Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4989 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

testifyedtestified

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

Puritas changed it: 193 times in 120 works
Consistency: 93.6% (193 of 206)
Reach if approved: ~216 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: testified
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 206 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (193 changes in 120 works, 93.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 193)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… tia and Suenia, and by his owne confeſſion to Melancton, as it is ſufficiently teſtifyedtestified at his laſt farewell from him before his death.
With rule
… tia and Suenia, and by his owne confeſſion to Melancton, as it is ſufficiently teſtifyedtestified at his laſt farewell from him before his death.
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
As for their names and offices, it is teſtifyedtestified by all the Nonconformiſts that they are all derived from Antichriſt, and are therefore …
With rule
As for their names and offices, it is teſtifyedtestified by all the Nonconformiſts that they are all derived from Antichriſt, and are therefore …
John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
43. Now after two days he departed thence and went into Galilee. 44. For Jeſus himſelf teſtifyedtestified, that a Prophet hath no honour in his own Country.
With rule
43. Now after two days he departed thence and went into Galilee. 44. For Jeſus himſelf teſtifyedtestified, that a Prophet hath no honour in his own Country.
Richard Baxter · A Paraphrase on the New Testament · Open in the reader
Printed
… Vindication of them with theſe words, Let God be true in what he hath teſtifyedtestified of his Son in Scripture, and every man that oppoſeth let him be a …
With rule
… Vindication of them with theſe words, Let God be true in what he hath teſtifyedtestified of his Son in Scripture, and every man that oppoſeth let him be a …
Samuel Eaton · A Vindication · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet withall, this may be a secondary reason of our assent to what they testifyedtestified and wrote, because it was no other than that which they had heard, nay …
With rule
… yet withall, this may be a secondary reason of our assent to what they testifyedtestified and wrote, because it was no other than that which they had heard, nay …
Nathaniel Hardy · First Epistle of John Applied Part 2 · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is applied vnto vs by faith, through his spirite vniting vs vnto him, and testifyedtestified in the supper.
With rule
… is applied vnto vs by faith, through his spirite vniting vs vnto him, and testifyedtestified in the supper.
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 733 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he did not creep in at a window so to do, we heare is testifyedtestified even by themselves from whom the speach of these things did first proceed.
With rule
… he did not creep in at a window so to do, we heare is testifyedtestified even by themselves from whom the speach of these things did first proceed.
Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their times. But 1. I pray you who be thoſe apocryphal witneſſes that have thus teſtifyedtestified vnto you? If they be ſuch as dwell in this citie or in the …
With rule
… their times. But 1. I pray you who be thoſe apocryphal witneſſes that have thus teſtifyedtestified vnto you? If they be ſuch as dwell in this citie or in the …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 118 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Wonders of the Invisible World A50177

Printed
VI. As for Ann Durent, her Father TestifyedTestified That upon a Discontent of Rose Cullender, His Daughter was taken with much Illness …
With rule
VI. As for Ann Durent, her Father TestifyedTestified That upon a Discontent of Rose Cullender, His Daughter was taken with much Illness …
Cotton Mather · The Wonders of the Invisible World · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
VIII. As for Susan Chandler, Her Mother TestifyedTestified, That being at the search of Rose Cullender, they found on her Belly a …
With rule
VIII. As for Susan Chandler, Her Mother TestifyedTestified, That being at the search of Rose Cullender, they found on her Belly a …
Cotton Mather · The Wonders of the Invisible World · p. 79 · Open in the reader

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

Printed
… and without a mental Reſervation. A Teſtimony is to give Credit to the thing TeſtifyedTestified, and to inform others of the Truth of things, and therefore ſhould be adapted …
With rule
… and without a mental Reſervation. A Teſtimony is to give Credit to the thing TeſtifyedTestified, and to inform others of the Truth of things, and therefore ſhould be adapted …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 724 · Open in the reader
Printed
… born down …ith private Prejudices, or are not ſatisfyed in … Validity of the Thing TeſtifyedTestified, to prove the …ter of Fact, but are Determined by meer …ſ…mptive Probabilities.
With rule
… born down …ith private Prejudices, or are not ſatisfyed in … Validity of the Thing TeſtifyedTestified, to prove the …ter of Fact, but are Determined by meer …ſ…mptive Probabilities.
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 740 · Open in the reader