Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4628 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gyftgift

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

Puritas changed it: 278 times in 99 works
Consistency: 99.2% (278 of 280)
Reach if approved: ~294 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gift
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 280 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (278 changes in 99 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 278)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… can not be doubted but that the office ys ceaſed as well as the gyftgift / wherupon we may conclude / That ſeinge as Saint Paule witneſſethe onely Apoſtles / Euangeliſtes / Prophetes …
With rule
… can not be doubted but that the office ys ceaſed as well as the gyftgift / wherupon we may conclude / That ſeinge as Saint Paule witneſſethe onely Apoſtles / Euangeliſtes / Prophetes …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they could remedy ſhe corrupt waters, as Eliſeus did, we will acknowledge the gyftgift to woorke myracles to bée in them which was in Eliſeus. But to what …
With rule
… that they could remedy ſhe corrupt waters, as Eliſeus did, we will acknowledge the gyftgift to woorke myracles to bée in them which was in Eliſeus. But to what …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader
Printed
The thing it selfe, and the Authour of the gyftgift.
With rule
The thing it selfe, and the Authour of the gyftgift.
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
… he hath now with duke Iosue the ouerhande of wycked Hierico by his onlye gyftgift / and is through that becomen an whole perfyght kynge within his own… realme farre …
With rule
… he hath now with duke Iosue the ouerhande of wycked Hierico by his onlye gyftgift / and is through that becomen an whole perfyght kynge within his own… realme farre …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
By my godlye gyftgift, and so confirmed in place,
With rule
By my godlye gyftgift, and so confirmed in place,
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… bestowe amonge the people, all that they haue receiued of god, by the kynges gyftgift, theyr fathers inherytance, or other waies: then shal god giue such encrese, y^t euery …
With rule
… bestowe amonge the people, all that they haue receiued of god, by the kynges gyftgift, theyr fathers inherytance, or other waies: then shal god giue such encrese, y^t euery …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… Greue not the herte of hym that is he alpelesse, and wythdrawe not the gyftgift frō the nedeful. Refuse not y^• praier of one y^• is in trouble tourne …
With rule
… Greue not the herte of hym that is he alpelesse, and wythdrawe not the gyftgift frō the nedeful. Refuse not y^• praier of one y^• is in trouble tourne …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… Idolatrie, Or els yf it pleaſe him not to geue thē ſo great a gyftgift, & frute of faith (which is geuen but vnto few) that then he wyl vouchſafe …
With rule
… Idolatrie, Or els yf it pleaſe him not to geue thē ſo great a gyftgift, & frute of faith (which is geuen but vnto few) that then he wyl vouchſafe …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · 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.

Preface to the Epistle of Romans A06512

Printed
But nowe to proceede: As concerning theſe two words Grace and GyftGift, they differ thus. Grace is the fauour, mercy, and free good will and beneuolence …
With rule
But nowe to proceede: As concerning theſe two words Grace and GyftGift, they differ thus. Grace is the fauour, mercy, and free good will and beneuolence …
Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
GyftGift is the holy ſpirit hym ſelfe whom God dooth ſend into theyr hartes whom …
With rule
GyftGift is the holy ſpirit hym ſelfe whom God dooth ſend into theyr hartes whom …
Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader