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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4431 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

insufficiencieinsufficiency

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

Puritas changed it
325 times in 218 works
Consistency
95.5% (325 of 340)
Reach if approved
~357 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: insufficiency
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
340 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (325 changes in 218 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 325)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … armes then all other trickes, and ouer reaches them. Or they will conceale the insufficiencieinsufficiency of the wares; and for this cause they darken their shops, lest the light …
    With rule
    … armes then all other trickes, and ouer reaches them. Or they will conceale the insufficiencieinsufficiency of the wares; and for this cause they darken their shops, lest the light …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … is to beſeene in Ieremie: God calling him, he began to complaine of his inſufficiencieinsufficiency; O Lord, beholde I can not ſpeake, for I am a childe . Well, the …
    With rule
    … is to beſeene in Ieremie: God calling him, he began to complaine of his inſufficiencieinsufficiency; O Lord, beholde I can not ſpeake, for I am a childe . Well, the …

    Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … And thus much hitherto touching the firſt cauſe of the nullitie, and incompetencie or inſufficiencieinsufficiency of the iudge: which notwithſtanding that they may be more apparent to the moſt …
    With rule
    … And thus much hitherto touching the firſt cauſe of the nullitie, and incompetencie or inſufficiencieinsufficiency of the iudge: which notwithſtanding that they may be more apparent to the moſt …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … eſtate or degree ſoeuer, feare to colour ouer their negligences with the pretext of inſufficiencieinsufficiency: for Chriſt, that ſets them in their eſtates and places, hath aſcended and obtained …
    With rule
    … eſtate or degree ſoeuer, feare to colour ouer their negligences with the pretext of inſufficiencieinsufficiency: for Chriſt, that ſets them in their eſtates and places, hath aſcended and obtained …

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Secondly, to make manifest in the weakenesse and insufficiencieinsufficiency of the meanes, his owne all-sufficient power and wisedome, for the furtherance of …
    With rule
    Secondly, to make manifest in the weakenesse and insufficiencieinsufficiency of the meanes, his owne all-sufficient power and wisedome, for the furtherance of …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 468 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … he alone is able to comfort without the Creatures helpe, else there were an insufficiencieinsufficiency, and narrownesse in him, and so then he should not be God, if he …
    With rule
    … he alone is able to comfort without the Creatures helpe, else there were an insufficiencieinsufficiency, and narrownesse in him, and so then he should not be God, if he …

    John Preston · Sins Overthrow · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they are ſilent, doth argue intolerable boldnes and preſumption. Fourthly, I know my owne inſufficiencieinsufficiency, and am priuie to my owne weaknes, ingeniouſly confeſſing, I haue more neede to …
    With rule
    … they are ſilent, doth argue intolerable boldnes and preſumption. Fourthly, I know my owne inſufficiencieinsufficiency, and am priuie to my owne weaknes, ingeniouſly confeſſing, I haue more neede to …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Oration ended, D. Storie moſt arrogantly dealeth with him, and laboureth to prooue the inſufficiencieinsufficiency of the Archbiſhops oath againſt the Pope. And ſo (ſéeking to breake vp the …
    With rule
    … Oration ended, D. Storie moſt arrogantly dealeth with him, and laboureth to prooue the inſufficiencieinsufficiency of the Archbiſhops oath againſt the Pope. And ſo (ſéeking to breake vp the …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Rejoinder to Bristows Reply A01324

  • Printed
    … your carnall Carpernaiticall presence, what you hold of Iustification by workes, Worshipping of Images, InsufficiencieInsufficiency of Christes redemption, Impeccabilitie of Marie &c. contrarie to the expresse and plaine textes …
    With rule
    … your carnall Carpernaiticall presence, what you hold of Iustification by workes, Worshipping of Images, InsufficiencieInsufficiency of Christes redemption, Impeccabilitie of Marie &c. contrarie to the expresse and plaine textes …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 353 · Open in the reader

Three Treatises A10659

  • Printed
    … from whence he states the point in Two maine Conclusions. The first the Creatures InsufficiencieInsufficiency, in the beginning of the Booke, Vanitie of Vanities, All is vanity. The second …
    With rule
    … from whence he states the point in Two maine Conclusions. The first the Creatures InsufficiencieInsufficiency, in the beginning of the Booke, Vanitie of Vanities, All is vanity. The second …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    These things thus explained, let us now consider the InsufficiencieInsufficiency of the Creature to conferre, and the Vnsatisfiablenesse of the flesh to receive any …
    With rule
    These things thus explained, let us now consider the InsufficiencieInsufficiency of the Creature to conferre, and the Vnsatisfiablenesse of the flesh to receive any …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Let us then looke a little into the particulars of that great disproportion and InsufficiencieInsufficiency of any or all the Creatures under the sun to make up an adequate …
    With rule
    … Let us then looke a little into the particulars of that great disproportion and InsufficiencieInsufficiency of any or all the Creatures under the sun to make up an adequate …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    HAving shewed the InsufficiencieInsufficiency of the Creature to make man happie, as being full of vanitie, and the …
    With rule
    HAving shewed the InsufficiencieInsufficiency of the Creature to make man happie, as being full of vanitie, and the …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 399 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of the Creature to make man happie, as being full of vanitie, and the InsufficiencieInsufficiency of Man to make himselfe Happie, as being full of sinne; we now proceede …
    With rule
    … of the Creature to make man happie, as being full of vanitie, and the InsufficiencieInsufficiency of Man to make himselfe Happie, as being full of sinne; we now proceede …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 399 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    SECTION XV. Of the InſufficiencieInsufficiency of Scripture.
    With rule
    SECTION XV. Of the InſufficiencieInsufficiency of Scripture.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 654 · Open in the reader