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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4838 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spiritualliespiritually

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

Puritas changed it
170 times in 88 works
Consistency
97.1% (170 of 175)
Reach if approved
~184 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: spiritually
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
175 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (170 changes in 88 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 170)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … for they are fooliſhneſſe vnto him, neither can he know them, becauſe they are ſpiritualliespiritually diſcerned. Nowe Paule calleth him the naturall man, which liueth naturally by the vitall …
    With rule
    … for they are fooliſhneſſe vnto him, neither can he know them, becauſe they are ſpiritualliespiritually diſcerned. Nowe Paule calleth him the naturall man, which liueth naturally by the vitall …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 499 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Nothingleſſe, but onelie ſpiritualliespiritually by faith.
    With rule
    Nothingleſſe, but onelie ſpiritualliespiritually by faith.

    Bartimaeus Andrewes · A Short and Pithy Catechism Regarding the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … offēd no mā (if it be ſo poſſible) take the wordes of S. Andre. ſpiritualliespiritually, as no doubt he was ſpiritual, & would ſpeake thē none otherwaies but ſpiritually, and …
    With rule
    … offēd no mā (if it be ſo poſſible) take the wordes of S. Andre. ſpiritualliespiritually, as no doubt he was ſpiritual, & would ſpeake thē none otherwaies but ſpiritually, and …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxlii · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    And Watche ye (ſaieth he) and that not onely ſpiritualliespiritually but alſo corporallie. For a heauie, lumpiſhe and drowſie body, when it hath pampered …
    With rule
    And Watche ye (ſaieth he) and that not onely ſpiritualliespiritually but alſo corporallie. For a heauie, lumpiſhe and drowſie body, when it hath pampered …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Christes fleashe. Wherfore if the one doth kyll / except it be vnderstanded figuratiuelie / and spiritualliespiritually / then the other suerly doth kill likewise. But that to eate Christes fleashe doeth …
    With rule
    … Christes fleashe. Wherfore if the one doth kyll / except it be vnderstanded figuratiuelie / and spiritualliespiritually / then the other suerly doth kill likewise. But that to eate Christes fleashe doeth …

    Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … certaine that repentance is the worke of a liuing man, of him that is ſpiritualliespiritually liuing no dead man can repent, But he that is with out faith, though …
    With rule
    … certaine that repentance is the worke of a liuing man, of him that is ſpiritualliespiritually liuing no dead man can repent, But he that is with out faith, though …

    Richard Stock · The Doctrine and Use of Repentance · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … as the worlde speaketh. But they maye not be worldly vnderstande, but goostlye and spiritualliespiritually, yea the spirite of God only vnderstandeth them, and where he is not ther …
    With rule
    … as the worlde speaketh. But they maye not be worldly vnderstande, but goostlye and spiritualliespiritually, yea the spirite of God only vnderstandeth them, and where he is not ther …

    William Tyndale · The Parable of the Wicked Mammon · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … doe truely eate his flesh, and drink his blood: but all this is done spiritualliespiritually onely and by faith: As for their carnall eating and deuouring of Christ, we …
    With rule
    … doe truely eate his flesh, and drink his blood: but all this is done spiritualliespiritually onely and by faith: As for their carnall eating and deuouring of Christ, we …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 449 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Two Sermons and The Lords Supper A10233

  • Printed
    … the ſame, the like dooth Ieſus Chriſtes bodie broken, taken hold of by Faith, SpirituallieSpiritually communicate vnto our ſoules, namelie, it feedeth and ſtrengtheneth them, to the aſſured hope …
    With rule
    … the ſame, the like dooth Ieſus Chriſtes bodie broken, taken hold of by Faith, SpirituallieSpiritually communicate vnto our ſoules, namelie, it feedeth and ſtrengtheneth them, to the aſſured hope …

    Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 199 · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

  • Printed
    … belieue in Him, by whom our Soules are kept alyue, and mayntayned everie day SpirituallieSpiritually, as the Priestes were mayntayned by the olde Altar, bodilie. 2. That before a man …
    With rule
    … belieue in Him, by whom our Soules are kept alyue, and mayntayned everie day SpirituallieSpiritually, as the Priestes were mayntayned by the olde Altar, bodilie. 2. That before a man …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 318 · Open in the reader