Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4683 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

clemencieclemency

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

Puritas changed it: 531 times in 246 works
Consistency: 99.8% (531 of 532)
Reach if approved: ~559 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: clemency
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 532 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (531 changes in 246 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 531)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… or threatning (as Manes blaſphemouſly obiecteth) but rather hee remitteth out of his infinite clemencieclemency, the ſentence of damnation, which conditionally hee had decreed, to wit, if the ſinner …
With rule
… or threatning (as Manes blaſphemouſly obiecteth) but rather hee remitteth out of his infinite clemencieclemency, the ſentence of damnation, which conditionally hee had decreed, to wit, if the ſinner …
John Salkeld · A Treatise of Paradise · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life to come. First auncient. Origen writeth thus. Beholde our mercifull Lorde ioyning alwaies clemencieclemency with seueritie, and weying the iust meane of our punishment in mercifull and rightuous …
With rule
… life to come. First auncient. Origen writeth thus. Beholde our mercifull Lorde ioyning alwaies clemencieclemency with seueritie, and weying the iust meane of our punishment in mercifull and rightuous …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou didſt not take me for a cruell Maſter, but rather preſumedſt on my clemencieclemency, and ſo didſt not by honeſt gaine peruſe my Talent, as all the reſt …
With rule
… thou didſt not take me for a cruell Maſter, but rather preſumedſt on my clemencieclemency, and ſo didſt not by honeſt gaine peruſe my Talent, as all the reſt …
Nathanael Homes · Usury is Injury Cleared · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeeke their ſaluation & draw on their effectuall conuerſation. Which bleſſed fruite of that ſingular clemencieclemency the Lord God graunt in Chriſt Ieſus, and a perfect peace to this Church …
With rule
… ſeeke their ſaluation & draw on their effectuall conuerſation. Which bleſſed fruite of that ſingular clemencieclemency the Lord God graunt in Chriſt Ieſus, and a perfect peace to this Church …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
Printed
… to inſinuate to the Chriſtian reader for ſundry purpoſes: Firſt to note the mercifull clemencieclemency of Chriſte our Sauiour in calling ſo ſuperſtitious and idolatrous a frear ſo graciouſly …
With rule
… to inſinuate to the Chriſtian reader for ſundry purpoſes: Firſt to note the mercifull clemencieclemency of Chriſte our Sauiour in calling ſo ſuperſtitious and idolatrous a frear ſo graciouſly …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader
Printed
… and alwaies hath bene, a place of refuge, & a ſeate of great iuſtice, equitie & clemencieclemency, to all men, howſoeuer otherwiſe wrongfullie oppreſſed: And tha… vvhich we moſt of all …
With rule
… and alwaies hath bene, a place of refuge, & a ſeate of great iuſtice, equitie & clemencieclemency, to all men, howſoeuer otherwiſe wrongfullie oppreſſed: And tha… vvhich we moſt of all …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
Bridles or externall remedies, are these: 1. in this we shall imitate the clemencieclemency of the Lord, who for a very great season doth often tolerate the wicked …
With rule
Bridles or externall remedies, are these: 1. in this we shall imitate the clemencieclemency of the Lord, who for a very great season doth often tolerate the wicked …
William Perkins · Satans Sophistry Answered · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a time for meeknes, and a time for roughnes; There is a time for clemencieclemency, there is a time againe for severitie, but this is not a time for …
With rule
… a time for meeknes, and a time for roughnes; There is a time for clemencieclemency, there is a time againe for severitie, but this is not a time for …
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 113 · 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.