Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4976 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

robberierobbery

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

Puritas changed it: 432 times in 201 works
Consistency: 100% (432 of 432)
Reach if approved: ~454 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: robbery
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 432 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (432 changes in 201 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 432)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to the ſame kinde of death: yet is murther a more hainous ſinne then robberierobbery. Beſides among ſuch Malefactors as are put to death, the kinde of death whereunto …
With rule
… to the ſame kinde of death: yet is murther a more hainous ſinne then robberierobbery. Beſides among ſuch Malefactors as are put to death, the kinde of death whereunto …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… voluptuouſnes, in drinking away the health of body and ſoule, in gaine, ſtealth, and robberierobbery, in ambition, iniuſtice, oppreſſion, or any other wickednes, and all the impenitent: learne a …
With rule
… voluptuouſnes, in drinking away the health of body and ſoule, in gaine, ſtealth, and robberierobbery, in ambition, iniuſtice, oppreſſion, or any other wickednes, and all the impenitent: learne a …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… thynges are full of lyes, deceites, gyles, fraudes, subtilties, extortion, surfetyng, slaughter, thefte, and robberierobbery? And here especially mayst thou knowe, that the diuell is gouerner. And the very …
With rule
… thynges are full of lyes, deceites, gyles, fraudes, subtilties, extortion, surfetyng, slaughter, thefte, and robberierobbery? And here especially mayst thou knowe, that the diuell is gouerner. And the very …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… his preferment. Pauper Epiſcopus pauperior Cardinalis, pauperrimus Papa. Thirdly, the ceremonies are guiltie of robberierobbery and of thefte, in that they haue waſted the goods of many a godlie …
With rule
… his preferment. Pauper Epiſcopus pauperior Cardinalis, pauperrimus Papa. Thirdly, the ceremonies are guiltie of robberierobbery and of thefte, in that they haue waſted the goods of many a godlie …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For as Paul saith, Beeing in the forme of God and thinking it no robberierobbery to be equall with God, made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke on him …
With rule
… For as Paul saith, Beeing in the forme of God and thinking it no robberierobbery to be equall with God, made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke on him …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the former, they had neede goe strong and well accompanied, for feare of RobberieRobbery and Spoyle, which the Arabians attend.
With rule
… and the former, they had neede goe strong and well accompanied, for feare of RobberieRobbery and Spoyle, which the Arabians attend.
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
32. H. 8. cap. 4. In wilfull murder, rape, robberierobbery, in or neere the high way, or in any houſe, putting any perſon within …
With rule
32. H. 8. cap. 4. In wilfull murder, rape, robberierobbery, in or neere the high way, or in any houſe, putting any perſon within …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 375 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what thou takes… in thy hande, and keepe it from all couetousnesse and violent robberierobbery: consider againe, that thou tak…st it not onely in thy hande, but also …
With rule
… what thou takes… in thy hande, and keepe it from all couetousnesse and violent robberierobbery: consider againe, that thou tak…st it not onely in thy hande, but also …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 466 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.