Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4963 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pithiepithy

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

Puritas changed it: 147 times in 103 works
Consistency: 97.3% (147 of 151)
Reach if approved: ~159 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pithy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 151 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (147 changes in 103 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 147)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Pulpit, to frame it ſelfe to a ſtile and phraſe of ſpeech, conciſe and pithiepithy, more befitting the Preſſe: Such as it is I make bold to ſend it …
With rule
… Pulpit, to frame it ſelfe to a ſtile and phraſe of ſpeech, conciſe and pithiepithy, more befitting the Preſſe: Such as it is I make bold to ſend it …
Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · Open in the reader
Printed
II. A pithiepithy, forcible, and louing exhortation to mooue affection, and to quicken the hearers to vnderſtand …
With rule
II. A pithiepithy, forcible, and louing exhortation to mooue affection, and to quicken the hearers to vnderſtand …
Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heareth not ſuch as lie ſtill in their ſinnes. This reaſon of the woman (pithiepithy and concludent) may bee further extended to this ſenſe: that ſeeing God had then …
With rule
… heareth not ſuch as lie ſtill in their ſinnes. This reaſon of the woman (pithiepithy and concludent) may bee further extended to this ſenſe: that ſeeing God had then …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 650 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maie ſee in al the ancient eccleſiaſticall writers, and confuted them, not onely with pithiepithy reaſons, but vvith the true worde of God, and the authoritie of diuerſe generall …
With rule
… maie ſee in al the ancient eccleſiaſticall writers, and confuted them, not onely with pithiepithy reaſons, but vvith the true worde of God, and the authoritie of diuerſe generall …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… It is an abuse of your arte, supposition deceiued you. Aristotle would haue you pithiepithy, or bring matter & stuffe for proofe & not be occupied in cunningly stirring vp affections …
With rule
… It is an abuse of your arte, supposition deceiued you. Aristotle would haue you pithiepithy, or bring matter & stuffe for proofe & not be occupied in cunningly stirring vp affections …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
A ſhort and pithiepithy defence of the doctrine of the holy election and predeſtination of God, gathered out …
With rule
A ſhort and pithiepithy defence of the doctrine of the holy election and predeſtination of God, gathered out …
John Bradford · Godly Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… grace of GOD in the elect, of which matter wee haue a playne and pithiepithy Doctrine in the Storie of Cayne and Abell. Wee are alſo admoniſhed, that not …
With rule
… grace of GOD in the elect, of which matter wee haue a playne and pithiepithy Doctrine in the Storie of Cayne and Abell. Wee are alſo admoniſhed, that not …
John Calvin · Commentary on Galatians · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dare say, that the more recent Divines, in manie places, are more pertinent and pithiepithy, yea, more exquisite, diligent, & watchfull. And even so sayth Costerus, That as the Church …
With rule
… dare say, that the more recent Divines, in manie places, are more pertinent and pithiepithy, yea, more exquisite, diligent, & watchfull. And even so sayth Costerus, That as the Church …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 217 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

Printed
A PITHIEPITHY, SHORT, AND METHODICALL opening of the Ten Commandements. BY Maſter William Whately, Preacher of …
With rule
A PITHIEPITHY, SHORT, AND METHODICALL opening of the Ten Commandements. BY Maſter William Whately, Preacher of …
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
A PITHIEPITHY, SHORT, AND METHODICAL OPENING OF THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS.
With rule
A PITHIEPITHY, SHORT, AND METHODICAL OPENING OF THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 1 · Open in the reader