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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4661 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stryfestrife

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

Puritas changed it
148 times in 84 works
Consistency
96.7% (148 of 153)
Reach if approved
~161 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: strife
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
153 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (148 changes in 84 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 148)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … That they oughte not to poſſeſſe the churche Goodes. Muche leſſe to moue thys ſtryfestrife (wherewith hitherto they trouble and diſeaſe Emperour & kyng) that thei ſhould be put in …
    With rule
    … That they oughte not to poſſeſſe the churche Goodes. Muche leſſe to moue thys ſtryfestrife (wherewith hitherto they trouble and diſeaſe Emperour & kyng) that thei ſhould be put in …

    Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Therfore with stryfestrife
    With rule
    Therfore with stryfestrife

    Thomas Becon · A New Dialogue Between the Angel of God and the Shepherds in the Field · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … not yet agreed, concernyng the number of ſacraments, but amongſt vs there is no ſtryfestrife in the matter it ſelfe, as we ſhall ſhewe in his place.
    With rule
    … not yet agreed, concernyng the number of ſacraments, but amongſt vs there is no ſtryfestrife in the matter it ſelfe, as we ſhall ſhewe in his place.

    Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … be of one accorde, and one mynde or sentence. And to do nothyng of stryfestrife or of vayn glory, that is to saye / of harte or dysdayn of other …
    With rule
    … be of one accorde, and one mynde or sentence. And to do nothyng of stryfestrife or of vayn glory, that is to saye / of harte or dysdayn of other …

    William Tyndale · Declaration of the Sacraments · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … another parte shulde be distributed, and geuinge the rest to his executours, that no stryfestrife shulde be, whiche executours wher by ryght the heyres of all that was lefte …
    With rule
    … another parte shulde be distributed, and geuinge the rest to his executours, that no stryfestrife shulde be, whiche executours wher by ryght the heyres of all that was lefte …

    John Wycliffe · Wycliffes Wicket · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … indued with the gift of abstinēce sholde retaine and kepe this gift, against all stryfestrife and force of nature. Uvynchester hath brought furthe of his owne, and not of …
    With rule
    … indued with the gift of abstinēce sholde retaine and kepe this gift, against all stryfestrife and force of nature. Uvynchester hath brought furthe of his owne, and not of …

    Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    That we perseuer, without debate or stryfestrife,
    With rule
    That we perseuer, without debate or stryfestrife,

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … tounge nor penne of mā expresse, but onely suche as aster longe conflicte and stryfestrife (whiche is betwixte the fleshe and the spirite, in the tyme of extreme troubles …
    With rule
    … tounge nor penne of mā expresse, but onely suche as aster longe conflicte and stryfestrife (whiche is betwixte the fleshe and the spirite, in the tyme of extreme troubles …

    John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 68 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

The Acts of English Votaries A02573

  • Printed
    StryfeStrife aboute the Eastre celebracyon.
    With rule
    StryfeStrife aboute the Eastre celebracyon.

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 30 · Open in the reader

A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted A02886

  • Printed
    2 StryfeStrife and debate.
    With rule
    2 StryfeStrife and debate.

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 4 · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

  • Printed
    2. The Originall importeth a StryfeStrife-Race: To ADVERTISE VS, Both of our Spirituall Adversaries, agaynst whome wee must fight …
    With rule
    2. The Originall importeth a StryfeStrife-Race: To ADVERTISE VS, Both of our Spirituall Adversaries, agaynst whome wee must fight …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 283 · Open in the reader