Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4435 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mollifiemollify

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

Puritas changed it: 651 times in 426 works
Consistency: 99.0% (651 of 657)
Reach if approved: ~690 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mollify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 657 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (651 changes in 426 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 651)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… my heart new within me; my stubborne, and polluted heart, pearce it, purge it, mollifiemollify it, enlarge it, frame and fashion it to thy holy wil: Crucifie the old …
With rule
… my heart new within me; my stubborne, and polluted heart, pearce it, purge it, mollifiemollify it, enlarge it, frame and fashion it to thy holy wil: Crucifie the old …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we find very prejudiciall; wee would be very thankefull to Him. If one ſhould mollifiemollify the Kings diſpleaſure and make Him favour us; would we not with all love …
With rule
… we find very prejudiciall; wee would be very thankefull to Him. If one ſhould mollifiemollify the Kings diſpleaſure and make Him favour us; would we not with all love …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make our stony hartes to relent: we of oure selfs ar not able to mollifiemollify them, but all our healthe dependeth vpon thy great mercye. O wretche that I …
With rule
… make our stony hartes to relent: we of oure selfs ar not able to mollifiemollify them, but all our healthe dependeth vpon thy great mercye. O wretche that I …
Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
Surely thou doeſt wonderfully mollifiemollify the harde opinion of theſe men. But I doubt not too ſay with the …
With rule
Surely thou doeſt wonderfully mollifiemollify the harde opinion of theſe men. But I doubt not too ſay with the …
Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all eſtates to this thankfulnes: is it not a mightie and forcible meanes to mollifiemollify the hard hart, and to hold vnder the ſturdie corruptions of it, ſo that …
With rule
… all eſtates to this thankfulnes: is it not a mightie and forcible meanes to mollifiemollify the hard hart, and to hold vnder the ſturdie corruptions of it, ſo that …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
Instruct vs by thy word, guide vs by thy spirit, mollifiemollify vs by thy grace, humble vs by thy corrections, win vs by thy benefites …
With rule
Instruct vs by thy word, guide vs by thy spirit, mollifiemollify vs by thy grace, humble vs by thy corrections, win vs by thy benefites …
Henry Smith · Three Prayers · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… breaketh the ſtone in peeces, and is able in the power of God, to mollifiemollify his heart: or if the ſinner be ſuncken downe ſo deepe, that he will …
With rule
… breaketh the ſtone in peeces, and is able in the power of God, to mollifiemollify his heart: or if the ſinner be ſuncken downe ſo deepe, that he will …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 356 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the originall Power of vncleane ſpirits. This I haue the rather noted, to mollifiemollify the phraſe of ſome, who ſpeaking, preaching and writing of this ſinne, ſtile it …
With rule
… in the originall Power of vncleane ſpirits. This I haue the rather noted, to mollifiemollify the phraſe of ſome, who ſpeaking, preaching and writing of this ſinne, ſtile it …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 596 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… Heart as Pharaoh's, Ex. 8.15, &c. Neither Miniſtry, nor Miſery, nor Miracle, nor Mercy can MollifieMollify it. 2. Theſe Obdurate ſinners (notwithſtanding all theſe Judgments and Mercies) do dare to proceed …
With rule
… Heart as Pharaoh's, Ex. 8.15, &c. Neither Miniſtry, nor Miſery, nor Miracle, nor Mercy can MollifieMollify it. 2. Theſe Obdurate ſinners (notwithſtanding all theſe Judgments and Mercies) do dare to proceed …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 195 · Open in the reader