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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4400 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lybertieliberty

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

Puritas changed it
142 times in 59 works
Consistency
97.9% (142 of 145)
Reach if approved
~152 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: liberty
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
145 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (142 changes in 59 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 142)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … pray in that temple of Salomon, not takynge awaye yet for all that the lybertieliberty of prayeng in euery place frō the faythfull. For we read yt Enos ye …
    With rule
    … pray in that temple of Salomon, not takynge awaye yet for all that the lybertieliberty of prayeng in euery place frō the faythfull. For we read yt Enos ye …

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

  2. Printed
    … all, that either Gods heauenly trueth ſhould haue free paſſage, or the Churche her lybertieliberty in this kingdome. The briefe heades of the publike crimes, whereof the leaders of …
    With rule
    … all, that either Gods heauenly trueth ſhould haue free paſſage, or the Churche her lybertieliberty in this kingdome. The briefe heades of the publike crimes, whereof the leaders of …

    John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hath brought ī the contēpte of god / the ouerthrowīg of faith / a more large lybertieliberty to do whatſoeuer me lyſt vnpunyſſhed / falſe cō fydence in merytes / lothfulneſſe to exercyſe …
    With rule
    … hath brought ī the contēpte of god / the ouerthrowīg of faith / a more large lybertieliberty to do whatſoeuer me lyſt vnpunyſſhed / falſe cō fydence in merytes / lothfulneſſe to exercyſe …

    Martin Bucer · Pictures not to be Worshiped · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of men, to keape and mayntayne the truthe of the Goſpell with ſynceritie, and lybertieliberty vnſeparable from the ſame.
    With rule
    … of men, to keape and mayntayne the truthe of the Goſpell with ſynceritie, and lybertieliberty vnſeparable from the ſame.

    Martin Bucer · Woe to the World Because of Offenses · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … opinion, there is nothing of ſo great waight, nor more pernicious, then to geue lybertieliberty to a Chriſtian, to vſe the very leaſt diſſembled profeſſion of Idolatry.
    With rule
    … opinion, there is nothing of ſo great waight, nor more pernicious, then to geue lybertieliberty to a Chriſtian, to vſe the very leaſt diſſembled profeſſion of Idolatry.

    John Calvin · The Immortality of the Soul · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that ſaye / that thys order may be vſed or not vſed now / at the lybertieliberty of the churches: But M. Doctor ſayeth that thys order is not for theſe …
    With rule
    … that ſaye / that thys order may be vſed or not vſed now / at the lybertieliberty of the churches: But M. Doctor ſayeth that thys order is not for theſe …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … God purgeth or clenzeth the earth from wicked foll… ▪ by abridgiug them of theyr lybertieliberty, bycauſe men can poynte oute the naughtipackes with their finger, and they are as …
    With rule
    … God purgeth or clenzeth the earth from wicked foll… ▪ by abridgiug them of theyr lybertieliberty, bycauſe men can poynte oute the naughtipackes with their finger, and they are as …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 763 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … both Iewes & Christianes, he admytteth after a sort both Circumcision and Baptyme graunting them lybertieliberty to haue many wiues with other voluptuous pleasures.
    With rule
    … both Iewes & Christianes, he admytteth after a sort both Circumcision and Baptyme graunting them lybertieliberty to haue many wiues with other voluptuous pleasures.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · 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.

A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier A05548

  • Printed
    Sum sayis, to be at LybertieLiberty
    With rule
    Sum sayis, to be at LybertieLiberty

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

  • Printed
    His lawis or his LybertieLiberty
    With rule
    His lawis or his LybertieLiberty

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