Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4965 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

plyablepliable

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

Puritas changed it: 248 times in 168 works
Consistency: 99.2% (248 of 250)
Reach if approved: ~263 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pliable
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 250 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (248 changes in 168 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 248)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… therefore he had then lost that freedome of spirit. Let us labour to be plyablepliable to the spirit, readie to answer God, in all that we are exhorted to …
With rule
… therefore he had then lost that freedome of spirit. Let us labour to be plyablepliable to the spirit, readie to answer God, in all that we are exhorted to …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… loud impieties. Bad Maſters, euill Tutours, hollow-hearted Guardians, haue ruined many yong mens plyablepliable diſpoſitions with their patrimonies. Nettles in a Garden grow not a lone, but produce …
With rule
… loud impieties. Bad Maſters, euill Tutours, hollow-hearted Guardians, haue ruined many yong mens plyablepliable diſpoſitions with their patrimonies. Nettles in a Garden grow not a lone, but produce …
Francis Taylor · Self-Satisfaction · Open in the reader
Printed
… the hardest stone, so thought after thought may make our dead heart to be plyablepliable. This is the course of our Prophet, by manifold repetitions of the dangers wherein …
With rule
… the hardest stone, so thought after thought may make our dead heart to be plyablepliable. This is the course of our Prophet, by manifold repetitions of the dangers wherein …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
9 As the Waxe is plyablepliable to euery print: Euen ſo the Couetous mans hand, is readie to receiue euerie …
With rule
9 As the Waxe is plyablepliable to euery print: Euen ſo the Couetous mans hand, is readie to receiue euerie …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wicked diſigne of his party: I ſhall eaſily beleeve henceforward he may be ſo plyablepliable a Courtier, as if his King or his party ſhall ſay it is night …
With rule
… wicked diſigne of his party: I ſhall eaſily beleeve henceforward he may be ſo plyablepliable a Courtier, as if his King or his party ſhall ſay it is night …
Antony Ascham · An Answer to the Vindication of Doctor Hammond · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Christian to order refractary and wilde affections, more then to manage yeelding and plyablepliable ones. As therefore it is a prouident policy in Princes, when they haue some …
With rule
… a Christian to order refractary and wilde affections, more then to manage yeelding and plyablepliable ones. As therefore it is a prouident policy in Princes, when they haue some …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not to ſinne is to be acceptable to God, in Chriſt righteous, our will plyablepliable to his bidding, and our end comfortable as we to goodnes are conformeable.
With rule
… not to ſinne is to be acceptable to God, in Chriſt righteous, our will plyablepliable to his bidding, and our end comfortable as we to goodnes are conformeable.
Richard Bernard · The Sinners Safety if Here He Look for Assurance · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… substance, but yet it will not turne the heart, that will not worke a plyablepliable disposition in the heart, to yeeld obedience out of love, in hatred to sinne …
With rule
… substance, but yet it will not turne the heart, that will not worke a plyablepliable disposition in the heart, to yeeld obedience out of love, in hatred to sinne …
John Preston · Remains · p. 193 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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 Job A69056

Printed
PlyablePliable.
With rule
PlyablePliable.
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader
Printed
Fewe yeelde them ſelues PlyablePliable to God. 524. a 6.
With rule
Fewe yeelde them ſelues PlyablePliable to God. 524. a 6.
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader