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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4859 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

elieeli

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

Puritas changed it
229 times in 120 works
Consistency
94.2% (229 of 243)
Reach if approved
~255 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: ely
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
243 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (229 changes in 120 works, 94.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 229)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … brother, he … coulourably to Naaman the Sirian: he fained a tal of his Mayster ElieEli …, as all brybers wyll do, and tolde hym that his Mayster had … of thys …
    With rule
    … brother, he … coulourably to Naaman the Sirian: he fained a tal of his Mayster ElieEli …, as all brybers wyll do, and tolde hym that his Mayster had … of thys …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … c. which words are a ſufficient evidence, to ſhew, what ſinne it was that ElieEli did meane; even that ſinne, which ſhall not be purged with ſacrifice nor offering …
    With rule
    … c. which words are a ſufficient evidence, to ſhew, what ſinne it was that ElieEli did meane; even that ſinne, which ſhall not be purged with ſacrifice nor offering …

    Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thee, as the thirstie land doth after raine: and Hanna also, when shee told ElieEli that shee powred out her soule as water before the Lord. 3. Euery petition must …
    With rule
    … thee, as the thirstie land doth after raine: and Hanna also, when shee told ElieEli that shee powred out her soule as water before the Lord. 3. Euery petition must …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 237 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … prepared ſome (euen of them alſo) to the euill day. It is ſaid of ElieEli his children: they hearkned not to their father, becauſe God had determined to deſtroy …
    With rule
    … prepared ſome (euen of them alſo) to the euill day. It is ſaid of ElieEli his children: they hearkned not to their father, becauſe God had determined to deſtroy …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 440 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of God. The holy ordinances of God, were horribly profaned by the ſonnes of ElieEli: ſo as, for their abhominations the people of God began to abhorre the ſeruice …
    With rule
    … of God. The holy ordinances of God, were horribly profaned by the ſonnes of ElieEli: ſo as, for their abhominations the people of God began to abhorre the ſeruice …

    Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that he slept with Bilha. In like manner they would excuse the offence of ElieEli his sons, that they did not lie with the women at the gates of …
    With rule
    … that he slept with Bilha. In like manner they would excuse the offence of ElieEli his sons, that they did not lie with the women at the gates of …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 305 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … should be exceedingly astonished at it. More specially, that hee would certainely bring vpon ElieEli, and vpon his house, that which he had threatned before, because of that facility …
    With rule
    … should be exceedingly astonished at it. More specially, that hee would certainely bring vpon ElieEli, and vpon his house, that which he had threatned before, because of that facility …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 254 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    ¶ Imprynted at London by Robert Crowly dwellinge in ElieEli Rentes in Holburne Anno Dmini M.D.L.I.
    With rule
    ¶ Imprynted at London by Robert Crowly dwellinge in ElieEli Rentes in Holburne Anno Dmini M.D.L.I.

    Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.