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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4465 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lawfullielawfully

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

Puritas changed it
149 times in 78 works
Consistency
97.3% (149 of 153)
Reach if approved
~161 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lawfully
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
153 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 78 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſeeing that it is by learned diuines amōg Papiſts reſolued that once Papiſts might lawfullielawfully haue come to our Churches, vntil ſōe mē made their not coming, a ſigne …
    With rule
    … ſeeing that it is by learned diuines amōg Papiſts reſolued that once Papiſts might lawfullielawfully haue come to our Churches, vntil ſōe mē made their not coming, a ſigne …

    Francis Bunny · An Answer to a Popish Libel · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    That which a man dare not avow himselfe to be, or may not lawfullielawfully choose to bee, hee must refuse to bee esteemed to bee; hee must refuse …
    With rule
    That which a man dare not avow himselfe to be, or may not lawfullielawfully choose to bee, hee must refuse to bee esteemed to bee; hee must refuse …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … same Navarrus teacheth, that a person accused before a Iudge, who proceedeth not (juridice) lawfullielawfully, is not holden to confesse the Trueth: but, may vse AEQVIVOCATION, mentallie reserving within …
    With rule
    … same Navarrus teacheth, that a person accused before a Iudge, who proceedeth not (juridice) lawfullielawfully, is not holden to confesse the Trueth: but, may vse AEQVIVOCATION, mentallie reserving within …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … lawfull, by the lawe of God, or man? and therefore that no man may lawfullielawfully serue her in any action, bee it otherwise neuer so iust? If Catiline himselfe …
    With rule
    … lawfull, by the lawe of God, or man? and therefore that no man may lawfullielawfully serue her in any action, bee it otherwise neuer so iust? If Catiline himselfe …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … anie of theſe offices / callings / workes and maintenances / in ſo much as they cannot lawfullielawfully be ſubiect vnto anie parte of the eccleſiaſticall power of theſe offices: Therfore it …
    With rule
    … anie of theſe offices / callings / workes and maintenances / in ſo much as they cannot lawfullielawfully be ſubiect vnto anie parte of the eccleſiaſticall power of theſe offices: Therfore it …

    John Penry · Witness of John Penry · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … defend ambition in anie of them. But this I will defend that they might lawfullielawfully prouide for the maintenance of their state temporall. For what saith S. Paul? If …
    With rule
    … defend ambition in anie of them. But this I will defend that they might lawfullielawfully prouide for the maintenance of their state temporall. For what saith S. Paul? If …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … fidelitie and obedience made to Henry the third; and that the same people might lawfullielawfully and with good conscience arme and vnite themselues together for defence of the Roman …
    With rule
    … fidelitie and obedience made to Henry the third; and that the same people might lawfullielawfully and with good conscience arme and vnite themselues together for defence of the Roman …

    Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 248 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … offrings gotten by falsenes, leasings, and Simonie. But suppose that such parrish Churches weren lawfullielawfully gotten, yet sith they bene superflue …o such men, the tithes & offrings shoulden ben …
    With rule
    … offrings gotten by falsenes, leasings, and Simonie. But suppose that such parrish Churches weren lawfullielawfully gotten, yet sith they bene superflue …o such men, the tithes & offrings shoulden ben …

    John Wycliffe · Against the Begging Friars · p. 14 · 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.

A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England A17912

  • Printed
    … of any commaundement of the firſt Table, there he may not forbid, and be LawfullieLawfully obeyed in the affirmative. But the Magiſtrate may not commaund and be lawfullielawfully obeyed …
    With rule
    … of any commaundement of the firſt Table, there he may not forbid, and be LawfullieLawfully obeyed in the affirmative. But the Magiſtrate may not commaund and be lawfullielawfully obeyed …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … needleſſe ceremonie; and therefore when their ſervice is done, they take it, they may LawfullieLawfully goe out of the Church, though the miniſter be ready to goe into the …
    With rule
    … needleſſe ceremonie; and therefore when their ſervice is done, they take it, they may LawfullieLawfully goe out of the Church, though the miniſter be ready to goe into the …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 171 · Open in the reader