Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4690 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diligentliediligently

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

Puritas changed it: 290 times in 115 works
Consistency: 99.3% (290 of 292)
Reach if approved: ~307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: diligently
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 292 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (290 changes in 115 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 290)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… off the magiſtrate was by them before bothe read ouer throughly / vnd alſo verie diligentliediligently waied / and that they iudged that decree to be moſt vpright and iuſtlie to …
With rule
… off the magiſtrate was by them before bothe read ouer throughly / vnd alſo verie diligentliediligently waied / and that they iudged that decree to be moſt vpright and iuſtlie to …
William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. LXVI · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the time that Christ suffered vnto the ende of the world. Whiche is diligentliediligently to be marked, least we fall into the dotage of the Chiliastes, if we …
With rule
… from the time that Christ suffered vnto the ende of the world. Whiche is diligentliediligently to be marked, least we fall into the dotage of the Chiliastes, if we …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bookes and Homilies, to bee read in the Church by the Miniſters diſtinctlie and diligentliediligently. Howe theſe, J ſay, doe agree with the Goſpell of Chriſt, and true Chriſtianitis.
With rule
… bookes and Homilies, to bee read in the Church by the Miniſters diſtinctlie and diligentliediligently. Howe theſe, J ſay, doe agree with the Goſpell of Chriſt, and true Chriſtianitis.
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as one with a ſickle, to gather in the reprobate, ſaying: Enter to worke diligentliediligently, as a reaper with his ſickle, and gather the heapes of the wicked of …
With rule
… as one with a ſickle, to gather in the reprobate, ſaying: Enter to worke diligentliediligently, as a reaper with his ſickle, and gather the heapes of the wicked of …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… secular Periode of time, conteining the circulare course of an hundreth years, was most diligentliediligently observed by the Romanes, for diverse causes. Yet we notwithstanding, for the common reckoning …
With rule
… secular Periode of time, conteining the circulare course of an hundreth years, was most diligentliediligently observed by the Romanes, for diverse causes. Yet we notwithstanding, for the common reckoning …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo this good ſeruant tels that we ſhould euer await for the Lords comming diligentliediligently. And ſurelie his comming is neare, and faine would the godlie haue his comming …
With rule
… ſo this good ſeruant tels that we ſhould euer await for the Lords comming diligentliediligently. And ſurelie his comming is neare, and faine would the godlie haue his comming …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place, vntill they confeſſe their fault, and ſeeke my face: They ſhal ſeeke me diligentliediligently in their trouble, ſaying: Come, let vs returne vnto the Lord, for it is …
With rule
… place, vntill they confeſſe their fault, and ſeeke my face: They ſhal ſeeke me diligentliediligently in their trouble, ſaying: Come, let vs returne vnto the Lord, for it is …
Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… greate mercies offered vnto vs in thy Sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christe, may endeuour diligentliediligently to glorify thy holy name with that obedience that thou requirest, and to shunne …
With rule
… greate mercies offered vnto vs in thy Sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christe, may endeuour diligentliediligently to glorify thy holy name with that obedience that thou requirest, and to shunne …
John Udall · Peters Fall · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric A00630

Printed
… good thinges of this life, eſpeciallie to care for the keeping & increaſing of it. DiligentlieDiligently knowe the eſtate of thy heardes. &c. Pro. 27. 23.
With rule
… good thinges of this life, eſpeciallie to care for the keeping & increaſing of it. DiligentlieDiligently knowe the eſtate of thy heardes. &c. Pro. 27. 23.
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

Printed
3 DiligentlieDiligently and dailie to frequent the publique aſſemblies of the Church, and there attentiuelie to …
With rule
3 DiligentlieDiligently and dailie to frequent the publique aſſemblies of the Church, and there attentiuelie to …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 949 · Open in the reader