Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4925 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hygherhigher

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

Puritas changed it: 181 times in 72 works
Consistency: 99.4% (181 of 182)
Reach if approved: ~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: higher
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (181 changes in 72 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 181)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… called aswell the bosome of Abraham, as of Christ. But because we are growne hygherhigher then the fathers vnder the law, this distinction is the aptlyer noted: if we …
With rule
… called aswell the bosome of Abraham, as of Christ. But because we are growne hygherhigher then the fathers vnder the law, this distinction is the aptlyer noted: if we …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 399 · Open in the reader
Printed
Let euerye ſubiect ſubmyt hym ſelfe vnto the aucthoritie of the hygherhigher powers. For ther is no power but of god. The powers that be, are …
With rule
Let euerye ſubiect ſubmyt hym ſelfe vnto the aucthoritie of the hygherhigher powers. For ther is no power but of god. The powers that be, are …
Henrich Bullinger · Sermon Concerning Magistrates · Open in the reader
Printed
… well bee vnderstoode euen of the rudest and ignorantest sort. Agein, there are there hygherhigher or deeper matters. And those are they which S. Paule meaneth now, by calling …
With rule
… well bee vnderstoode euen of the rudest and ignorantest sort. Agein, there are there hygherhigher or deeper matters. And those are they which S. Paule meaneth now, by calling …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of whiche I haue here tofore treated be onely free holde, and of no hygherhigher nature, where as a state of in heritance, although it …e a free hold …
With rule
… of whiche I haue here tofore treated be onely free holde, and of no hygherhigher nature, where as a state of in heritance, although it …e a free hold …
Richard Taverner · The Principal Laws of England · Open in the reader
Printed
Somtyme for lucre, somtyme for the hygherhigher place
With rule
Somtyme for lucre, somtyme for the hygherhigher place
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… nother more cōmytted by the outwarde workes / then in this cōmaundement. For it is hygherhigher then that many can vnderſtande and perceyue it / and ſo ornate with the name …
With rule
… nother more cōmytted by the outwarde workes / then in this cōmaundement. For it is hygherhigher then that many can vnderſtande and perceyue it / and ſo ornate with the name …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… our … vnderstandings: so must it necessitie ensue that wee must bee drawen by some hygherhigher cause from aboue, as in a case that concerneth the forsaking of our selues …
With rule
… our … vnderstandings: so must it necessitie ensue that wee must bee drawen by some hygherhigher cause from aboue, as in a case that concerneth the forsaking of our selues …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mercyfull then he, but hym moſte of myght) and that he hathe alſo an hygherhigher place in heuen, as the graye freres and obſeruauntes ſet hym, as it were …
With rule
… mercyfull then he, but hym moſte of myght) and that he hathe alſo an hygherhigher place in heuen, as the graye freres and obſeruauntes ſet hym, as it were …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. iii · 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.

The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad A19656

Printed
HygherHigher then heauen seate, Aboue y^• powers al
With rule
HygherHigher then heauen seate, Aboue y^• powers al
Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad · Open in the reader