Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4750 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

traytortraitor

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

Puritas changed it: 1,954 times in 829 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,954 of 1,961)
Reach if approved: ~2,060 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: traitor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,961 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,954 changes in 829 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,954)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… then I pray you M. Tirrel, beare with me, for I haue béene a traytortraitor but a while, but you haue béene a traytortraitor vj. yeares. After this he …
With rule
… then I pray you M. Tirrel, beare with me, for I haue béene a traytortraitor but a while, but you haue béene a traytortraitor vj. yeares. After this he …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out theſe damnable forgeries? that ſhame not to affirme, that the bones of a TraytorTraitor can raiſe a dead man, as did Elias his bones? or that the fleſh …
With rule
… out theſe damnable forgeries? that ſhame not to affirme, that the bones of a TraytorTraitor can raiſe a dead man, as did Elias his bones? or that the fleſh …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thus the harts of the people are not won, but ſtolne by a cloſe traytortraitor from their lawfully-anointed Soueraigne. Ouer-faire ſhowes are a iuſt argument of vnſoundnes …
With rule
… Thus the harts of the people are not won, but ſtolne by a cloſe traytortraitor from their lawfully-anointed Soueraigne. Ouer-faire ſhowes are a iuſt argument of vnſoundnes …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 318 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, and hide it, nay I can beare it out sometimes and say, the traytortraitor is not here, I am not the drunkard, I am not the adulterer you …
With rule
… it, and hide it, nay I can beare it out sometimes and say, the traytortraitor is not here, I am not the drunkard, I am not the adulterer you …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man hath no head, (beware Chrysostome what thou saist, thou shalt be reputed a traytortraitor if Englishe men heare the: for they must haue my souereine lady and maistresse …
With rule
… man hath no head, (beware Chrysostome what thou saist, thou shalt be reputed a traytortraitor if Englishe men heare the: for they must haue my souereine lady and maistresse …
John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the life of the King and State, would this excuſe him from being a traytortraitor if he ſay I had no ſuch meaning in that I did, I meant …
With rule
… the life of the King and State, would this excuſe him from being a traytortraitor if he ſay I had no ſuch meaning in that I did, I meant …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… saluation / or of a…y absolute necessitie vnto our obedience. Nay to be no traytortraitor / no …dolator / no whoremonger / is not of that absolute necessitie to saluation / but y^t …
With rule
… saluation / or of a…y absolute necessitie vnto our obedience. Nay to be no traytortraitor / no …dolator / no whoremonger / is not of that absolute necessitie to saluation / but y^t …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… to bee a bleſſed Apoſtle, when in the end he proued himſelfe a curſed traytortraitor? Luk. 22.48. What did it profit the people to ſeeme to follow Chriſt for his …
With rule
… to bee a bleſſed Apoſtle, when in the end he proued himſelfe a curſed traytortraitor? Luk. 22.48. What did it profit the people to ſeeme to follow Chriſt for his …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 99 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 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.

The Time of the End A33243

Printed
… England or Ireland, &c. without conſent in Parliament, ſhall be judged and deemed a TRAYTORTRAITOR to the Commonwealth, and ſhall ſuffer pains of death, and ſuch other puniſhments as …
With rule
… England or Ireland, &c. without conſent in Parliament, ſhall be judged and deemed a TRAYTORTRAITOR to the Commonwealth, and ſhall ſuffer pains of death, and ſuch other puniſhments as …
John Canne · The Time of the End · p. 86 · Open in the reader

Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 A56162

Printed
Whereas the moſt abominable Tyrant, horrible, odious, and errant FALSE TRAYTORTRAITOR, John Cade, calling himſelf ſometimes Mortimer, ſometime Captain of Kent, (which Name, Fame, Acts …
With rule
Whereas the moſt abominable Tyrant, horrible, odious, and errant FALSE TRAYTORTRAITOR, John Cade, calling himſelf ſometimes Mortimer, ſometime Captain of Kent, (which Name, Fame, Acts …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eſtabliſhed, that the ſaid John Cade ſhall be had, named and declared, A FALSE TRAYTORTRAITOR, to our ſaid Soveraign Lord the King; and that all his Tyranny, Acts, Feats …
With rule
… eſtabliſhed, that the ſaid John Cade ſhall be had, named and declared, A FALSE TRAYTORTRAITOR, to our ſaid Soveraign Lord the King; and that all his Tyranny, Acts, Feats …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · p. 30 · Open in the reader

Speech 4 December 1648 A56213

Printed
… adjudged and declared Jack Cade, to be a most horrible, odious, and errant false TRAYTORTRAITOR, for forcing the King and Parliament held at Westminster, in 29 H. 6. to grant some …
With rule
… adjudged and declared Jack Cade, to be a most horrible, odious, and errant false TRAYTORTRAITOR, for forcing the King and Parliament held at Westminster, in 29 H. 6. to grant some …
William Prynne · Speech 4 December 1648 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

A Two-Fold Shaking of the Earth A79856

Printed
… England or Ireland, &c. without conſent of Parliament, ſhall be judged and deemed a TRAYTORTRAITOR to the Commonwealth, and ſhall ſuffer pains of Death, and ſuch other puniſhments as …
With rule
… England or Ireland, &c. without conſent of Parliament, ſhall be judged and deemed a TRAYTORTRAITOR to the Commonwealth, and ſhall ſuffer pains of Death, and ſuch other puniſhments as …
John Canne · A Two-Fold Shaking of the Earth · p. 30 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties 2 A91263

Printed
… eſtabliſhed, that the ſaid John Cade ſhall be had named and declared A FALSE TRAYTORTRAITOR to our ſaid Soveraign Lord the King; and that all His Tyranny, Acts, Facts …
With rule
… eſtabliſhed, that the ſaid John Cade ſhall be had named and declared A FALSE TRAYTORTRAITOR to our ſaid Soveraign Lord the King; and that all His Tyranny, Acts, Facts …
William Prynne · Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties 2 · p. 26 · Open in the reader