Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4491 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vilifievilify

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

Puritas changed it: 829 times in 530 works
Consistency: 99.0% (829 of 837)
Reach if approved: ~879 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: vilify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 837 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (829 changes in 530 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 829)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not what familiaritie with the Spirit of God, and truſting to his immediate inſpirations, vilifievilify Preaching, Reading, Prayer, Sacraments, all parts of the Miniſterie.
With rule
… not what familiaritie with the Spirit of God, and truſting to his immediate inſpirations, vilifievilify Preaching, Reading, Prayer, Sacraments, all parts of the Miniſterie.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 537 · Open in the reader
Printed
To crosse or vilifievilify what is dec…eed.
With rule
To crosse or vilifievilify what is dec…eed.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
Printed
… to God, and loue to him; only to rectifie his error, and not to vilifievilify his person.
With rule
… to God, and loue to him; only to rectifie his error, and not to vilifievilify his person.
John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… some glory of God shiuing in you, which they striue by all meanes to vilifievilify & despise, being vext in their hearts at it.
With rule
… some glory of God shiuing in you, which they striue by all meanes to vilifievilify & despise, being vext in their hearts at it.
Nicholas Byfield · The Promises · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a forgiving of us? but what is this, O my so…le, but to vilifievilify that which God hath sanctified? If God had sayd unto thee; If thou wilt …
With rule
… a forgiving of us? but what is this, O my so…le, but to vilifievilify that which God hath sanctified? If God had sayd unto thee; If thou wilt …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the falſe apoſtles of old deale, who vainly vaunting, and commending themſelues, did withall vilifievilify S. Paul, and ſpeake of him to the people, as of a bragging fellow …
With rule
… the falſe apoſtles of old deale, who vainly vaunting, and commending themſelues, did withall vilifievilify S. Paul, and ſpeake of him to the people, as of a bragging fellow …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the text; and by otherſome, to carpe ſo at them, as thereby they may vilifievilify all the reſt of his paines; by which both the one ſort and the …
With rule
… the text; and by otherſome, to carpe ſo at them, as thereby they may vilifievilify all the reſt of his paines; by which both the one ſort and the …
Richard Bernard · A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… health, as well as others: (as if his temperance and sobriety did depraue, disparage, vilifievilify & disgrace him:) an infallible argument, that Puritans and Praecisians (as the world now takes …
With rule
… health, as well as others: (as if his temperance and sobriety did depraue, disparage, vilifievilify & disgrace him:) an infallible argument, that Puritans and Praecisians (as the world now takes …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock A25202

Printed
… it is that he has not got a finer Nickname, for those he would VilifieVilify than, the Acquaintances of Christ. Thus, pag. 56. As these bold acquaintance and familiars of …
With rule
… it is that he has not got a finer Nickname, for those he would VilifieVilify than, the Acquaintances of Christ. Thus, pag. 56. As these bold acquaintance and familiars of …
Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 258 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A30615

Printed
VilifieVilify The Saints vilifievilify the things of the earth 222
With rule
VilifieVilify The Saints vilifievilify the things of the earth 222
Jeremiah Burroughs · Two Treatises · Open in the reader

Love to Christ A36320

Printed
… ſelf, or for Chriſt? Slight me as you will, but do not ſlight Chriſt: VilifieVilify me, but do not undervalue Chriſt: Count me unworthy of your love or look …
With rule
… ſelf, or for Chriſt? Slight me as you will, but do not ſlight Chriſt: VilifieVilify me, but do not undervalue Chriſt: Count me unworthy of your love or look …
Thomas Doolittle · Love to Christ · p. 147 · Open in the reader