Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4493 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

absurditieabsurdity

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

Puritas changed it: 980 times in 354 works
Consistency: 98.4% (980 of 995)
Reach if approved: ~1,045 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: absurdity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 995 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (980 changes in 354 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 980)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… protectors of the Church, as the Saints in Heauen are. Bellarmine indeede, ſeeing this abſurditieabsurdity, acknowledgeth, that for the reaſons afore alleaged, it was not a cuſtome in the …
With rule
… protectors of the Church, as the Saints in Heauen are. Bellarmine indeede, ſeeing this abſurditieabsurdity, acknowledgeth, that for the reaſons afore alleaged, it was not a cuſtome in the …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our redeemer in the newe Teſtament, Where note in Prophecies, that it is no abſurditieabsurdity to take a propheticall figure in diuers agreeable ſenſes, as Apoc. 17.9. the ſeuen heads …
With rule
… our redeemer in the newe Teſtament, Where note in Prophecies, that it is no abſurditieabsurdity to take a propheticall figure in diuers agreeable ſenſes, as Apoc. 17.9. the ſeuen heads …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Antecedent the tertium Argumentum, and frame this compound Syllogiſme Categorically, and then the abſurditieabsurdity will appeare. Whatſoeuer is by ſucceſſion, is before the Church: but the Miniſterie is …
With rule
… the Antecedent the tertium Argumentum, and frame this compound Syllogiſme Categorically, and then the abſurditieabsurdity will appeare. Whatſoeuer is by ſucceſſion, is before the Church: but the Miniſterie is …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… purging Index, The last of them is no Doctrine held by Pelagius, but an absurditieabsurdity, or inconuenience, inferred vpon his Tenets by some; yet by him constantly denied in …
With rule
… purging Index, The last of them is no Doctrine held by Pelagius, but an absurditieabsurdity, or inconuenience, inferred vpon his Tenets by some; yet by him constantly denied in …
Daniel Featley · A Parallel of New-Old Pelgiarminian Error · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maner the verie selfesame. But Bristow setting a good countenance, vpon so great an absurditieabsurdity, asketh what boy hath not hearde it saide, of one & the same man being …
With rule
… maner the verie selfesame. But Bristow setting a good countenance, vpon so great an absurditieabsurdity, asketh what boy hath not hearde it saide, of one & the same man being …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 370 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the moſt excellent & abſolute forme, & the beſt, and can by no meanes, without great abſurditieabsurdity, yea wicked impietie, be reiected: & withall what is neceſſarie and fit for vs.
With rule
… the moſt excellent & abſolute forme, & the beſt, and can by no meanes, without great abſurditieabsurdity, yea wicked impietie, be reiected: & withall what is neceſſarie and fit for vs.
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… get M. Penri to wright on his head as an absurditieabsurdity, and a childish absurditieabsurdity to by his leaue, with out either reson or sense: for what cōsequēce is …
With rule
… get M. Penri to wright on his head as an absurditieabsurdity, and a childish absurditieabsurdity to by his leaue, with out either reson or sense: for what cōsequēce is …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… none in all the world ever ſpake either before or in their dayes? What abſurditieabsurdity and vnconſcionable preſumptiō were it ſo to thinke? I know, they and others do …
With rule
… none in all the world ever ſpake either before or in their dayes? What abſurditieabsurdity and vnconſcionable preſumptiō were it ſo to thinke? I know, they and others do …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 105 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 A09272

Printed
… Church, whereof Ieruſalem, and this holy Mountaine were Figures, it may be done without AbſurditieAbsurdity: But I thinke, with Sanctius, that this Chapter ought not to be wholly interpreted …
With rule
… Church, whereof Ieruſalem, and this holy Mountaine were Figures, it may be done without AbſurditieAbsurdity: But I thinke, with Sanctius, that this Chapter ought not to be wholly interpreted …
William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 106 · Open in the reader

Oil of Scorpions A11075

Printed
A second dangerous AbsurditieAbsurdity. SECT. X. Partaking of a Religion laden with bloud.
With rule
A second dangerous AbsurditieAbsurdity. SECT. X. Partaking of a Religion laden with bloud.
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
A Third dangerous AbsurditieAbsurdity, is to forsake the Religion wherein God hath giuen vs miraculous deliuerances, and to …
With rule
A Third dangerous AbsurditieAbsurdity, is to forsake the Religion wherein God hath giuen vs miraculous deliuerances, and to …
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 140 · Open in the reader

The Good Old Way Defended A57857

Printed
… then governed by Presbyters) which came in by degrees, paulatim. 3. It is an unaccountable AbsurditieAbsurdity, to make an Apostolical Decree, or Practice, so opposite to dispositio Dominicae veritatis, as …
With rule
… then governed by Presbyters) which came in by degrees, paulatim. 3. It is an unaccountable AbsurditieAbsurdity, to make an Apostolical Decree, or Practice, so opposite to dispositio Dominicae veritatis, as …
Gilbert Rule · The Good Old Way Defended · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… concessions as he supposeth: and if any of them have, let him answer the AbsurditieAbsurdity that followeth on it, we are not concerned, we cau yeild no further than …
With rule
… concessions as he supposeth: and if any of them have, let him answer the AbsurditieAbsurdity that followeth on it, we are not concerned, we cau yeild no further than …
Gilbert Rule · The Good Old Way Defended · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the Apostles: let him please himself with all he saith to prove the AbsurditieAbsurdity of thinking that a Change could be wrought that way. But 1. We are persuaded …
With rule
… by the Apostles: let him please himself with all he saith to prove the AbsurditieAbsurdity of thinking that a Change could be wrought that way. But 1. We are persuaded …
Gilbert Rule · The Good Old Way Defended · p. 146 · Open in the reader

A Public Dispute Touching Infant Baptism A62871

Printed
… kingdome under the Gospell which I prove thus; That Interpretation that brings with it▪ AbsurditieAbsurdity, untruth, blasphemie, is not to be admitted; But to interpret it of the Jews …
With rule
… kingdome under the Gospell which I prove thus; That Interpretation that brings with it▪ AbsurditieAbsurdity, untruth, blasphemie, is not to be admitted; But to interpret it of the Jews …
John Tombes · A Public Dispute Touching Infant Baptism · p. 41 · Open in the reader