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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4943 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lykingliking

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

Puritas changed it
159 times in 44 works
Consistency
99.3% (159 of 160)
Reach if approved
~168 places (estimated)
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Agrees: liking
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
160 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (159 changes in 44 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 159)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … heare, that his place and office, whiche by the poſitiue law, and the good lykingliking of the preſent gouernement, were authorized, ſhoulde nowe be accounted vnlawfull in the ſight …
    With rule
    … heare, that his place and office, whiche by the poſitiue law, and the good lykingliking of the preſent gouernement, were authorized, ſhoulde nowe be accounted vnlawfull in the ſight …

    John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it knoweth, it ſhould bee foyled. But yet to holde your Clyents in ſome lykingliking of your religion, you once againe confidently bragge, that it is of one thouſand …
    With rule
    … it knoweth, it ſhould bee foyled. But yet to holde your Clyents in ſome lykingliking of your religion, you once againe confidently bragge, that it is of one thouſand …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that haue any sight into religion: that the profession of thereof dooth decaie, the lykingliking thereof is in so few mens hearts, that Atheisme and poperie is in more …
    With rule
    … that haue any sight into religion: that the profession of thereof dooth decaie, the lykingliking thereof is in so few mens hearts, that Atheisme and poperie is in more …

    John Udall · True Remedy Against Famine and Wars · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … be, that we haue na will of him, that we haue na loue nor lykingliking of him; quhat doe we I praye ȝou? Then we reject him, and prefers …
    With rule
    … be, that we haue na will of him, that we haue na loue nor lykingliking of him; quhat doe we I praye ȝou? Then we reject him, and prefers …

    Robert Bruce · Sermons Upon the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … owne vyces, than at euery small occasion, when men behaue not themselues too our lykingliking: he addeth theruntoo, Let not the Sunne go downe vppon your anger. We must …
    With rule
    … owne vyces, than at euery small occasion, when men behaue not themselues too our lykingliking: he addeth theruntoo, Let not the Sunne go downe vppon your anger. We must …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    But to returne to our purpoſe. You ſay that we came from you, not lykingliking your kinde of life. It is very true, and ſo long as you leade …
    With rule
    But to returne to our purpoſe. You ſay that we came from you, not lykingliking your kinde of life. It is very true, and ſo long as you leade …

    Robert Crowley · Friar John Francis of France · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … doeth not reioyce and is glad, when he hath preached a fewe ſermons with lykingliking and prayſe of mortall men? What dumme dogge doeth terrifie his owne heart from …
    With rule
    … doeth not reioyce and is glad, when he hath preached a fewe ſermons with lykingliking and prayſe of mortall men? What dumme dogge doeth terrifie his owne heart from …

    Laurence Chaderton · An Excellent and godly Sermon · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … chylde, to make him heyre of all his goodes, he wyll keepe him vpon lykingliking; if his manners be honest, he shalbe preferred, he may be set ouer all …
    With rule
    … chylde, to make him heyre of all his goodes, he wyll keepe him vpon lykingliking; if his manners be honest, he shalbe preferred, he may be set ouer all …

    Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · 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.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … text as a placarde for the setting of all lustes at libertie. The worde LykingLiking, Longing, or Listing, ought rather to bee restreyned to the thinges that were Lawfull …
    With rule
    … text as a placarde for the setting of all lustes at libertie. The worde LykingLiking, Longing, or Listing, ought rather to bee restreyned to the thinges that were Lawfull …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 566 · Open in the reader