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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4470 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

naylednailed

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

Puritas changed it
259 times in 190 works
Consistency
98.8% (259 of 262)
Reach if approved
~275 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: nailed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
262 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (259 changes in 190 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 259)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … downe, doing good; hungring and thirsting, suffering in the Garden, sweating water and blood, naylednailed on the Crosse, crying to his Father, My God▪ my God, why hast thou …
    With rule
    … downe, doing good; hungring and thirsting, suffering in the Garden, sweating water and blood, naylednailed on the Crosse, crying to his Father, My God▪ my God, why hast thou …

    Richard Sibbes · Light from Heaven · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … mount Moriah, Gen. 22. 6: So Christ carryed the Crosse on which he was to be naylednailed, even to Golgotha. 4. Isaac was led away as a Lamb to the slaughter: So …
    With rule
    … mount Moriah, Gen. 22. 6: So Christ carryed the Crosse on which he was to be naylednailed, even to Golgotha. 4. Isaac was led away as a Lamb to the slaughter: So …

    Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and vnderſtande and delyte therin: And our great pyller of holy churche / whiche haue naylednailed a vayle of falſe gloſes on Moſes face / to corrupte the trewe vnderſtandynge of …
    With rule
    … and vnderſtande and delyte therin: And our great pyller of holy churche / whiche haue naylednailed a vayle of falſe gloſes on Moſes face / to corrupte the trewe vnderſtandynge of …

    William Tyndale · A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    3 Lignum tranſverſum, a croſſe piece of wood whereto the hands were naylednailed.
    With rule
    3 Lignum tranſverſum, a croſſe piece of wood whereto the hands were naylednailed.

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … feare, with terrours without, and troubles on euery side: But when sinne is once naylednailed to the crosse of Christ, when the guilt of sinne is taken out of …
    With rule
    … feare, with terrours without, and troubles on euery side: But when sinne is once naylednailed to the crosse of Christ, when the guilt of sinne is taken out of …

    Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our Lord Ieſus Christ: and, He tooke the handwriting that was againſt vs, and naylednailed it on his Croſſe: and, he ſet all things at peace through the bloud …
    With rule
    … our Lord Ieſus Christ: and, He tooke the handwriting that was againſt vs, and naylednailed it on his Croſſe: and, he ſet all things at peace through the bloud …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of the virgin, according to yt which was taken of ye Iewes, which was naylednailed to the tree, that was taken down from the croſſe, that was lapped in …
    With rule
    … of the virgin, according to yt which was taken of ye Iewes, which was naylednailed to the tree, that was taken down from the croſſe, that was lapped in …

    Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to beleeue at this daie of Saint Peters ſteeple at Rome) that religion was naylednailed as it were with a tennepenie naile, vnto Abrahams race, without diſtinguiſhing the true …
    With rule
    … to beleeue at this daie of Saint Peters ſteeple at Rome) that religion was naylednailed as it were with a tennepenie naile, vnto Abrahams race, without diſtinguiſhing the true …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 320 · 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 Defense of the Catholic Faith A20944

  • Printed
    … the feete of the malefactors to bee Crucified, were ſet, and each foote was NayledNailed a part, and ſo alſo our Sauiour way NayledNailed, as Iuſtin Martyr teacheth in …
    With rule
    … the feete of the malefactors to bee Crucified, were ſet, and each foote was NayledNailed a part, and ſo alſo our Sauiour way NayledNailed, as Iuſtin Martyr teacheth in …

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 319 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſet, and each foote was NayledNailed a part, and ſo alſo our Sauiour way NayledNailed, as Iuſtin Martyr teacheth in his Dialogue againſt Tryphon: and Ireneus lib. 2. Cap. 42. Nazianzen …
    With rule
    … ſet, and each foote was NayledNailed a part, and ſo alſo our Sauiour way NayledNailed, as Iuſtin Martyr teacheth in his Dialogue againſt Tryphon: and Ireneus lib. 2. Cap. 42. Nazianzen …

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 319 · Open in the reader