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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4763 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

affinitieaffinity

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

Puritas changed it
541 times in 247 works
Consistency
93.2% (541 of 580)
Reach if approved
~609 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: affinity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
580 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (541 changes in 247 works, 93.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 541)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Wherefore (good Reader) seeing there is such a similitude and affinitieaffinity betweene the temporarie professor of the Gospell, and the true professor of the same …
    With rule
    Wherefore (good Reader) seeing there is such a similitude and affinitieaffinity betweene the temporarie professor of the Gospell, and the true professor of the same …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 573 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    VI Becauſe Iehoſhaphat was reprehended by Iehu, that he had made affinitieaffinity with Achab, in taking for his ſonne Ioram, Athalia the daughter of Achab to …
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    VI Becauſe Iehoſhaphat was reprehended by Iehu, that he had made affinitieaffinity with Achab, in taking for his ſonne Ioram, Athalia the daughter of Achab to …

    Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that the contrarie, for the loue whereof you would disgrace this, hath to great affinitieaffinity with the strumpets discipline, mentioned in the Proverbs. You demand whether wee dare despise …
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    … that the contrarie, for the loue whereof you would disgrace this, hath to great affinitieaffinity with the strumpets discipline, mentioned in the Proverbs. You demand whether wee dare despise …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … who calling together eight Monaſtical Doctors, with foure other, and the reſt of his affinitieaffinity, putting the common ſeale of the Vniuerſitie, to a certaine writing, ſet foorth an …
    With rule
    … who calling together eight Monaſtical Doctors, with foure other, and the reſt of his affinitieaffinity, putting the common ſeale of the Vniuerſitie, to a certaine writing, ſet foorth an …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 277 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his very being, and ſubſtance; but in an Angell as a qualitie onely: What affinitieaffinity or neereneſſe can there be betweene a qualitie in one, and the ſubſtance of …
    With rule
    … his very being, and ſubſtance; but in an Angell as a qualitie onely: What affinitieaffinity or neereneſſe can there be betweene a qualitie in one, and the ſubſtance of …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … giuen vs ſuch deliuerance) ſhould we returne to breake thy commaundements, and ioyne in affinitieaffinity with a people of ſuch abhominations? Wouldest not thou be angrie towards vs, till …
    With rule
    … giuen vs ſuch deliuerance) ſhould we returne to breake thy commaundements, and ioyne in affinitieaffinity with a people of ſuch abhominations? Wouldest not thou be angrie towards vs, till …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſuche as onely prouoked or ſoliſted others to Idolatrie / that neither ſhould blood nor affinitieaffinity neither multitude nor ryches / ſaue ſuche as offendeth / neither yet that we ſhould coūſayll …
    With rule
    … ſuche as onely prouoked or ſoliſted others to Idolatrie / that neither ſhould blood nor affinitieaffinity neither multitude nor ryches / ſaue ſuche as offendeth / neither yet that we ſhould coūſayll …

    John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … man, and him ſuch a one as is very neare vnto him in bloud, affinitieaffinity and confederacie, and bound vnto him by the law of protection: alſo for a …
    With rule
    … man, and him ſuch a one as is very neare vnto him in bloud, affinitieaffinity and confederacie, and bound vnto him by the law of protection: alſo for a …

    Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 57 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (39)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Retractive from the Romish Religion A06106

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    … Romiſh Church, that the Pope can diſpenſe in all the degrees of Conſanguinitie and AffinitieAffinity, ſaue onely with the Father and his daughter, and with the Mother and her …
    With rule
    … Romiſh Church, that the Pope can diſpenſe in all the degrees of Conſanguinitie and AffinitieAffinity, ſaue onely with the Father and his daughter, and with the Mother and her …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 4 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

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    How neere was the Tye betwixt Saul and Dauid, by Kindneſſe, and AffinitieAffinity? that is no reſtraint to Sauls malice; neerer that betwixt Cain and Abel; yet …
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    How neere was the Tye betwixt Saul and Dauid, by Kindneſſe, and AffinitieAffinity? that is no reſtraint to Sauls malice; neerer that betwixt Cain and Abel; yet …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 175 · Open in the reader

The Affinity of the Faithful A12341

  • Printed
    THE AFFINITIEAFFINITY of the faithfull: Being a verie Godlie and fruitfull Sermon, made vpon part of …
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    THE AFFINITIEAFFINITY of the faithfull: Being a verie Godlie and fruitfull Sermon, made vpon part of …

    Henry Smith · The Affinity of the Faithful · Open in the reader

Sermons in One Volume A12406

  • Printed
    THE AFFINITIEAFFINITY OF THE FAITHFVL.
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    THE AFFINITIEAFFINITY OF THE FAITHFVL.

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 134 · Open in the reader

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

  • Printed
    2. AffinitieAffinity.
    With rule
    2. AffinitieAffinity.

