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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4908 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

facilitiefacility

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

Puritas changed it
257 times in 166 works
Consistency
93.8% (257 of 274)
Reach if approved
~288 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: facility
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
274 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (257 changes in 166 works, 93.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 257)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … This method of teaching may cōmend it selfe vnto the world by that easines & facilitiefacility which is in it: but a law or a patterne it is not, as …
    With rule
    … This method of teaching may cōmend it selfe vnto the world by that easines & facilitiefacility which is in it: but a law or a patterne it is not, as …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … chewe the pappe before in her owne mouth, to put the same with more facilitiefacility and easinesse into ours her sucking babes, as it were with a Spoone, giuing …
    With rule
    … chewe the pappe before in her owne mouth, to put the same with more facilitiefacility and easinesse into ours her sucking babes, as it were with a Spoone, giuing …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … shall they best conceiue the proper meaning of the holy ghost, and with greater facilitiefacility keepe the same in memorie. For one sayth truly, That euery good minister should …
    With rule
    … shall they best conceiue the proper meaning of the holy ghost, and with greater facilitiefacility keepe the same in memorie. For one sayth truly, That euery good minister should …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … are vndeclinable mightily, by a hidden, wonderfull, most effectuall power; yea, by an Omnipotent facilitiefacility, and yet most sweetly and connaturally moved unto Grace. They are all the frequent …
    With rule
    … are vndeclinable mightily, by a hidden, wonderfull, most effectuall power; yea, by an Omnipotent facilitiefacility, and yet most sweetly and connaturally moved unto Grace. They are all the frequent …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 445 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Samſons facilitiefacility and ſecuritie.
    With rule
    Samſons facilitiefacility and ſecuritie.

    Archibald Simson · Samsons Seven Locks of Hair Compared to the Seven Spiritual Virtues · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … an ungodly will, he hath prevented with his mercy, and with a most omnipotent facilitiefacility converted them unto himselfe, and made them willing of unwilling? Why doe we give …
    With rule
    … an ungodly will, he hath prevented with his mercy, and with a most omnipotent facilitiefacility converted them unto himselfe, and made them willing of unwilling? Why doe we give …

    James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 482 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … denied to returne with him, v. 26. least he might haue seemed in shewing such facilitiefacility, to haue approoued his sinne: he did not simply then denie him: but said …
    With rule
    … denied to returne with him, v. 26. least he might haue seemed in shewing such facilitiefacility, to haue approoued his sinne: he did not simply then denie him: but said …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … measured it, either by loue, as it commonly happeth, or else by a singular facilitiefacility, whereby he misliketh nothing that is meant well, that he made it common to …
    With rule
    … measured it, either by loue, as it commonly happeth, or else by a singular facilitiefacility, whereby he misliketh nothing that is meant well, that he made it common to …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 are listed here. 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

  • Printed
    … Beautifull and Amiable Qualities in the Object; as namely, Sympathie, Iustice, Industrie, Temperance, Ingenuitie, FacilitieFacility, Pleasantnesse and Innocencie of Wit, Me…knesse, Yeeldingnesse, Patience, Sweetnesse of behaviour and disposition …
    With rule
    … Beautifull and Amiable Qualities in the Object; as namely, Sympathie, Iustice, Industrie, Temperance, Ingenuitie, FacilitieFacility, Pleasantnesse and Innocencie of Wit, Me…knesse, Yeeldingnesse, Patience, Sweetnesse of behaviour and disposition …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 97 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Infidelity A41604

  • Printed
    … diſtributed, according to their ſeveral Conſtitutions, and Regards to Faith, we may with more FacilitieFacility, and Perſpicuitie determine and reſolve our Queſtion, What it is not to know the …
    With rule
    … diſtributed, according to their ſeveral Conſtitutions, and Regards to Faith, we may with more FacilitieFacility, and Perſpicuitie determine and reſolve our Queſtion, What it is not to know the …

    Theophilus Gale · The Anatomy of Infidelity · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Christs Tears for Jerusalems Unbelief A41628

  • Printed
    … diſtributed, according to their ſeveral Conſtitutions, and Regards to Faith, we may with more FacilitieFacility, and Perſpicuitie determine and reſolve our Queſtion, What it is not to know the …
    With rule
    … diſtributed, according to their ſeveral Conſtitutions, and Regards to Faith, we may with more FacilitieFacility, and Perſpicuitie determine and reſolve our Queſtion, What it is not to know the …

    Theophilus Gale · Christs Tears for Jerusalems Unbelief · p. 99 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

  • Printed
    foreign, FacilitieFacility of Judgement 4
    With rule
    foreign, FacilitieFacility of Judgement 4

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a Dexteritie in judging things: which in the Platonic Deſinitions, pag. 413. is thus defined: foreign, FacilitieFacility of judgment, is a connate abilitie of reaſoning, or diſcerning. And Plato, de Repub …
    With rule
    … a Dexteritie in judging things: which in the Platonic Deſinitions, pag. 413. is thus defined: foreign, FacilitieFacility of judgment, is a connate abilitie of reaſoning, or diſcerning. And Plato, de Repub …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is a connate abilitie of reaſoning, or diſcerning. And Plato, de Repub. 4. pag. 428. ſaies, foreign, FacilitieFacility of judgement is certainly ſome kind of Science, &c. (3) foreign, Sagacitie or perſpicacitie of finding …
    With rule
    … is a connate abilitie of reaſoning, or diſcerning. And Plato, de Repub. 4. pag. 428. ſaies, foreign, FacilitieFacility of judgement is certainly ſome kind of Science, &c. (3) foreign, Sagacitie or perſpicacitie of finding …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … an Act both Natural and Moral is to be meaſured by its Spontaneitie, Connaturalitie, FacilitieFacility, and Suavitie. For al Libertie conſiſtes in an foreign, a ſelf-motion: and by how …
    With rule
    … an Act both Natural and Moral is to be meaſured by its Spontaneitie, Connaturalitie, FacilitieFacility, and Suavitie. For al Libertie conſiſtes in an foreign, a ſelf-motion: and by how …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 99 · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

  • Printed
    (3.) FacilitieFacility of learning. p. 28
    With rule
    (3.) FacilitieFacility of learning. p. 28

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2. From the FacilitieFacility of being miſtaken herein. p. 290
    With rule
    2. From the FacilitieFacility of being miſtaken herein. p. 290

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of al ſuch means as conduce to the attainment of our deſired end. 3. A FacilitieFacility, and dexteritie for the diſpoſing of theſe means in the beſt manner and method …
    With rule
    … of al ſuch means as conduce to the attainment of our deſired end. 3. A FacilitieFacility, and dexteritie for the diſpoſing of theſe means in the beſt manner and method …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ANother branch of human Prudence is dexteritie or FacilitieFacility of judgement, for the diſpoſement and ordering of the means in the beſt method …
    With rule
    ANother branch of human Prudence is dexteritie or FacilitieFacility of judgement, for the diſpoſement and ordering of the means in the beſt method …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the more ſpeedy and effectual proſecution of the end. This they cal Dexteritie or FacilitieFacility of Judgement; which is extremely neceſſary in al moral actions, and no where more …
    With rule
    … the more ſpeedy and effectual proſecution of the end. This they cal Dexteritie or FacilitieFacility of Judgement; which is extremely neceſſary in al moral actions, and no where more …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 25 · Open in the reader