Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4809 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

luxurieluxury

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

Puritas changed it: 266 times in 145 works
Consistency: 100% (266 of 266)
Reach if approved: ~281 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: luxury
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 267 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (266 changes in 145 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 266)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… or impudent amongſt miſcreants to ſay, that in his damned ambition, or Couetouſneſſe, or luxurieluxury, he had reſpect to the will of God which no man lightlie knowes but …
With rule
… or impudent amongſt miſcreants to ſay, that in his damned ambition, or Couetouſneſſe, or luxurieluxury, he had reſpect to the will of God which no man lightlie knowes but …
William Sclater · Three Sermons · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… invexêre; Superfluities of pleaſures brought in a deſire of ſpilling and ſpoiling all by luxurieluxury and wantonneſſe, and then the State declined from the former eminencie of brightneſs; Hee …
With rule
… invexêre; Superfluities of pleaſures brought in a deſire of ſpilling and ſpoiling all by luxurieluxury and wantonneſſe, and then the State declined from the former eminencie of brightneſs; Hee …
Henry Wilkinson Sr · The Debt Book · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fulco put him in minde of, I meane those dangerous daughters Pride, Covetousnesse and LuxurieLuxury. He placed Pride with the Templars, Avarice with the Cistertian Monkes, and Luxurye with …
With rule
… Fulco put him in minde of, I meane those dangerous daughters Pride, Covetousnesse and LuxurieLuxury. He placed Pride with the Templars, Avarice with the Cistertian Monkes, and Luxurye with …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 401 · Open in the reader
Printed
… plentie, to ſhew their magnificence, whereof a man cannot fall to euery one without luxurieluxury, and exceſſe, which is odious at all times, and in all places, but much …
With rule
… plentie, to ſhew their magnificence, whereof a man cannot fall to euery one without luxurieluxury, and exceſſe, which is odious at all times, and in all places, but much …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 369 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in steed of the booke of God, they delight in dice, cardes, pride, pleasure, luxurieluxury, flatterie, and all vanitie, no maruaile, that the place which did honour them, doth …
With rule
… in steed of the booke of God, they delight in dice, cardes, pride, pleasure, luxurieluxury, flatterie, and all vanitie, no maruaile, that the place which did honour them, doth …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 446 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the belly of the Monkes: and ſurely (ſetting aſide the Popes Lordlines and the luxurieluxury of Prieſts) it ſhall appeare there is no ſuch cauſe why ſhe ſhould breathe …
With rule
… the belly of the Monkes: and ſurely (ſetting aſide the Popes Lordlines and the luxurieluxury of Prieſts) it ſhall appeare there is no ſuch cauſe why ſhe ſhould breathe …
Humphrey Lynde · The Safe Way Leading All Christians · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… these seuen deadly sinnes; when as sixe of the seuen, to wit, Pride, Couetousnesse, LuxurieLuxury, Gluttonie, Anger, and Sloth, are not so much as mentioned here: whereby hee sophisticates …
With rule
… these seuen deadly sinnes; when as sixe of the seuen, to wit, Pride, Couetousnesse, LuxurieLuxury, Gluttonie, Anger, and Sloth, are not so much as mentioned here: whereby hee sophisticates …
William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against Nature, and a turning of kinds out of kind, by abominable Pride and LuxurieLuxury.
With rule
… against Nature, and a turning of kinds out of kind, by abominable Pride and LuxurieLuxury.
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 166 · 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.