Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4485 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

syncesince

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

Puritas changed it: 152 times in 55 works
Consistency: 96.8% (152 of 157)
Reach if approved: ~165 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: since
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 157 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (152 changes in 55 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… breach of Gods ordinance, and yet not sinne. I hope he is otherwise mynded syncesince, and so will be every day more and more. In the meane tyme it …
With rule
… breach of Gods ordinance, and yet not sinne. I hope he is otherwise mynded syncesince, and so will be every day more and more. In the meane tyme it …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… counsels, deuises and imaginations come to naught. I haue alway sayd vnto your forefathers syncesince I brought them out of the land of Egipt euen vnto thys daye heare …
With rule
… counsels, deuises and imaginations come to naught. I haue alway sayd vnto your forefathers syncesince I brought them out of the land of Egipt euen vnto thys daye heare …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they infinitely corrupted their translation? seeing he never saw their work, which long syncesince is lost? Belike he thought it might be so; and therfore he wrote it …
With rule
… that they infinitely corrupted their translation? seeing he never saw their work, which long syncesince is lost? Belike he thought it might be so; and therfore he wrote it …
Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… THE CREDE, FOR THE ARTICLE, foreign How that ſpeach hath ben vſed, of eaſt & weſt ſyncesince tongues were, vnto Plutarchs age beyond the Apoſtles, vniform in one tenour, for leaving …
With rule
… THE CREDE, FOR THE ARTICLE, foreign How that ſpeach hath ben vſed, of eaſt & weſt ſyncesince tongues were, vnto Plutarchs age beyond the Apoſtles, vniform in one tenour, for leaving …
Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · Open in the reader
Printed
By what reaſon calleſt thou Chriſt the onely ſonne of God, ſyncesince God doth name vs alſo hys chyldren?
With rule
By what reaſon calleſt thou Chriſt the onely ſonne of God, ſyncesince God doth name vs alſo hys chyldren?
John Calvin · The Catechism · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſcouery came forth, and the Diſc. himſelfe confeſſeth. that it was then but 7. yeares ſyncesince wee were acquaynted, for from 9…. (which is ſaid to be the firſt time of …
With rule
… diſcouery came forth, and the Diſc. himſelfe confeſſeth. that it was then but 7. yeares ſyncesince wee were acquaynted, for from 9…. (which is ſaid to be the firſt time of …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kingdom of darknes againſt the chyldren of lyght, the true prophetes of God euer ſyncesince the begynnynge, and hath euermore in his members chalenged a knowledge & wyſdome aboue the …
With rule
… kingdom of darknes againſt the chyldren of lyght, the true prophetes of God euer ſyncesince the begynnynge, and hath euermore in his members chalenged a knowledge & wyſdome aboue the …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Malachi · Open in the reader
Printed
… faynt harte in that behalf, and ſhamefull falling from God in murthering then and ſyncesince ſo many of his ſeruantes and Prophetes, thou be not left likewiſe deſtitute and …
With rule
… faynt harte in that behalf, and ſhamefull falling from God in murthering then and ſyncesince ſo many of his ſeruantes and Prophetes, thou be not left likewiſe deſtitute and …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 210 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England A04537

Printed
… intreated: as both your priſons and ſo me yet alive are able to teſtify. SynceSince which tyme, your perſecution hath increaſed far more, even vnto exile and death, vpon …
With rule
… intreated: as both your priſons and ſo me yet alive are able to teſtify. SynceSince which tyme, your perſecution hath increaſed far more, even vnto exile and death, vpon …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism A04541

Printed
… whole, might be of speciall vse if an answer should be given vnto it. 2. SynceSince the writing thereof, it pleased God to visite him with sicknes that he died …
With rule
… whole, might be of speciall vse if an answer should be given vnto it. 2. SynceSince the writing thereof, it pleased God to visite him with sicknes that he died …
Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship A19142

Printed
… use: This appeareth out of a booke called a part of a Register &c. SynceSince that tyme, we have beene forced to shew more distinctly, what grounds we stand …
With rule
… use: This appeareth out of a booke called a part of a Register &c. SynceSince that tyme, we have beene forced to shew more distinctly, what grounds we stand …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 12 · Open in the reader

The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet A19855

Printed
… examined, whoſe names are confuſedly ſett downe before: with the principall thinges they depoſed. SynceSince which time there haue bene ſundrie of the ſaid deponents by the Diſ. and …
With rule
… examined, whoſe names are confuſedly ſett downe before: with the principall thinges they depoſed. SynceSince which time there haue bene ſundrie of the ſaid deponents by the Diſ. and …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 258 · Open in the reader