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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4471 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obscuritieobscurity

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

Puritas changed it
437 times in 226 works
Consistency
95.6% (437 of 457)
Reach if approved
~480 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: obscurity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
457 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (437 changes in 226 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 437)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … But concerning that place Actes the 19. which hath troubled so many interpreters with the obscuritieobscurity thereof, or rather with a preiudicate opinion of a difference in the Baptisme of …
    With rule
    … But concerning that place Actes the 19. which hath troubled so many interpreters with the obscuritieobscurity thereof, or rather with a preiudicate opinion of a difference in the Baptisme of …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 383 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it is better to ſit ſtill, than to riſe and fall; to liue in obſcuritieobscurity, than to be a publique ſpectacle of follie, as the moſt ſubtile and violent …
    With rule
    … it is better to ſit ſtill, than to riſe and fall; to liue in obſcuritieobscurity, than to be a publique ſpectacle of follie, as the moſt ſubtile and violent …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wiſedome ſhall ſhine without ignorance: memorie without forgetfulneſſe, vnderſtanding without error: and reaſon without obſcuritieobscurity. Bleſſed are they that dwell there: they ſhall for euer and euer praiſe God …
    With rule
    … wiſedome ſhall ſhine without ignorance: memorie without forgetfulneſſe, vnderſtanding without error: and reaſon without obſcuritieobscurity. Bleſſed are they that dwell there: they ſhall for euer and euer praiſe God …

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … silence in Heaven. That is some small peace in the Church, partlie through the obscuritieobscurity of Professors, and partlie by the enimies working one upon an other. Notwithstanding the …
    With rule
    … silence in Heaven. That is some small peace in the Church, partlie through the obscuritieobscurity of Professors, and partlie by the enimies working one upon an other. Notwithstanding the …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … fainting ſoules ſhall grow ſpeedily: light ſhall ariſe vnto them out of all their obſcuritieobscurity, and their darkneſſe ſhall be as the noone day, their ſoules ſhall be ſatisfied …
    With rule
    … fainting ſoules ſhall grow ſpeedily: light ſhall ariſe vnto them out of all their obſcuritieobscurity, and their darkneſſe ſhall be as the noone day, their ſoules ſhall be ſatisfied …

    William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … them an casie interpretation vpon the instant. Gen. 41. Nebuchadne…sars dreames were full of obscuritieobscurity, and many matters were contained in thē, so as his spirit was troubled, and …
    With rule
    … them an casie interpretation vpon the instant. Gen. 41. Nebuchadne…sars dreames were full of obscuritieobscurity, and many matters were contained in thē, so as his spirit was troubled, and …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    This robbing and rogueing people liued in much obscuritieobscurity, vntill that darknesse brought them to light, and a Religion newly stamped by Mahomet …
    With rule
    This robbing and rogueing people liued in much obscuritieobscurity, vntill that darknesse brought them to light, and a Religion newly stamped by Mahomet …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 193 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that no prophecie in the ſcripture is of any priuate interpretation. But yet this obſcuritieobscurity is not ſo great, but that the ſcriptures can expound them ſelues. And therfore …
    With rule
    … that no prophecie in the ſcripture is of any priuate interpretation. But yet this obſcuritieobscurity is not ſo great, but that the ſcriptures can expound them ſelues. And therfore …

    Thomas Sampson · The Church and Certain Ceremonies · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Plea for Grace A09277

  • Printed
    ObscuritieObscurity in the obiect of faith, as it is held by the Papists, confuted 187. 188. &c.
    With rule
    ObscuritieObscurity in the obiect of faith, as it is held by the Papists, confuted 187. 188. &c.

    William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … me bold, euen at my first looking and leaping out of the dungeon of ObscuritieObscurity, which hitherto had inclosed me, to interrupt your more serious affaires, with the view …
    With rule
    … me bold, euen at my first looking and leaping out of the dungeon of ObscuritieObscurity, which hitherto had inclosed me, to interrupt your more serious affaires, with the view …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

Three Treatises A10659

  • Printed
    … any Cisterne. Here then are three properties of a Christians Life in Christ; first, ObscuritieObscurity; secondly, Plentie; thirdly, safetie or Eternitie. First it is an obscure life, a secret …
    With rule
    … any Cisterne. Here then are three properties of a Christians Life in Christ; first, ObscuritieObscurity; secondly, Plentie; thirdly, safetie or Eternitie. First it is an obscure life, a secret …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 432 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … Paul ſaith to Feſtus, but in Ieruſalem, the eye, the heart of the world. ObſcuritieObscurity abateth ſhame: publique notice heightens it: Before all Iſrael and before this Sunne, ſaith …
    With rule
    … Paul ſaith to Feſtus, but in Ieruſalem, the eye, the heart of the world. ObſcuritieObscurity abateth ſhame: publique notice heightens it: Before all Iſrael and before this Sunne, ſaith …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 427 · Open in the reader

The By-Way A72851

  • Printed
    … of Fathers, of Councels, and the ſacred Word is made a by-word of ObſcuritieObscurity and Inſufficiencie.
    With rule
    … of Fathers, of Councels, and the ſacred Word is made a by-word of ObſcuritieObscurity and Inſufficiencie.

    Humphrey Lynde · The By-Way · p. 370 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … he that ſhall looke back, and obſerue how the ſacred Scriptures are condemned of ObſcuritieObscurity and Inſufficiencie; he that will conſider how the holy Fathers are cenſured, and reiected …
    With rule
    … he that ſhall looke back, and obſerue how the ſacred Scriptures are condemned of ObſcuritieObscurity and Inſufficiencie; he that will conſider how the holy Fathers are cenſured, and reiected …

    Humphrey Lynde · The By-Way · p. 455 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … likewiſe you ſhall obſerue, there followed corruptions and errours in Doctrine and Diſcipline, whereby ObſcuritieObscurity became the proper mark of the true Church almoſt in all ages, till the …
    With rule
    … likewiſe you ſhall obſerue, there followed corruptions and errours in Doctrine and Diſcipline, whereby ObſcuritieObscurity became the proper mark of the true Church almoſt in all ages, till the …

    Humphrey Lynde · The By-Way · p. 633 · Open in the reader