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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4821 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pliniepliny

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

Puritas changed it
611 times in 199 works
Consistency
99.5% (611 of 614)
Reach if approved
~646 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pliny
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
615 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (611 changes in 199 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 611)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the first Century, the time of his suffering, was in the time of Traianus. PliniePliny the second Deputy in Bithynia, breathing threatnings against innocent Christians, persecuted great numbers of …
    With rule
    … the first Century, the time of his suffering, was in the time of Traianus. PliniePliny the second Deputy in Bithynia, breathing threatnings against innocent Christians, persecuted great numbers of …

    Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    PliniePliny wrote to Traiane the Emperoure of the innocent life of the Chriſtians. 16
    With rule
    PliniePliny wrote to Traiane the Emperoure of the innocent life of the Chriſtians. 16

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … make Zoroastres of Persia the author of it, as PliniePliny and Diogenes Laertius, Iustinus: PliniePliny writeth of him, that hee only of all men that ever were laughed the …
    With rule
    … make Zoroastres of Persia the author of it, as PliniePliny and Diogenes Laertius, Iustinus: PliniePliny writeth of him, that hee only of all men that ever were laughed the …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    PliniePliny writeth of a marble Image of Diana set up in Chios, the face whereof …
    With rule
    PliniePliny writeth of a marble Image of Diana set up in Chios, the face whereof …

    Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … To men. 2. To Christ. 3. To the owne consciences of the committers. First to men. PliniePliny mentioneth three sorts of Bryers.
    With rule
    … To men. 2. To Christ. 3. To the owne consciences of the committers. First to men. PliniePliny mentioneth three sorts of Bryers.

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 126 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and commonly are counted Nobleſt. Let vs now come, to the ſodayne glory (as PliniePliny termeth it) and newe Nobilitie. Whiche, ſith it groweth and clymeth of it ſelfe …
    With rule
    … and commonly are counted Nobleſt. Let vs now come, to the ſodayne glory (as PliniePliny termeth it) and newe Nobilitie. Whiche, ſith it groweth and clymeth of it ſelfe …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … very terribly, as Bolducus in his Comment vpon Iob, cap. 4. hath out of Ariſtotle, PliniePliny, and Aelian obſerued; making the Lion ſo roaring to be the expreſſe image of …
    With rule
    … very terribly, as Bolducus in his Comment vpon Iob, cap. 4. hath out of Ariſtotle, PliniePliny, and Aelian obſerued; making the Lion ſo roaring to be the expreſſe image of …

    Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … almightie power? or do we in this follow ye vngodlines of ye blaſphemous felow PliniePliny? for he denieth that God is able to beſtow immortalitie vpon mortall people, or …
    With rule
    … almightie power? or do we in this follow ye vngodlines of ye blaſphemous felow PliniePliny? for he denieth that God is able to beſtow immortalitie vpon mortall people, or …

    Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 87 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Prelections Upon Revelation A01320

  • Printed
    PLiniePliny in the 28. Chapter of the eleuenth booke of the naturall historie writeth, that the …
    With rule
    PLiniePliny in the 28. Chapter of the eleuenth booke of the naturall historie writeth, that the …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A55917

  • Printed
    The third a Chalcedony] PLINIEPLINY cals it Carchedony. Andreas noteth, that for the Chalcedonie, there was a Carbuncle in …
    With rule
    The third a Chalcedony] PLINIEPLINY cals it Carchedony. Andreas noteth, that for the Chalcedonie, there was a Carbuncle in …

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 564 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The tenth a Chryſopraſus] Or as PLINIEPLINY calleth it Chryſopraſius, ſignifying gold and greenneſſe. For this ſtone is green like a …
    With rule
    The tenth a Chryſopraſus] Or as PLINIEPLINY calleth it Chryſopraſius, ſignifying gold and greenneſſe. For this ſtone is green like a …

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 565 · Open in the reader