Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4764 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ambiguitieambiguity

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

Puritas changed it: 208 times in 117 works
Consistency: 96.3% (208 of 216)
Reach if approved: ~227 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ambiguity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 216 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (208 changes in 117 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 208)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as he doth, sauing that he calleth poenitentia penaunce which I, to auoyd the ambiguitieambiguity of the english word, as it is taken by the Papistes, haue turned repentaunce …
With rule
… as he doth, sauing that he calleth poenitentia penaunce which I, to auoyd the ambiguitieambiguity of the english word, as it is taken by the Papistes, haue turned repentaunce …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… imply sanctificatiō? And S. Iames doth say as much. For except there be an ambiguitieambiguity in the same tearme, S. Paul and S. Iames do contradict each the other …
With rule
… imply sanctificatiō? And S. Iames doth say as much. For except there be an ambiguitieambiguity in the same tearme, S. Paul and S. Iames do contradict each the other …
Richard Hooker · Justification Works and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… words from their owne beſt approoued writers, if any obſcuritie bee in it, or ambiguitieambiguity; that ſo the matter bee not miſtaken, nor the aduerſarie haue occaſion to cauill …
With rule
… words from their owne beſt approoued writers, if any obſcuritie bee in it, or ambiguitieambiguity; that ſo the matter bee not miſtaken, nor the aduerſarie haue occaſion to cauill …
Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… delivered by Moses. Consider the strength of this argument, for it admits of no ambiguitieambiguity. If you will adde to this the holinesse which appears in their writing, and …
With rule
… delivered by Moses. Consider the strength of this argument, for it admits of no ambiguitieambiguity. If you will adde to this the holinesse which appears in their writing, and …
John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and wilfullie in a moſt ſerious cauſe, to play, and ſeeke by dallying with ambiguitieambiguity of wordes, to deceiue the ſimple. Now as for their ſecond ſhift, the vanity …
With rule
… and wilfullie in a moſt ſerious cauſe, to play, and ſeeke by dallying with ambiguitieambiguity of wordes, to deceiue the ſimple. Now as for their ſecond ſhift, the vanity …
Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aſſured and conſtant fayth. For this is the nature of fayth, to exclude all ambiguitieambiguity and doubtes. For if we ſhould with feare and ſuſpition geue our aſſent, that …
With rule
… aſſured and conſtant fayth. For this is the nature of fayth, to exclude all ambiguitieambiguity and doubtes. For if we ſhould with feare and ſuſpition geue our aſſent, that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… interpreteth, foreign, of him that willeth, not volentis, of the willing, to take away all ambiguitieambiguity: least the word foreign, God, might be thought to be supplied, in the two first …
With rule
… interpreteth, foreign, of him that willeth, not volentis, of the willing, to take away all ambiguitieambiguity: least the word foreign, God, might be thought to be supplied, in the two first …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 418 · Open in the reader
Printed
But we cannot bee ſaide properlie (at leaſt cleerely, without ambiguitieambiguity) to confeſſe for ſalvation: becauſe neyther is our confeſſion the efficient cauſe of our …
With rule
But we cannot bee ſaide properlie (at leaſt cleerely, without ambiguitieambiguity) to confeſſe for ſalvation: becauſe neyther is our confeſſion the efficient cauſe of our …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 172 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 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.

Answers to the Replies of Aberdeen A20388

Printed
… are supplicated against, are so punctually distinguished, that there is no place left to AmbiguitieAmbiguity: but o… the contrarie, the Novations which wee promise to forbeare for a time …
With rule
… are supplicated against, are so punctually distinguished, that there is no place left to AmbiguitieAmbiguity: but o… the contrarie, the Novations which wee promise to forbeare for a time …
Alexander Henderson · Answers to the Replies of Aberdeen · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4:2 A41639

Printed
… rend and tear out their very bowels, and al from the ſophiſtic abuſe or AmbiguitieAmbiguity of termes. And I no way dout but to make it moſt manifeſt, when …
With rule
… rend and tear out their very bowels, and al from the ſophiſtic abuſe or AmbiguitieAmbiguity of termes. And I no way dout but to make it moſt manifeſt, when …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4:2 · p. 4 · Open in the reader