Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4735 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

privieprivy

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

Puritas changed it: 802 times in 316 works
Consistency: 99.2% (802 of 808)
Reach if approved: ~849 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: privy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 808 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (802 changes in 316 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 802)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Sunne to diſcover and ſhew every moate and blemiſh, and to diſcover every privieprivy and corrupt corner, Epheſ. 5.14. All things that are reproved, are made manifeſt by the …
With rule
… the Sunne to diſcover and ſhew every moate and blemiſh, and to diſcover every privieprivy and corrupt corner, Epheſ. 5.14. All things that are reproved, are made manifeſt by the …
Thomas Hooker · Three Sermons · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bridgewater, Vicount BRACKLY, Lord Praesident of WALES, And one of His MAIESTIES most honorable PriviePrivy Counsell.
With rule
… Bridgewater, Vicount BRACKLY, Lord Praesident of WALES, And one of His MAIESTIES most honorable PriviePrivy Counsell.
John Milton · A Mask Presented · Open in the reader
Printed
… It seems he is one of Christs Cabinet Counsellors, that he is so intimately privieprivy to his thoughts. For surely Christ hath no where left the impression of any …
With rule
… It seems he is one of Christs Cabinet Counsellors, that he is so intimately privieprivy to his thoughts. For surely Christ hath no where left the impression of any …
William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his own counterfeit making, and call it by the name of the Kings privieprivy seal. When they make a new form or frame of Churches, as to be …
With rule
… of his own counterfeit making, and call it by the name of the Kings privieprivy seal. When they make a new form or frame of Churches, as to be …
Henry Ainsworth · An Arrow Against Idolatry · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the most noble order of the Garter; and one of his Maiesties most honorable privieprivy Councell.
With rule
… the most noble order of the Garter; and one of his Maiesties most honorable privieprivy Councell.
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… faults muſt not bee imputed to him, till it bee knowne whether hee be privieprivy to them or not, but if when hee is informed of them, he be …
With rule
… faults muſt not bee imputed to him, till it bee knowne whether hee be privieprivy to them or not, but if when hee is informed of them, he be …
William Whately · Prototypes · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the Goſpells ſake, for the Churches ſake, for ſuch friends ſake, as are privieprivy to it, and for their owne ſoules ſake, as they tender the peace of …
With rule
… for the Goſpells ſake, for the Churches ſake, for ſuch friends ſake, as are privieprivy to it, and for their owne ſoules ſake, as they tender the peace of …
William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hunger, and thirst after righteousnesse, and seeke it by all meanes, Mat. 5.3, 4, 6. It is privieprivy pride, that keepes men from prayer, as it doth that poore wretch that being …
With rule
… hunger, and thirst after righteousnesse, and seeke it by all meanes, Mat. 5.3, 4, 6. It is privieprivy pride, that keepes men from prayer, as it doth that poore wretch that being …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 65 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

0 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.