Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4920 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hardliehardly

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

Puritas changed it: 253 times in 125 works
Consistency: 97.6% (253 of 259)
Reach if approved: ~272 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hardly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 259 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (253 changes in 125 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 253)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But what doo I ſtand to ſeeke differences betwéen them, which can hardliehardly be found: whereas indeede whole bookes doo ſet foorth at large their agreement. I …
With rule
But what doo I ſtand to ſeeke differences betwéen them, which can hardliehardly be found: whereas indeede whole bookes doo ſet foorth at large their agreement. I …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… freedome of conſcience, in the ſeruice & worſhip of God, ſuch peace and protection, as hardliehardly will bee founde in anie other Chriſtian kingdome: hovv much more (I ſay) muſt …
With rule
… freedome of conſcience, in the ſeruice & worſhip of God, ſuch peace and protection, as hardliehardly will bee founde in anie other Chriſtian kingdome: hovv much more (I ſay) muſt …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in our heartes, becauſe wee our ſelues bee barren and ill ground, and can hardliehardly bring foorth good fruit, though we haue haue very much coſt and labor beſtowed …
With rule
… in our heartes, becauſe wee our ſelues bee barren and ill ground, and can hardliehardly bring foorth good fruit, though we haue haue very much coſt and labor beſtowed …
Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
… GOD, I ſhall heere (God willing) giue you a briefe Rule, which can verie hardliehardly …ayle: that is, If thou makest conſcience, and feareſt to offende GOD in the …
With rule
… GOD, I ſhall heere (God willing) giue you a briefe Rule, which can verie hardliehardly …ayle: that is, If thou makest conſcience, and feareſt to offende GOD in the …
Archibald Simson · Samsons Seven Locks of Hair Compared to the Seven Spiritual Virtues · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so combinate together, and incorporate the one in the other, as the one can hardliehardly be dyuorced from the other, without the distructiō of them both. To the accomplishmente …
With rule
… so combinate together, and incorporate the one in the other, as the one can hardliehardly be dyuorced from the other, without the distructiō of them both. To the accomplishmente …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… examples. For if they do, their works shall burne, and they themselues shall be hardliehardly saued, euen as it were thorowe the fire. Greene grasse also maie resemble the …
With rule
… examples. For if they do, their works shall burne, and they themselues shall be hardliehardly saued, euen as it were thorowe the fire. Greene grasse also maie resemble the …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… say, that blasphemie against the spirite is saide to bee irremissible, because it is hardliehardly forgiuen: And they define sinne against the holy Ghost, to bee nothing else, but …
With rule
… say, that blasphemie against the spirite is saide to bee irremissible, because it is hardliehardly forgiuen: And they define sinne against the holy Ghost, to bee nothing else, but …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 561 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be geuen. Moreouer when A man geueth Almoſe with his owne hande, he dothe hardliehardly put out of his mynde the deſyre of mens thāckes and uayne prayſes, which …
With rule
… be geuen. Moreouer when A man geueth Almoſe with his owne hande, he dothe hardliehardly put out of his mynde the deſyre of mens thāckes and uayne prayſes, which …
Martin Bucer · How Alms Ought to be Distributed · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

6 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.

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

Printed
… more than our fathers haue winne. A little with GODS blessing is much worth: HardlieHardly can men conquise much with a good Conscience: From thence is the prophan prouerbe …
With rule
… more than our fathers haue winne. A little with GODS blessing is much worth: HardlieHardly can men conquise much with a good Conscience: From thence is the prophan prouerbe …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are like a strainer, wherthrough the thoughts, wordes and workes of men are purified: HardlieHardly can a man thinke of a sho…t life, and thinke euill, as hardliehardly …
With rule
… are like a strainer, wherthrough the thoughts, wordes and workes of men are purified: HardlieHardly can a man thinke of a sho…t life, and thinke euill, as hardliehardly …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to mee malicious blowes which I haue set vpon the face of my GOD▪ HardlieHardly can I thinke that such a Cain or cursed Cham as I, cā euer …
With rule
… to mee malicious blowes which I haue set vpon the face of my GOD▪ HardlieHardly can I thinke that such a Cain or cursed Cham as I, cā euer …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man so grieuous sinnes not repented of, till hee come to his death-bed? HardlieHardly can I think that in so short a time a man can bind vp …
With rule
… man so grieuous sinnes not repented of, till hee come to his death-bed? HardlieHardly can I think that in so short a time a man can bind vp …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 388 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with Right and Reason, but like factious & ligged lieges rebell stifelie against their Lord: HardlieHardly will mans heart rander vnto that petition which is often in his mouth, viz …
With rule
… with Right and Reason, but like factious & ligged lieges rebell stifelie against their Lord: HardlieHardly will mans heart rander vnto that petition which is often in his mouth, viz …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1063 · Open in the reader

Appendix to Solomons Prescription for the Removal of Pestilence A50478

Printed
… into Principles, to guide them in their practiſe, and in their judgements of things. HardlieHardly will me… be perſwaded that riches, the Diana whom not any particular Country onlie …
With rule
… into Principles, to guide them in their practiſe, and in their judgements of things. HardlieHardly will me… be perſwaded that riches, the Diana whom not any particular Country onlie …
Matthew Mead · Appendix to Solomons Prescription for the Removal of Pestilence · p. 78 · Open in the reader