudye to repreſſe it, than …

    John Calvin · Against the Errors of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    And all to lyttle, to maynteyne their pompe and vycevice.
    With rule
    And all to lyttle, to maynteyne their pompe and vycevice.

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to the extollinge of vertue, to the rewarde of well doers, the suppressyng of vycevice, the abolyshmente of all papestrie. It is oure parte therefore to praye diligently for …
    With rule
    … to the extollinge of vertue, to the rewarde of well doers, the suppressyng of vycevice, the abolyshmente of all papestrie. It is oure parte therefore to praye diligently for …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    To cause the peple frome thare vycevice refrane
    With rule
    To cause the peple frome thare vycevice refrane

    David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … suffer the crosse of pouerte, which he hath layd vpon the. Felest thou ony vycevice to raygne in the▪ So mayeste thou be …olde to praye vnto GOD for …
    With rule
    … suffer the crosse of pouerte, which he hath layd vpon the. Felest thou ony vycevice to raygne in the▪ So mayeste thou be …olde to praye vnto GOD for …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is a ſhame to you to be like the Gentiles, among vvhom this foull vycevice raigne firſt. It is ſhame to you, vvho are called to this holineſſe, to …
    With rule
    … is a ſhame to you to be like the Gentiles, among vvhom this foull vycevice raigne firſt. It is ſhame to you, vvho are called to this holineſſe, to …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 171 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

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