Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4587 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tirannytyranny

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

Puritas changed it: 214 times in 106 works
Consistency: 85.6% (214 of 250)
Reach if approved: ~263 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tyranny
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 250 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (214 changes in 106 works, 85.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 214)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Pope Gregory y^e i. bicause he thought it to much violence, cruelty and tirannytyranny, to diuorce such as came vnto y^e ministery maried, from their wiues, ordayned that …
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Pope Gregory y^e i. bicause he thought it to much violence, cruelty and tirannytyranny, to diuorce such as came vnto y^e ministery maried, from their wiues, ordayned that …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… by his mother in the day of his fiaunſailes, are wholy touching the vſurped tirannytyranny of the Church of Rome ouer all Chriſtendome, and the falſification, which the heade …
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… by his mother in the day of his fiaunſailes, are wholy touching the vſurped tirannytyranny of the Church of Rome ouer all Chriſtendome, and the falſification, which the heade …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · Open in the reader
Printed
… is theyr religion. yea whose vvhole pollicie and gouernment, seemes te set the Turkish tirannytyranny as a patarne, and they dravve as neer to it as theyre auncient lavves …
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… is theyr religion. yea whose vvhole pollicie and gouernment, seemes te set the Turkish tirannytyranny as a patarne, and they dravve as neer to it as theyre auncient lavves …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath his sinnes taken away touching the guilt, by forgiuenes, and touching power and tirannytyranny, by mortification; such a one is the spouse of Christ, and is one with …
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… hath his sinnes taken away touching the guilt, by forgiuenes, and touching power and tirannytyranny, by mortification; such a one is the spouse of Christ, and is one with …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 404 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then all the whole world. And Sathan is the prince of darkenes, vnder whoſe tirannytyranny we are helde in bondage, vntill we be ſet at libertie by the hande …
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… then all the whole world. And Sathan is the prince of darkenes, vnder whoſe tirannytyranny we are helde in bondage, vntill we be ſet at libertie by the hande …
John Calvin · Commentary on Colossians · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon liuing / and ioyning ſteeple to ſteeple / and non reſidence / and ſuche ambition and tirannytyranny / as beareth the ſway in diuers Eccleſiaſticall perſons / if the price of the pacification …
With rule
… vpon liuing / and ioyning ſteeple to ſteeple / and non reſidence / and ſuche ambition and tirannytyranny / as beareth the ſway in diuers Eccleſiaſticall perſons / if the price of the pacification …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our christian magistrates haue done wel not only with Thrasibulus to fly from the tirannytyranny of Athens, but rather with Lot and his family to leaue the whole city …
With rule
… our christian magistrates haue done wel not only with Thrasibulus to fly from the tirannytyranny of Athens, but rather with Lot and his family to leaue the whole city …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the maintenaūce of Idolatry, & despising true religiō. And Athalia hir selfe for hir tirannytyranny & vsurpation cōtrary the wil of god escaped not vnauenged. For the high priest cō …
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… for the maintenaūce of Idolatry, & despising true religiō. And Athalia hir selfe for hir tirannytyranny & vsurpation cōtrary the wil of god escaped not vnauenged. For the high priest cō …
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (36)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 26 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

Printed
… And not they y^t séeke them selues, lyuing héere in all pompe, voluptuousnesse, and TirannyTyranny. From this place fetch the blinde papists, a great argument for their wiuelesse castity …
With rule
… And not they y^t séeke them selues, lyuing héere in all pompe, voluptuousnesse, and TirannyTyranny. From this place fetch the blinde papists, a great argument for their wiuelesse castity …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

Printed
… them more harmefull. Then at length honor bewrayeth him, and detecteth hys couerte ragyng TirannyTyranny. So, who of all other weakeſt and moſt contemptuous, powerleſſe and bloudleſſe, barer then …
With rule
… them more harmefull. Then at length honor bewrayeth him, and detecteth hys couerte ragyng TirannyTyranny. So, who of all other weakeſt and moſt contemptuous, powerleſſe and bloudleſſe, barer then …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

Review of Brambles Warning Against the Scots Discipline A29489

Printed
… of everting the foundations, both of Religion and governement, of bringing in Popery and TirannyTyranny, in the Churches and States of all the three Kingdomes, (Canterburian ſelf conviction cap. 1.)
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… of everting the foundations, both of Religion and governement, of bringing in Popery and TirannyTyranny, in the Churches and States of all the three Kingdomes, (Canterburian ſelf conviction cap. 1.)
Robert Baillie · Review of Brambles Warning Against the Scots Discipline · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… intentions to manifeſt by printed declarations and publick actions their former deſigne to bring TirannyTyranny upon the States, and popery upon the Churches of all the three Kingdomes: and …
With rule
… intentions to manifeſt by printed declarations and publick actions their former deſigne to bring TirannyTyranny upon the States, and popery upon the Churches of all the three Kingdomes: and …
Robert Baillie · Review of Brambles Warning Against the Scots Discipline · p. 88 · Open in the reader

Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making A34420

Printed
… not, having commanded the contrary viz. a juſt, rationall goverment; but permits and ſuffers TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion, for glorious ends and reaſons beſt known to his Divine Majeſtie; and …
With rule
… not, having commanded the contrary viz. a juſt, rationall goverment; but permits and ſuffers TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion, for glorious ends and reaſons beſt known to his Divine Majeſtie; and …
John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · Open in the reader
Printed
… may be as ſavory condiments to ſeaſon mens ſpirits, with a deteſtation of all TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion, and with a love to Iuſtice and Rationall goverment; that the Parliament …
With rule
… may be as ſavory condiments to ſeaſon mens ſpirits, with a deteſtation of all TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion, and with a love to Iuſtice and Rationall goverment; that the Parliament …
John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hand and acted in that execution from a conſciencious principle to be rid of TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion, in diſcharge of their duties to God and man. Not for any …
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… hand and acted in that execution from a conſciencious principle to be rid of TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion, in diſcharge of their duties to God and man. Not for any …
John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thee, therefore they have rejected me in caſting off a juſt goverment free from TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion which my ſoule abhorrs, for God is King over all the earth …
With rule
… thee, therefore they have rejected me in caſting off a juſt goverment free from TirannyTyranny and oppreſſion which my ſoule abhorrs, for God is King over all the earth …
John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… acquainted with thoſe many provocations that the beſt of Monarchs have, to degenerate into TirannyTyranny, and the ſtrong temptations that they have to ſatisfie their ſinfull appetites, and how …
With rule
… acquainted with thoſe many provocations that the beſt of Monarchs have, to degenerate into TirannyTyranny, and the ſtrong temptations that they have to ſatisfie their ſinfull appetites, and how …
John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · p. 82 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

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… England hath ſuffered in fourmer yeres? So verely the ſeconde beaſte exerciſeth gallauntly the TirannyTyranny of the olde beaſt. The olde beaſte ſet forth proclamations concernyng religion, and paiyng …
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… England hath ſuffered in fourmer yeres? So verely the ſeconde beaſte exerciſeth gallauntly the TirannyTyranny of the olde beaſt. The olde beaſte ſet forth proclamations concernyng religion, and paiyng …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 392 · Open in the reader