Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4666 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

whytewhite

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

Puritas changed it: 174 times in 92 works
Consistency: 95.6% (174 of 182)
Reach if approved: ~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: white
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (174 changes in 92 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 174)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be to thee our god for euermore: that wee mighte be couered with a whytewhite ſtole, & haue a palme in our handes, to ſtand befort Gods throne night and …
With rule
… be to thee our god for euermore: that wee mighte be couered with a whytewhite ſtole, & haue a palme in our handes, to ſtand befort Gods throne night and …
John Bradford · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… cursednesse. Yee see then that our Lord Iesus Christ is the very marke or whytewhite wherat wee ame. If a man should shoote in a long bowe, or in …
With rule
… cursednesse. Yee see then that our Lord Iesus Christ is the very marke or whytewhite wherat wee ame. If a man should shoote in a long bowe, or in …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſatisfaction, and expiation of their ſinnes; and therefore are ſaide to make their Robes whytewhite, by dipping them no-wiſe in their owne blood of Martyrdome, as anie way …
With rule
… ſatisfaction, and expiation of their ſinnes; and therefore are ſaide to make their Robes whytewhite, by dipping them no-wiſe in their owne blood of Martyrdome, as anie way …
William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to make them rich and where they were naked they might be clothed with whytewhite raym…nt …f right…snes to couer their filthie nakednes Moreouer they might haue …
With rule
… to make them rich and where they were naked they might be clothed with whytewhite raym…nt …f right…snes to couer their filthie nakednes Moreouer they might haue …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be gyuen to the all the tyme of thy vanyte. Our clothes to be whytewhite at all tymes / is all oure workes to be good / what name ſo euer …
With rule
… be gyuen to the all the tyme of thy vanyte. Our clothes to be whytewhite at all tymes / is all oure workes to be good / what name ſo euer …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
¶Imprynted at London in Botulphe lane at the sygne of the whytewhite Beare, by Iohn̄ Maylerre for Iohn̄ Gough. Anno Dn̄i. 1542.
With rule
¶Imprynted at London in Botulphe lane at the sygne of the whytewhite Beare, by Iohn̄ Maylerre for Iohn̄ Gough. Anno Dn̄i. 1542.
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… different one from that other that almoſte no blak…i…s more contrary to whytewhite, beynge no lykeneſſe of ſimilitude and agrement in them euery man for his perſwaſion …
With rule
… different one from that other that almoſte no blak…i…s more contrary to whytewhite, beynge no lykeneſſe of ſimilitude and agrement in them euery man for his perſwaſion …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. iii · Open in the reader
Printed
… bodye of Christe beeyng in the cake of breade can not truely bee called whytewhite, round, or baked, whyche thyng neuerthelesse we see chaunce vnto fyer that is entremiengled …
With rule
… bodye of Christe beeyng in the cake of breade can not truely bee called whytewhite, round, or baked, whyche thyng neuerthelesse we see chaunce vnto fyer that is entremiengled …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Goodly Gallery A01313

Printed
WhyteWhite cloudes be thynne, and not very watery, so that the lyght receiued in them …
With rule
WhyteWhite cloudes be thynne, and not very watery, so that the lyght receiued in them …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

Printed
WhyteWhite, long, and ſtreight, ſhe dothe alſo to me:
With rule
WhyteWhite, long, and ſtreight, ſhe dothe alſo to me:
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 56 · Open in the reader