Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4626 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

greatliegreatly

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

Puritas changed it: 388 times in 144 works
Consistency: 99.4% (388 of 390)
Reach if approved: ~410 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: greatly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 390 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (388 changes in 144 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 388)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… them. Neither do they helpe alwaies; nay, sometimes they do hurt rather, and deceiue greatliegreatly such as expound the Scripture after them. This is not onelye said, but also …
With rule
… them. Neither do they helpe alwaies; nay, sometimes they do hurt rather, and deceiue greatliegreatly such as expound the Scripture after them. This is not onelye said, but also …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a blessing, as though his beginning be but small, yet his latter end shall greatliegreatly encrease.
With rule
… a blessing, as though his beginning be but small, yet his latter end shall greatliegreatly encrease.
Henry Smith · The Sinful Mans Search · Open in the reader
Printed
… cōfort & ioy in their cōſciences, walking beſides in the feare of God, are afterwards greatliegreatly troubled, when theſe graces ſeem to be dead in them, falling into doubt & miſtruſt …
With rule
… cōfort & ioy in their cōſciences, walking beſides in the feare of God, are afterwards greatliegreatly troubled, when theſe graces ſeem to be dead in them, falling into doubt & miſtruſt …
Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſo by this meanes there is procured ſome diſhonour to God, who ſhould greatliegreatly be honoured if we could meekely (as his Apoſtle willeth) inſtruct thoſe which are …
With rule
… and ſo by this meanes there is procured ſome diſhonour to God, who ſhould greatliegreatly be honoured if we could meekely (as his Apoſtle willeth) inſtruct thoſe which are …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bene vniuersally receaued, since the tyme of Christe: till these dayes, which is a greatliegreatly, and thereupon I wil ioyne this Issue with you that ye are not able …
With rule
… bene vniuersally receaued, since the tyme of Christe: till these dayes, which is a greatliegreatly, and thereupon I wil ioyne this Issue with you that ye are not able …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… hand of Iabin king of Canaan. And he by Sisera his capitain afflicted Israel greatliegreatly the space of twentie yeares. And Debora her self, in her song of thankes …
With rule
… hand of Iabin king of Canaan. And he by Sisera his capitain afflicted Israel greatliegreatly the space of twentie yeares. And Debora her self, in her song of thankes …
John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · Open in the reader
Printed
… and perfite ſpirite, planted the ghoſpel: this humaine fraltie did ſhew it ſelfe verie greatliegreatly. For what thinke you was the cauſe of that ſolemne councill at Hieruſalem Act …
With rule
… and perfite ſpirite, planted the ghoſpel: this humaine fraltie did ſhew it ſelfe verie greatliegreatly. For what thinke you was the cauſe of that ſolemne councill at Hieruſalem Act …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I will not now enter: For I suppose the force thereof to be now greatliegreatly debilitate, by reason of the alteration of the signes, and so leaue the discourse …
With rule
… I will not now enter: For I suppose the force thereof to be now greatliegreatly debilitate, by reason of the alteration of the signes, and so leaue the discourse …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 78 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.