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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4851 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

weightieweighty

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

Puritas changed it
930 times in 411 works
Consistency
99.4% (930 of 935)
Reach if approved
~982 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: weighty
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
935 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (930 changes in 411 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 930)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    HAVING vpon some enducements (how weightieweighty I leaue to the censure of others; but such as to methen seemed not …
    With rule
    HAVING vpon some enducements (how weightieweighty I leaue to the censure of others; but such as to methen seemed not …

    Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … is to labour that it bee not quenched. Now the Apostle vpon greate and weightieweighty consideration, doth here deliuer this precept. For first of all, though all those be …
    With rule
    … is to labour that it bee not quenched. Now the Apostle vpon greate and weightieweighty consideration, doth here deliuer this precept. For first of all, though all those be …

    Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to looke to this betimes, not to truſt our hearts too farre in this weightieweighty matter, ſeeing our hearts are aboue meaſure deceitful, and as thoſe lying ſpirits in …
    With rule
    … to looke to this betimes, not to truſt our hearts too farre in this weightieweighty matter, ſeeing our hearts are aboue meaſure deceitful, and as thoſe lying ſpirits in …

    Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Of whose estate vpon so fit an occasion▪ as was offred me, handling the weightieweighty causes of separation betweene the Church of Rome and vs, and the weake motiues …
    With rule
    … Of whose estate vpon so fit an occasion▪ as was offred me, handling the weightieweighty causes of separation betweene the Church of Rome and vs, and the weake motiues …

    Richard Hooker · Justification Works and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … do not doubt) out of an honorable respect to iustice, take notice of the weightieweighty motions offered by his people: and whose sacred persone wee hope th'Almightie hath reserved …
    With rule
    … do not doubt) out of an honorable respect to iustice, take notice of the weightieweighty motions offered by his people: and whose sacred persone wee hope th'Almightie hath reserved …

    Henry Jacob · To Prince James · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … fidelitie, because that the maters that he had to communicate with me, were so weightieweighty, and of such importance, as sythence the daies of the Apostles, the like was …
    With rule
    … fidelitie, because that the maters that he had to communicate with me, were so weightieweighty, and of such importance, as sythence the daies of the Apostles, the like was …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 405 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … is called ſwearing in trueth. Iere. 4. 2. The ende is to make knowne a very weightieweighty trueth, which cannot by any other meanes bee ſo conueniently knowne, And this is …
    With rule
    … is called ſwearing in trueth. Iere. 4. 2. The ende is to make knowne a very weightieweighty trueth, which cannot by any other meanes bee ſo conueniently knowne, And this is …

    Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Luthers opinion thereof is cited out of Copes Dialoges (a sufficient witnesse of so weightieweighty a matter) saying, That the Sacramentaries doe in vaine beleeue in God the Father …
    With rule
    … Luthers opinion thereof is cited out of Copes Dialoges (a sufficient witnesse of so weightieweighty a matter) saying, That the Sacramentaries doe in vaine beleeue in God the Father …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 34 · 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.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

  • Printed
    … paſſe, that it is very difficult to perceive Plato's opinion even concerning the moſt WeightieWeighty matters. Touching Socrates's Diſſimulation in conceleing his own ſentiments, without poſitive affirmation, or Negation …
    With rule
    … paſſe, that it is very difficult to perceive Plato's opinion even concerning the moſt WeightieWeighty matters. Touching Socrates's Diſſimulation in conceleing his own ſentiments, without poſitive affirmation, or Negation …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 270 · Open in the reader

Of Domestical Duties A68107

  • Printed
    The matter of reproofe muſt be Matter of reproofe. 1. Iuſt. 1. Iuſt. 2. WeightieWeighty.
    With rule
    The matter of reproofe muſt be Matter of reproofe. 1. Iuſt. 1. Iuſt. 2. WeightieWeighty.

    William Gouge · Of Domestical Duties · p. 380 · Open in the reader