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2. AffinitieAffinity, where theſe be the rules,
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    2. AffinitieAffinity, where theſe be the rules,

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2. AffinitieAffinity reſts alone betwixt parties themſelues, betwixt whom it befalleth, and doth not deriue it …
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    2. AffinitieAffinity reſts alone betwixt parties themſelues, betwixt whom it befalleth, and doth not deriue it …

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 168 · Open in the reader

A General View of Papistry A15422

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    … set vp an idolatrous altar at the Kinges commaundement, 2. King. 16. Eliashib was ioyned in AffinitieAffinity with Tobiah the Ammonite, contrary to the law of God, Fulk. ibid.
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    … set vp an idolatrous altar at the Kinges commaundement, 2. King. 16. Eliashib was ioyned in AffinitieAffinity with Tobiah the Ammonite, contrary to the law of God, Fulk. ibid.

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 135 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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    AffinitieAffinity that the word of God hath with ſacraments. 291. 892
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    AffinitieAffinity that the word of God hath with ſacraments. 291. 892

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

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    … that it muſt be betweene ſuch perſons, as by no degree of Conſanguinitie or AffinitieAffinity are prohibited to contract it, which to doe is Inceſt.
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    … that it muſt be betweene ſuch perſons, as by no degree of Conſanguinitie or AffinitieAffinity are prohibited to contract it, which to doe is Inceſt.

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 198 · Open in the reader

The History of the Indulgence A29750

  • Printed
    … favour; and particularly we may observe, that one maine Reason was, the Relation and AffinitieAffinity, that was betwixt the Act of Indulgence, and the Explicatory Act of Supremacie; so …
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    … favour; and particularly we may observe, that one maine Reason was, the Relation and AffinitieAffinity, that was betwixt the Act of Indulgence, and the Explicatory Act of Supremacie; so …

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    III. What AffinitieAffinity it hath with the Supremacie.
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    III. What AffinitieAffinity it hath with the Supremacie.

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 92 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

  • Printed
    AffinitieAffinity 'twixt Cynicks, and Stoicks. 419
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    AffinitieAffinity 'twixt Cynicks, and Stoicks. 419

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Animals; as his Scholar and Succeſſor Theophraſtus that of Plants: which have all great AffinitieAffinity with Solomon's Philoſophie. As for the Writings of Solomon, eſpecially ſuch as were Philoſophick …
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    … Animals; as his Scholar and Succeſſor Theophraſtus that of Plants: which have all great AffinitieAffinity with Solomon's Philoſophie. As for the Writings of Solomon, eſpecially ſuch as were Philoſophick …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … unbecoming acts, his modeſtie made him refuſe, and quit Crates's Schole; as hereafter. The AffinitieAffinity betwixt the Cynicks, and Stoicks will farther appear by their Principles, and Practices.
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    … unbecoming acts, his modeſtie made him refuſe, and quit Crates's Schole; as hereafter. The AffinitieAffinity betwixt the Cynicks, and Stoicks will farther appear by their Principles, and Practices.

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 419 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

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    … of Plato's Philoſophie, ſince finding upon a review of Plato's Philoſophemes a very great AffinitieAffinity and Conformitie of mine own Contemplations thereto, I have diſcourſed more largely and Philoſophically …
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    … of Plato's Philoſophie, ſince finding upon a review of Plato's Philoſophemes a very great AffinitieAffinity and Conformitie of mine own Contemplations thereto, I have diſcourſed more largely and Philoſophically …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · Open in the reader

The Glorious Lover A47509

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    How to delay or ſpoil th' AffinitieAffinity.
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    How to delay or ſpoil th' AffinitieAffinity.

    Benjamin Keach · The Glorious Lover · p. 255 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

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    AffinitieAffinity of the paſſeouer, and Chriſtes Supper. 467. a
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    AffinitieAffinity of the paſſeouer, and Chriſtes Supper. 467. a

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles A85480

  • Printed
    The AffinitieAffinity betwixt the old Gauls and Britains, in Language, Gods, and Officers. 57
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    The AffinitieAffinity betwixt the old Gauls and Britains, in Language, Gods, and Officers. 57

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … he was in Egypt, we may ſafely conjecture, even from his ſtile and the AffinitieAffinity of many of his expreſſions with the Scripture Language. Thus Ralegh, Hiſt. Part. 1. B …
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    … he was in Egypt, we may ſafely conjecture, even from his ſtile and the AffinitieAffinity of many of his expreſſions with the Scripture Language. Thus Ralegh, Hiſt. Part. 1. B …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 282 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Pentateuch A94797

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    The prohibited degrees both of Conſanguinitie and AffinitieAffinity are Moral, and grounded upon verie good reaſon.
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    The prohibited degrees both of Conſanguinitie and AffinitieAffinity are Moral, and grounded upon verie good reaſon.

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 66 · Open in the reader