Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4879 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

briberiebribery

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

Puritas changed it: 193 times in 118 works
Consistency: 99.4% (193 of 194)
Reach if approved: ~204 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bribery
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 194 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (193 changes in 118 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 193)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… time, when they cannot accuse the godly that are amongst vs of vsury, or briberiebribery, or extortion, or drunkennesse, or any such notorious sinne, they call them hypocrites, which …
With rule
… time, when they cannot accuse the godly that are amongst vs of vsury, or briberiebribery, or extortion, or drunkennesse, or any such notorious sinne, they call them hypocrites, which …
Henry Smith · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… liued in all licenciouſneſſe, harlotry, adulteries, inceſts, and in great contentions, cruelty, tyranny, and briberiebribery: ſo that they might rather be called the Princes of Sodome and Gomorrha, then …
With rule
… liued in all licenciouſneſſe, harlotry, adulteries, inceſts, and in great contentions, cruelty, tyranny, and briberiebribery: ſo that they might rather be called the Princes of Sodome and Gomorrha, then …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 306 · Open in the reader
Printed
Against briberiebribery and corrupting of Iustice by gifts. ibid.
With rule
Against briberiebribery and corrupting of Iustice by gifts. ibid.
Andrew Willet · Solomons Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… bush of thorns at their backes, and they all to rent the countrey, with briberiebribery and extortion. These men seeke after authority, and commanding-places, not with any intent …
With rule
… bush of thorns at their backes, and they all to rent the countrey, with briberiebribery and extortion. These men seeke after authority, and commanding-places, not with any intent …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hands hauing been lift vp to false gods, being full of blood, violence, concupiscence, briberiebribery, deceit, and false dealing, are now to bee stretched out to the true God …
With rule
… hands hauing been lift vp to false gods, being full of blood, violence, concupiscence, briberiebribery, deceit, and false dealing, are now to bee stretched out to the true God …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 373 · Open in the reader
Printed
… making cleane but the outſide of the plattar, when all within was full of briberiebribery and exceſſe: neither could that kind of their faſting cauſe their voyce to bee …
With rule
… making cleane but the outſide of the plattar, when all within was full of briberiebribery and exceſſe: neither could that kind of their faſting cauſe their voyce to bee …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
… righteousnesse into wormewood, as I said before, must be remembred, and that is, either BriberieBribery, or that respecting of persons in Iudgement, which is equivalent thereunto, and will come …
With rule
… righteousnesse into wormewood, as I said before, must be remembred, and that is, either BriberieBribery, or that respecting of persons in Iudgement, which is equivalent thereunto, and will come …
John Preston · The Saints Qualification · p. 295 · Open in the reader
Printed
… priuate pecuniary mulct, doest at once both be guilty thine owne conscience with fordide BriberieBribery, and embolden the Adulterer to commit that sinne againe without feare, from which hee …
With rule
… priuate pecuniary mulct, doest at once both be guilty thine owne conscience with fordide BriberieBribery, and embolden the Adulterer to commit that sinne againe without feare, from which hee …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 80 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins A20760

Printed
A TREATISE WHEREIN THE SINNE OF BRIBERIEBRIBERY IS DISCOVERED and diſplayed, that it may be abhorred and auoided.
With rule
A TREATISE WHEREIN THE SINNE OF BRIBERIEBRIBERY IS DISCOVERED and diſplayed, that it may be abhorred and auoided.
John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · Open in the reader