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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4698 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fitliefitly

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

Puritas changed it
178 times in 88 works
Consistency
100% (178 of 178)
Reach if approved
~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fitly
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (178 changes in 88 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 178)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … To books which are full of ſuch matter as this is, may it be fitliefitly applyed that Salomon ſayeth, There is no ende of making them, and that they …
    With rule
    … To books which are full of ſuch matter as this is, may it be fitliefitly applyed that Salomon ſayeth, There is no ende of making them, and that they …

    Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … their cause, and madnes of their religion, to whom that saying of Plutarch may fitliefitly be applied: You neede not draw a superstitious man out of the temple, for …
    With rule
    … their cause, and madnes of their religion, to whom that saying of Plutarch may fitliefitly be applied: You neede not draw a superstitious man out of the temple, for …

    Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a free remiſſion of al their ſinns ſaluation, and eternall life. Wherefore it is fitliefitly called of the Apoſtle, The Goſpell of our ſaluation.
    With rule
    … a free remiſſion of al their ſinns ſaluation, and eternall life. Wherefore it is fitliefitly called of the Apoſtle, The Goſpell of our ſaluation.

    Girolamo Zanchi · Confession of the Christian Religion · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … may exerciſe themſelues during their whole life. For the olde prouerbe agreeth hereunto verie fitliefitly, which was vſed ſometimes in the ſolemne rites, Doe this. Therefore they vſe the …
    With rule
    … may exerciſe themſelues during their whole life. For the olde prouerbe agreeth hereunto verie fitliefitly, which was vſed ſometimes in the ſolemne rites, Doe this. Therefore they vſe the …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Miniſters, and for this I alleadged the booke. Let the Reader now iudge, how fitliefitly yee clap your wings and crowe, ſaying: In déede it is a fit Porteſſe …
    With rule
    … Miniſters, and for this I alleadged the booke. Let the Reader now iudge, how fitliefitly yee clap your wings and crowe, ſaying: In déede it is a fit Porteſſe …

    George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … alſo iniurious vnto the due eſtimation of the death of Chriſte. I cannot more fitliefitly compare thoſe men (who will moſt willingly confeſſe them ſelues in generall words to …
    With rule
    … alſo iniurious vnto the due eſtimation of the death of Chriſte. I cannot more fitliefitly compare thoſe men (who will moſt willingly confeſſe them ſelues in generall words to …

    John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … words deliuered by the Apoſtle. To which the foure formerly mentioned may bee reduced fitliefitly. The Creed to Faith, as the ſumme thereof, and ſo the Sacraments as Seales …
    With rule
    … words deliuered by the Apoſtle. To which the foure formerly mentioned may bee reduced fitliefitly. The Creed to Faith, as the ſumme thereof, and ſo the Sacraments as Seales …

    Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … make it, vtrum animal sit rationis expers; where the woorde bestia, would serve as fitliefitly in prose; nay, (if plaine dealing were meant) a great deale more fitliefitly. And …
    With rule
    … make it, vtrum animal sit rationis expers; where the woorde bestia, would serve as fitliefitly in prose; nay, (if plaine dealing were meant) a great deale more fitliefitly. And …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 139 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.