Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4575 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

probabilitieprobability

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

Puritas changed it: 455 times in 268 works
Consistency: 95.3% (455 of 477)
Reach if approved: ~501 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: probability
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 477 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (455 changes in 268 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 455)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… men. True it is, that that for the present, they should haue a greater probabilitieprobability and likelihood of heauen and saluation then wicked men, because they are for the …
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… men. True it is, that that for the present, they should haue a greater probabilitieprobability and likelihood of heauen and saluation then wicked men, because they are for the …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man is unconsident of a thing, hee is ready to snatch at every probabilitieprobability, to make use of every occasion that happens to further his desires. If I …
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… a man is unconsident of a thing, hee is ready to snatch at every probabilitieprobability, to make use of every occasion that happens to further his desires. If I …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 483 · Open in the reader
Printed
… first; The kind is set downe (in generall onely) a tree; but by all probabilitieprobability the Palme-tree especially intended. This may appeare 1. by some circumstances from this place …
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… first; The kind is set downe (in generall onely) a tree; but by all probabilitieprobability the Palme-tree especially intended. This may appeare 1. by some circumstances from this place …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 128 · Open in the reader
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… to the staying and suppressing of my Booke. Which yet had it appeared in probabilitieprobability and likelihood to haue beene, I should not haue failed to be as chary …
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… to the staying and suppressing of my Booke. Which yet had it appeared in probabilitieprobability and likelihood to haue beene, I should not haue failed to be as chary …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 43 · Open in the reader
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… espy, that we can trouble yow if we list, for oure coniecture hes more probabilitieprobability, nor hes your bolde affirmation, Christes body wes offred before it wes eaten, because …
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… espy, that we can trouble yow if we list, for oure coniecture hes more probabilitieprobability, nor hes your bolde affirmation, Christes body wes offred before it wes eaten, because …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it not ſafer then, to reſt our ſelues in her boſome, which by al probabilitieprobability is an honeſt Matrone, then in her armes, which is a ſuſpected harlot? If …
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… it not ſafer then, to reſt our ſelues in her boſome, which by al probabilitieprobability is an honeſt Matrone, then in her armes, which is a ſuſpected harlot? If …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 531 · Open in the reader
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… finger. And therefore it is concluded that this circular motion is not impossible. The probabilitieprobability of it is thus made plaine. The whole circuit of the Heauens, wherein are …
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… finger. And therefore it is concluded that this circular motion is not impossible. The probabilitieprobability of it is thus made plaine. The whole circuit of the Heauens, wherein are …
William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… say, they know it, but not certainly, but in hope, and by coniecture and probabilitieprobability. But we see he knowes it certainly, infallibly, without doubt, for he knowes it …
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… say, they know it, but not certainly, but in hope, and by coniecture and probabilitieprobability. But we see he knowes it certainly, infallibly, without doubt, for he knowes it …
William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 215 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

19 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 are listed here. 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical A09265

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The firſt ProbabilitieProbability or Likelihood, that their way of Separation is not good, nor to be approoued …
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The firſt ProbabilitieProbability or Likelihood, that their way of Separation is not good, nor to be approoued …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
A Reply to Mr. Ainſworths Anſwere to this firſt ProbabilitieProbability.
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A Reply to Mr. Ainſworths Anſwere to this firſt ProbabilitieProbability.
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue ſaid, hath not pulled out of your ſides yet my throwne dart of ProbabilitieProbability, that your way is Noueltie.
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… haue ſaid, hath not pulled out of your ſides yet my throwne dart of ProbabilitieProbability, that your way is Noueltie.
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Reader, that compareth not my Booke and his anſwere together. Firſt, he changeth my ProbabilitieProbability in the Text, and takes the Marginall Note: ſee and read both. Secondly, he …
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… Reader, that compareth not my Booke and his anſwere together. Firſt, he changeth my ProbabilitieProbability in the Text, and takes the Marginall Note: ſee and read both. Secondly, he …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
Reply to Mr. Smiths Anſwere to the fift ProbabilitieProbability or Likelihood.
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Reply to Mr. Smiths Anſwere to the fift ProbabilitieProbability or Likelihood.
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 69 · Open in the reader

Of Divorce for Adultery A17240

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… Erasmus, Musculus, Martyr, Calvin, Gualter, Chemnizius, Beza and Zegedinus. S. 10. See also, Hardnesse; Politicall; ProbabilitieProbability; and Translation.
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… Erasmus, Musculus, Martyr, Calvin, Gualter, Chemnizius, Beza and Zegedinus. S. 10. See also, Hardnesse; Politicall; ProbabilitieProbability; and Translation.
Edmund Bunny · Of Divorce for Adultery · Open in the reader
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ProbabilitieProbability. in the practise of them, that Deut. 24. … 4▪ is not so to be taken S …
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ProbabilitieProbability. in the practise of them, that Deut. 24. … 4▪ is not so to be taken S …
Edmund Bunny · Of Divorce for Adultery · Open in the reader

The Elements of Logic A69248

Printed
Chapter. 16. Compariſon of the ProbabilitieProbability, or Likelihood. Page. 85.
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Chapter. 16. Compariſon of the ProbabilitieProbability, or Likelihood. Page. 85.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · Open in the reader
Printed
15. Or a Compariſon in the ProbabilitieProbability.
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15. Or a Compariſon in the ProbabilitieProbability.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſixteenth Chapter. Compariſon of ProbabilitieProbability or Likelihood.
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The ſixteenth Chapter. Compariſon of ProbabilitieProbability or Likelihood.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Compariſon in regard of ProbabilitieProbability.
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The Compariſon in regard of ProbabilitieProbability.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
Compariſon in the ProbabilitieProbability.
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Compariſon in the ProbabilitieProbability.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · p. 103 · Open in the reader