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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4551 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

commonliecommonly

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

Puritas changed it
290 times in 131 works
Consistency
97.6% (290 of 297)
Reach if approved
~312 places (estimated)
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Agrees: commonly
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
297 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (290 changes in 131 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 290)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to define this matter: be you your ſelues iudges. Which kinde of ſpeaking, men commonliecommonly vſe, when the matter is euident and out of doubte, knowen to all men …
    With rule
    … to define this matter: be you your ſelues iudges. Which kinde of ſpeaking, men commonliecommonly vſe, when the matter is euident and out of doubte, knowen to all men …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … mercifull. And heere me thinkes …n ho hath a ſingular force more then is commonliecommonly obſerued: Euen to note the particular matter wherein Chriſt is able to ſuccour, namely …
    With rule
    … mercifull. And heere me thinkes …n ho hath a ſingular force more then is commonliecommonly obſerued: Euen to note the particular matter wherein Chriſt is able to ſuccour, namely …

    Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 47 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … in ſeeking after our god, as Mockery, contempt of the vvord & ſuch like, vvhich commonliecommonly doe accompanie them that looke tovvards heauen. But god vvill reuenge himſelfe on them …
    With rule
    … in ſeeking after our god, as Mockery, contempt of the vvord & ſuch like, vvhich commonliecommonly doe accompanie them that looke tovvards heauen. But god vvill reuenge himſelfe on them …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The place in Ioh. 10. which they alleage ſo commonliecommonly againſt vs, maketh much for vs. The properties of a true ſhepheard there ſet …
    With rule
    The place in Ioh. 10. which they alleage ſo commonliecommonly againſt vs, maketh much for vs. The properties of a true ſhepheard there ſet …

    Richard Bernard · Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … third sort called sectaries, who addict themselues to the opinion of some man. These commonliecommonly neuer applie the law or the Gospell to themselues, but their whole meditation, is …
    With rule
    … third sort called sectaries, who addict themselues to the opinion of some man. These commonliecommonly neuer applie the law or the Gospell to themselues, but their whole meditation, is …

    William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 261 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … actes, they should doe due honour to God; but they thought that dansers haue commonliecommonly their mindes on thinges of an other qualitie. Which if your wooers and maidens …
    With rule
    … actes, they should doe due honour to God; but they thought that dansers haue commonliecommonly their mindes on thinges of an other qualitie. Which if your wooers and maidens …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … or elſe for Idolatrie, (as in the dayes of Achab.) And the Famine continueth commonliecommonly three, fiue, or ſeuen yeares.
    With rule
    … or elſe for Idolatrie, (as in the dayes of Achab.) And the Famine continueth commonliecommonly three, fiue, or ſeuen yeares.

    Archibald Simson · The Seven Days · p. 182 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … one of the leaſt of theſe, you haue doone it vnto me. Wee doo commonliecommonly ſaie to thoſe that haue inough, yee eate not, and ſo vrge them to …
    With rule
    … one of the leaſt of theſe, you haue doone it vnto me. Wee doo commonliecommonly ſaie to thoſe that haue inough, yee eate not, and ſo vrge them to …

    Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 145 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 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.

Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns A04379

  • Printed
    2. CommonlieCommonly it is a grievous death (as that a grievous Murraine, Exod. 9.3.) And the Pſalmiſt …
    With rule
    2. CommonlieCommonly it is a grievous death (as that a grievous Murraine, Exod. 9.3.) And the Pſalmiſt …

    Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · p. 34 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Lords Prayer A09410

  • Printed
    … wil neuer returne anie kindnes; so men being dead in sinne deale with God. CommonlieCommonly, men are like the swine, that run with their groines and eat vp the …
    With rule
    … wil neuer returne anie kindnes; so men being dead in sinne deale with God. CommonlieCommonly, men are like the swine, that run with their groines and eat vp the …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon Select Psalms A11005

  • Printed
    … valley of the deadly ſhaddow, I would not feare, becauſe thou art with me] CommonlieCommonly it is thought, that God is abſent from that man, who is brought to …
    With rule
    … valley of the deadly ſhaddow, I would not feare, becauſe thou art with me] CommonlieCommonly it is thought, that God is abſent from that man, who is brought to …

    Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 116 · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians A11010

  • Printed
    … The joye and glorie ſhall not be outvvith the godlie, as it is novv: CommonlieCommonly the glorie, the pleaſure, are ou…vvith vs, the matter of joye outvvith vs …
    With rule
    … The joye and glorie ſhall not be outvvith the godlie, as it is novv: CommonlieCommonly the glorie, the pleaſure, are ou…vvith vs, the matter of joye outvvith vs …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … tie he leades them, obteſting in ſeuerine he dravves them, as it vvere, violentlie. CommonlieCommonly ye ſhall finde he vſes this forme of requeſting. In the 2. Epiſt. to the …
    With rule
    … tie he leades them, obteſting in ſeuerine he dravves them, as it vvere, violentlie. CommonlieCommonly ye ſhall finde he vſes this forme of requeſting. In the 2. Epiſt. to the …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Against the Begging Friars A15298

  • Printed
    … damned Diuels, then in the helpe of God, and in there owne good living. CommonlieCommonly these letters beene powdred with hypocrisie, covetise, Simonie, blasphemie, and other leasings▪ With hypocrisie …
    With rule
    … damned Diuels, then in the helpe of God, and in there owne good living. CommonlieCommonly these letters beene powdred with hypocrisie, covetise, Simonie, blasphemie, and other leasings▪ With hypocrisie …

    John Wycliffe · Against the Begging Friars · p. 32 · Open in the reader