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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4633 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

likelielikely

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

Puritas changed it
142 times in 78 works
Consistency
99.3% (142 of 143)
Reach if approved
~150 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: likely
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
143 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (142 changes in 78 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 142)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … haue in their elections, who is fitteſt to maintaine their owne pride, and moſt likelielikely to ſerue their owne turne? Are all their popes choſen now canonically, without reſpect …
    With rule
    … haue in their elections, who is fitteſt to maintaine their owne pride, and moſt likelielikely to ſerue their owne turne? Are all their popes choſen now canonically, without reſpect …

    Francis Bunny · A Survey of the Popes Supremacy · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … arme of fleſh will not build a ſpirituall temple for the Lord, he is likelielikely for their part, to have none at all: but whether ſuch courſes will not …
    With rule
    … arme of fleſh will not build a ſpirituall temple for the Lord, he is likelielikely for their part, to have none at all: but whether ſuch courſes will not …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Apoſtles did not yet …o clearly vnderſtand this miſtery, yet it is not likelielikely they were in this ca…e no more but equall to the weake brethren …
    With rule
    … the Apoſtles did not yet …o clearly vnderſtand this miſtery, yet it is not likelielikely they were in this ca…e no more but equall to the weake brethren …

    John Darrell · Reply to John Deacon · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Were better, and most likelielikely if from …ee
    With rule
    Were better, and most likelielikely if from …ee

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thereof his ſinnes ſhoulde be reprooued. Finally, hee hath in him too too many likelielikely teſtimonies of an heire of the kingdome of darkeneſſe, where, without his true turning …
    With rule
    … thereof his ſinnes ſhoulde be reprooued. Finally, hee hath in him too too many likelielikely teſtimonies of an heire of the kingdome of darkeneſſe, where, without his true turning …

    Martin Marprelate · The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … though the terme were not till then, yet the matter was before. A verie likelielikely thing forſooth, as though the fathers of the Greeke and Latin churches, ſo well …
    With rule
    … though the terme were not till then, yet the matter was before. A verie likelielikely thing forſooth, as though the fathers of the Greeke and Latin churches, ſo well …

    Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … inuaſion of enimies, to kéepe vnder, as well the Iewes, as others, that were likelielikely to rebel, & to maintaine the publike peace: oure Captaines run from place to place …
    With rule
    … inuaſion of enimies, to kéepe vnder, as well the Iewes, as others, that were likelielikely to rebel, & to maintaine the publike peace: oure Captaines run from place to place …

    John Stockwood · Sermon 24 August 1578 · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … therefore no man of diſcretion can otherwiſe iudge, but that it is much more likelielikely S. Chryſoſtomes reading to be true, then S. Ieromes, if they diffent, eſpeciallie other …
    With rule
    … therefore no man of diſcretion can otherwiſe iudge, but that it is much more likelielikely S. Chryſoſtomes reading to be true, then S. Ieromes, if they diffent, eſpeciallie other …

    William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 341 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.