Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4591 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

willingliewillingly

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

Puritas changed it: 374 times in 155 works
Consistency: 99.4% (374 of 376)
Reach if approved: ~395 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: willingly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 376 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (374 changes in 155 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 374)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… benefite ſhould not be by neceſſitie: where neceſsitie is declared by the contrary, but willingliewillingly or freely.
With rule
… benefite ſhould not be by neceſſitie: where neceſsitie is declared by the contrary, but willingliewillingly or freely.
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will sometimes be offered on either part: and therefore in many things, you must willingliewillingly beare each others burthen. Besides this (Sister) there is a dutie required in this …
With rule
… will sometimes be offered on either part: and therefore in many things, you must willingliewillingly beare each others burthen. Besides this (Sister) there is a dutie required in this …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… down, which peraduenture did turne vpon him? Lo what hands, what feet, thou dost willingliewillingly kiſſe, from which thou oughtest to plucke backe thy mouth though bloudie and polluted …
With rule
… down, which peraduenture did turne vpon him? Lo what hands, what feet, thou dost willingliewillingly kiſſe, from which thou oughtest to plucke backe thy mouth though bloudie and polluted …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them inioyned, and to receiue of him ful absolution of their sinnes, haue verie willingliewillingly gon creeping vppon handes and feete, starke naked before that holie ghostlie father: and …
With rule
… them inioyned, and to receiue of him ful absolution of their sinnes, haue verie willingliewillingly gon creeping vppon handes and feete, starke naked before that holie ghostlie father: and …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… day bee verified of all wicked men; if they will not now obey God willingliewillingly, while in the ministerie of the word he bids them repent, and beleeue the …
With rule
… day bee verified of all wicked men; if they will not now obey God willingliewillingly, while in the ministerie of the word he bids them repent, and beleeue the …
William Perkins · The Combat Between Christ and the Devil Displayed · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… day too many Achabs, who can aske, whether their brother Benhadad be aliue, and willingliewillingly spare him, hoping, that he will one day remember them with the like curtesie …
With rule
… day too many Achabs, who can aske, whether their brother Benhadad be aliue, and willingliewillingly spare him, hoping, that he will one day remember them with the like curtesie …
John Rainolds · The Prophecy of Obadiah Opened and Applied · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of wiues and husbandes for their ſonnes and daughters, the which they ought as willingliewillingly to receiue at the handes of their fathers, as Adam did his wife from …
With rule
… of wiues and husbandes for their ſonnes and daughters, the which they ought as willingliewillingly to receiue at the handes of their fathers, as Adam did his wife from …
John Stockwood · A Bartholomew Fairing for Parents to Bestow · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his glorie. But yet there is more. For what are wee to ſuffer willingliewillingly? The loue of riches, ambition, the pleſure of fleſhly commodities, the affectiō toward father …
With rule
… of his glorie. But yet there is more. For what are wee to ſuffer willingliewillingly? The loue of riches, ambition, the pleſure of fleſhly commodities, the affectiō toward father …
Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

Printed
… but cannot: Many mē can, but will not, lik these whom S. Peter calleth WillinglieWillingly ignorant▪
With rule
… but cannot: Many mē can, but will not, lik these whom S. Peter calleth WillinglieWillingly ignorant▪
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1257 · Open in the reader

Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion A17676

Printed
WillinglieWillingly, as ſonnes.
With rule
WillinglieWillingly, as ſonnes.
John Calvin · Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader