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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4483 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swyneswine

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

Puritas changed it
186 times in 86 works
Consistency
87.7% (186 of 212)
Reach if approved
~223 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: swine
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
212 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (186 changes in 86 works, 87.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 186)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … fat the ground, they shal haue but bare corne and thynne.) They must haue swyneswine for theyr foode to make theyr veneryes or bacon of, theyr bacon is theyr …
    With rule
    … fat the ground, they shal haue but bare corne and thynne.) They must haue swyneswine for theyr foode to make theyr veneryes or bacon of, theyr bacon is theyr …

    Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ouercome. So that he toke no thoughte, lyued all in pleasure, lyke a careles swyneswine, gyuyng hym selfe to all kynde of beastelyke pleasures. But howe valeauntly euen by …
    With rule
    … ouercome. So that he toke no thoughte, lyued all in pleasure, lyke a careles swyneswine, gyuyng hym selfe to all kynde of beastelyke pleasures. But howe valeauntly euen by …

    Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … defaceth ye price of Chrystes death, & the glory of his resurreccion, if these fylthy swyneswine heades do it not? Who dishonoureth Gods most holy worde, yf these Epicures do …
    With rule
    … defaceth ye price of Chrystes death, & the glory of his resurreccion, if these fylthy swyneswine heades do it not? Who dishonoureth Gods most holy worde, yf these Epicures do …

    Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … no better things, should love mony, is not strange: For oxen love grasse; and swyneswine draffe; and every creature naturally the best thing which it knows: But that wise …
    With rule
    … no better things, should love mony, is not strange: For oxen love grasse; and swyneswine draffe; and every creature naturally the best thing which it knows: But that wise …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … tes & confoūde their beſtly wordes / reaſons & deuiliſſh obiections. Therfore / if theſe belly beſtes & fylthy ſwyneswine full of ambicion & auarice / enemyes to all truthe / diſceyuers of mānes ſoule / and bringers …
    With rule
    … tes & confoūde their beſtly wordes / reaſons & deuiliſſh obiections. Therfore / if theſe belly beſtes & fylthy ſwyneswine full of ambicion & auarice / enemyes to all truthe / diſceyuers of mānes ſoule / and bringers …

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

  6. Printed
    Iabell and Amon, als fat as ony swyneswine,
    With rule
    Iabell and Amon, als fat as ony swyneswine,

    John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thys hypocrite chaplayne, as was the deuil, whom Christ droue into thē herde of swyneswine, Luke. viii. For this deuyl, called Region▪ both knew it and confessed it, that …
    With rule
    … thys hypocrite chaplayne, as was the deuil, whom Christ droue into thē herde of swyneswine, Luke. viii. For this deuyl, called Region▪ both knew it and confessed it, that …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    It was set oape to howgy heards of swyneswine that haue it fild.
    With rule
    It was set oape to howgy heards of swyneswine that haue it fild.

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

14 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ A02749

  • Printed
    Is good ynough for SwyneSwine, by whome they do meane the Papystes.
    With rule
    Is good ynough for SwyneSwine, by whome they do meane the Papystes.

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

  • Printed
    SwyneSwine ad beaſtes are the papyſtes. 44. a 83. b
    With rule
    SwyneSwine ad beaſtes are the papyſtes. 44. a 83. b

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

  • Printed
    … of a Philoſopher preacheth Salomon) a golden ring in the noſet brilles of a SwyneSwine.
    With rule
    … of a Philoſopher preacheth Salomon) a golden ring in the noſet brilles of a SwyneSwine.

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

Display of Popish Practices A09918

  • Printed
    … ſhewed more apparantly, I will ſette downe ſome example of their iangling. When that SwyneSwine Quintinus once as it was came into a place, where one did lye ſlayne …
    With rule
    … ſhewed more apparantly, I will ſette downe ſome example of their iangling. When that SwyneSwine Quintinus once as it was came into a place, where one did lye ſlayne …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 84 · Open in the reader

Observations Divine and Moral A10839

  • Printed
    … to follow the basest of beasts, and to become swynish: Few other beasts save SwyneSwine will over-eat themselvs. Neyther is it any sufficient excuse for him that hath …
    With rule
    … to follow the basest of beasts, and to become swynish: Few other beasts save SwyneSwine will over-eat themselvs. Neyther is it any sufficient excuse for him that hath …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 163 · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) A14133

  • Printed
    SwyneSwine. Fo. viii. ſ. i, Fo. xciiii. ſ. i
    With rule
    SwyneSwine. Fo. viii. ſ. i, Fo. xciiii. ſ. i

    William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SwyneSwine haue no fayth. folio. viii. ſ. i
    With rule
    SwyneSwine haue no fayth. folio. viii. ſ. i

    William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … in them. God to the intent to make vs excell Oxon, Asses, Dogges, and SwyneSwine, hath printed his image in vs. And wherein consisteth this image, but in the …
    With rule
    … in them. God to the intent to make vs excell Oxon, Asses, Dogges, and SwyneSwine, hath printed his image in vs. And wherein consisteth this image, but in the …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … are requisite for their sustenance? Nay rather, they chop downe to the table like SwyneSwine, and start vp like dogges, so as there is no tydings nor rememberance of …
    With rule
    … are requisite for their sustenance? Nay rather, they chop downe to the table like SwyneSwine, and start vp like dogges, so as there is no tydings nor rememberance of …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 359 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

  • Printed
    … selues see that they enter intoo mens bodies, yea and into the bodyes of SwyneSwine, after as our Lord giueth them leaue and power. But he speaketh purposely of …
    With rule
    … selues see that they enter intoo mens bodies, yea and into the bodyes of SwyneSwine, after as our Lord giueth them leaue and power. But he speaketh purposely of …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the heauenly lyfe, so they haue heere wherof too feede and too drink lyke SwyneSwine, or wherewith too wallowe in their owne delyghts and pleasures: as for the spirituall …
    With rule
    … the heauenly lyfe, so they haue heere wherof too feede and too drink lyke SwyneSwine, or wherewith too wallowe in their owne delyghts and pleasures: as for the spirituall …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … this world, that they thinke no more of the heauenly lyfe, than doggs and SwyneSwine doo. Othersome agein are so saped in their hipocrisie, that although God doo call …
    With rule
    … this world, that they thinke no more of the heauenly lyfe, than doggs and SwyneSwine doo. Othersome agein are so saped in their hipocrisie, that although God doo call …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … those, wee see also a sort of drunkardes that haue no more zeale than SwyneSwine, but are as mastiues that barke not, ne neuer open their lipes but too …
    With rule
    … those, wee see also a sort of drunkardes that haue no more zeale than SwyneSwine, but are as mastiues that barke not, ne neuer open their lipes but too …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 178 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … wyse, that Gods image is defaced in them, and they become lyke doggs and SwyneSwine, and Asses: sith wee see our selues so disfigured (say I), yea and (woorthie …
    With rule
    … wyse, that Gods image is defaced in them, and they become lyke doggs and SwyneSwine, and Asses: sith wee see our selues so disfigured (say I), yea and (woorthie …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader