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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4593 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wittiewitty

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

Puritas changed it
398 times in 235 works
Consistency
95.9% (398 of 415)
Reach if approved
~436 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: witty
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
415 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (398 changes in 235 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 398)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … as to haue the Commanders of forces, men of counſell; becauſe wiſe counſell, and wittiewitty skill is of far greater moment, then ſtrength voide of counſell. As war without …
    With rule
    … as to haue the Commanders of forces, men of counſell; becauſe wiſe counſell, and wittiewitty skill is of far greater moment, then ſtrength voide of counſell. As war without …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 77 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … cōprehend this doctrine: as it doth also chaunce in those Papistes, that are moste wittiewitty. For it hindreth them alwayes, when they think thus: should all this be nothing …
    With rule
    … cōprehend this doctrine: as it doth also chaunce in those Papistes, that are moste wittiewitty. For it hindreth them alwayes, when they think thus: should all this be nothing …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    EPIGRAMS OF That most wittiewitty and worthie Epigrammatist Mr. IOHN OWEN, Gentleman. Translated by IOHN VICARS.
    With rule
    EPIGRAMS OF That most wittiewitty and worthie Epigrammatist Mr. IOHN OWEN, Gentleman. Translated by IOHN VICARS.

    John Owen · Epigrams · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Fighig, hath industrious and wittiewitty people, whereof some become Merchants, others Students, and go to Fesse, where hauing obtained …
    With rule
    Fighig, hath industrious and wittiewitty people, whereof some become Merchants, others Students, and go to Fesse, where hauing obtained …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 535 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of deceit vſed in matters of contract, were infinite, and in truth impoſsible; ſo wittiewitty is the world growne to deceiue their Brother, their owne Fathers, as wee ſay …
    With rule
    … of deceit vſed in matters of contract, were infinite, and in truth impoſsible; ſo wittiewitty is the world growne to deceiue their Brother, their owne Fathers, as wee ſay …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 286 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that an excellent object of the eye is the writings of m…n skilfull, wittiewitty, and learned: whereby with little paines we come to know all the fruit of …
    With rule
    … that an excellent object of the eye is the writings of m…n skilfull, wittiewitty, and learned: whereby with little paines we come to know all the fruit of …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … my writtinges, more then other haue done before mi time, with theirs, much more wittiewitty, more lerned and godly. No, I do ſuppoſe, the hight lerned maye finde many …
    With rule
    … my writtinges, more then other haue done before mi time, with theirs, much more wittiewitty, more lerned and godly. No, I do ſuppoſe, the hight lerned maye finde many …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. vi · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … make them apt to seduce ye simple, or to able them to all falsehood & wittiewitty gile. To admit thē his seat is to leaue them here a kingdom of …
    With rule
    … make them apt to seduce ye simple, or to able them to all falsehood & wittiewitty gile. To admit thē his seat is to leaue them here a kingdom of …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … so many Lectures of Ribaldry; so many Abstracts, Compendiums, or Miscellaines of sublimated, Elegant, WittieWitty, or more Accurate, and choyce Obscenities? which the more refined, and accute they are …
    With rule
    … so many Lectures of Ribaldry; so many Abstracts, Compendiums, or Miscellaines of sublimated, Elegant, WittieWitty, or more Accurate, and choyce Obscenities? which the more refined, and accute they are …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … by these Hellish, Heathenish Deuill-Idoles, in despight of Gods Command, with these two WittieWitty, or rather Impudent pretences, and Euasions.
    With rule
    … by these Hellish, Heathenish Deuill-Idoles, in despight of Gods Command, with these two WittieWitty, or rather Impudent pretences, and Euasions.

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 84 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … liuing (in his Workes) a Bishop, not of Hippo, but of the Westerne Church. WittieWitty, Learned, Wife, and Holy Father, that hast with thee carried these Titles from Hippo …
    With rule
    … liuing (in his Workes) a Bishop, not of Hippo, but of the Westerne Church. WittieWitty, Learned, Wife, and Holy Father, that hast with thee carried these Titles from Hippo …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 497 · Open in the reader

The Question of Tithes A11601

  • Printed
    Anſ. WittieWitty too too: quaſi dicam, if an inheritance be the maintenance belonging to Leui, then …
    With rule
    Anſ. WittieWitty too too: quaſi dicam, if an inheritance be the maintenance belonging to Leui, then …

    William Sclater · The Question of Tithes · Open in the reader

The Riches of Mercy A12191

  • Printed
    WittieWitty.
    With rule
    WittieWitty.

    Richard Sibbes · The Riches of Mercy · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

  • Printed
    WittieWitty saiyng of a Philosoph.
    With rule
    WittieWitty saiyng of a Philosoph.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    WittieWitty deuised tale.
    With rule
    WittieWitty deuised tale.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    WittieWitty lye makyng.
    With rule
    WittieWitty lye makyng.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader