Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4670 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sometymessometimes

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

Puritas changed it: 608 times in 115 works
Consistency: 93.9% (608 of 647)
Reach if approved: ~680 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sometimes
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 647 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (608 changes in 115 works, 93.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 608)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… all partes to maintaine his chalenge. Yet this I can ſaie, that he had ſometymessometimes as muche warnyng as thei whiche diſputed with hym, and this equitie vſed towardes …
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… all partes to maintaine his chalenge. Yet this I can ſaie, that he had ſometymessometimes as muche warnyng as thei whiche diſputed with hym, and this equitie vſed towardes …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 336 · Open in the reader
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To dissemble sometymessometimes as thoughe wee vnderstode not what one meant, declareth an apte witte, …nd much …
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To dissemble sometymessometimes as thoughe wee vnderstode not what one meant, declareth an apte witte, …nd much …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 80 · Open in the reader
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… allowe you no other place in the Churche of God, then that which Ismael sometymessometimes occupyed in the familie of Abraham. And that in deede was no base roome …
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… allowe you no other place in the Churche of God, then that which Ismael sometymessometimes occupyed in the familie of Abraham. And that in deede was no base roome …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader
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Leave of therefore your great daies of humiliation by faſting and praier, wherein ſometymessometimes you make the people to Cover the Alter with teares, and whereby ſome of …
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Leave of therefore your great daies of humiliation by faſting and praier, wherein ſometymessometimes you make the people to Cover the Alter with teares, and whereby ſome of …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 96 · Open in the reader
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… the Prelates pallaces, or where els he pleaseth to give orders (as they call …) sometymessometimes 40. or 50. or 60. myles from the place where they ar… to minister: So are the …
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… the Prelates pallaces, or where els he pleaseth to give orders (as they call …) sometymessometimes 40. or 50. or 60. myles from the place where they ar… to minister: So are the …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 101 · Open in the reader
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… naturall fathers and mothers can …. As for oure carnall or temporall fathers and mothers, sometymessometimes they be vnnaturall, so that they will not healpe their children in their distresse …
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… naturall fathers and mothers can …. As for oure carnall or temporall fathers and mothers, sometymessometimes they be vnnaturall, so that they will not healpe their children in their distresse …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 101 · Open in the reader
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… a lyttle whyle, and then after he gaue himſelfe to wryte letters, the whyche ſometymessometimes he vſed tyll mydnyght. Further, if the Senate hadde neede of hym in any …
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… a lyttle whyle, and then after he gaue himſelfe to wryte letters, the whyche ſometymessometimes he vſed tyll mydnyght. Further, if the Senate hadde neede of hym in any …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader
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… truth, which you so take, namely that Rome in the sence, wherein we speak sometymessometimes was the true Church of God, as Iudah: and more specially, that the English …
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… truth, which you so take, namely that Rome in the sence, wherein we speak sometymessometimes was the true Church of God, as Iudah: and more specially, that the English …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 278 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (39)

39 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 31 are listed here. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Doctrine of Justification A01033

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SometymesSometimes they are taken, for the action of God in Chriſt for his ſaints: when …
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SometymesSometimes they are taken, for the action of God in Chriſt for his ſaints: when …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 68 · Open in the reader
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SometymesSometimes againe, they are taken for the worke of God in vs, and toward vs …
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SometymesSometimes againe, they are taken for the worke of God in vs, and toward vs …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 69 · Open in the reader

A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel A01304

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… Free will is sometymessometimes taken as it is contrary to coacted or constrained will. SometymesSometimes as it is contrary to a seruile, or bonde wille. And sometymessometimes as it …
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… Free will is sometymessometimes taken as it is contrary to coacted or constrained will. SometymesSometimes as it is contrary to a seruile, or bonde wille. And sometymessometimes as it …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader

A Goodly Gallery A01313

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… a paynter to a mans head, should set a horses neck, & after dyuerse fethers. SometymesSometimes also, one image is multiplied in the ayr, into many or infinite, as ar …
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… a paynter to a mans head, should set a horses neck, & after dyuerse fethers. SometymesSometimes also, one image is multiplied in the ayr, into many or infinite, as ar …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

Two Treatises Against the Papists A01335

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… the holy Ghost, so to trade mans frailey in faith & feare of Gods Iudgements. SometymesSometimes, the liuing … in traunce or sudden chaunge by Gods omnipotency taken vp to the …
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… the holy Ghost, so to trade mans frailey in faith & feare of Gods Iudgements. SometymesSometimes, the liuing … in traunce or sudden chaunge by Gods omnipotency taken vp to the …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 161 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

