Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4453 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

amplifieamplify

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

Puritas changed it: 738 times in 394 works
Consistency: 99.1% (738 of 744)
Reach if approved: ~782 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: amplify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 744 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (738 changes in 394 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 738)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but where the matter deserueth tenne. And therefore when the holie Ghost falleth to amplifieamplify, wee are to thinke there is some great matter no doubt, and there is …
With rule
… but where the matter deserueth tenne. And therefore when the holie Ghost falleth to amplifieamplify, wee are to thinke there is some great matter no doubt, and there is …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 745 · Open in the reader
Printed
Firſt, their ſinnes iuſtifie his iudgements, and amplifieamplify his mercies, ſo that he muſt needs be acknowledged both iuſt in puniſhing, and …
With rule
Firſt, their ſinnes iuſtifie his iudgements, and amplifieamplify his mercies, ſo that he muſt needs be acknowledged both iuſt in puniſhing, and …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… miſery, wee may moue God to mercy, that againe otherwhile we may by this amplifieamplify his kindneſſe to vs, ſo vndeſeruing in regard of the benefits beſtowed on vs.
With rule
… miſery, wee may moue God to mercy, that againe otherwhile we may by this amplifieamplify his kindneſſe to vs, ſo vndeſeruing in regard of the benefits beſtowed on vs.
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 363 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Luke, or (vice versa) begin with Luke and encrease his negatiue by Marke, and amplifieamplify that of Mark by Mathew, all is one in substance. Indeede heere is the …
With rule
… Luke, or (vice versa) begin with Luke and encrease his negatiue by Marke, and amplifieamplify that of Mark by Mathew, all is one in substance. Indeede heere is the …
Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… incongruitie, than to discourse of so holy a subject, with an unhallowed heart; to amplifieamplify the indignity of Christs passion, and yet not bee moved at all to remorse …
With rule
… incongruitie, than to discourse of so holy a subject, with an unhallowed heart; to amplifieamplify the indignity of Christs passion, and yet not bee moved at all to remorse …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and name, which they had promised to themselues. It may be that Semiramis did amplifieamplify this: and happily so did other Assyrian and Babylonian kings, as Augustine and Abydenus …
With rule
… and name, which they had promised to themselues. It may be that Semiramis did amplifieamplify this: and happily so did other Assyrian and Babylonian kings, as Augustine and Abydenus …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of all the vayne pleasures, and delightes therof, paint them out to the purpose, amplifieamplify them asmuch as thou list, and imagine that all the felicities of the worlde …
With rule
… of all the vayne pleasures, and delightes therof, paint them out to the purpose, amplifieamplify them asmuch as thou list, and imagine that all the felicities of the worlde …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… serued it. But Dauids Sacrifice was the earnest of a thankefull heart. I might amplifieamplify it, and perhaps picke vp some good gleanings after others full carts.
With rule
… serued it. But Dauids Sacrifice was the earnest of a thankefull heart. I might amplifieamplify it, and perhaps picke vp some good gleanings after others full carts.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 214 · 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.

Two Treatises A62118

Printed
2. AmplifieAmplify the Uſe and enlarge it, that it may work with more ſtrength and life …
With rule
2. AmplifieAmplify the Uſe and enlarge it, that it may work with more ſtrength and life …
Alexander Simson · Two Treatises · p. 11 · Open in the reader