Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4557 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

flatterieflattery

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

Puritas changed it: 650 times in 298 works
Consistency: 99.8% (650 of 651)
Reach if approved: ~684 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: flattery
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 651 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (650 changes in 298 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 650)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… another case, we speake the truth and lie not, (for pulpets are not for flatterieflattery;) but we speake as from God, in the sight of God; and a message …
With rule
… another case, we speake the truth and lie not, (for pulpets are not for flatterieflattery;) but we speake as from God, in the sight of God; and a message …
John Preston · Sermons · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
Seeking to please with soothing flatterieflattery.
With rule
Seeking to please with soothing flatterieflattery.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and writings. Yea ſure it is to be fea red▪ ther is ſome priuie flatterieflattery and vntrueth cloſely▪ cloked in the darke ſentence of their longe bokes, where the …
With rule
… and writings. Yea ſure it is to be fea red▪ ther is ſome priuie flatterieflattery and vntrueth cloſely▪ cloked in the darke ſentence of their longe bokes, where the …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… you that are the materialls of all this, let me say to you without flatterieflattery▪ Goe forth with courage in the feare of God, and the Lord be with …
With rule
… you that are the materialls of all this, let me say to you without flatterieflattery▪ Goe forth with courage in the feare of God, and the Lord be with …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
Disdainefulnes, and shameles flatterieflattery,
With rule
Disdainefulnes, and shameles flatterieflattery,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Scriptures. And all theſe muſt proceede from a ſyncere heart, all colouring and flatterieflattery being taken away, that there be no reſpect had of the perſon. For if …
With rule
… the Scriptures. And all theſe muſt proceede from a ſyncere heart, all colouring and flatterieflattery being taken away, that there be no reſpect had of the perſon. For if …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 178 · Open in the reader
Printed
… quidquid voluerit. whom King Henrie the eight him ſelfe reprooved and checked for his flatterieflattery? Shall we make our religion parliamentarie (as the papiſtes obiecte? Or ſubſcribe to that …
With rule
… quidquid voluerit. whom King Henrie the eight him ſelfe reprooved and checked for his flatterieflattery? Shall we make our religion parliamentarie (as the papiſtes obiecte? Or ſubſcribe to that …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
Contrarie to this Sobrietie is FlatterieFlattery, whereby for hope either of fauour or gaine, men, and especially such as are …
With rule
Contrarie to this Sobrietie is FlatterieFlattery, whereby for hope either of fauour or gaine, men, and especially such as are …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 726 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
FLatterieFlattery is nothing but falſe friendſhip, fawning hypocriſie, diſhoneſt ciuilitie, baſe merchandize of words, a …
With rule
FLatterieFlattery is nothing but falſe friendſhip, fawning hypocriſie, diſhoneſt ciuilitie, baſe merchandize of words, a …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 192 · Open in the reader