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… of nature, & ye know that … hath bene great thynges sene in the Element diuerg …. SometymesSometimes men haue sene a rynge about the Sunne: somtimes there hath bene sene … sonnes …
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… of nature, & ye know that … hath bene great thynges sene in the Element diuerg …. SometymesSometimes men haue sene a rynge about the Sunne: somtimes there hath bene sene … sonnes …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 132 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

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… replenishing of Countries. And can there bee a greater proofe of newnesse than that? SometymesSometimes he sayth that the Earth is become weary, and sometymessometimes that it is wexed …
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… replenishing of Countries. And can there bee a greater proofe of newnesse than that? SometymesSometimes he sayth that the Earth is become weary, and sometymessometimes that it is wexed …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 146 · Open in the reader
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… alone, when as she guideth him both with her eye and with her hand. SometymesSometimes also when wee bee ouerlustie, God suffereth vs to fall into some sinne, both …
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… alone, when as she guideth him both with her eye and with her hand. SometymesSometimes also when wee bee ouerlustie, God suffereth vs to fall into some sinne, both …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 209 · Open in the reader

Of Religious Communion Private and Public A10843

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… and the Israelits idolatries, & other iniquities, by the pride, & cruelty of the Assirians, & Babilonians. SometymesSometimes also he vseth (or rather abuseth) the sins of wicked Angels & men for the …
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… and the Israelits idolatries, & other iniquities, by the pride, & cruelty of the Assirians, & Babilonians. SometymesSometimes also he vseth (or rather abuseth) the sins of wicked Angels & men for the …
John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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… fleſhe. To iuſtify, as we haue before ſaid, is taken three maner of wayes. SometymesSometimes it is to obtayne a righteouſnes which ſticketh and abideth in our minds. But …
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… fleſhe. To iuſtify, as we haue before ſaid, is taken three maner of wayes. SometymesSometimes it is to obtayne a righteouſnes which ſticketh and abideth in our minds. But …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
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… matter more playne, to be imputed vnto righteouſnes, is taken two maner of wayes. SometymesSometimes it ſignifieth ſome acte to be ratified and to be allowed, and to ſpeake …
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… matter more playne, to be imputed vnto righteouſnes, is taken two maner of wayes. SometymesSometimes it ſignifieth ſome acte to be ratified and to be allowed, and to ſpeake …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… For ſpirituall things can not by any other meanes be vnderſtanded of gros wittes. SometymesSometimes they ſay, that it ſhall one day come to paſſe, that the children of …
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… For ſpirituall things can not by any other meanes be vnderſtanded of gros wittes. SometymesSometimes they ſay, that it ſhall one day come to paſſe, that the children of …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 88 · Open in the reader
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… they yet knew not, that the ceremonies of the Iewes were by Chriſt abrogated. SometymesSometimes it commeth to paſſe, that we ſée in deede the thinges which are to …
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… they yet knew not, that the ceremonies of the Iewes were by Chriſt abrogated. SometymesSometimes it commeth to paſſe, that we ſée in deede the thinges which are to …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
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… iuſtified, without which no man can either be acceptable vnto God, or liue vprightly: SometymesSometimes the will of man is compared with a horſe, and grace with him that …
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… iuſtified, without which no man can either be acceptable vnto God, or liue vprightly: SometymesSometimes the will of man is compared with a horſe, and grace with him that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 139 · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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SometymesSometimes the confutacion.
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SometymesSometimes the confutacion.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader
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… lamentablie with an vnfained bewailyng of sinne, and a terrible declaryng of Goddes threates: SometymesSometimes to take occasion of a matter newly done, or of the company there present …
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… lamentablie with an vnfained bewailyng of sinne, and a terrible declaryng of Goddes threates: SometymesSometimes to take occasion of a matter newly done, or of the company there present …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 58 · Open in the reader
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SometymesSometimes wee amplifie by comparynge, and take oure grounde vpon the weakest and least, the …
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SometymesSometimes wee amplifie by comparynge, and take oure grounde vpon the weakest and least, the …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 68 · Open in the reader
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… rather we might knowe his commaundementes, & liue therafter al the daies of our life. SometymesSometimes this figure is vsed when we saie, we will not speake this or that …
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… rather we might knowe his commaundementes, & liue therafter al the daies of our life. SometymesSometimes this figure is vsed when we saie, we will not speake this or that …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 100 · Open in the reader
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… Some tymes we speake to hurte our aduersaries, by settyng forth their euil behauior. SometymesSometimes we excuse a fault, and accuse the reporters. SometymesSometimes we wishe vnto God for …
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… Some tymes we speake to hurte our aduersaries, by settyng forth their euil behauior. SometymesSometimes we excuse a fault, and accuse the reporters. SometymesSometimes we wishe vnto God for …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

The Immortality of the Soul A17654

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… bleſſe the Lord, I magnify the Lord, ſay vnto me I am thy health: SometymesSometimes it is ſimply taken for a man that hath a Soule: As When it …
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… bleſſe the Lord, I magnify the Lord, ſay vnto me I am thy health: SometymesSometimes it is ſimply taken for a man that hath a Soule: As When it …
John Calvin · The Immortality of the Soul · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

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… another similitude, which is, that we be builded to be the temple of God. SometymesSometimes the holy Scripture sayth, that euery faithful man is the Tēple of God, bycause …
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… another similitude, which is, that we be builded to be the temple of God. SometymesSometimes the holy Scripture sayth, that euery faithful man is the Tēple of God, bycause …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Galatians A17706

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… contempte. But yet in this texte it is a marke of vyce and corruption. SometymesSometimes when the Scripture ſpeaketh of fleſh, it ſaythe: verie well, what elſe are men …
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… contempte. But yet in this texte it is a marke of vyce and corruption. SometymesSometimes when the Scripture ſpeaketh of fleſh, it ſaythe: verie well, what elſe are men …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

Three Propositions A17727

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… putteth not downe without good cauſe and reaſon, this worde, woorkes of the lawe. SometymesSometimes when hee eſteemeth them not, hee doeth it, to ſhewe, that he ſpeaketh generally …
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… putteth not downe without good cauſe and reaſon, this worde, woorkes of the lawe. SometymesSometimes when hee eſteemeth them not, hee doeth it, to ſhewe, that he ſpeaketh generally …
John Calvin · Three Propositions · Open in the reader

The Old Roman Catholic A42315

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Whence it is, That Augustin sayeth; SometymesSometimes the Church lyke the Moon, may be hid and obscured, that her own very …
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Whence it is, That Augustin sayeth; SometymesSometimes the Church lyke the Moon, may be hid and obscured, that her own very …
William Guild · The Old Roman Catholic · p. 35 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

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… of God, he is not in that parte his Miniſter. But thou wilt ſay: SometymesSometimes greuous, moleſtous, and harde thinges are cōmaunded: whiche yet are not agaynſt the worde …
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… of God, he is not in that parte his Miniſter. But thou wilt ſay: SometymesSometimes greuous, moleſtous, and harde thinges are cōmaunded: whiche yet are not agaynſt the worde …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

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… vs from the aſſaultes of ſuche an enemie, and ſo mightie as Satan is. SometymesSometimes alſo he doth it for our hardneſſe ſake. VVhen he ſeeth that we be …
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… vs from the aſſaultes of ſuche an enemie, and ſo mightie as Satan is. SometymesSometimes alſo he doth it for our hardneſſe ſake. VVhen he ſeeth that we be …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 29 · Open in the reader
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… ceaſſeth not to bee the Sauiour of the children, and too ſhewe them mercie. SometymesSometimes hee paſſeth further, and bicauſe the fathers haue bin ſo farre out of al …
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… ceaſſeth not to bee the Sauiour of the children, and too ſhewe them mercie. SometymesSometimes hee paſſeth further, and bicauſe the fathers haue bin ſo farre out of al …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 87 · Open in the reader
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… there come fancies to our minde, and we driue them away out of hande. SometymesSometimes we ſhall be in payne and diſtreſſe, ſo that wee ſhall be almoſt tyred …
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… there come fancies to our minde, and we driue them away out of hande. SometymesSometimes we ſhall be in payne and diſtreſſe, ſo that wee ſhall be almoſt tyred …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 280 · Open in the reader
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… are they the heires of the worlde. And where is the inheriting of it? SometymesSometimes they haue not a bit of bread to eate: they be lurched: they cal …
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… are they the heires of the worlde. And where is the inheriting of it? SometymesSometimes they haue not a bit of bread to eate: they be lurched: they cal …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 404 · Open in the reader
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… it is not for mortall men too reſiſt him nor too checke againſt him. SometymesSometimes wee can ſay that God hath all things in his hand and guiding: but …
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… it is not for mortall men too reſiſt him nor too checke againſt him. SometymesSometimes wee can ſay that God hath all things in his hand and guiding: but …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 805 · Open in the reader

An Antidote Against Popery B09202

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… asure rage agaynst her. And com…ing her to Corne vnder the ground, … sayeth; SometymesSometimes shee suffe…h stormes for a season; so that in …me places she is …
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… asure rage agaynst her. And com…ing her to Corne vnder the ground, … sayeth; SometymesSometimes shee suffe…h stormes for a season; so that in …me places she is …
William Guild · An Antidote Against Popery · p. 39 · Open in the reader